AIOA: Zombie Apocalypse Spawning and Daylight Hazards

Hostile Spawn Suppression

All In One Apocalypse re-engineers baseline monster generation to support focused survival scenarios. By default, the mod manages hostile encounters through dedicated configuration screens accessible via Open AIOA Config. Players can regulate natural threats using Hostile Spawn Control and activate Enable hostile spawn nullification to eliminate unlisted monsters. To preserve key encounter types, administrators can toggle options such as:

• Ignore structure-based hostile spawns to protect temple and fortress encounters.
• Ignore spawner-based hostile spawns so dungeon spawners continue functioning.
• Ignore special or scripted hostile spawns to prevent suppressing village raids and patrol events.

Specific monsters can be whitelisted by editing the Hostile Allow-List.

Day Surface Spawn Invasions

Rather than restricting undead monsters to darkness, Day Surface Spawns introduce continuous daytime threats across the Overworld. Enabling Enable day surface spawns causes apocalypse monsters to generate directly under sunlight:

• Prevent sunlight burn stops daytime monsters from catching fire, maintaining relentless pressure in broad daylight.
• Configure Require clear sky and Require daytime so that daytime swarms strictly spawn during day hours under direct sky exposure.
• Fine-tune proximity rules using Minimum spawn distance and Maximum spawn distance to prevent monsters from dropping directly next to players.
• Restrict monster density using Maximum nearby managed mobs to maintain balanced performance during prolonged encounters.

Variant Modes and Spawn Pools

The mod provides granular control over entity demographics and spawn tables through Day spawn pool entries or Open AIOA Spawn Studio:

• Adjust Zombie variant mode to choose between Regular only, Baby only, or Regular and baby.
• Enable Remove baby variants to force baby-capable spawns into adult forms, eliminating fast miniature runners.
• Generate template identifiers using Export configurable mob catalog file to view all valid mob identifiers for custom pool entries.