> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://entities.lodemc.net/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome to LodeEntities

> Custom mobs, models and boss mechanics in a single plugin.

LodeEntities brings your own creatures to your Minecraft server. Design a model in [Blockbench](https://www.blockbench.net/), drop it in a folder, and it becomes a living, animated mob in your world. Give it a name, health, attacks and abilities in a few lines of YAML. No coding, and no resource pack to build by hand.

* **Custom mobs.** A vanilla entity underneath, your model on top, and the stats, equipment and behaviour you give it.
* **Effects.** What your mob does, written the way MythicMobs skills are written. Hundreds of mechanics, targeters and conditions, and MythicMobs skill lines load as they are.
* **Models.** Blockbench models with animations, hitboxes, nametags and shadows, packed into a resource pack for you.
* **Spawning.** Spawners that keep a population alive in one place, and natural spawn rules that put mobs wherever the world suits them.
* **NPCs.** Mobs that stand still, look at players and start branching conversations.
* **Pets** *(premium)*. Players tame, claim or are given mobs that follow them, fight for them, level up, evolve and can be ridden.

## What you can build

Anything from a decorative pet wandering your spawn to a raid boss with phases, timed attacks, homing projectiles and loot. Mobs react to what happens around them: when they spawn, get hit, die, or when a player clicks them. You decide what happens next.

## Requirements

* Paper or Folia, Minecraft 1.21.4 or newer.
* Players need the generated resource pack to see models. LodeEntities can merge it into Nexo's or ItemsAdder's pack.

The model engine is built in: there is no second plugin to install.

## Get started

> **[My First Mob](https://entities.lodemc.net/my-first-mob.md)**
>
> Install the plugin, drop in a model and spawn it, in about five minutes.

> **[My First Effect](https://entities.lodemc.net/my-first-effect.md)**
>
> Make your mob greet players, hit back and go out with a bang.

> **[Coming from MythicMobs?](https://entities.lodemc.net/mythicmobs.md)**
>
> Drop your mob and skill files in and they load.


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