Create: Hogtied

Create: Hogtied

Ropes, hanging and an RDR2-style lasso for Create Aeronautics.

Adds the Lasso, crafted with 3 rope coupling and 1 lead.

• Throw it at a mob, player, or item to catch it. Captured mobs and players become immobilized for as long as the rope is out. (Hogtieing coming in the next update: Hogtie to drag/carry them around!)

Ropes

Tie things to rope points: Rope Connectors, Rope Winches, Create Deep Seas anchors (on moving aeronautics vehicles too), and any fence.

• Right-click a mob with a Rope Coupling or Steel Cable, then right-click a rope point (or the other way round). Anything that can take a lead works, vanilla or modded. (mob does not have to be captured with a lasso)
• Tie a mob to a ship and the ship drags it along. Rope Winches reeling out is currently broken from a bug on deep seas end.

• Bodies (with Vaskars Remains): drag a body as usual with a rope in your inventory and right-click a rope point. It stays a limp ragdoll, floats in water until the rope pulls tight, and follows its rope point wherever it goes. Untied bodies bob up to the surface, and loose ragdolls can be grabbed with sneak + empty hand.
• Cutting: right-click a rope anywhere along it, or its rope point to cut, with a wrench, shears, or a Farmer's Delight knife or Epic Fight dagger.

Hanging

Anything left dangling from a rope point above it slowly chokes. With Vaskars Remains, whoever dies that way stays hanging, as a ragdoll on the same rope, until someone cuts it down.

🤠 The Lasso

• Aim: hold right-click. The lasso stays up as long as you hold it.
• Wind up: hold left-click to spin the loop over your head. The longer you wind, the farther it flies.
• Throw: let go of left-click. Whatever is inside the loop when it lands is caught: mobs, players or dropped items. Items reel back in automatically, but mobs/players stand captured. Caught creatures can barely move and get dragged along like a lead.

• Reel in: Holding left click with slowly pull the captured mob toward you (configurable pull strength). Shift+Left click will ragdoll them, dragging them on the ground.
• Tie off: Shift+Left click while looking at a rope point (rope connectors, winches, fences, anchors from Deep Seas) to tie them to it.

Getting caught

Once you're caught, you can't attack, use items or open your inventory, and your hotbar is locked. Once you're pulled down you can:

• Spam left click to wriggle free, or
• Left-click with something sharp in hand to cut loose at once: shears, Farmer's Delight knives, Epic Fight daggers, or anything you add.

Catching players and escaping by wriggling/cutting can be switched off in the server config. Bosses and creative-mode players can't be caught.

Configuration

Everything lives in hogtied-server.toml: catching players on/off, lasso range and throw speed, clicks needed to wriggle free, how hard reeling pulls a ragdoll, how long a released captive stays down, hanging damage, and extra cutting tools. Item tags:

• hogtied:tie_ropes: items that tie a rope.
• hogtied:removes_rope: items that take a rope off.
• hogtied:cuts_rope: sharp things that cut a captive free and cut ropes.
• hogtied:lasso_immune: mobs the lasso can't catch.

Requirements

• Required: Create, Create Aeronautics, Sable
• Optional: Vaskars Remains (bodies), Create Deep Seas (anchors), Sable Ragdolls (ragdolled captives)
• Incompatible: Create: Towed. Hogtied replaces it and includes its mob towing.

Credits

Rope towing is based on Create: Towed by JxstFeli (MIT). Built on Create, Create Aeronautics and Sable; not affiliated with any of them.