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An immortal snail spawns in roughly 20 blocks from you when you spawn into the world. He is slow and fairly easy to avoid if you can see him coming, but if he reaches you, instant death. Even with full prot 4 netherite with beacons, enchanted golden apples, and turtle master potions, he will kill you in a single hit. He hits so hard, he might break your armor in a single strike.
It's best to avoid him, but should you wish to kill him, there is only one way. By killing the immortal snail's peaceful brothers and sisters in swamps and dripstone caves, you can get 3 new items: Raw Snail, Snail Shell Shards, and Ooze. Following the Raw Snail progression tree in the advancements tab brings you to a food that can give you the immortal snail's immunity for a short time. The Snail Shell Shards lead to a set of snail armor with incredible durability that can survive several hits from the immortal snail even if you don't. The Ooze tree is a little different. The immortal snail's rage grows as he sees you kill innocent, peaceful snails right before his eyes while he is too slow to stop you. The final straw is when you make a potion from the ooze of innocent snails and splash him with it. He immediately transforms into the form of his true full potential, the King Snail, and summons two Snail Knights to aid him in battle. The King Snail boss fight begins.
The snail's increased size gives him a larger reach and a powerful knockback attack. He and his knights hunt you the same way the immortal snail did, so if you are not prepared to finish this fight, be prepared to be chased by them forever. The increased size gave them one single weakness though, they are vulnerable to player melee damage. So buckle up for a long, difficult battle as you dance just outside the snail's melee range while still staying close enough to hit him. When the king finally dies, he drops an item that can be used to make a powerful helmet.
But the fight against the snails isn't over, even with the King dead, another snail may soon take up his charge and become the immortal snail again.
There is also a new snail villager profession just for fun. It's pretty expensive, but uhhh... I wanted it... The knights can also be tamed and ridden, but they're snails so they're slow and there's no real use for it.
The mod is updated on CurseForge, I am so sorry to the 6 of you who downloaded v1.0.2, the snail deletes your inventory because of a bug in that one, but I immediately put a v1.0.3 that fixes that. Other fixes include but aren't limited to: - Immortal Snail is now immortal (lol) It used to die by several things that I hadn't thought of like dripstone and iron golems and now it doesn't - Immortal Snail teleports to the world spawn when it falls in the void (I have to teleport it somewhere and I can't teleport it to the player because then it would kill the player, so this is the best I got - Immortal Snail follows you for 10,000 blocks - Immortal Snail loads the chunk he is in and unloads the ones he leaves and can see between loaded and unloaded chunks and still path through them. - Immortal Snail kills you without breaking your armor now (King Snail still breaks your armor, this is intended game design) - Reinforced Snail Helmet has increased durability - Reinforced Snail Helmet has a new ability! When you sneak, it makes you immobile, unable to hit things, and makes you invincible. (So it's immortality at the cost of mobility and actions. It's a little OP but I'm aware most of you guys who play with mods play with multiple mods and this could be a good addition to a multi-mod world) - Re-balanced snail villager trades a little Notes: - Immortal Snail has ways to teleport out of traps that I didn't mention in my video talking about it because it was supposed to be a surprise for those of you who played it, but a lot of comments basically said "you can just trap it, this is dumb." I just didn't want to spoil the fun - And the most commented thing on the video was that the snail armor is useless even though I said it was useful for the Snail King fight. I know it's useless, I just thought it was funny to pretend it was useful. Play the game how you want and you don't have to use the armor if you don't want to
Nice Im gonna try it! (I play minecraft once a year)
I haven't played the mod yet but I think you should remove the snail helmet's ability and add it onto the reinforced snail helmet. That way there's a larger incentive to fight the king snail.
@@gooblos7654 read the sentence again
@@gooblos7654 what? It’s on the reinforced snail helmet already
For the bossfight, maybe make the snail spit slime at you which makes you really slow/unable to move.
1.21 players oneshotting the king snail by falling from 1000 blocks
Gonna have to recode it so it only takes damage from the mace as if you fell just 1 block.
Do what AntVenom did, and teleport infinite blocks up, and then use the mace on the snails. Boom, infinity-the-sequel damage
Then you mess up the timing and it kills you
@@depressedtraingirl1056 in this world, its kill or be killed.
100*
Hardcore mode where you respawn when you die, but if the snail touches you the world is over
Then it’s just not hardcore…
I love this idea. It basically always give the snail a "fear factor". That one touch & your world is over.
@@A_Very_Creative_Handlekinda is
@@turtlesrprettycool3379it’s just survival but if you get killed by one specific mob your world is gone
@@A_Very_Creative_Handle it's hardcore but with extra steps
now give the snail a 0.1% chance to break a block surrounding them if they are stuck in blocks without telling anyone so you cant trap the snail forever
or the snail teleports to being free
@@headphonesaxolotleats a chorus fruit every 60 seconds. Should make it impossible to trap.
You can controll where the chorus spawns the player by placing specific blocks
If the AI realises its stuck, the immortal snail turns into a regular snail. And a new immortal snail spawns elsewhere (Hence it was a "decoy", like described in the original reddit post)
no, its much more psychologically terrifying to come back to your base and see a hole in its containment than for it to just teleport away@@headphonesaxolotl
To make this mod accurate to the original post, a full inventory's worth of emeralds should spawn on top of you at the same time the snail spawns
and ALSO on top of the snail
I'll add a little something like this in the next update
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174would very much alert you to where the hell the snail is by showing a big green blob and then you just run from that blob
Blocks at least or compressed blocks of compressed Emerald
@@alaincraftjava Maybe you could add a config to toggle it.
For the concept to actually work, The Immortal Snail would need to be able to load chunks by himself.
You could also use math if you want, estimate the time it would take and have the snail appear in the players chunks after the estimated time of arrival
@@soup2865Fortunately there is this neat little thing called calculus that solves this problem
@@soup2865Luckily, there is this neat tool called calculus that fixes this problem. Pursuit curves, to be exact.
@@soup2865eh, doesn't need to be that finicky. Just keep track of the chunk the snail is in, move it one chunk towards the player every so often. Y level might be an issue, but you could probs figure something out for that. Loading the chunk would be fine too
That in itself is an interesting concept
Missed opportunity, calling the snail farmer villager a "Snails-man" like salesman.
@alaincraftjava I am BEGGING YOU to do this! This is gold
Lol, that's awesome! I'm doing it
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@@alaincraftjavaThere are some good recommendations for making the immortal snail actually formidable in the comments (chunk loading, chorus fruit ability, etc), hope you update this cuz it’s got great potential
@@nathanielcallen3965 I just pushed an update to curseforge and it’s processing rn
This feels like a 2014 mod and I’m here for it
Right? It feels like you'd see DanTDM reviewing it.
Well, that might be because the idea was conceived in 2014. Another blessing invented by Gavin Free.
@@pissedinyourcornflakes2939 even the small things like visualizing crafting recipes inside chests!
@@arbitrary2868 im so glad someone else remembers it originated from the RT podcast. ive seen ppl claim it came from TikTok or reddit years after and it makes me feel old knowing it was one of many random gavin hypotheticals LMAO
this feels like a mod from the age where all the big MC KZheadr's were doing mod reviews, kinda nostalgic and I love it for that!
I'm not crying from nostalgia right now totally
Genuinely seems like a really well-thought mod. Like. You didn't make things arbitrary or overpowered lol. I LOVE that you can choose to ride the snails... you just know someone's gonna have a playthrough where like, they're so used to riding them, one day they just get killed out of nowhere.
It is a good mod
You should give the snail a custom death message when it kills a player
Player could run but not hide
Player tried to outrun death, but death was faster
Player was fast, but not fast enough
player finally rested
Player was eliminated by the Snail
You should code a unique death message like " touched the snail"
Full capital the word "THE"
was _consumed_ by THE snail.
props for going "let's make some more snails while i'm at it"
This mod should include a way to make yourself immortal, but doing so summons the immortal snail in order to fully create the experience. Or maybe instead of a way to do this in game, “immortal snail mode” is a game mode like peaceful or hardcore
Yes
Yeah a potion with nether star in the ingredients, give immortality and slows down the snail but now it's immortal and will never stop
Your immortal but you can only move as fast as the snail
@@irishbruse and the snail moves through walls like how some describe it
@@DccToon I think the snail should break blocks but only if it can’t go over or around
The armor looks like a kid got its hands on oversized snail shells and scotched it to its body xD
Lol, yeah I really wanted it to look like it doesn’t defend you at all. I love how derpy it looks
It looks like its from Grounded (the video game)
Should’ve been called “snailmail”
@@Noodles207Snailmaille
HELP!@@alaincraftjava I have a bunch in my world. HOW DO YOU REMOVE THEM?! /KILL Doesn't work, EITHER!
There's so much promise in the idea of the immortal snail mod, but it seems you got distracted and made a whole snail themed update instead of fully exploring the immortal snail idea.
I feel the same :/
womp womp
Which, granted, is fun too. But if I was considering using this mod I'd want config to let me turn stuff off so I can just have snails (as decoys) and the immortal snail itself
@@Geffroimagine snails being more common and the immortal snail has AI to blend in with them so you are always paranoid that it's coming for you
But at the same time, what else is there to expand on the Immortal snail? It literally just slowly moves towards you and then kills you on contact. So he decided to just expand on it. I would have a problem if you couldn’t disable the other things as well, but there doesn’t seem like there’s too much to expand on.
its a nice mod, but making a snail beatable kind of defeats the point of the hypothetical. It was supposed to be more of a looming threat.
Yeah, I was thinking about like the longevity and how you’d probably get really tired of it since it’d become more of like an annoying gimmick if you aren’t playing hardcore after a while. So I figured let’s do a boss fight to get rid of the gimmick if you won’t want it anymore
@@alaincraftjavawat if u just trap it in a box
@@alaincraftjavayeah i understand. I havent played it but it seems like a good mod, even if it isn't a great execution of the hypothetical. The models are very nice too, i really like the shell armor
@@alaincraftjava It could be a nice option to be able to switch between the "classic immortal snail" and the "bossfight snail" options when creating the world. This way everyone could get what they wanted
@@marusiaskrynnyk7489 i mean u can just choose not to throw a potion at it
I cleared all the files off my pc, the snail was still alive. The title did not lie, you have been warned.
Herobrine 2
I’m hearing all of you guys giving me suggestions telling me bugs and I want to let you know I’ve been taking note of all of it and I appreciate it a lot! I’m planning to fix a lot of these issues this weekend and post an updated version by monday. More feedback is always welcome!
did you add jerry? from spongbob?
I think the immortal snail should have a custom death message when it touches you but this was cool looking forward what else you make, one more thing can the mount snail climb walls
Why would you even wear armor during the snail fight? It won’t help… I think if you made the snail guards not one-shot you, but do enough damage to one shot you without armor, it might incentivize using snail armor
I think there should actually be a proper reward for defeating king snail rather than just a reskinned netherite helmet, at least make it a bit stronger, it doesnt have to be completely overpowered
if u name tag a snail "Gary" its texture changes into Gary from spongebob!
Suggestion: the snail loads 1 chunk it is in It pathfinds 10 blocks at a time in the compass direction of the player (or last portal they entered) If trapped, it takes 5 minutes to mine a block
Would 1 chunk be enough, or would it need to also load the chunks directly around that one so it could move into them?
the snail knights should be able to go up walls with their stickiness
Make the baby snail able to be picked up i cannot stress how important this is for the future of the human society
i see your idea and raise mine: the baby snail sits on your head
This is hella impressive for your first mod. In fact, it'd even be impressive if it was your 15th!
Thanks!
You brought the meme to life! Absolutely love this would be awesome to see someone do a survival series on this
I was trying some hardcore, but I keep dying lol
@@alaincraftjava lol i need a playthough
good idea.. 👀
maybe a modpack idea would have the progression result in reaching a method to kill the immortal snail, harnessing the immortality for yourself to which you've completed the pack. And to balance it maybe have it move a bit faster if its farther away so you can't just try to make a base 100k blocks away or something
@@alaincraftjavayou also need to make it so that you’re also immortal, not only that, let it phase through blocks so it doesn’t get stuck or can be trapped
this feels like an old timer minecraft mod review, no clickbait title, no shitty youtube shorts, great post!
"i added immortal snail" precedes to add more content to the game then Mojang has in last few updates
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Seriously
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not really though...
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Very interesting mod, I love how you took the meme and didn’t just add the immortal snail but all the armour and foods. Even a new villager profession too. I can tell a lot of work went into this man, keep it up!
Maybe let the player when riding the snail be able to go up walls or something? Because snails are able to fo that, i think it would be cool
Gavin of rooster teeth and slowmo guys is the one who originated the concept. The folks on reddit just took it from Gavin.
Interesting, that’s good to know!
How does this not surprise me, both gav and the reddit bit
I bet a lot of people don't know that, it's spread so far from that circle now, I still go back and watch that rooster teeth animated adventure😅
i wish those snail knights had tiny knight hats or shields strapped to their sides
Bro made a mod themed entirely around snails and honestly that's amazing
It would be cool if the Reinforced Snail Helmet gave you some kind of resistance to the snail instant-kills. Maybe reduces the damage to kill you in two hits instead of one. Also, it'd be cool if the immortal snail could slowly break blocks and climb walls, to make it properly impossible to escape forever.
it's not gonna get me, I'll just run until it goes out of my loaded chunks.
That is correct. I am still looking for a solution to keep it loaded without lagging the game with a complicated procedure too much.
Might need to find a way to do what hypixel does just estimating how long itll take and just reloading it into the area at a specific time
Make it just respawn him in the chunks like a wolf lol
@@alaincraftjavathe witherstorm in crackers witherstorm mod does this, perhaps it can be similar to that?
@@alaincraftjava You don't need to load the chunks the snail is in. You can probably use math to calculate when the snail would catch up.
It has been almost a decade since I last watched a Minecraft mod showcase, what a throwback to better times
Honestly, with all of the extra bits, this effectively feels like an early minecraft mod. People added fun things and crafting recipes for the hell of it back then and I’m so here for it
i really like this vanilla-ish mod many cool idea
I cant believe this is your first mod! This so cool and looks like so much fun to play with! You did an amazing job! I cant wait to add it to my own world 😁
Thanks!!
dude this is super cool, great job!!! i love that you can tell how much effort and love went into making this.
probably one of the coolest and funniest mods ive seen for modern minecraft. will def be playing this, and its pretty cool for your first mod !
With your enchanted helmet issue, i believe making it a smithing table craft would fix that
Can't wait to watch as your channel grows to a million and even more dude
I like this, it reminds me a lot of old OG mods from back in the earlier days of modding. Simple, sticks to a clear theme, and executed effectively. Well done :)
Really cool!!! Super well done for a first mod, from the way it works/idea to implementation!
couldnt you just cheese king snail if you build up 5 blocks, like an iron golem
From above wouldn’t work because he’s shorter than the golem and his reach is .2 blocks longer. You could totally dig a 1x1 hole tho to cheese him
just dont cheese it
Make the snail be able to climb like spiders.
@@normanbestboi9117enhanced spiders where it can also go under and over the block
maybe the king snail ooze could be applied with a snail shell, the helmet, and the ooze in a smithing table? that way it doesnt clear enchants off the helmet
Ooh, that could be good
@@alaincraftjavaSlimed players could have slightly less movement but a chance of items being stuck in till the player is damaged and the item falls off of the armor
Fantastic work for a first mod! Looking forward to what you'll do in the future!
Thanks!
You put so much work and love into this. It is really amazing!
Such a cool mod, hope you work on it to make him truly unstoppable because rn it seems kinda easy to trap
Grian and Gem's snails hired this guy.
Dear god, imagine if the server installed this mod. Chaos would ensue within mere minutes 💀💀
I've only seen 3 immortal snail mods including this one, and i think this is the best one, not only because i just generally prefer your snail model over other people's models, but also the fact that this mod adds more than just a single snail, it adds new items and a boss fight, that's pretty cool, this mod is now on my list of mods that i may or may not play with
Since the original scenario has you immortal and only die if you touch the snail, if you arent already in hardcore, the snail should be able to kill you permanently
I think this is a really cool mod and I think I am probably gonna play it sometime in the future but aren't there already mods with an immortal snail? Tough they don't go into this too deep by just adding the snail. Still great mod! Keep up the great work.
Yeah, there are others but I didn’t like their mechanics. You should go on curseforge and try a couple of them on there if you want a good little laugh. My mod is by no means perfect as I’m finding new problems with it still, so I’m not judging too hard, but some of them have really funny bugs
this is actually really impressive for your first mod. great job!!
if the snail could chunk load around itself similar to the wither storm mod, and had the ability to mine blocks in its pathfinding if it can't find a valid air path, that would definitely add to the intimidation of a mob that could potentially instantly end a hardcore world
I am making it so it loads chunks in the next update and I don't want it to break blocks because snails irl can't really break blocks and it's assumed in the original concept that the immortal snail is based on an irl snail and probably wouldn't easily be able to break 1m cubes of anything
@@alaincraftjavaso there is no way for the snail to escape if you trap it in a box or something?? If that is the case, that would be really sad. my memory may be deceiving me but in the original post doesnt it say that it is not possible to stop or contain the snail?
@@hasikshield i have a system for it to escape traps occasionally but it won’t break blocks or like destroy your stuff to get to you
And it doesn’t say that it’s impossible to trap or contain it, it’s just that you can’t touch it. If you find a way to trap it without touching it, that’s fair game
@@alaincraftjavathe old school lever trap
Awesome mod! I'm thinking about using it. Is there a version of the mod where I can play with the only addition to the game being the Immortal Snail? I'd like to use the Immortal Snail, but not any of the armour, potions, or other snails.
The other things are really only available if you kill regular snails. You could use it and just not kill the snails? I know just telling you to not interact with the parts you don't want to interact with isn't really a solution, but I don't have another version rn
this video just brought back memories of the mod showcases from the early to mid 2010's loved it
Wow, really fleshed out mod. I like how you really made it a part of the minecraft world with thibga like the villager and such. I have no idea what would need to be done to get the ridable snail fixed up to a point where you're happy with it, but I encourage you to get that polished up too. Really exciting!
One issue with the snail armor for the boss snail... Why would you wear armor in the first place? I mean, I guess you could put thorns on snail armor and cheese the fight but otherwise he's just gonna one shot you why would you wear armor
This is so cool Seeing the setup for the showcase brought so much nostalgia
nice mod bro - look forward to seeing what you publish next
Please rename Golden Escargot to Escargold / Escargolden
I’ll think about it. I’m working on fixing bugs and stuff for it this weekend and I might do that
Bro casually makes a mod that fits better into vanilla than the last 3 updates
This is awesome, and saying that this is your first mod too, it’s very good, I like it a lot!
For your first mod, this is great and I can't wait to see more from you. (when you said it was your first I said out loud “There is no way it is” (take that as a compliment))
This is simple yet amazing. It's a great base, you can add so many things and details. I hope we have more updates!!!
love it, good job! continue like this, one day you'll make even more exceptional mods!
This is your first mod?! Dude youre amazing i really hope to see more of your stuff in the future:)
Loved hearing your work around to despawn hostile and spawn in friendly knight snail, when i used to make games on rpg maker i did the same thing all the time
for a first mod this is really impressive, keep it up dude!
The model is so perfect. As soon as you said you added regular snails I realized the entire minecraft dev team should be replaced with modders with youtube channels.
Seems like an exaggeration. It is a great model but it's also a static model, which makes it easier to implement because there's no animations to add. Also you don't even know how long it took him to add it lmao
I appreciate the support, but I stand on the shoulders of giants to make one small snail like this. I could never replace a full game dev with this level of skill. I'm not even coding it myself, I'm using a program that codes for me with blocks that I don't understand the back-end of at all.
Also this took me roughly 2 weeks to make
What program do you use? I'd love to be able to make my own mods but have no coding experience really
@@izzywn5802 i used Blockbench for models and MCreator for the building of the actual mod
Honestly for this being your first mod as you said, it's a great concept and with the Ideas from the comments it's gonna be great!
This is an incredible Minecraft mod concept and very well executed for a first time modder, thank you For making this
Thanks!!
Nice video! I also created a similar mod some weeks ago, the difference being that mine is less focused around the snail and more focused on meme entities.
To make the immortal snail even more dangerous make him a chunk loader so the chunk it is in and the immediate surrounding chunks are always loaded so the snail can't be unloaded. Prevent it from beginning able to be trapped by blocks by phasing/flying through blocks if it can't pathfind to the player. Make sure it can navigate to portals to track them to the other dimensions.
This won't be seem or appreciated but.. I clicked on this ideo expecting a more modern video, where the entire premise was playing the game but the snail is chasing you. Amused by the normal snail mob, but them amazed by the fact drops were included. And then it just expanded and expanded Literally took me back to 2012 and made me feel like a kid again, binging mod showcases. It even almost reignited my desire to have a pc, just to download mods. So thanks for the nostalgia
Seen and appreciated
@@alaincraftjava 🙏
This is surprising amount of follow through for the bit. Simply having The Boy chasing you would be enough, but I really respect all this.
Your first mod about snails? HELL YEAH! YOURE AWESOME
Okay this is really cool but I haven't watched a mod showcase in like 10 years and this format this video brings back so many good memories I'm glad there are people who continue to not only make mods but also continue the whole things of doing mod show cases to show off theirs or others amazing work.
At first I was thinking about the differences from the reddit post, but to make it a playable mod these tweaks make a lot of sense and in the context of Minecraft it adds to the concept. Really well done for your first mod
Here's an idea: >Have a small structure with a very low chance to appear in villages, in it, a villager called "The Offerer" starts an interaction, this comes with a disclaimer following that of the original story; And a choice, yes or no? the mod starting depends on the choice, which you can return to anytime in case you decline.
Feels very classic modded minecraft, in a good way. Armor, mobs, the whole shebang. Oh and for the reinforced hat could you use the same upgrade thing that turns diamond into netherite, that doesn't nuke enchantments.
I love the vibe this video has Almost like 2012 mod showcases
someone already said it, but it bears repeating. huge mod showcase vibes from like 6-7 years ago, maybe longer atp, and that's awesome. the mod itself gives the same vibes too, plus with the way you have it all set up? idk it's awesome, and looks like you had a lot of fun making the mod
This is phenomenal! I can't wait to try it out.
Great Video Dude!!! very well put together!
This is absolutely awesome. I wish I had Java because I would totally install this. You made a fully working mod from a meme, and it's a pretty awesome one!!! Also the snails are so cute
I was literally just thinking about this wondering if it could’ve put in Minecraft! Dude thank you this is gonna he hilarious!
This is great work, especially for your first mod! I have a suggestion to make the tameable snails more worthwhile: they could be able to stick to and climb up vertical walls so they can be somewhat useful for traversing large vertical areas. It's probably not super simple to do but I think it'd be cool!
Damn this is your first mod? Congrats mate!
Thats so cool! I'd love a modding tutorial from you, it couybe so nice and helpful!
This looks awesome! I'm starting a new world today now I plan to include this mod too
as a snail enjoyer this mod satisfies my need for snail content
THIS IS YOUR FIRST MOD? Well done
the full set of snail armor should make like 50-60% resilient to harmful potions/effects (with more towards slowness, like 25-30% of it resistant to most harmful effects and the rest[25-30%] for slowness) and the reinforced snail helm should have a 75% resistance to most harmful effects (stacks with set bonus) and straight up immunity to slowness. the golden escargot should give a 20% resistance to harmful effects (with a similar split to the snail armor set bonus) and the enchanted golden escargot being the same as the golden escargot but with a 40% harmful effects resistance and gives the slimy effect with a effect time similar to the resistance effect then the absorption effect. also, the slimy effect should allow you to slide down walls (like honey blocks) and give you increased knockback resistance (like 75% of a full set of unenchanted netherite armor) these are just ideas to help give your items more flavor to stand out against the vanilla items (other than SNAIL!!!!), I really don't know how to make mods, but I hope these help, for your first mod is good, but it can always be better, cheers! -random internet stranger
damn storm effing with my internet, had to rewrite this several times
Congrats on the viral video!! Keep up the good work and you'll definitely make it :)
This is your first mod? It's great! Not too much content to be overbearing, but enough fun stuff to shake up the meta and gameplay loop. Definitely adding this to my personal modpack
When i encountered this video i genuinely squealed bc i Rlly love snails i think they are just personally the best , Sooooo you just earned a Sub (Excellent Video Btw 🗿)
Love to see some genuine wholesome mods
Great mod and video! Here are a couple suggestions for the implementation of the immortal snail. I hope they can somewhat inspire you :D Pathfinding across large distances: If it's in unloaded chunks, direct pathfinding would not only be difficult but largely unnecessary. From the moment the snail gets into unloaded chunks, it should practically only exist as chunk coordinates, and it could pathfind on a chunk-based scale towards the last chunk the player was in in the given dimension. Although relatively simple and effective, the system has one major flaw: the snail might skip dimensions if the player travels too quickly. To address this issue, consider storing the player's initial and final chunk positions in each dimension, and maintain a register to track the sequence of dimensions traversed by the player. You should probably randomize the speed of the chunk-based virtual snail, making it slightly faster than its loaded counterpart. If the virtual snail reaches chunks loaded by the player (not by portals or spawn chunks, for example), only then should it actually spawn as an entity, preferably near the outer edge toward the direction the virtual snail came from. Ideas for the entity: First, I'd remove the name tag, making the snail impossible to distinguish from normal snails unless you test it. You could also make it more intelligent: if possible, it could try to avoid direct line of sight. If normal snails are in its vicinity and the player is near, it should pathfind towards the snails to blend in. If it's really close to the player, its pathfinding should look quite indecisive, like it's just a normal snail that happens to travel towards the player. (In order to do that, maybe just use the normal idle AI, but only use a path if its destination is closer to the player.) Finally, it kind of defeats the purpose of the mod if it's easy to build a snail-safe space, like some sort of an island or just an enclosed base the snail cannot pathfind into. To solve this issue, there should be alternatives if the snail fails to pathfind normally. It could maybe climb, jump, chew through blocks, or even fly and teleport. To make it a bit more realistic when it flies, a flying mob - like a bat or phantom - could 'pick it up', and when it teleports it could be held by an enderman. I think these features could really add to the mod, since the concept is not only that the snail inches closer and you will meet your fate unavoidably, but also because you have no idea how exactly it will happen. You always have to keep in mind that the snail is really intelligent and constantly works towards your demise. Anyways, keep it up!
I feel like it is so easy to avoid. Even if you don't just trap it, it ain't getting in your house lol. Good you kept additions mostly balanced though. Nice first mod.