Disabling specific blocks/mods?

[ZeroEnero]

Long story short: I'm horribly phobic of bugs/spiders and the like and I just got Minecraft recently. (Only played on peaceful to learn some of the basic recipes.) Is there any way I can take out specific mobs and blocks?

 

[Omicron]

At bare minimum there's a mod called Mo'Creatures that comes with an ingame config interface that lets you enable or disable any vanilla or Mo'Creatures mob (but not those added by other mods).

However Mo'Creatures heavily changes the way creatures spawn and despawn, and is known for significantly screwing up the play experience in many cases. Passive creatures, even those added by Mo'Creatures itself, more or less instantly die upon spawning because the mod also adds predator animals, and even one of those can kill 20-30 passives a day with ease. Combined with the fact that these spawns overwrite other mob spawns, it's very common to run into a situation where you can't find for example squid or sheep at all, ever. And let's not get into the numerous hostile mobs that will completely wreck all your building attempts just because they displace or destroy blocks around them by merely existing.

Maybe there are similar mods out there that allow for similar configuration without the hassle, but if all else fails you can try Mo'Creatures and disabling everything other than vanilla mobs (minus spiders).

However that won't affect the small poison spiders you find in mineshafts and under some Thaumcraft trees, because those come exclusively from spawner blocks.

 

[YX33A]

Might I suggest looking into Just Another Spawner? It can limit what can spawn, without using Mo' Creatures and risking your weak shit being fucked up ogres wrecking your house while flaming werewolves eat you and your whole family.

 

[wolfsilver00]

Maybe minecraft could be a nice way to learn to control your phobia Just try, you know it only bits spiders so.. may be good to get used to it

 

[slay_mithos]

Maybe minecraft could be a nice way to learn to control your phobia Just try, you know it only bits spiders so.. may be good to get used to it

You don't seem to understand what a phobia can cause.

Depending on the person, it could cause some serious nerve stress. Some people have phobia so bad that they simply pass out.

While I do agree that Minecraft spiders are not as bad as in many other games, they still are spiders, and it is legitimate to ask if there is a way to remove or transform them.

 

[wolfsilver00]

You don't seem to understand what a phobia can cause.

Depending on the person, it could cause some serious nerve stress. Some people have phobia so bad that they simply pass out.

While I do agree that Minecraft spiders are not as bad as in many other games, they still are spiders, and it is legitimate to ask if there is a way to remove or transform them.

Im not discussing if it legitimate or not, im just trying to give another option because the only option i could think of, MoCreatures, was already given..

 

[ZeroEnero]

Thank you for the suggestions!

 

[wolfsilver00]

I've got another option for you.

Textures.

Find a kind texture artist and have them make a new pack that turns the spiders into... something else. Small blue flying UFO's maybe, with the poison ones being smaller and red. Include a sound texture and you can get rid of the sounds they make too.

I didn't know that with a texture you could change the model of a spider :/ But if not, i could make a model with techne for you Zero spiders could be littles *insert thing you are not scared about here* with some nice textures if a texture artist helps me or some ugly textures if i need to do them myself xD

 

[wolfsilver00]

Take off some legs and make it a 4 legged thing that isn't a bug?