Strider Addon
The strider is a new mob introduced in 20w13b Snapshot of Minecraft Java on March 24th (2020). This adorable mob is also nicknamed as a “lava boat” or a “nether boat”, because it represents the boat’s functionality. Transporting over lava lakes in nether was never easier thanks to this mob.
Creator: Nogard (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook)
Story behind
At the end of March I already made first concept of the Strider Addon for Minecraft Bedrock, unfortunately it was just a plain concept without whole implementation of the mob from Java version of Minecraft. So I kept on extending the addon, it took me quite long actually. The behavior file of the strider has grown to more than 400 lines of JSON code. Unluckily yesterday on April 15th (2020) the strider was implemented into new 1.16.0.57 Beta version of MC Bedrock. Such a bad situation for a concept addon, right? Anyways it might be useful for people, who don’t want to leave the stable version of Minecraft.
Features
The addon implements two custom entities: the strider mob and warped fungus (“nether mushroom”). According to the strider, I also implemented food items for him: warped fungus and warped fungus on a stick. To unlock these two items, you have to enable experimental gameplay for your world. Because I didn’t want to interfere with the vanilla items and entities of the game, any of the listed items do not replace original vanilla items or entities. Everything in this addon works independently, all represents completely new standalone objects. Because some of you will surely forget to enable experimental gameplay (EX), I wrote backup solution for this case. The strider is also controllable, boostable and feedable with carrot and carrot on a stick. So it is not necessary to enable the experimental gameplay, but to enable all the features of the addon, including warped fungus and warped fungus on a stick, make sure to enable it. Commands to obtain warped fungus and warped fungus on a stick can be found on the picture below.
Pretty much all strider features was implemented in the addon. To ride the strider, you have to saddle it (right click or long tap on touch devices). Then you need to use carrot on a stick or warped fungus on a stick (EX) to be able to control the mob (just like a pig).
The strider is not a big fan of water, it hurts him. When the strider dies, it drops 1 to 5 strings, if it was saddled, then it will drop also the saddle.
On the contrary, the strider is seriously excelling at swimming in the lava. While on the “cold” surface the strider is shaking and the texture is colored gray, in the natural environment – lava, the strider’s texture is red.
I did not forget on animations, original strider sounds, strider babies and translations to all Minecraft supported languages to even expand player’s experience.
The strider design, textures and sounds used in the Minecraft Addon are the property of their respective owners. (Mojang)
Finally, I would also like to thank for the incredible help to assassin (Twitter), zahf22 (Twitter, YouTube) and Zarkmend_ZAN (Twitter, YouTube).
Please keep the official download link, when you share the addon. The Strider Addon is protected by copyright law.
Installation
Download Strider Addon.mcaddon, click on the file in a file explorer to import into Minecraft. Importing will occur automatically. Once it is finished, choose a world, go to Add-Ons section and enable resource and behavior pack for the world. When you import one of the packs, the second one should be enabled automatically, thanks to defined dependencies in manifest.json. To allow all the features of the addon please allow experimental gameplay.
Download Strider Addon.mcaddon
If you prefer to download the addon in .zip file, then you have to unzip it. Inside of this package you will find Strider RP.mcpack and Strider BP.mcpack. Import one after another of packs to Minecraft and then do the same procedure for your world as listed above.
creator: https://twitter.com/Nogard_YT