Cobblemon Rare Spawn Alerts

Tells the players when a rare Cobblemon Pokémon spawns: which Pokémon and where, as precisely as each server chooses. By default only the biome, never the coordinates. For Cobblemon 1.8.2 on Fabric 1.21.1.

[Spawn] Um Pikachu ✦ Shiny apareceu em Floresta de Bétulas!

Em português: avisa no chat quando aparece um Pokémon raro (shiny, Alfa, lendário, mítico, ultracriatura, paradoxo): qual Pokémon e em qual bioma. Cada servidor escolhe na config o que é anunciado, se mostra coordenadas e o jogador mais perto, e quem recebe (todos, a mesma dimensão ou um raio). Ou o modo sentido: no lugar do nome, uma frase que não entrega nada ("Você sente uma presença poderosa por perto…"), para quem está perto e, nos mais raros, uma de longe para todo o servidor. O mod roda no servidor: os jogadores não precisam instalar. O que muda em cada versão: CHANGELOG.md.

How it works

• Every natural Pokémon spawn goes through Cobblemon's spawn event. When the Pokémon is one the config announces (by default: shiny, Alpha, legendary, mythical, Ultra Beast and paradox), the players get a chat message and a bell. The server log gets the message too.
• By default the message only names the Pokémon and the biome; the server can add the coordinates and the nearest player, or drop the biome. The names go to the players as translations from Cobblemon and the game, so each player reads them in their own language; a biome with no translation (from a data pack, for one) shows its id made readable (volcanic_peaks → "Volcanic Peaks").
• Or, in the sense mode, the players never learn which Pokémon: they get a phrase picked at random that names nothing (see below), and the server log keeps the full line for the staff.
• Spawns another mod cancels are not announced.
• /spawnalerts reload reads the config again without a restart, and /spawnalerts test shows you the message of a shiny Pikachu spawning where you stand (operators only).

Installing

Download the jar from the latest release and put it in mods/:

• Server: only on the server. Players without the mod can join.
• Single player: in your game's mods/.

It needs Fabric API and Cobblemon 1.8.x (Cobblemon already bundles fabric-language-kotlin).

Configuration

config/spawnalerts.json (created on the first start; /spawnalerts reload after editing it). The texts are in Brazilian Portuguese by default: the server writes them, so change them there for another language.

What is announced

How much of the place is told (the parts go into {location})

Who hears it, and how

Texts

{pokemon} and {biome} can also be used directly in message; colours use & codes (&6 gold, &e yellow, &a green, &f white, &7 grey...).

The sense mode ("mode": "sense"; the default is "classic", the message above)

No message to the players names the Pokémon, the biome, the coordinates or the nearest player, and no tag says shiny, Alpha, legendary or the like: a spawn is something the players sense. Each spawn the config announces falls into its most notable category (legendary, mythical, mega, ultra_beast, paradox, shiny, alpha, in that order); one of the category's near phrases goes to the players within senseRadius (same dimension) and, for the categories in senseEveryone, one of its far phrases to everyone else:

Você sente uma presença poderosa por perto… (a legendary, near) Uma presença poderosa despertou em algum lugar do mundo… (the same legendary, for everyone else) Algo brilhou de relance por perto… (a shiny, only near)

What is announced still follows the options above (extraSpecies and announceAll only count in the classic mode). The server log gets the full classic line with the biome and the coordinates, so the staff still knows. With playSound, the near players hear a soft chime.

Versions

Credits and licenses

• Code and icon (drawn by tools/make_icon.py): fernandoabf — all rights reserved, see LICENSE.
• Cobblemon is developed by the Cobblemon team. Pokémon is © Nintendo / Game Freak / The Pokémon Company. This project is not affiliated with any of them.