# Random Spawning

Custom mobs can spawn randomly throughout the world with this mechanic.

### How to disable?

Go into `plugins/AdvancedMobs/randomSpawning.yml` file, set `enabled` to false and restart.

### How to change which mobs randomly spawn?

In the same file as mentioned above, you will find a list of mobs that can randomly spawn. By default, it looks like this:

<pre class="language-yaml" data-title="randomSpawning.yml" data-line-numbers><code class="lang-yaml"># Random Spawn-able custom mobs list
<strong>mobsAllowedToRandomSpawn:
</strong>  - 'Demon'
  - 'Dog'
  - 'Dragon'
  - 'Flamingo'
  - 'Giraffe'
  - 'Gorilla'
  - 'Hippo'
  - 'Monkey'
  - 'Octopus'
  - 'Raccoon'
  - 'Raptor'
  - 'Robot'
  - 'Tiger'
  - 'Turtle'
  - 'Wyvern'
  - 'Zebra'
  - 'Snail'
</code></pre>

To remove a custom mob, just simply remove that entry from list and restart. To add a new one, simply add an entry with your wanted mob's name.

### Add a world in which mobs randomly spawn

By default, custom mobs spawn in `"world"` world only. To add new worlds, add an entry to `worldList` setting in randomSpawning.yml file. Below is an example where we add `custom_world` to our list.

<pre class="language-yaml" data-title="randomSpawning.yml" data-overflow="wrap" data-line-numbers><code class="lang-yaml"><strong># Worlds list for random spawning
</strong>#  In what worlds should random custom mobs spawn
worldList:
  - 'world'
  - 'custom_world'
</code></pre>

### Change biomes of where custom mobs spawn

To do that, go into `plugins/AdvancedMobs/customMobs` folder. Open any of the mobs file you want (the extension is `.amob` but the file acts like a `.yml` file - use your text editor to open it!).

Here's how the settings look like for Demon mob:

{% code title="customMobs/Demon.yml" overflow="wrap" lineNumbers="true" %}

```yaml
settings:
  health: 40
  sounds: WOLF
  hostile: true
  nametagHeight: 0.9
  damage: 8
  animateOnWalking: true
  animationSmoothness: 5
  animationSpeed: 2
  biomes:
    - 'ALL'
```

{% endcode %}

You can see the setting called `biomes`. To change biomes, simply add your entry from biome name list - <https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/spigot/org/bukkit/block/Biome.html>.&#x20;

Adding entry `ALL` will allow the mob to spawn in any biomes.