Hello everyone,
It's been a while since I've paused to talk about the development of EliteMobs, so what follows is about that. I will be upfront about announcements, and then I go in-depth about why I have taken these decisions. Before I move forward though, I will say that I would love to hear your take on this, should you read it to the end.
Announcement: I will now be releasing EliteMobs public updates on to Spigot on a weekly basis (probably on Sundays, after 7.3.1) or...
2021-06-17 20:40:32 +0000 UTC
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It's here!
The 7.3.0 is now publicly available for all to download in its (to the best of my knowledge and based on the reports of dozens of tester servers) stable state!
I will be streaming the creation of the Ender Dragon encounter over the coming days, which should be quite fun, so I invite you to check out the twitch streams over at twitch.tv/magmaguy !
Regardless, I hope you enjoy this new EliteMobs update!
- MagmaGuy
2021-04-28 05:22:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
I just want to apologize for the slower month thus far in EliteMobs. A lot of things came up all at once, both business and personal and both great and terrible.
It's been quite an exhausting month and honestly I have not been feeling great. I hope that the bulk of it has passed so I can once again refocus my efforts and provide you with a plugin worth supporting.
I will be working overtime over the coming days and up to the end of the month to try to provide...
2021-04-22 15:36:25 +0000 UTC
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Hello supporters!
As some of you might be aware, this month I will be working on developing the Ender Dragon fight for EliteMobs.
The plans for this fight are supremely ambitious, specifically in the mechanics department.
To guarantee a smooth release, I am currently looking for supporters who would be interested in providing me with feedback for this fight.
This fight will be the first and probably for a long time the only fight featuring a level 250 boss. It will act...
2021-04-04 09:42:43 +0000 UTC
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Here you'll find the files for the 30 unique items used for the Oasis! It incorporates a new concept of distributing lore through unique loot in order to provide players with tips for completing minidungeons and finding secrets!
I'm sure you'll come up with creating uses for these!
2021-03-31 20:28:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 2 of The Oasis Adventure is here!
Featuring...
- 778 bosses on the map!
- 54 unique boss files!
- 30 pieces of unique loot!
- 4 new powers!
This map, fit for players between levels 2-55- the best for beginners! -, is now nearing its final form! Chapter 2 has finished introducing the main map areas, and most bosses that will be featured in here!
This is starting to be a fairly good representation of the vision for the final map...
2021-03-31 20:05:14 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
This is a bit of a debriefing of the new item upgrade systems. It is partly an explanation of how they work, why they work that way, why they do not work a different way and the path that took us here. It also ends with talking about the near future.
If you have a few minutes to spare and want to peek behind the curtain of development, go ahead and continue reading this. If not, documentation will be provided for these features once they mature and assume a more st...
2021-03-28 22:47:45 +0000 UTC
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Over the coming weeks I will be doing EliteMobs dev streams semi-regularly over at https://www.twitch.tv/magmaguy ! If you want to ask development questions, watch me work on EliteMobs live or just hang out that's a cool place to do it at!
On today's stream, Elite Scrap was added to the plugin, as well as Upgrade Orbs and two new NPCs were added for the menus where you create these items!
2021-03-14 22:55:19 +0000 UTC
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I am working with Walvin on Discord to bring you a new set of trailers for the various EliteMobs minidungeons!
I aim to make these good enough that they can be teased even to your own communities to build up hype for new lairs & minidungeons.
Let me know what you think of the freshly remade Dark Spire trailer!
2021-03-05 16:28:19 +0000 UTC
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Here's the new setup video for EliteMobs in preparation for the public release!
Reminder: I put patreon supporters in the credits of the videos, but omit the family names where I can for privacy reasons. I highly recommend you change your patreon account name to a username instead if you don't want your actual name on there!
2021-02-19 10:08:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
If you are a $15 patron or above, you will probably have gotten a notification about another round of updates for the minidungeons. Let me start off by saying that you do not need to reinstall them! The main purpose of this wave of updates is to make future installs and reinstalls significantly easier on you.
That being said, I took the opportunity to tweak the following things:
- The Airship bosses now have loot
- The Dark Spire treasu...
2021-02-08 09:20:18 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I have been putting off addressing the fact that we might have reached the $600/mo goal for a little while now simply because the goal tracker seems convince that this is not the case; I have contacted Patreon support to see what's going on with that but at this stage I am simply going to call it - EliteMobs has reached a goal that I honestly did not expect it would ever reach! Thank you to all EliteMobs supporters, this has really allowed me to work much harder on this ...
2021-02-05 10:11:28 +0000 UTC
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If you have been keeping up with Tester notifications, you will certainly have noticed that 5 EliteMobs dev versions were released within one day, and that 4 versions (.29, .30, .31 and .32) contained critical fixes. This is highly unusual for EliteMobs - I try to release one dev build a day at most, though I feel most comfortable with releasing about two versions a week at most. In 24h I ended up releasing nearly as many critical bug fixes as I have released in total over the lifespan of the...
2021-02-02 22:45:06 +0000 UTC
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In here, you'll find the Dark Spire Items!
They are powerful items made for level 100+ mobs with a nether theme!
2021-02-01 01:48:03 +0000 UTC
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Alright so I've been working very heavily on EliteMobs these last few days, and that culminated in the release of the absolutely massive 7.2.23 update which features a completely redone command structure!
I've also been working on various aspects of documentation in the wiki to help people start off.
These changes were planned for later, but since Discord is getting around 20+ new users every day at this point and an average of 200 (mostly support-related) message...
2021-01-27 07:34:02 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick post since there are quite a lot of new patrons; like almost all youtube content creators, I credit patrons at the end of every "real" video I make (very short content stuff like stream highlights excluded).
I am a very strong advocate for privacy, and do my best to not publish any family names. Most people who sign up on Patreon don't realize that they can use usernames instead of real names for their accounts. If you would rather be credited under a username
2021-01-13 19:55:13 +0000 UTC
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Greeting adventurers!
EliteMobs 7.2.21 has just now been released and should be stable enough for a public release! I will be releasing it on Spigot within the next few days, assuming that the feedback I get back from people testing it is positive.
After testing around for a while, I am more than confident enough in saying that this is by far the most optimized and low impact EliteMobs has ever been, even compared to the early days when it hardly had any features.
In c...
2021-01-07 05:02:23 +0000 UTC
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Greeting adventurers!
Happy new year! EliteMobs is starting this one off with a bang.
As you might be aware, I've spent about 10 hours a day every day since the release of the previous public build working on something really rather large, and today I finally released the first dev build of it on Discord.
Performance, scalability and bugfix updates aren't very glamorous, but they are extremely important not just for their own sake, but also to develop further features.
2021-01-01 18:07:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello patrons!
I've been working on plans for a secret new feature!
It's always been a bit of a shame how EliteMobs has a really robust visual effects system, and hardly any visual effects!
Well, starting now, I am going to start writing a library of visual effects that custom bosses and armor / weapons / players alike can have!
And, best of all, you get to pick the first three visual effects I'll be adding!
In the comments to this post, you can reply with as man...
2020-12-29 05:45:53 +0000 UTC
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It's been a minute, but we are finally doing the vote for the patreon minidungeon!
The next minidungeon is the Air Ship, as posted in the discord room, but we are still holding a vote for the minidungeon after that!
Based on your submissions, as well as one suggestion from 69OzCanOfBepis, here are the options!
- Suggested by LucianDevran: Underground poison swamp
- Suggested by Trascendence: Vampire manor / castle
- Suggested by 69OzCanOfBepis: Ancient Egyptian o...
2020-12-29 05:41:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello Supporters!
As you've probably noticed, the Dungeon Packager alongside other new features are now live on the public build over at Spigot.
I'm going to take this opportunity to make a more meta post and look back at 2020.
This has certainly been a peculiar year. With everyone being stuck at home, I tried to put in the hours work on EliteMobs much as I could, and I think that it has been rather successful.
Perhaps this might be news for new supporters, but the fir...
2020-12-19 23:07:16 +0000 UTC
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And, rounding off all the Discord Lairs/Minidungeons, we have this year's Halloween minidungeon! It seems like it was rather popular, as it is one of the most used minidungeons even right now during Christmas! The boss fight is rather fun, it has a disguised multiphased boss!
Map credits: 69OzCanOfBepis & MagmaGuy
Download link: https://magmaguy.itch.io/elitemobs-the-hallosseum
2020-12-19 12:21:41 +0000 UTC
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Here we go! Another classic minidungeon, one of the free Discord exclusives, uploaded here for your convenience.
Fun fact, did you know that this maze minidungeon has 280' bosses, ranging from levels 5 to 70? It's a pretty insane minidungeon!
Map credits: 69OzCanOfBepis & MagmaGuy
Download link: https://magmaguy.itch.io/elitemobs-the-sewers
2020-12-19 12:16:55 +0000 UTC
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I am adding this for the sake of completion, here's the very first Lair ever made! It's publicly available on Discord, but I figured it would be good to be able to get every single Lair & Minidungeon I've made on Patreon, so here you go!
Map credits: 69OzCanOfBepis & MagmaGuy
Link: https://magmaguy.itch.io/elitemobs-dark-cathedral
2020-12-19 12:11:36 +0000 UTC
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I've published the North Pole Minidungeon for free on Discord. As of writing this post, it requires the latest dev build to run. I am aiming to release the dev build to public this weekend so everyone can access the Christmas themed content.
Map credits: 69OzCanOfBepis
Here's the direct download link: https://magmaguy.itch.io/elitemobs-the-north-pole
2020-12-19 12:07:39 +0000 UTC
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Yes, this 100% installs a schematic-based minidungeon, with 0 need for further setup. Same for the uninstall. And it works with any amount of bosses.
2020-12-05 23:35:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello supporters!
I have been hard at work making a dungeon packager tool that aims to simplify the installation process of minidungeons to as close to a 1-click setup as I can make it.
As a consequence of this system, it is necessary for the existing minidungeons to be updated to use this superior format. I am taking the opportunity to upload a number of fixes and improvements to all minidungeons, and releasing the Dark Spire lair alongside this update.
I've posted a simila...
2020-12-04 19:54:11 +0000 UTC
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Contained within this spooky zip file are a bunch of bosses and loot similar to the free spooky zombie available for free on Discord. These are meant to be used as a seasonal boss pack for Halloween, so make sure you grab is quick and disable it when you feel it's appropriate!
Also check out the free arena and phase boss on Discord!
I will be releasing the Dark Spire and the Flying Ship next!
Spooky greetings,
- MagmaGuy
2020-10-30 07:46:34 +0000 UTC
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I'd be surprised if you didn't notice it by now, but EliteMobs 7.2 was released!
Pretty much every patron was already aware of what was in the dev builds, so I'll only mention what you can look forward to in the future.
Future (public) updates:
I've been toying around with a few concepts to avoid having such a long break between releases again. The long break actually rather hurts the development, not only because it makes writing prope...
2020-10-24 13:48:41 +0000 UTC
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In here, you'll find the Colosseum Items!
These are the most powerful tools I've ever made for EliteMobs, and I strongly recommend you use them as unique loot for a really tough boss!
This is a reminder that it's dungeon 1/4 of Sellout September!
Happy hunting!
2020-09-14 14:20:12 +0000 UTC
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