EightSidedSquare – Coding a Worse Crab Mob [Minecraft Live 2023]

Another year and another Minecraft mob with only a 33% chance of existing unless I add it to the game for ow hey you’re spoiling the final product now there’s a lot of ways for me to absolutely ruin these crabs but I want to make one thing clear I am not

Adding the crab Rave it’s an overdone meme everyone’s going to make that joke everyone’s going to be like ohoi at the crab right I’m not doing that but first things first this crab needs a model good thing I can reference off of this video now all I need to do is open up

Blockbench and get modeling cue the very short time Lapse and here it is in game no we’re trying that again attempt number two this will do next up is adding animations the good news is I already prepared those the bad news is I’m doing things differently this time you see in the previous years I used a mod called

Gecko liip which added data driven animations and models if you don’t know what that means don’t worry but just know that it made things a whole lot easier so yeah this year it’s a whole lot trickier I have to turn the animations directly into Java code lucky

For me there is a blockbench plugin to export these animations right to Java and so I made some modifications to it to support some more interpolations for my animations now to actually get these animations to work on the crab it works but let’s see if the moving animation Works yes oh it’s

Beautiful here’s a fun little trick with the animation now this is the mob’s hitbox and this blue line is the way the crab is facing when I move the crab turns to the side but not really cuz that blue line is still facing forwards towards me this is the same trick I did

With my crabs in angling and yeah it’s about time I address the fact that I already added crabs to Minecraft craft of course in that mod I made the crabs actually good here I’m ruining the crab it’s time for the first feature I want

To be pinched I mean I I don’t want to be pinched but I want this crab to be able to pinch me now because I want to conform to Mojang’s animal standards I’m going to make the crab only pinch you when you punch it time to see if this

Works go on pinch me yeah seems like the claw is not animating uh so I’m going to have to fix that all right attempt to pinch me I guess it works it’s just like really delayed a few tweaks later and this looks a lot Better it’s time to add the first feature mentioned in the announcement video The Claw with the crabs claw you get an increased building reach the thing is how exactly do you get this if you get it from killing the crab that goes against Mojang’s rules with real

Life animals and you could get it by like shearing it I guess but that’s just weird so we got to add in an ethical way of obtaining this crab’s claw and I have just the idea rather than just taking from the crab what if you trade I’ve

Added the claw Grabber with a little dinosaur head on the end and with this you can actually trade the crab for its claw and now it has this goofy dinosaur claw Grabber as you would expect it also animates when I get pinched here we have the claw it does

Exactly what you think it does it extends my reach see I can reach all the way over here now I can’t now I can now I can’t now I can’t if I put it in my off hand I can use it with a tool to get

Extended reach as I mine for example you might notice that this reach is only an extra block that’s because there is a way to extend it or at least there will be I have to add it I want to make it so that claws can be crafted together and

Then they’ll like combine into an even bigger claw I got the first part working this Claw is made up of one claw and this Claw is made up of 10 and as you can see this one definitely has more reach I should adjust the distance but so far this is

Amazing oh I I did not intend that this looks far better and I fixed the bug let’s see if this works one claw one claw two claws two two 4 let’s go you know I I I can just keep going with this no one’s going to stop me all right I think

16,384 is a good stopping point yeah cuz it’s lagging my game but also this is beautiful check this out see those Vines over there like that one gone in case you wanted to know this is what it looks like when someone’s holding it I would call this like a

Forbidden carrot or something for the next feature crab Rave just kidding no no crab Brave we’re not having that you’ve probably seen images of crabs holding knives and I want to add that too but right now now the the sword doesn’t show up on the crab uh now it’s just not showing

Up never mind and it’s working and hey check this out crab with a claw with a sword isn’t that awesome ow ow hey hey hey hey hey stop stop you know what because these guys can hold items and because their Claw is meant to be a

Building tool I think the right thing to do is to make these guys actually a building tool themselves so when you give them an item that’s a block they will start p ling up all right you can stop now you can we’ll check on on them later I’m

Going to do what’s called Tom foery and trickery with this Crap how you doing up there yeah now we’re going to do crab raave just kidding no crab rave hey give that back hey kids it’s the part of the video where we address a fundamental force of the universe that’s right you can brew a claw into an

Awkward potion and get a potion of carcinization with this I can turn every mob into a crab Yippy all right I’m done that’s all the features or is It He