Tags, gestures, and armour over a skeleton

Four things, and two of them are the same idea applied twice: labels you put on content so that rules can name a group instead of a list.

Powers can carry tags#

A power may now carry a tags list, and three actions can select by tag rather than by id: apoli:transfer, apoli:suppress_power and apoli:unsuppress_power.

{
    "type": "apoli:action_on_key_press",
    "tags": ["copyable_move"],
    "entity_action": { "type": "apoli:execute_command", "command": "say hi" }
}

{
    "type": "apoli:transfer",
    "mode": "steal",
    "copy": true,
    "tags": ["copyable_move"],
    "new_source": "example:mimicked"
}

That is a mimic power that copies one move off whoever it touches — and it keeps working when another pack adds a fifteenth origin, because the tag finds the move without anyone editing a list.

Tags are plain strings, matched exactly. They are not namespaced for you, so prefix your own (mypack.copyable) on a server running more than one pack.

Origins can carry tags too#

Origins 1.31.0 puts the same tags list on an origin, read by the new origins:origin_tag condition:

{
    "name": "super op origin",
    "tags": ["universeLevel"],
    "icon": { "item": "minecraft:tnt" },
    "impact": 3
}

{
    "type": "origins:origin_tag",
    "tag": "universeLevel",
    "inverted": true
}

“Works on anyone below your weight class”, written once.

The mouse is an input now#

apoli:action_on_mouse_movement fires an entity action when the holder moves their mouse, with up / down / left / right to pick directions and a threshold in degrees so a resting hand triggers nothing. mouse_x and mouse_y are bound as expression variables while the action runs, so the action can read how far.

The interesting field is ignore_modify_cursor_speed. Normally the power sees what actually turned the player, so a modify_cursor_speed of 0 means it never fires. Set it and the power reads the raw mouse movement instead — which turns a frozen view into a gesture control rather than a dead one.

custom_model_render survives a disguise#

apoli:custom_model_render now draws onto a disguise whose model is humanoid — zombie, husk, drowned, skeleton, stray, wither skeleton, piglin. Texture overlays paint onto the disguise’s limbs and geometry tracks its live pose, so the “wear armour while looking like a skeleton” build works the way it reads:

{
  "type": "apoli:multiple",
  "skeleton_body": { "type": "apoli:disguise_as", "entity_type": "minecraft:skeleton" },
  "armor": {
    "type": "apoli:custom_model_render",
    "mode": "texture",
    "render_as_overlay": true,
    "wide_texture_location": "example:textures/models/armor/plate_wide.png",
    "slim_texture_location": "example:textures/models/armor/plate_slim.png"
  }
}

A disguise with no limbs to bind to — a creeper, a bee — still skips the power, and a disguise as another player never needed the change.

Tick rates now sit on top of /tick#

apoli:tick_rate gained a server scope, and it is not Apoli’s own machinery — it calls the same code the /tick command does. rate is /tick rate, frozen is /tick freeze, step is /tick step, sprint is /tick sprint. Minecraft syncs that state to every client itself, so rendering, particles and sounds all slow down together and nothing stutters. For a global slow-motion effect that is now the scope to reach for.

{
    "type": "apoli:tick_rate",
    "scope": "server",
    "rate": 5
}

Per-entity and per-chunk rates are still Apoli’s own, but they no longer stop at the server: an entity that ends up slower than the server tells its viewers, and their clients stretch the movement interpolation to match, so a slowed mob or projectile glides instead of lurching between updates. A rate on a player now slows that player’s own tick, movement included — which it did not before, because player movement is client-authoritative and there was nothing on the client to listen.

scope: server needs the /tick command, so it is 1.21 and later. On 1.20.1 use dimension.