Loot Tables

Writing a loot table, and what the chance and range fields mean.

A loot table replaces what a mob drops into spawner storage. Files live in loottables/, one per mob, named after the entity type — zombie.yml, blaze.yml.

drops:
  itemDrops:
    - ROTTEN_FLESH:70:1-3
    - GOLD_INGOT:10:1-1
  xpDrops: 1-15
  xpDropChance: 100

The drop format

ITEM:CHANCE:RANGE

Part	Meaning
`ITEM`	A material name
`CHANCE`	0–100, the percent chance this line drops at all
`RANGE`	`min-max` quantity, e.g. `1-3`

Each line is rolled on its own, so a mob can drop everything or nothing.

XP

xpDrops is a range and xpDropChance is the percent chance of rolling it.

Scope

modules/autokill.yml → loottable-only-autokill decides who these apply to:

Value	Effect
`true` (default)	Loot tables apply to auto-killed mobs. A player who kills a mob by hand gets vanilla drops
`false`	Loot tables apply to both

Leaving it true is what lets you tune farm output hard without changing what mob drops mean everywhere else on the server.

Start from the example

loottables/example_zombie.yml ships as a working reference. Copy it to zombie.yml — the example file name does not match an entity, so it is never used by itself.

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