I don't think that's something I plan to support. I'm not particularly savvy at csharp, and family keeps me pretty busy. You might try the mod 300x Spawns (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841418880) and see if this is something that can deal with.

Can you either make another mod or add a setting to set how many creatures are allowed to spawn from statues?

This mod already supports that (essentially when an enemy is summoned, this turns off the "Was summoned by statue" setting).

Any chance you can make statues (like rabbit, worm, duck, firefly, butterfly, etc) able to catch those critters? Basically be able to farm?

My mod was indeed working with that one. I tested by crafting an Angry Bones statue, and when they were being summoned and killed they'd drop bones as expected.

can you test (1.4 Statues Mod)

@Goldeyegold I'm pretty sure it should, yes, though if you have specific mod examples you'd like tested, please let me know.

Does this mod work with other mods statues?

I believe so. My recollection was that they thought that the player needed to have at least some interaction in order to deserve loot.

Okay, I understand. Right now I dont have any interesting statues, but when I'll get some I will do what you said. Thanks!
BTW. What about dart traps? Were they also blacklisted by devs?

Yes, however, this mod does nothing to alter the behavior of mobs killed by lava. It's been a while, but I seem to recall that they made it so that enemies killed EXCLUSIVELY by lava will not give any drops (maybe that's just harder difficulties, I don't remember). So, to ensure you get the drops, do some damage yourself (like with any weapons/summons that go through walls).

So statues can be now used like before? Placing them in a shallow lava, for example

I've run an update to ensure this does work for 1.4.4 (nothing actually changed, just had to rebuild it and change a version number).

1.4.4 Is it working?

Upon further investigation it turns out i forgot to enable the mod before trying to use a frog statue, thank you for helping me realize that

Medi, I just tested it with a penguin statue and it was working for me, is there a specific statue that seems to not be working?

if possible, would you mind also letting spawned critters be able to be caught please?

This is most likely a simple mod to make but a very good one, thank you.

Items will drop at the regular rate for a regular mob (the mod just turns off the flag indicating that they're statue-spawned).

Do these drop them at the regular rate or a reduced rate?

Gracias!

THANK YOU, SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GOOD!

Ah.

A few vanilla statue-spawned mobs do drop items (such as zombie ones) at a reduced rate, but none drop coins, and many don't drop any loot (like the mimic). This mod removes the trait indicating that they were spawned by a statue, so you can get drops (including coins), collect spawned critters (something you can't do in vanilla), etc.

I'm pretty sure they already did.
Just at a massively reduced rate so players couldn't just farm items like that.

Good mod. Pretty overpowered though.

It's C# (C Sharp). You can download Visual Studio for free and play around with it. When you run tModLoader, you can go to Mods, Develop Mod, and create a new one. It'll build the bare-bones structure for your mod. You can open the project in Visual Studio and start messing around with it. I know there are a number of sites that explain some of the basics of modding Terraria out there that will do a much better job of explaining than I can (though some may be a bit outdated).

Quick followup question on that. Which coding language Is used for Terraria mods? I have been curious about maybe playing around with it some day eventually but have no idea where to even begin. :3

To be honest, I have minimal experience with this coding language, so this was mostly just to get Statue Mobs Give Drops working in the current 1.4 environment. I couldn't even really figure out how to migrate webmilio's menu options, so dumped those in favor of expediency. If I ever get into learning more, I may add options if you want to restrict drops, or increase/decrease loot, etc, but I wouldn't really count on it anytime soon.

in that case... maybe the statue mimics wouldn't drop anything in prehardmode?

finally, pre-hardmode mimic loot

Yet another one of those "small but essential" mods that is becoming a permanent part of my rotation. Thank you!

Very nice, thank you.