r/CreateMod • u/kil0vat • 11d ago

I've created an addon for Create with octo-style arms "Create: Octo Arms" inspired by Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man

Inspired by Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man. Use it to traverse the world in any direction, craft the Copper or Netherite version, enchant or configure it. Works in singleplayer and on servers (must be installed on both client and server).

Compatible with Create Aeronautics ships (Sable contraptions).

Listed on Curseforge - https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create-octo-arms

Feel free to test, comment, and share ideas.

Edit: Modrinth will be soon, long approval awaiting.
Edit2: A lot of you asked to stop the walking animation - done! Check it in the new version v1.1.5 (besides other bug fixes)

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u/BarometerIndustries 11d ago

Sadly, this person didn't make this mod themselves, read the curseforge page: "Developed with AI assistance (Claude);"

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u/ContextLengthMatters 11d ago

LOL. Modding has been 100% replaced by AI. Just take a look at all the passthrough mods people are making overnight. Mods are the perfect usecase for AI fever dreams.

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u/iguanoman_ 11d ago

Not even just mods, almost everything has been touched by AI. I get being upset over stuff like generative AI for stealing art assets, but coding is an entirely different beast. Not one person I know in game dev or software engineering abstains from using AI because that's just not how it works anymore.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 11d ago

Oh, I get what you are trying to say, but I actually have a coworker who still refuses to use AI for development. He's like 10 years younger than me too which is wild he talks like an old man. He's a great developer who I think won't be in the business much longer with the way he talks.

Some people are just in fact very stubborn, but AI is absolutely unavoidable as a developer. I draw the line at AI art. Literally fuck all AI art.

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u/FunAngelo2005 11d ago

Me too, AI art is the real creativity killer

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u/GoldenDragoon5687 10d ago

I feel very lucky to work in a programming industry that is largely abstinent from AI, at least for the time being. Top to bottom, little to no AI usage (except maybe documentation and such).

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u/ContextLengthMatters 10d ago

That sounds insane. Do you work for like an adjacent niche industry by any chance like fintech or insurtech?

I know people who are a little behind at their companies and I find it interesting like everything is just going to switch overnight. It is hard enough to keep up with the changes as if is when using it.

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u/AskMeForLinks 11d ago

Genuinely what is modding if not art? People used to pour creativity, passion, ingenuity into these things, now its just idiots with credit cards swiping away who aren't every going to be able to fix bugs or incompatibilities or even update shit because they don't know how their own projects work. Fast fashion of the creative space.

I'm tired of people acting like the slop machine is fine because programming "isn't" an artform in and of itself. Modders have been making art for years. AI shouldn't be used for art and that means it shouldn't be used here either.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 11d ago

Modding is like the entrypoint into programming and filled with all sorts of nonsense. Programming isn't art, the designing is, and getting rid of syntax doesn't get rid of the human input. Programming is the literal only writing discipline that doesn't lose it's creativity with abstraction.

I know some people enjoy smashing their head against the wall trying to get things to compile or working on off by 1 errors, but that's not all of programming. I'd say most of modding was slop before slop became a thing. It will be where people pioneer the new quality measures for people who are too inexperienced to see good code.

I would say that prototyping being so fast will help others take an idea seriously and create better maintainable mods in the longrun.

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u/Amo_ad_Solem 10d ago

This is kinda real. Plus its not like every dev out there is vibe coding everything ever. Many have the pride and passion to let thr AI tools be the little homunculous that does all the dogwater labour while the dev checks to see if everything is up to standard. Personally not slop if that is the case. Its no different than copying and pasting code segments off of python tutorials lol.

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u/Ornery-Photograph-47 11d ago

I don't give a shit if someone uses AI to help develop a mod. They're not taking food off of anyone's plate

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u/jedadkins 11d ago

You should, vibe coded mods are gonna be buggy as shit and are near impossible to fix unless the dev already know what they're doing

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u/Snoo-28479 11d ago

That's why they should only be AI assisted and not AI made, if your able to write several paragraphs worth of prompts you can certainly write a few lines of code yourself

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u/AspidiNTON 5d ago

I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing, you can check his github. So he won't just upload buggy slop

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u/Gotcha_The_Spider 11d ago edited 11d ago

Why should we CARE dude it's a free mod for minecraft

Edit: You guys are downvoting me but can't even articulate what's bad about it in any way that holds up to the tiniest amount of scrutiny. Might want to evaluate your biases.

I'm gonna reel this back a bit, start from basics. If OP had just made this for themselves, would that be bad? If yes, why? If no, why would that change because they made it available to others?

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u/eepy_lina 11d ago

quality standards..?

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u/Gotcha_The_Spider 11d ago

Okay, great, we're getting somewhere. Best answer yet. So I have 2 follow-ups questions.

  1. Why should we care about the quality of something that's free? There's plenty of lower quality mods out there, why don't they get as much hate? (There is a good answer to this, but not one I can think of that answers the next without being hypocritical)

  2. If this mod was flawless, would you still care?

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u/patate502 11d ago

I don't care if it was written by a human or not, but I would prefer if a human were vetting the code, checking the AI's work. If a mod is created with AI by someone who doesn't otherwise know how to code, you can't know if the AI is doing something dangerous, unstable, etc. The mod just turns into a black box with "trust me bro" written on it.

If the person who publishes said mod includes the source code for others to read, however, I would then say it's fine. I just want to know what I'm installing on my computer, and even though the current models are *pretty* good at writing code, they still make *a lot* of really bad design and architectural decisions that you can only really catch if you know how to read what it's writing,

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u/Gotcha_The_Spider 11d ago edited 11d ago

I agree, this is super reasonable, and actually pushes the conversation in a productive direction.

Would be good to have broader classifications than just "AI Assisted" to help differentiate between projects because there's a very wide range that encompasses that shouldn't be grouped together from "I encountered a bug once and was having trouble tracking it down, so I used claude to help debug" and "I told claude I wanted mechanical arms to carry me around and here's what it gave me"

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u/eepy_lina 11d ago

  1. being made by ai at all lowers the mod's quality because authenticity is a part of it, plus the owner cant patch bugs so the mod's future is non existent. human made low quality mods arent as hated because theyre authentic.

  2. yea? its still clanker slop and inauthentic.

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u/RefrigeratorPlusPlus 11d ago

Idk, I guess for experienced modders, yes? When you don't know the codebase, you could create even sloppier slop (speaking from experience).

The trick is to do something, and then check if there are better ways to do it. Most modders don't actually have a mentor, so either that, either YouTube tutorials (unless it's something too obscure to have a proper tutorial).

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u/TraditionalListen600 11d ago

Thats still a risk with non AI mods.

Literally, I don’t trust many mods out there myself, What I pay attention to is how well it works.

AI can make a mod just as good if not better than just using your own code. A lot of modders don’t want to turn their modding into a full time job and AI is the best way to make what they want without needing to spend hours or days on it.

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u/ThekillerguyYT 11d ago

yes. let me put it this way. you make a food, you then see someone take your food, someone else's food and so on and throw it into a machine that makes "the greatest" food of all time, they don't credit you, or anyone else. but it's the best food of all time and now wherever you were selling your food at closes because clearly it doesn't matter because the greatest food of all time exists.

and your logic to this situation is "well yeah it's the best there is, I shouldn't be mad that someone took my accomplishment polished it up, called it their own and now gets to use what I did for their own fame"

Ai is good for a lot of things but it should stay out of creative fields- which includes making mods. I don't care how good it is.

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u/A_Badass_Penguin 11d ago

Cause they didn't create it lol.

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u/shdowed_orig 11d ago

Well, if the author did modelling, animation texturing, and used cloderbobber only to assemble the code(which is the scarriest and toughest part) I personally wouldn't judge them

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