Placeholders

These are all of the placeholders and special characters you can use in skills and mechanics that use strings. There are some examples of usage at the bottom to get you started.

Note: Usage of many variables in skills are locked to the premium versions, excluding MMOCore, special characters, color codes, and setvariable.

Special Characters

Color Codes

These color codes work anywhere in mob- and skill-files. They will even properly format tellraw-commands used in command skills!

Legacy color codes:

As of MM 5.0.1+, it's recommended that you use MiniMessage tags for text styling and text decorations. Here's an example using MiniMessage tags:

MessageSkill:
  Skills:
    - message{m=<rainbow>This text is a rainbow</rainbow> but <red>this is red</red>!} @target
    - message{m=<#bae5f4>This is a cool color that I picked from</#bae5f4> <red><click:open_url:https://www.color-hex.com/color/bae5f4>color-hex site</click></red>} @target

MiniMessage also has a web viewer to see what your text will look like in game.

Caster Placeholders

These placeholders will return whatever attribute of the caster that is called. For instance <caster.l.y.#> will return the caster's Y location.

Variable Placeholders

These placeholders will return whatever variable has been called. For instance <caster.var.[name]> will return the value of the caster's [name] variable.

Target Placeholders

These placeholders will return whatever target selector has been used. For instance <target.name> + @NearestPlayer will return the name of the player closest to the casting mob. The following are only some of the placeholders that can have a target scope, and in general any placeholder that is also present in the Caster Placeholder section will also work.

Trigger Placeholders

These placeholders will return whatever attribute of the entity that caused the skill to happen. For instance <trigger.name> combined with an ~onDeath trigger will return the name of the entity that killed the mob.

Skills:
- message{m="<&b><caster.name><&r> was slain by <&a><trigger.name><&r>."} @PIR{r=20} ~onDeath

The following are only some of the placeholders that can have a trigger scope, and in general any placeholder that is also present in the Caster Placeholder section will also work.

Misc Placeholders

Special Placeholders

PlaceholderAPI Integration

Other than being able to use PlaceholderAPI placeholders anywhere placeholder support is in place, MythicMobs introduces some new PAPI placeholders that can be used by third parties to fetch MythicMobs-related values.

Examples

This will make a mob send a teal message to all players in a radius of 20 blocks around in itself, stating what entity killed it in green.

    Skills:
    - message{m="<&b><caster.name><&r> was slain by <&a><trigger.name><&r>."} @PIR{r=20} ~onDeath

This skill will make an announcement when the mob spawns that looks like this:

  Skills:
  - Skill{s=SaveBossLocation} @self ~onSpawn
  - message{m="&eA &BGiant Zombie&e (Level &4<caster.level>&e) &ehas spawned at <caster.var.SpawnLoc>"} ~onSpawn @PlayersInWorld
  - message{m="&eThe &BGiant Zombie&e (Level &4<caster.level>&e) &espawned at <caster.var.SpawnLoc>&e has been slain."} ~onDeath @PlayersInWorld

Be sure to place this skill somewhere in the skills file

SaveBossLocation:
  Skills:
  - setvariable{var=SpawnLoc;type=STRING;value="&b<caster.l.x>&e, &b<caster.l.y>&e, &b<caster.l.z>";scope=CASTER} @self

You can also use color tags and formatting tags to make the mobs have pretty names:

ZOMBIE:
  Display: 'ZOMBIE &F- &A<caster.hp>/<caster.mhp>HP &F- &ELv.<caster.level>'