Babel Fish (World Hints)

VillagerUnknown’s Babel Fish

Adds a bright yellow fish that, when consumed from a bucket, provides translations and world hints to the player.

Features:

• Babel Fish Mob
• Babel Fish Translator Status Effect
• Translations and World Hints to Biomes & Structures

Options

• Babel Fish Translation Radius – Radius from players to detect mobs to translate
• World Hint Search Radius – Radius to search for biomes and structures
• Translation Chat Message Entity Reduction Factor – Percentage to reduce chance for messages based on the number of nearby entities
• Translation Chat Message Minimum Chance – Minimum chance to send a translation
• Translation Chat Message Delay – Delay in ticks between sending translations
• Chance for Translation from Sound – Chance to provide a translation when a sound plays.
• Chance for Babel Fish Chatter – Chance for random chatter from the Babel Fish allowing the translations
• Chance for World Hint – Chance to provide a hint to a biome or structure as a translation.
• Chance for Structure Hint – Chance to provide a structure hint instead of a biome hint as the world hint.

Babel Fish Mob

The Babel Fish can talk to players and, when consumed from a bucket, can provide translations for mobs to the player.

Babel Fish have a small chance to spawn in Rivers and a slightly higher chance to spawn in variations of the Warm Ocean.

If you prefer to eat a Babel Fish instead of drink one, Babel Fish can be eaten raw, but it’s best to cook them with a campfire, smoker, or furnace.

For some reason, Dolphins really want you to feed them Babel Fish raw.

Babel Fish Translator Status Effect

With the Babel Fish Translator status effect applied, players will see translations in chat whenever a nearby mob makes a noise.

The frequency of chat messages for translations can be controlled through the config.

Translations and World Hints

With the Babel Fish Translator status effect applied, mobs have a chance to provide hints to the locations of biomes and structures in the world.

For example:
Bees – Flower Forests
Fish – Ocean Monuments, Ocean Ruins, Ruined Portals in the Ocean, Rivers, and all Oceans
Villagers – Jungle Temples, Mansions, Pillager Outposts, Swamp Hut, Trail Ruins, Trial Chambers, and all Villages
Pillagers – Mansions, Pillager Outposts, and all Villages
Zombies – Deep Dark, Ancient Cities, Mineshafts, and Trail Ruins
Skeletons – Deep Dark, Ancient Cities, Shipwrecks, and Buried Treasures
Creepers – Desert Temples
Piglins – Crimson Forests, Warped Forests, Bastions, and Fortresses
Enderman – Deep Dark, Ruined Portals, Ancient Cities, Strongholds, Fortresses, and End Cities
Wandering Traders – Cherry Groves, Jungles, Swamps, Mangrove Swamps, Badlands, Desert, Ice Spikes, Meadow, Desert Temples, Mansions, Pillager Outposts, Beached Shipwrecks, Swamp Hut, Trail Ruins, and all Villages

Support

• Report bugs at https://github.com/VillagerUnknown/BabelFish/issues
• View the changelog at https://github.com/VillagerUnknown/BabelFish/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Known Issues

• The Babel Fish Translator status effect can impact performance as it frequently uses code similar to the `/locate` command for world hints. This is controlled by the `worldHintSearchRadius` config value. By default, this is set to the lowest possible value. Increase this value at your own discretion.