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Mosquitoes Reforged

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Mosquitoes Reforged

By Aelfwif

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Adds buzzing mosquitoes and leaping ticks as physical 3D mobs and interactive first-person pests, complete with swatting, armor defense, and livestock parasitism.

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PROJECT UNMAINTAINED / ON INDEFINITE HIATUS

This project is no longer actively maintained and is on indefinite hiatus. No further updates, feature additions, or bug fixes will be provided. The repository is archived and read-only. Anyone is welcome to fork this project and continue development under the terms of the open-source license.

🦟 Mosquitoes Reforged (1.12.2)

"Just when you thought the wild was peaceful..."

Mosquitoes Reforged is a full-featured, expanded 1.12.2 Forge downport and overhaul of vemerion's Mosquitoes (GitHub).

While the original modern versions treated mosquitoes and ticks solely as a first-person screen mini-game, Mosquitoes Reforged reimagines them as real, physical entities in the 3D Minecraft world with leaping attacks, livestock parasitism, environmental spawning logic, and armor protection, while still keeping the beloved first-person swatting mini-game fully intact!

🌟 What Makes This Fork Different?

Feature Original 1.16 Mod Mosquitoes Reforged (1.12.2)
Physical Mobs None (First-person HUD only) Full 3D Mobs: Buzzing mosquitoes and stealthy ticks spawn in your world!
Livestock & Villagers Unaffected Targeted: Ticks leap onto and ride cows, sheep, pigs, and villagers, slowly draining their health.
Tweezers & Veterinary Care Self-use only with strict timer Hold indefinitely + active left-click pinch! You can also pluck ticks off animals and friends!
Swatter Combat Right-click RNG kill timer 3D Shield & Swat: Holding right-click swats physical mosquitoes within 3 blocks. Left-clicking smacks them on screen or in melee!
Armor Mechanics Armor gave no protection Deflection Chance: Armor reduces bite damage and tick latching (up to 5x with full armor) with audible clinks!
Spawning Ecology Caves & Dimensions infested Overworld Surface Only (Y ≥ 50): No mosquitoes deep underground in caves. Heavy night and swamp/water weighting.
Modded Foliage Vanilla tall grass only Universal Support: Native integration with Biomes O' Plenty, Dynamic Trees, Botania, Pam's HarvestCraft, etc.
Insect Scaling Large bird-sized HUD insects 8x Smaller Scale: Pixel-accurate, realistic insect proportions that track your camera view!
Audio Realism Single looping clip Dynamic Crossfaded Audio: Seamless 4-clip buzz array with realistic pitch shifts and no abrupt looping.

🦟 Features & Mechanics

🪰 Mosquitoes

  • Natural Spawning: Swarms gather in swamps, near rivers and lakes, and emerge across surface biomes when dusk falls.
  • Flight AI: Flies chaotically with sudden darts and high-speed pursuits.
  • Biting & Malaria: Bypasses armor if it hits bare skin. Mosquitoes can infect players with Malaria, periodically triggering nausea, blindness, slowness, and poison.
  • Defense: Equip full armor to deflect bites, or craft a swatter!

🕷️ Ticks

  • Lurking in Foliage: Ticks hide in bushes, ferns, and tall grass.
  • Leaping Attack: When prey approaches, ticks pounce through the air to latch onto their target!
  • Parasitism: If a tick touches you or an animal (cow, sheep, pig, horse, villager), it latches onto their skin/fur and drains blood.
  • Removal: Use your Tick Tweezers to safely pluck them off yourself, your friends, or your livestock.

🌿 Citronella & Brewing

  • Citronella Flower: Naturally generates across savannas, deserts, badlands, and mesas. Can be picked and replanted on sand, hardened clay, farmland, or grass.
  • Citronella Oil: Brew Citronella into Awkward Potions to produce Citronella Oil (20:00 or extended 40:00). Physical mosquitoes flee from protected players, and HUD swarms disperse immediately!
  • Malaria Cure: Brew a Mosquito Wing into an Awkward Potion to immediately cure the Malaria disease.

🛠️ Crafting Recipes

  • Mosquito Swatter: 6x Cobwebs (top two rows) + 1x Stick (bottom center).
  • Tick Tweezers: 6x Iron Ingots formed in a U-shape.
  • Spawn Eggs: Included in Creative Menu for mapmakers and testing!

📦 Modpack & Compatibility Notice

  • Modpacks: You are 100% free to include Mosquitoes Reforged in any public or private modpack!
  • Compatibility: Works out of the box with standard Forge 14.23.5.2847+ and Cleanroom 1.12.2.

📜 Original Project, Credits & License