Bigfoot: Into the Woods

Bigfoot and the Yeti are two new monsters for the world. Bigfoot appears in forests, while the Yeti appears in snowy biomes, and the two work in nearly the same way with a few differences. At first both ignore the player, and killing animals in their biome raises the chance of a creature appearing. The Bigfoot watches the player until it is attacked directly, and after further animal kills it turns aggressive. Both creatures are strong, withstand heavy damage, and will hunt the player for food.

The mod is built with MCreator and runs on Forge for 1.20.1, with files also covering 1.19.2 and 1.19.4. It requires Geckolib, which must be installed alongside it. Installation covers the server and each player's game. Spawning follows conditions that the mod sets for each creature: some mobs appear only above Y level 60, others below it, and most spawn only in the overworld. The code is not open source; it is released under All rights reserved.

Progress is tracked by a kill counter for animals in forest and snow biomes. Eight kills activate the second phase of Bigfoot, and sixteen activate the third. The counter can be reset with a command, and the gamerule bigfootPhase sets the phase directly. The Yeti and Bigfoot despawn when a player is within 100 blocks, which the gamerule bigfootDespawn can turn off. Both creatures can break glass, wood and leaves, which the gamerule MobGriefing controls.