Frequently asked questions

Is ExyliaMobs free?

No. It is a premium plugin installed as a loader jar that checks the licence on every start. It is not sold on BuiltByBit: request your key on the Exylia Discord and put it in license_key in loader.yml. See Installation.

The plugin does not start

packetevents is a hard dependency: without it the server never loads the plugin. ExyliaLib 1.331.0 or newer is needed too; the loader installs it, or stages a newer one, and asks for a restart — restart once more. If the console reports a licence error, check the key in loader.yml.

Do players need a resource pack for the models?

No. Every cube of a model is drawn with a block, item or player-head display. See 3D models.

A generator spawns nothing

Check, in order: its status reads Enabled (not No area, No mobs or Disabled); a player who is not a spectator is within its activation radius; it has not reached its max alive; the server has not reached max-alive in config.yml; the area has a solid floor with two open blocks above it inside its height, in loaded chunks; and at least one of its mobs has a weight above 0. If the console says a spawn was cancelled, it is a WorldGuard flag. See Generators.

A mob died and paid nothing

A mob killed by health pays only when players dealt at least min-player-share of its damage: one killed mostly by a farm, lava or other mobs pays nothing. A mob in hits mode pays only when its last hit breaks it, never through /kill or the void. A mob whose lifetime ran out pays only its escaped list. See When a mob pays.

Items did not drop on the ground

In DROP mode items come out at the mob only when their player is online on that server and within 32 blocks; otherwise they go to the player instead, and what does not fit is kept for their next join.

My changes to the menu files were lost

The seven screens are rewritten from the jar on every start. Change their text through messages.yml, which is kept. See Configuration.

I edited a mob on one server and another server still has the old one

Without Redis, servers read mobs and generators from the database only on start; /mobsadmin reload does not read them again. Turn on Redis in database.yml for changes to reach every server at once. See On a network.

I deleted a showcase mob and it did not come back

That is on purpose: each showcase model and mob is handed over once. To get a model back, delete its line in models/.bundled and restart. To get a mob back, delete its line in showcase-mobs.txt and restart.

Can another plugin spawn these mobs?

Yes, through ExyliaLib's shared mob store, without depending on ExyliaMobs. ExyliaRewards' vote piñatas work that way. See API.