LotsOMobs - Mo'Animals

[Maize]

LotsOMobs adds giraffes, penguins, pterosaurs and more! Animals spawn in their natural habitats, some are useful and others are dangerous. This mod brings lots more life to Minecraft.

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Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam
Where the Deer and the Antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
- from "My Western Home" by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, 1873

LOTSOMOBS KEEPS IT SIMPLE

This mod has a simple approach to animals. The models are "blocky" and their behavior is similar to vanilla mobs. Configuration is uncomplicated and perhaps unnecessary since the animals do not spawn in great numbers. LotOMods has is a nice variety of everything but not an overwhelming amount of features or creatures.

Simplicity does not make this mod any less interesting. New weapons and armour, new foods and of course lots of animals, even a flying dinosaur! There are also two dimensions, the Ice Age and dinosaur era that can be accessed through portals or with a time traveling device. These portable items are very handy when escaping from a T-Rex!

Many animals are tamable, some can be ridden but the focus is mainly on variety (biodiversity ;p). From butterflies to elephants, this mod currently adds over 45 different animals.

They fit well with vanilla mobs and follow the same "Minecrafty" rules.

How to train your Triceratops:

• Feed it a carrot
• Get a cacti on a stick
• Right click to ride, steer with a cacti on a stick
• Use wheat to make it stay or follow

Gazelles can be tamed with wheat, they are fast and great for scaling mountains. Camels and pterosaurs can also be ridden but are not tamable. They are difficult to steer, but riding a flying dino is awesome! :D

 

More than Mobs:

There is also some simple farming and processing. Goats can be sheared for angora wool. This wool can turned into rope with a spinning wheel.

Rope is used to make a salt bath and tanning rack. These items prepare hides that can be crafted into armour.

The special armour is very stylish! ;p

 

LotsOMobs vs Mo'Creatures:

LotsOMobs is frequently compared to Mo'Creatures, the most famous of the animal mods. It is one of my favorite mods for singleplayer but can cause massive server lag in multiplayer. Extensive configuration is needed to avoid being overrun with creatures. There are many monsters and fantasy mobs in Mo'Creatures as well, which is fun for adventure, but a bit over-kill if you just wanted to spice up the savanna. Are fairy horses really necessary for a lesson on the Ice Age? This mod adds so much, you may find yourself disabling most of it. However, it is A LOT of fun riding around on various creatures searching for snakes for a serpentarium. ;p There is great opportunity for animal farms; dolphin breeding, elephant rearing, ostrich racing...If these are the kinds of activities you want to do then it is definitely worth editing some config files for Mo'Creatures.

Check out Mo'Creatures Website

 

Mo'Dinosaurs:

If your looking to get deeper into dinos, there are two other mods that go further with paleontology and archeology:

Jurrasicraft adds all the dinosaurs from the movie and more. TheLarsinator, developer of LotsOMobs, is also a contributor to this mod. I haven't tried it yet but I'm looking forward to it! The dinos have more detailed models and advanced behavior, though LotsOMobs is still the only mod with a flying dino. :)

LotsOMods Brontosaurus - we used to think it was a real dino:

Jurrasicraft Dinos - just like the movie:

Check out Jurrasicraft on Planet Minecraft

 

Fossils and Archeology Revival is another great dinosaur mod, this one has a lot more science to go with all the giant lizards. I have used this mod with version 1.6.4 and it works great on MinecraftEdu. The process of hatching your own creature is more involved and ultimately more rewarding. When playing this mod much time is spent researching and building the best habitat for your ancient creatures. There are all kinds of dinosaurs along with animals from the Ice Age, there are ancient ruins to discover and laboratories to build. This mod has a great balance between science and adventure. Over the summer I helped create an epic dinosaur zoo on our community server (contact me if your interested in accessing the private Technic modpack). Everyone had a great time and learned a lot - more info about the project and this mod is coming soon...

Waiting for the egg to hatch:

Baby Brachiosaurus:

Check out Fossils and Archeology Revival on the Minecraft Forum

 

New Configuration Method for 1.7.10:

Configuring mods usually involves editing text files, but in 1.7.10 mod settings can be changed in the options screen. This works for client side changes, then the config file can be copied to the server.

Access Mod Options from the main screen:

Find the mod you want to configure in the list on the left, then click the config button:

Available options for the mod will be displayed:

Changes settings, note the name and location of the config file at the top of the screen:

Setting mod options in-game will change the values in the config file on the client, though you can still open and edit the config file directly if you want.

For the new settings to take effect in multiplayer, copy the config file from the client and replace the old file on the server:

It's generally a good idea to make sure your config files are the same on both the client and server to avoid weird problems.

Many mods now have configuration options available in-game, though most changes require a restart, this is much easier than editing text files!

 

Mo'Animals = Mo'Learning

Adding more animals to the the game makes things much more lively and creates even more opportunity for learning across subjects. The Ice Age becomes much more memorable when you meet a mammoth. Interest fostered in the Minecraft world is quickly transferred to the real one. While playing this mod with some young people I have been asked things like: Is a giraffe really that tall??? (and so blocky!! LOL!) Do real whales sound like that? Are penguins that noisy? Where do antelopes live anyway? LotsOMods adds more fauna to go with the Minecraft flora and more questions soon follow! :D

Download LotsOMobs by TheLarcinator

Happy Trails,
Maize

[Maize]

Sorry for the typos, I should have edited that post one more time...>_<
While your checking out TheLarsinator's Website you might want to try:

Extended Farming

I had one little Minecrafter come for the T-Rex but stay for the tractors!
:)

Have fun,
Maize

[Matt Coia]

Maize, if you find a Minecraft Bulldozer please let me know.  I've always wanted one.

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[Lawson Johnson (Minecraft Assistant)]

Did you write this all out yourself?  This is a fantastic overview for the mod and it's features!  It looks incredibly cool; I bet the hide tanning could be pretty useful for the history museum our class is working on, as well as those buffalo and dinosaurs!

[Maize]

Bulldozers!! Well...the Mo'Creatures Mammoth will plow right though a mountain with a pair of diamond tusks, (super fun!!!) so will the Railcraft Tunnel Bore, it's not quite as satisfying, but still very cool.
If you want an actual bulldozer, the Heavy Machinery mod by TechStack is currently being developed for MC 1.8.
The alpha version was just released with some awesome farming and construction equipment, including a front loader, dump truck and bulldozer!!! :D
I'm keeping an eye on this mod, check out the Demo Video on Youtube. I haven't tried any mods with 1.8 yet, but this one is on the top of my list!

[Matt Coia]

I knew you would come through for me!!

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[Lisa Douthit]

Hey Maize,

I am trying to test out Lots o Mobs in 1.7.10b15 (have also tried in b14).  I am putting a copy in both Client and Server.  When I use the most current version (1.7.10-3.03) I can open a new world, bot LoM does not show up to check in the mods list on the launcher screen.  On the server startup it does log that I have configured it to off even though I had no choice).  However, I can go to the config once going into a world and I can also search for the and see some of the spawn eggs in my creative inventory but I can not use them.  I also can not scrolls past the first screen of my inventory as when I do it kicks me out of as a client out of minecraft.  Am I missing something in the setup before I use LoM? 

I do have a few other mods running, but I do Shane A had the mods I have checked mods on in one of his worlds he shared with me, which is what confounds me. I attached a screenshot where you cannot see the LoM checkbox in the list even though I have the mod in server/client folders.  Also I tried several of the earlier versions of LoM just to make sure it was not the version.  What happens when I use an earlier version is that it shows up in the mods list, but then the server will not start.  So hopefully I am on the right track with trying to use the latest version...

-Lisa

[Matt Coia]

Lisa, sometimes if you have mods installed on the client but not on the server, this sort of thing can happen. You can't just unselect them either. They need to be removed from the mods/1.7.10 folder altogether. 

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[MisterA]

Hey Lisa,

Lots of Mobs does not show up in the list of mods in the launcher. I will say though that it is working. I am using it with build 15 and I have no issues. I can even configure it in the game screen under mods.

lom-1.7.10-3.0.3.jar

That is the version I am using.

Hope that helps.

MisterA

[Lisa Douthit]

Thanks All,

Okay...Good to know that it will not show up in the list of mods.  I also played around some more and realized I had monsters, turned off, so maybe why I would get disconnected as teacher when I tried to access the menu beyond the first page of inventory?  Not sure but looks like it is working now....Now I can test it out more!  Yay...

[MisterA]

Hey Lisa,

One thing I figured out, the aggressive animals are attached to "Monsters" and the more passive ones are attached t "Animals".

Enable both, then change the gamerule DoMobSpawning (I think) to false.

That way you can have them on, but you won't have any mobs or animals spawn unless you want them to with egg spawners.

Hope that helps

MisterA

[Lisa Douthit]

Shane,

Yes!  Thanks.  I had animals on, monsters off.  Going to explore the various animals a bit.  Will try the gamerule.  -Lisa

[Lisa Douthit]

OK...When I turn the monsters/animals on and if I type any command in world, including the one you suggested (/gamerule DoMobSpawning=false) I get kicked out.  The subsequently no one can log in this and I get this TextComponent error (see image). Do I do that command in world or in one of the ini files and am I doing the command all wrong? 

What I have figured out for now to get back in is to get rid of player data and throw out all of the mod cfg files from the mod folders client and server.  

Right now I am back in, but what I would really like to do is to have animals/monsters on for LoM but only have certain animals I spawn in certain areas such as buffalo or snakes. Students are going to be doing a State History project and I would love these little extras available. -Lisa 

[Lisa Douthit]

Forgot to attach my screenshot of the "TextComponent" message I get trying to get in as client.  The server is not crashing just the client. -Lisa