Equipment

An equipment: block on a mob says what it wears and holds, one entry per slot.

knight:
  base: wither_skeleton
  equipment:
    drop-chance: 0.1                                # applies to every piece below
    hand: diamond_sword
    offhand: shield
    head: { item: skeleton_skull, drop-chance: 1 }  # ...unless the piece says otherwise
    chest: iron_chestplate
    legs: iron_leggings
    feet: iron_boots

MythicMobs writes this as a list (Equipment: [- diamond_sword HAND]); here it is a slot-keyed section, so a glance tells you what is on which limb. A MythicMobs file converts into this shape on load, slot names and all.

Slots

Write	Slot
`hand`, `mainhand`	Main hand
`offhand`	Off hand
`head`, `helmet`	Head
`chest`, `chestplate`	Chest
`legs`, `leggings`	Legs
`feet`, `boots`	Feet

Slot names are case-insensitive and _ and - are ignored, so OFF_HAND, off-hand and offhand are one key.

Ways to name an item

Written as	Means
`hand: diamond_sword`	A vanilla item.
`hand: nexo:forest_sword`	An item from a custom-item plugin, by id.
`head: { nexo: forest_helmet, drop-chance: 1 }`	The same, spelled out so it can carry options.
`chest: { item: iron_chestplate, amount: 1, drop-chance: 0.5 }`	A vanilla item, spelled out. `material:` works for `item:`.
`legs: { snapshot: … }`	An exact copy of an item, every component included. The in-game editor writes these.

Prefer an id over a snapshot. An id is looked up again on every load, so a Nexo sword that gets retuned next week is retuned on every mob wearing it. A snapshot is a photograph: exact, and frozen at the moment it was taken. Installed custom-item plugins are found automatically, and Nexo is supported out of the box. A slot naming a plugin that isn’t installed is left empty and reported by /le debug Mobs, rather than failing the mob. If the plugin is installed but starts after LodeEntities, the slot fills itself a tick later.

Drop chance

Drop chance defaults to 0, not vanilla’s ~8.5%. Gear you put on a mob in config is costume, and a boss quietly seeding the floor with free diamond swords is nobody’s intent. Set it when you do want drops.

A drop-chance written directly under equipment: is the default for every slot in the block, and a slot may still override it. 1 is always, 0 is never, and anything outside 0–1 is clamped.

Dressing a mob in game

/le gui → left-click a mob → Equipment opens a screen with the six slots along the top and their drop chances underneath.

Click	What happens
A slot, then an item in your own inventory	Puts a copy of that item in the slot. The item is copied, never taken, so you can dress a mob from your own gear.
Right-click a slot	Empties it.
A drop chance	Cycles it.

Because the item is copied whole, everything on it comes along: custom model data, name, lore, enchantments, attributes, trims. If a custom-item plugin claims the item, the YAML records its id instead of a copy, so the mob keeps up with the item.

Notes

Slots the block does not mention are left as the vanilla entity spawned with them: a zombie keeps its own sword unless you say otherwise.
An unknown slot name or vanilla item is reported by /le debug and that slot is skipped, rather than failing the whole mob.
Gear carries across when a mob grows into another stage, landing in any slot the new stage does not fill itself.
A mob with can-pick-up-items: true may swap its gear for what it finds on the ground.

Getting Started

Mobs

Spawning

Commands

Effects

Models

Compatibility

NPCs

Pets

Configuration

API

Slots

Ways to name an item

Drop chance

Dressing a mob in game

Notes

​Slots

​Ways to name an item

​Drop chance

​Dressing a mob in game

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Slots

Ways to name an item

Drop chance

Dressing a mob in game

Notes