A Beautiful Komodo Dragon

A Beautiful Komodo Dragon DayZ 1.30 brought the desert monitor lizard to Nasdara. This mod adds its big brother: the Komodo Dragon, a monitor more than four times the size, and it hunts you. It charges the moment it sees you, keeps coming, and every bite knocks you back. Take too many and you're on the ground. What it does Huge. The 1.30 monitor lizard's model, drawn more than four times its normal size. You'll see it coming. It hunts. It locks on to anyone within 60 m and follows you out to 150 m. Shoot it from further away and it comes for you anyway. It charges. It opens with a sprint the moment it spots you. It runs a little slower than a sprinting player, but every few seconds it bursts into a sprint and closes the gap, and from close range it lunges. The bite knocks you back. Every bite staggers you backwards. About four bites in a row and you're unconscious. It can cut you. Roughly one bite in three opens a bleeding wound on bare skin. Clothing lowers the chance. It goes round walls. It follows the navmesh round buildings and compound walls instead of running into them. It lets you go if you're down. It leaves unconscious players and players in vehicles alone. Get in a car. Worth the fight. 300 health. The body stays where it falls and you skin it in place: 6 lizard meat, 2 lizard pelts, lard, bones and guts. Spawning it on your server The Komodo does not spawn by itself. The normal monitor lizard is left exactly as it is. Add the dragon to your mission where you want it: In cfgenvironment.xml, in the AmbientLizard territory, add a spawn line next to the monitor's in each agent block. The chance sets how many lizards are Komodos: <spawn configName="Animal_VaranusGriseus" chance="1" /> <spawn configName="Animal_KomodoDragon" chance="0.15" /> In types.xml, copy the Animal_VaranusGriseus entry and rename the copy Animal_KomodoDragon. Restart the server. Admins can also spawn one with any admin tool: the class name is Animal_KomodoDragon. Installation Server and clients. Players need it too. Subscribe, and add the mod to your server's -mod= launch parameter (not -serverMod=). Add the key from the mod's keys folder to your server's keys folder. Set up spawning (see above) and restart the server. Compatibility Needs DayZ 1.30 or newer (it uses the 1.30 monitor lizard model and animations). Made for Nasdara, but the dragon itself works on any map: it only appears where your mission spawns it. It's a new animal class. No vanilla classes are overridden and no vanilla files are replaced, so the stock monitor lizard and every other animal are untouched. Works alongside mods that change bleeding, shock or unconsciousness, as long as they keep the vanilla damage system. Community & Support Questions, bug reports or ideas? Join us on Discord: Discord.BeautifulPotato.com If you enjoy the mod, you can support its development on Ko-fi.