Servant 0.2.0-release.1

Minecraft 1.21.1 - NeoForge

0.2.0-release.1 is the first stable release of the rebuilt Servant experience. These notes bring together the changes introduced during 0.2.0-beta.2, 0.2.0-beta.3, and the final release pass.

Servant is now centered on rare companions who are found in the world, rescued, recruited, equipped, and given a role. Their work happens visibly in Minecraft: they travel, use tools, carry items, eat, fight, and interact with the places built for them.

Release.1 - Final Polish

• Water-walking accessories now influence pathfinding as well as movement. While an effect is active, the water surface is treated as solid ground.
• When a water-walking effect expires or its equipment is removed, a Servant already in the water switches to swimming toward its Owner.
• Aqua Walker path decisions now respect its real remaining charge instead of only checking whether the relic is equipped.
• Slightly reduced and separated the health and hunger bars in the Servant inventory for clearer reading.
• Kept AppleSkin saturation and exhaustion visuals aligned with the resized hunger bar.
• Rewrote the public mod description around the actual player journey and current release scope.
• Updated the full public wiki for recruitment, controls, inventory, hunger, resurrection, Workbench areas, compatibility, and troubleshooting.

Beta.3 - A More Player-Like Companion

Actions, Tools, and Enchantments

• Assistant mining, attacking, placing, bucket use, eating, harvesting, and replanting now use visible hand animations.
• Block breaking takes time and follows player destroy speed instead of completing instantly.
• Tool type, Efficiency, Haste, Mining Fatigue, airborne mining, submerged mining, and equipment attributes affect work speed.
• Fortune, Silk Touch, Unbreaking, modified drops, block experience, and durability are taken into account.
• Melee attacks respect the selected weapon, attack speed, damage, knockback, sweeping attacks, enchantments, and durability.
• Workers also benefit from relevant tools, mining bonuses, enchantments, drops, experience, and equipment wear.
• Farmers and Lumberjacks visibly carry their tool in the main hand and the item they intend to replant in the offhand.

Assistant Inventory and Hotbar

• Rebuilt the Assistant inventory around the familiar player layout.
• Added a rendered PlayerModel with armor, main hand, offhand, and accessory equipment.
• Added a persistent 36-slot inventory with a selectable nine-slot hotbar.
• Removed the separate hidden weapon slot; the Assistant now changes hotbar slots to select weapons, tools, blocks, food, and buckets.
• Added automatic hotbar organization when the Owner throws useful items to the Assistant.
• Restored normal item hover tooltips, dragging, shift-clicking, hotbar swaps, and drop interactions.
• Added a vanilla-style inventory background and matching background for the Curios panel.
• Moved Curios to a vertical panel on the left, opened by the button beside the rendered Assistant.

Hunger and Health

• Recruited Servants now use hunger, saturation, exhaustion, natural regeneration, and starvation.
• Eating takes time and uses the food's normal nutrition, effects, and remaining container item.
• Added health and hunger bars to the Servant inventory with exact values on hover.
• Added Jade health and hunger information.
• Added AppleSkin saturation and exhaustion support in the Servant inventory.

Movement and Pathfinding

• Improved movement toward work targets, blocks in height, narrow steps, and difficult terrain.
• Assistants now aim for the supported center of a block instead of repeatedly jumping from its edge.
• Added safer jump checks, blocked-headroom handling, obstacle breaking, fall recovery, and impossible-path exits.
• Normal, non-destructive paths are preferred before breaking an obstacle.
• Terrain blocks are no longer placed while following the Owner, preventing the Assistant from closing tunnels behind them.
• Temporary support placement is reserved for work routes that genuinely need it.
• Assistant work stops beyond 12 blocks and returning to the Owner takes priority.
• Follow speed adapts to the Owner's movement, sprinting, and repeated jumps.
• Fixed long-distance follow loops that made the Assistant rotate without reaching its Owner.
• Added lava avoidance and emergency escape behavior.
• Added an Assistant AI debug overlay in the top-left corner, toggled with the configurable B key.

MLG and Fall Recovery

• Added visible water-bucket MLG attempts during dangerous falls.
• The Assistant selects the water bucket on its hotbar before using it.
• Water is recovered after a random delay of 24 to 56 ticks instead of instantly.
• Added MLG return attempts when a fall can help the Assistant reach an Owner below.

Combat and Owner Safety

• The Assistant can immediately join an attack started by its Owner, including against passive or neutral targets.
• Players, their pets, projectiles, same-owner Servants, and traceable summoned attacks can no longer hurt their allied Servants.
• Friendly-fire protection also prevents Servants from hurting their Owner or the Owner's allies.
• Improved weapon selection so the Assistant no longer attacks with an unsuitable tool when a better weapon is available.
• Melee Guards and Assistants use safer Creeper combat behavior.
• The Assistant can protect nearby items dropped when its Owner dies, prioritizing tools, weapons, armor, and backpack storage.

Death, Seals, and Recovery

• Added death recovery for recruited Servants and Assistants through their linked Easement Seal.
• Recovery preserves name, role, inventory, equipment, Curios, food state, ownership, and the Assistant hotbar.
• The recovery Seal is consumed in Survival and preserved in Creative.
• A valid death record is required, preventing a Seal from duplicating a Servant that is only unloaded.
• A player may create a new Assistant after the previous one dies.
• Creating a replacement invalidates the old Assistant's recovery, preventing multiple Assistants from being restored.

Workbench Interface

• Rebuilt the Servant Workbench screen with a clearer, more spacious layout.
• Replaced the radius slider with simple - and + controls.
• Added a Center button for returning the work area to the Workbench.
• Added north, south, east, and west controls for moving the work area around the Workbench.
• Added a persistent world boundary preview that remains visible after closing the screen.
• Limited offsets so the Workbench always remains inside its own work area.
• Removed the obsolete Assign nearest action.

Curios, Artifacts, and Relics

• Limited Servant's built-in Curios assignment to the back slot instead of exposing every registered slot.
• Added the slot families supplied by Artifacts, Relics, and supported compatibility addons when installed.
• Audited all 49 Artifacts and all 28 Relics for Servant use.
• Enabled compatible automatic health, damage, defense, retaliation, food, movement, underwater, fluid-walking, and equipment effects.
• Kept keybind, cast, mode-selection, right-click, and special inventory actions under player control.
• Added passive Relics charge, cooldown, experience, movement, breathing, reflection, rage, concealment, and neutrality behavior.
• Added support for compatible Artifacts cooldowns, automatic attack effects, retaliation, eating effects, and death protection.
• Kept Curios items and their state attached to the real Servant without duplicating or moving them during supported passive effects.

Other Fixes

• Preserved the Assistant's 36 slots after saving, death, and resurrection.
• Restored armor and helmet durability loss.
• Fixed depleted Mining Deposit models for Minecraft 1.21.1.
• Added the missing Servant Spawn Egg model.

Beta.3 - A More Player-Like Companion

Actions, Tools, and Enchantments

• Assistant mining, attacking, placing, bucket use, eating, harvesting, and replanting now use visible hand animations.
• Block breaking takes time and follows player destroy speed instead of completing instantly.
• Tool type, Efficiency, Haste, Mining Fatigue, airborne mining, submerged mining, and equipment attributes affect work speed.
• Fortune, Silk Touch, Unbreaking, modified drops, block experience, and durability are taken into account.
• Melee attacks respect the selected weapon, attack speed, damage, knockback, sweeping attacks, enchantments, and durability.
• Workers also benefit from relevant tools, mining bonuses, enchantments, drops, experience, and equipment wear.
• Farmers and Lumberjacks visibly carry their tool in the main hand and the item they intend to replant in the offhand.

Assistant Inventory and Hotbar

• Rebuilt the Assistant inventory around the familiar player layout.
• Added a rendered PlayerModel with armor, main hand, offhand, and accessory equipment.
• Added a persistent 36-slot inventory with a selectable nine-slot hotbar.
• Removed the separate hidden weapon slot; the Assistant now changes hotbar slots to select weapons, tools, blocks, food, and buckets.
• Added automatic hotbar organization when the Owner throws useful items to the Assistant.
• Restored normal item hover tooltips, dragging, shift-clicking, hotbar swaps, and drop interactions.
• Added a vanilla-style inventory background and matching background for the Curios panel.
• Moved Curios to a vertical panel on the left, opened by the button beside the rendered Assistant.

Hunger and Health

• Recruited Servants now use hunger, saturation, exhaustion, natural regeneration, and starvation.
• Eating takes time and uses the food's normal nutrition, effects, and remaining container item.
• Added health and hunger bars to the Servant inventory with exact values on hover.
• Added Jade health and hunger information.
• Added AppleSkin saturation and exhaustion support in the Servant inventory.

Movement and Pathfinding

• Improved movement toward work targets, blocks in height, narrow steps, and difficult terrain.
• Assistants now aim for the supported center of a block instead of repeatedly jumping from its edge.
• Added safer jump checks, blocked-headroom handling, obstacle breaking, fall recovery, and impossible-path exits.
• Normal, non-destructive paths are preferred before breaking an obstacle.
• Terrain blocks are no longer placed while following the Owner, preventing the Assistant from closing tunnels behind them.
• Temporary support placement is reserved for work routes that genuinely need it.
• Assistant work stops beyond 12 blocks and returning to the Owner takes priority.
• Follow speed adapts to the Owner's movement, sprinting, and repeated jumps.
• Fixed long-distance follow loops that made the Assistant rotate without reaching its Owner.
• Added lava avoidance and emergency escape behavior.
• Added an Assistant AI debug overlay in the top-left corner, toggled with the configurable B key.

MLG and Fall Recovery

• Added visible water-bucket MLG attempts during dangerous falls.
• The Assistant selects the water bucket on its hotbar before using it.
• Water is recovered after a random delay of 24 to 56 ticks instead of instantly.
• Added MLG return attempts when a fall can help the Assistant reach an Owner below.

Combat and Owner Safety

• The Assistant can immediately join an attack started by its Owner, including against passive or neutral targets.
• Players, their pets, projectiles, same-owner Servants, and traceable summoned attacks can no longer hurt their allied Servants.
• Friendly-fire protection also prevents Servants from hurting their Owner or the Owner's allies.
• Improved weapon selection so the Assistant no longer attacks with an unsuitable tool when a better weapon is available.
• Melee Guards and Assistants use safer Creeper combat behavior.
• The Assistant can protect nearby items dropped when its Owner dies, prioritizing tools, weapons, armor, and backpack storage.

Death, Seals, and Recovery

• Added death recovery for recruited Servants and Assistants through their linked Easement Seal.
• Recovery preserves name, role, inventory, equipment, Curios, food state, ownership, and the Assistant hotbar.
• The recovery Seal is consumed in Survival and preserved in Creative.
• A valid death record is required, preventing a Seal from duplicating a Servant that is only unloaded.
• A player may create a new Assistant after the previous one dies.
• Creating a replacement invalidates the old Assistant's recovery, preventing multiple Assistants from being restored.

Workbench Interface

• Rebuilt the Servant Workbench screen with a clearer, more spacious layout.
• Replaced the radius slider with simple - and + controls.
• Added a Center button for returning the work area to the Workbench.
• Added north, south, east, and west controls for moving the work area around the Workbench.
• Added a persistent world boundary preview that remains visible after closing the screen.
• Limited offsets so the Workbench always remains inside its own work area.
• Removed the obsolete Assign nearest action.

Curios, Artifacts, and Relics

• Limited Servant's built-in Curios assignment to the back slot instead of exposing every registered slot.
• Added the slot families supplied by Artifacts, Relics, and supported compatibility addons when installed.
• Audited all 49 Artifacts and all 28 Relics for Servant use.
• Enabled compatible automatic health, damage, defense, retaliation, food, movement, underwater, fluid-walking, and equipment effects.
• Kept keybind, cast, mode-selection, right-click, and special inventory actions under player control.
• Added passive Relics charge, cooldown, experience, movement, breathing, reflection, rage, concealment, and neutrality behavior.
• Added support for compatible Artifacts cooldowns, automatic attack effects, retaliation, eating effects, and death protection.
• Kept Curios items and their state attached to the real Servant without duplicating or moving them during supported passive effects.

Other Fixes

• Preserved the Assistant's 36 slots after saving, death, and resurrection.
• Restored armor and helmet durability loss.
• Fixed depleted Mining Deposit models for Minecraft 1.21.1.
• Added the missing Servant Spawn Egg model.