Pikmincraft - Small Plant Army | 1.0.0 MASSIVE UPDATE

Build your own army of cute little plants and take over the world! Based on the popular, (maybe not so popular) Pikmin saga, this addon brings these cute little soldiers to your Minecraft world.

Important

THIS ADDON IS COMPATIBLE WITH ALL ADDONS AND DOESNT USE PLAYER.JSON!

This addon uses experimental stuff that might break after each major update, if that happens I'll realize a fix few days after the game updates to make it work again, if you wanna know exactly when this happens, join my discord server.

Version 1.0.0 Review By Andres Productions:

If you speak English please ignore the note below, is for those who just speak Spanish but are interested in this addon.

Nota Para Hispanohablantes

Este addon cuenta con traducción al español y una guía en el juego sobre el mismo, si no sabes ingles puedes usarla para conocer cada detalle del addon.

Now, let's start!

Pikmin

Pikmin are small half-plant half-animal creatures that live mostly in groups, they start their lives as seeds and grow as any plant would, remaining underground with just their leaves in the open until someone plucks them, when they become mobile and attached to whoever did it, following whatever order they give them, which includes you. Now normally I would first explain how to get them and then explain all the actions they can do and their different types, but that's a whole other can of worms, so let's leave that part for later and start with how to use Pikmin once you get them.

General Behavior and Characteristics

There are some things common to all Pikmin that are important to have in mind. They are relatively weak, with some exceptions all deal 2 damage per hit and have 8 hp, but in return, they are speedy, regenerate slowly over time, and run away from exploding creepers and enemies when at low health, even returning to you if possible in the latter case, making them not so easy to kill individually and an actual treat in groups.

Pikmin has some major weaknesses, besides some types with specific immunities, they can't swim and drown in any puddle due to their small size, need your aid to get out which actually makes them scared of water blocks, being burned or poisoned makes them panic until the fire/poison passes out, or you call them with a whistle (more details below) and being ground-based makes it hard, yet not impossible for them to fight flying enemies.

Pikmin in item form can be held in your off-hand, this is useless in most cases, but for some pikmin types this is something you might actually want to do.

One last thing, Pikmin you control are immune to any kind of damage from yourself, swords, arrows, or splash potions, you can attack without worrying about accidentally hitting and killing your own Pikmin, similar to allays.

Basic Controls and Commands

Pikmin will remain most of the time as throwable items in your inventory, depending on where you throw them and how they'll do different actions, now the first thing you'll need besides Pikmin themselves is a Pikmin whistle, crafted by one iron ingot and one nugget on the right side of the ingot, this is not necessary to control your Pikmin, but using it lets you call all thrown Pikmin back to you, making them stop whatever they were doing and go back to your inventory, which in many cases is needed. With that in mind, let's begin with the control themselves, they are a bit complex on paper but are really easy to execute once you understand them.

To start, almost all Pikmin have 2 throw modes, default and follow, which one you will throw the Pikmin in is defined by where you look at, look at a nearby block (usually the floor works) without any entity in the way, and you'll get in follow mode, anywhere else is the default mode, the mode you will throw the Pikmin in is showed always over your hotbar as long you are holding a Pikmin.

Default Mode:

In default mode Pikmin will perform a set of actions depending on where you throw them, if they finish a task, are unable to keep doing it, or are called by your whistle, they'll run back to you and reenter your inventory.

• By default, they will attack any non-pikmin entity, players included, in a 10-block radius from where they fall, they pick a target, attack it and pick a nearby item if they can once they lose or kill said target and return, if there are no entities nearby to attack they'll just bring an item if there is no item either they just return after a few seconds.
• If thrown to an item directly, they'll just pick it up and return, it without attacking entities.
• If they hit an entity directly when thrown, they latch onto itand start attacking it, this works differently from them just chasing and melee attacking their target. Pikmin will basically stick to their target, which allows them to damage even flying enemies, they attack and deal damage in a set interval, and their attacks won't deal knockback but can ignore invincibility frames, so stacking many Pikmin in a single target can rank up the damage. Pikmin latched onto something can't be damaged by their target, but if said target moves too much, or attacks them, they can shake off the Pikmin from themselves, which will get flung away and keep attacking regularly, but now vulnerable to damage, this all in conjunction makes more efficient to hit enemies directly with Pikmin for combat purposes.
• If thrown into a plant-like or mushroom-like non-full block, they'll start harvesting that kind of block, basically, they'll find all nearby blocks of that type they can break them, take some of their drops, and keep going until there's nothing left, the return to your inventory with the items they collected. When doing this they'll ignore non-fully grown crops, so you can just throw one at your wheat farm to harvest all without fear of breaking crops still to grow, some of the blocks they can harvest are grass, flower, crops, nether wart, bamboo, sugar cane, nether roots, crimson fungus, big dripleafs, nether wart etc., there are many blocks they can help you harvest quicker, and I invite you to try by yourself.

Default mode could be resumed in "Throw at stuff to do something with said stuff", there's no need to learn all the details, just know what Pikmin can interact with, they can come in handy for making basic tasks quicker, from just hunting animals and collecting dispersed drops to fighting certain enemies and collecting resources.

Follow Mode:

When in follow mode Pikmin will behave more like tamed wolves, instead of returning to your inventory after doing a task, they'll follow you around until either called by a whistle or if you pick them up by sneaking and interacting with them. In this mode, they'll constantly pick up and deposit nearby items in your inventory, attack nearby hostile entities that are targeting you (even if they haven't hit you), and as well as attack whatever does manage to hit you, or you hit yourself, one thing to remark, Pikmin will prioritize staying nearby you over other things

This mode is more useful when you don't want to constantly have to throw your Pikmin to get them to do stuff, for example in a mining trip, by just having like 10 Pikmin following you around, they'll pick up any ores and stones you mine for you, and kill any nearby monsters that could attack you, and might even save you from creepers trying to sneak onto you, while they hardly kill one by themselves because of self-preservation instincts, they can anger it and kite the explosion attempts giving you time to either run or kill it yourself. Similar situations might come when chopping down trees where there's always a lot of loot scattered around, farming mobs at night for loot, etc. This mode is more simple and probably situational, but it is not that hard to use when it might be useful, and then call back your Pikmin when it is not.

Pikmin Types

Currently, the addon has 6 types of Pikmin, but I plan to add more in the future, each type has different kinds of abilities, from fire immunity to the ability to swim, to straight up make you fly and enough force to tear apart an iron golem in seconds, each type is better suited for different task and scenarios and learning the specifics of each one can help you make the most of each one.

Lost Pikmin

Pikmin become "lost" when they would be "dropped" in item form, instead becoming an entity again, when in this state they just wander around avoiding hostile entities, searching for either an onion of their color they can enter, or waiting for a player to use their whistle and call them, which they then will go to and enter their inventory.

Onions

How to Get an Onion

Before starting to do anything with the addon, you need Pikmin, and for that, you need to either get an onion or get Pikmin from a friend if you are in multiplayer (who will first need an onion too :P). Onions generate trapped in random structures around the world, you need to free them, and then you can either interact with them, pick them up and place them somewhere safe to tame them, or just tame them in the spot with sugar, once tamed they follow around like wolves, sit them whenever you want, and the first time you do this they'll produce a single Pikmin seed, take it, and you'll be able to start producing even more.

Feeding Your Onion and Producing More Pikmin

To produce more Pikmin, onions need nutrients, and they can get this by absorbing different things, the most straightforward way of doing this is using crystallized nectar.

Crystallized Nectar:

Crystallized nectar is sometimes dropped by entities killed by a pikmin, the Pikmin needs to deal the final blow to the entity otherwise it won't drop it, entities drop 1 normal nectar for every 16 hp of the max health the entity has, and 1 small nectar for every 4 hp of whatever is left, regular nectar produces 2 Pikmin seeds when absorbed, and you get 1 seed for every 2 small nectar, basically you get 1 seed for every 8 hp of the entity's max hp. To feed the onion, just drop the nectar near it while it is sitting, it will pick it up and absorb it, producing seeds accordingly.

Pellets and Pellet Posies:

The second thing you can feed an onion are pellets, which you can get from pellet posies, this works the same as nectar with 2 differences, one is they produce 1 or 5 seeds depending on the number they show up, and two onions will only absorb pellets of their own color.

Pellet posies can be found randomly around the world, they look like some kind of weed at first, but once broken and replanted, they'll grow after a while or if you use bonemeal on them, given even more time or bonemeal and the pellet will grow bigger, on either stage you can harvest the pellet by throwing a Pikmin of the same color to them, only Pikmin can harvest the pellets, this is a more reliable way of feeding onions, but somewhat limited, since you need specific pellets for specific onion colors.

Other Options:

For both the previous options you need at least one Pikmin to produce more, but if you somehow lose all, there are still two options, one is to bring a warden near the onion, due to sculk being some kind of weird biomass, and wardens being blind they are ironically an easy prey for onions which can just absorb and process it before it can react to what is happening, the other option is to feed it a dormant onion of the same color, in both cases you'll get around 20 seeds, but with how rare onions can be, and how dangerous the deep dark is, this should be a last resort option.

Onion Controls and Pikmin Storage

The controls of onion are simple but still need to be explained, like wolves you can make them sit or follow you by flying, most of the time you'll want to sit in a place you have nearby, but you can still relocate them if you want, while they follow you, using your whistle will make them go to the exact spot you are standing on.

Besides producing Pikmin, onions also work as their home and can store Pikmin of their color safely, there are two ways to do this, you can drop Pikmin near an onion, so they become lost and enter it, and then sneak and interact with the onion to take them out one by one, the second way is by using the onion's interface.

If you hit an onion you own, something like this will appear, one toggle and two sliders, the first slider lets you toggle or not the option for Pikmin to exit the onion on their own, something I'll explain later, the sliders work to specify a set amount of Pikmin to withdraw or deposit on the onion, you just need to enter the interface, use the right toggle, set an amount and press submit, you should use just one toggle, but using both works fine, if you, for example, say you wanna deposit 5 Pikmin but withdraw 10. You just withdraw 5 since is the net result, so you won't break anything, the right math is done to prevent that, you just waste a bit of time. Sometimes it might be quicker to not use it, but sometimes, like to withdraw 64 Pikmin in one go you might wanna use this, the choice is yours.

Pikmin Colonies

When you allow Pikmin to come out of the onion by themselves, either using the interface or using your whistle directly on the onion, they'll come out and wander around it, remaining in a 16-block radius and not getting further than that no matter what, this is known as a Pikmin colony, is not necessary you know how this exactly work, so you can skip it, but this server purposes other than just having your Pikmin looking cute wandering around your house without having to build fences and stuff.

First, to make a colony you need to have Pikmin inside your onion, then sit it and allow Pikmin to come out, just with that you make a colony, Pikmin in a colony will come out during the day and reenter the onion at night, they normally just wander around, but can be attacked by hostile mobs excluding creepers, and will defend themselves from them, but this rarely happens unless forced by the player, due to them spending the night inside the onion.

If an onion is made to stand up and start flying while Pikmin are outside, all Pikmin will reenter the onion and not come out until you make it land again, this makes relocating onions with colonies easy, they'll also reenter the onion if you toggle off the option for Pikmin to exit the onion on their own, again you can do this from the interface or by using the whistle on the onion.

Pikmin in colonies can't be called or picked up by any player if you as their owner want to use them, you first need to make them reenter the onion, then withdraw them from there, the faster way is to make the onion stand up, take the as much as you have and need, and then make it sit again.

Only a maximum of 20 Pikmin per colony can be outside the onion at the same time, the rest will remain inside the onion, from where you can still take them without any limitations or weird shenanigans needed.

Farming Pikmin:

Pikmin can actually reproduce by themselves, they just need a "food" source for the onion, either enemies they can kill or pellet posies to harvest, Pikmin will harvest any grown pellet posie of their color nearby their onion and bring the pellets to it, they'll do the same with crystallized nectar, then the onion will absorb it and produce seeds, once they grow after a second of landing, the Pikmin will pluck them and the new Pikmin will join the colony, if there's already 20 Pikmin outside the onion, the new Pikmin will just enter the onion and remain there, so really with a few pellet posies, or an income of hostile mobs the Pikmin can actually kill on their own, you don't need to do much to get more Pikmin.

Candypop Buds

Onions are the only way to PRODUCE Pikmin, but there's another way to get new colors, candy pop buds spawn randomly in the world during the day in places with grass, they come in the same colors as onions and Pikmin, if a Pikmin of a different color is thrown inside one, they get transformed into a Pikmin seed of the same color of the flower, you can do this with a maximum of 5 Pikmin before the candy pop bud withers and dies, these are a good way to get types of Pikmin you don't have onions for, especially the purple and white ones, which their onions only have a 20% chance to generate.

Super Spicy Spray

Sometimes when an enemy is killed by a pikmin, apart from just nectar they can also spawn a drop of super spicy extract, you can collect this with a bottle to make super spicy spray, when used this will make all your Pikmin start glowing red, and increased their damage, movement speed and attack speed when latched onto an enemy, this will last for a while before it runs out, and they go back to normal.

Piklopedia

This is the in-game guide of the addon, it goes into detail overall aspect of the addon, you reacive one upon entering the world, but can also be crafted like this:

Installation Requirements

• Activate all experimental features, otherwise, the addon won't work.

Future Plans and Known Issues

• I'm gonna add all types of Pikmin from the games, but for now there are no plans for adding enemies from the games, I'd like to do it anyway if I see people like this addon.

Updated on November 21

• Made compatible with Minecraft 1.20.40 

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