[2.0.0] - 2025-06-30
Added
- Compatibility with Minecraft 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4
- New Chat UI (with image buttons + hover + new positioning)
- Creaking support for spawn and despawn without loosing chat history
- Added new entity icons (armadillo, bogged, creaking, breeze, and wolves)
- Wither now drops a Nether Star at max friendship (for pacifists)
- Added Entity Maturity (baby or adult) into system-chat prompt
- Added many new speaking styles (minimalist, nerdy, stupid, gen-z, old timer, boomer, etc...)
- Check friendship direction (+ or -) in LLM unit tests (to verify friendship is output correctly)
- Added LLM Comparison HTML Output (for human eval of different LLMs with CreatureChat)
- Rate limiter for LLM unit tests (to prevent rate limit issues from certain providers when running all tests)
- Include all markdown files in JAR (LICENSE.md, LICENSE-ASSETS.md, TERMS.md, and so on)
Fixed
- Bees no longer forget their chat data when entering/leaving hives (writeNbt & readNbt modified)
- Vexes no longer take damage when chat data exists
- Wandering Trader no longer despawns if it has chat data
- Removed randomized error messages from chat history (so it doesn't break the chat history when errors are shown)
- Reduced death message output in logs to use DEBUG log level
- Fixed unit tests for friendship (some were being skipped)
Changed
- Updated hundreds of entity chat icons (updating color palette and style, new license for non-code: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
- Simplified system-chat prompt (less tokens), rounded health & hunger values, and improved variety of examples (less tokens)
- Improved error handling to prevent broken "..." pending chat status. (HTTP and message processing is more protected)
- Broadcasting and receiving chat messages now ignores if the UUID is valid (to keep data synced)
- Removed a few variables from the chat context (creative mode, hardcore, difficulty)
- Replacing isIndirect() usage with a more generic version
- Replacing teleport() usage with a more generic override (more compatible with later versions of Minecraft)
- Refactored render methods (vertex, bufferBuilder, Tessellator, getTexture) into QuadBuffer class
- Refactored squid swimming (helper method, interface)
- Refactored damage functions (onDamage, and applying damage)
- Refactored "Use Item" methods (show item & use item)
- Updated docs & asset licensing to use CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and added SPDX headers to all source-code files
- Integrated reuse licensing checking into build pipeline, to ensure 100% coverage of copyright and licensing info
- Updated TERMS with new section related to AI generated content, and updated eligibility and licenses sections.
- Improved LLM unit tests to check for both a positive and negative behaviors (i.e. FOLLOW and not LEAD, ATTACK and not FLEE, etc...)
- Updated Gradle to 8.12 (fabric-loom to 1.10.1)
[1.3.0] - 2025-01-14
Added
- In-game chat messages are now displayed in chat bubbles above players heads!
- Custom player icons (icons can be embedded in player skin file)
- Step-by-Step Icon Tutorial: ICON.md
- Mixin to extend PlayerSkinTexture to make a copy of the NativeImage + pixel toggle to enable
- New command
/creaturechat chatbubbles set <on | off>to show or hide player chat messages in bubbles - Improved LLM Unit tests (to prevent rate limit issues from certain providers when running all tests)
- Check friendship direction (+ or -) in LLM unit tests (to verify friendship direction is output correctly)
Changed
- Seperated Player and Entity message broadcasts (different packets for simplicity)
- Reduced size of player skin face on chat bubble, to match sizes of custom icons (for consistency)
- Updated entity icons for allay, creeper, and pig
Fixed
- Hide death messages for mobs with no chat data
- Fixed transparent background behind chat screen for Minecraft 1.20 and 1.20.1.
- Removed extra message broadcast (which was unnecessary)