Size matters

Apoli 1.86.0 and Origins 1.38.1. Size changing is the thing people have asked for most, and until now the answer was “install Pehkui”. It is a good mod. It is also one more dependency, one more thing to keep in step with a Minecraft update, and one more system that does not know anything about powers, conditions or expressions. So Apoli has its own now.

Nineteen dials#

A scale type is one axis of an entity’s size, and every entity has a value for each one starting at 1. apoli:base is the master dial; apoli:width and apoli:height hang off it; apoli:hitbox_* and apoli:model_* hang off those, so you can make something that looks enormous and still fits through a door, or the reverse. The full table is on the Scale Type page.

The dials that are not geometry are built out of the ones that are. apoli:falling is one divided by apoli:motion, so a bigger entity takes more fall damage and a smaller one takes less without you wiring anything up — the square-cube law, for free.

Four ways in#

A power, for size that lasts exactly as long as the power does:

{
    "type": "apoli:scale",
    "scale_types": ["apoli:width", "apoli:height"],
    "modifier": {
        "operation": "set_total",
        "amount": "clamp(health / max_health, 0.35, 1)"
    }
}

That is an Expression, so the entity shrinks as it is hurt and grows back as it heals, every tick, with no resource plumbing.

An entity action for size that sticks — it is stored on the entity, survives relogs and dimension changes, and can ease into place over a number of ticks:

{
    "type": "apoli:scale",
    "operation": "multiply",
    "scale": 1.1,
    "ticks": 10,
    "easing": "ease_out_cubic"
}

A condition to read one back, and a command — /apoli:scale — that works on any entity, not just players:

apoli:scale set @s apoli:base 0.25 40 ease_out_cubic
apoli:scale multiply @e[type=zombie,distance=..8] apoli:height 1.5
apoli:scale get @s apoli:model_height

All three sources multiply together, so a stored value, a power and a parent scale stack the way you would expect rather than fighting over who wins.

Something to stand on#

apoli:solid_hitbox makes an entity’s hitbox solid the way a boat or a happy ghast is: other entities walk into it, are stopped by it, and can stand on top of it. Scale a player up to five and give them this, and they are a walkable platform. It takes a bientity_condition too, so you can be solid to everyone except your own party.

If you already have Pehkui#

Nothing breaks and nothing doubles. When Pehkui is installed Apoli hands its values to Pehkui instead of applying them itself, so the two mods agree on one size. Ids copied from a Pehkui pack keep working, too — a pehkui: namespace resolves to the matching Apoli scale type.