Digga's Nextbots

Nextbots spawn in the overworld as several variants, including Obunga, Selene, Delgado, Lopez, Sanic and Wise, along with a Mystical Tree and others. They are modeled as 2D PNG textures with strange sounds and a fast, aggressive pace. A player within about 50 blocks can be tracked down immediately, and some variants such as Obunga watch from much farther away. Several of them are already hunting before the player notices.

Spawning follows the usual monster rules, but some Nextbots appear only above or below certain Y levels, and most stay out of dimensions other than the overworld. The gamerule doNextbotSpawn turns natural spawning off or back on, and mobGriefing set to false stops them from breaking blocks. The mod is created with MCreator and offers features that are available across versions, though 1.19.2 lacks shields, structure generation and custom villagers that 1.20.1 includes. Geckolib is required, and the server and every player need the mod, since it runs on client and server.