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What is MoreAgressiveAnimals?

MoreAgressiveAnimals is a continuation of the abandoned AggressiveAnimals plugin by SlimeDog. Rather than letting a beloved resource die, it has been fully modernized for Paper 1.21.4+ — with bug fixes, new features, and a clean architecture built from the ground up.

Gone are the days of passive cows and harmless sheep. Every mob can be configured to fight back — or attack on sight.

Why MoreAgressiveAnimals?

Default Minecraft mobs are predictable. Players become desensitized — a cow is just food, a chicken is background noise. MoreAgressiveAnimals changes that entirely. It makes your world feel alive and dangerous without needing custom mobs, resource packs, or external dependencies.

✨ Key Features

Any Mob Can Become Aggressive
Configure aggression per mob type — from cows and sheep to zombies and endermen. Every mob type has its own independent settings profile.

⚔️ Two Aggression Modes

• Retaliation mode — mob attacks only when hit (vanilla behaviour, enhanced)
• Always-aggressive mode — mob actively hunts nearby players

Target Selection Strategies
For always-aggressive mobs, choose how they pick their target:

• nearest — attacks the closest player (default)
• random — picks a random nearby player, keeping combat unpredictable
• lowest-health — targets the most wounded player, finishing off weakened survivors

Group Aggression
When one mob of a type is attacked, nearby mobs of the same type join the fight. The radius is fully configurable. No more picking off animals one by one safely.

⏱ Attack Cooldown After Stop
Configurable delay before a mob can re-acquire a new target after losing its current one. Prevents mobs from instantly locking onto a new player the moment someone steps in range.

Precision Damage & Speed Control

• Custom attack damage per mob type
• Attack damage limit — mob disengages when target drops below a health threshold
• Attacker health threshold — mob retreats when its own HP falls too low
• Speed multiplier when aggressive
• Attack speed (configurable tick interval)
• Leap height when attacking

World & Condition Filtering

• Per-world enable/disable lists
• Peaceful difficulty fully respected — no attacks in Peaceful, ever
• Baby/adult separation — configure which age can attack
• Aquatic mobs only attack players in water (configurable)
• Exclude named mobs, NPCs, tamed animals

NPC Plugin Compatibility
Native integration with Citizens, EliteMobs, InfernalMobs, and Shopkeepers — their NPCs are never attacked by the plugin.

Acquisition & Deacquisition Ranges
Independent ranges for detecting a target (acquisition) and giving up the chase (deacquisition). Tune the pursuit distance precisely.

Hot-Reload
Full configuration reload at runtime with /aggro reload — no server restart needed.

⌨️ Commands

Command	Permission	Description
/aggro reload	moreagressiveanimals.reload	Reload the full configuration
/aggro list [enabled|disabled]	moreagressiveanimals.list	List all configured mob types
/aggro info <type|defaults> [all]	moreagressiveanimals.info	Show every setting for a mob type
/aggro trigger <player> [radius]	moreagressiveanimals.trigger	Force nearby managed mobs to attack a player
/aggro status	moreagressiveanimals.status	Live statistics — tracked mobs, attacking count, per world
/aggro help	—	Show command help

⚙️ Configuration

Support & Links

GitHub Repository — source code, issue tracker
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Fork of SlimeDog/AggressiveAnimals. Original concept by Michielcx.