Protector

Protectors are a possible Evolution of Infected Adventurers, belonging in the Evolved tier. They are defensive support units and melee combatants.

Spawning

• Evolved from an Infected Adventurer when it obtains at least 1 Evolution Point and its 5 minute Evolution timer expires. Once it does, it has a 22.5% chance to Evolve into a Protector.

Unique Behavior

• Protectors are capable of visibly wearing Armor in their head and feet slots. When a Protector Evolves naturally from an Infected Adventurer, it will keep any head and feet slot Armor the Infected Adventurer wore. When a Protector spawns via any other means, it'll retain the same values as Infected Adventurers do for spawning with Armor and a name.

• When a Protector has a target, it'll hold up its shield. While a Protector's shield is up, it'll move slightly slower and, from the front, block any incoming damage (projectiles are deflected). Additionally, Protectors will bash targets with their shield, which does no damage but deals 1 knockback and inflicts Mycelium Infection I for 5 seconds. While a Protector's shield is raised, if the Protector is hit with an Axe or any damage is dealt to the side or back of its hitbox, its shield will be disabled for 5 seconds.

• If a Spore Mob is damaged by a living entity and a Protector is within a 64 block range, the Protector's target will be set to the entity that damaged the Spore Mob it detected. When this happens, notified Protectors will receive Speed I for 5 seconds.

• A Protector will always spawn with an Ender Pearl in its hand. If its target is at least 20 blocks away from it, the Protector will throw its Ender Pearl towards the target to teleport closer. Additionally, when not having one, Protectors can gain another Ender Pearl by killing an Enderman.

Variants

Protectors have an 80% chance to spawn as one of their four Variants (excluding normal Protectors), with an overall 20% chance per Variant.

• Studded Protectors will deal 8 damage (x4 hearts) when bashing a target with their shield. Bashing also does Knockback 2.4 and inflicts Slowness II for 5 seconds. Studded Protector shields have a Thorns effect, reflecting 10% of damage. This only works when hitting their shield.

• Collector Protectors will search for containers within a 32x4x32 block area that have armor, weapons, or food inside. They'll run up to the container and collect the items inside.

  • For every piece of armor, it checks how much armor it gives to the wearer, and converts that value into an 'armor point' value that it holds internally. For every weapon, it checks how much damage it does, and converts that value into a 'damage point' value that it holds internally.

    • Every 10 seconds, Collector Protectors will search for spore mobs in a 16x16x16 cube. The amount of armor/damage points it has reflects how many allies it can grant buffs too (e.g. if a Collector Protector has 5 armor points and 4 damage points, it can buff 9 allies). Armor points, when given to allies, grant Resistance for 30 minutes. Damage points, when given to allies, grant Strength for 30 minutes.

  • As for each piece of food that Collector Protectors steal, the hunger and saturation points are added together and divided by 5. The output is how many Kill Points the Collector Protector will receive.

• Thornbloom Protectors will give Weakness and Poison for 10 seconds to targets that hit its shield.

• The Bulwark Protector has a 1.2x size increase. Their armor is increased by 30% (15.6 armor (7.8 bars)) and they have 1.0 knockback resistance, meaning they can't be knocked back by attacks.

Behavior

• Protectors are hostile to most non-Spore mobs, with the exceptions being Animals and Fish (unless Should attack Animals is enabled via the Config) and mobs included in the Mobs Not Targeted blacklist within the Config.

• Protectors inflict Mycelium Infection I for 30 seconds when dealing melee damage.

• Capable of breaking Glass and Leaves.

• Cannot ride Boats.

• Can perform short dashes in liquids to pursue a target.

• Protectors have a 5% chance to drop a Scent upon death unless they are freezing.

• Protectors can create a Search Alert upon death.

• Able to utilize Kill Points to grant themselves buffs.

• Present a weakness to the cold.

• Protectors are influenced by Horde Mentality; they attempt to pair up with Infected, Evolved, Hyper Evolved, Experiments, Bairns, Scampers, Gastgebers, and Calamities. Additionally, Infected, Evolved (excluding Chargers), Bairns, Scampers, and Gastgebers will attempt to pair up with Protectors.

• Protectors can be Linked.

• Are affected by the Despawning System.

• Are not affected by Vanilla Despawning.

• In regards to Frostbite, have a Body Heat of 2 and Enum Percentage of 7.5%.

Related Advancements

• Meet the Team

• Get Down Mr. President!

Drops

• Armor Fragment (80% chance for 3 - 8)

• Mutated Fibre (80% chance for 3 - 12)

• Mutated Heart (25% chance for 1)

• Shield Fragment (100% chance for 1 - 4)

• Experience Points (5)

• Naturally-spawned Equipment (8.5% chance with random durability)