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
• Additional Placeholders
• Placeholders
  • Caster Placeholders
  • Variable Placeholders
  • Target Placeholders
  • Trigger Placeholders
  • Misc Placeholders
  • Item Placeholders
  • Score Placeholders
• Placeholder Attributes
• PlaceholderAPI Integration
  • PlaceholderAPI Parsing
• Custom Placeholders
• Examples

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:

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.

Additional Placeholders

Links to placeholders added by addon plugins. Any placeholders from these links will not work without that plugin installed.

• Mythic Crucible
• MCPets

Placeholders

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.
Some of these variables are only generated and available under some special circumstances, such as some specific trigger/attribute/metamechanic being used previously in the skilltree.

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

Item Placeholders

Score Placeholders

Placeholder Attributes

Some placeholders can use a set of attributes to further define the output they will give

  Skills:
  - message{m="<target.hp{round=2}>"} @self

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.

PlaceholderAPI Parsing

When using placeholders via PlaceholderAPI, it is important to remember that some of them are meant to be parsed against a player, and if parsed against a mob they may behave unexpectedly.
More concretely, this means that:

• If used inside a mechanic, the target must be a player
• If used inside a condition, the checked entity must be a player (caster for conditions, inherited targets for targetconditions, trigger for triggerconditions)

...and so on

Custom Placeholders

It's possible to create custom placeholders in any Pack by creating a file named placeholders.yml in the pack directory. These can be static or you can define conditional placeholders - the first one that evaluates true will be chosen, or the Default if they're all false.

Custom placeholders can be used via <placeholder.{customname}>, with {customname} being the name of your custom placeholder.

TestPlaceholder: 'some value'

TestConditionalPlaceholder:
  Day:
    Conditions:
    - day
    Value: day
  Night:
    Conditions:
    - night
    Value: night
  Default: idk

TestRandomPlaceholder:
- red
- green
- blue

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>'