• Guard Villagers have been completely rewrited.

  • They now have an eating animation as well as when they open doors. Armor shouldn't clip anymore and all the helmet layer now works.
  • Their attack animations and idle weapon placement have been refined. It now use a variable system, before it was done as one attack per model. Now all the melee weapons are defined in one unique model. Another model defines bows and crossbows, only a third one for riffle and pistols. (Musket Mod for now)
  • Melee attacks and idle placement are now different for Swords, Axes, Trident, Mace, Hoes and Shield but also support my Songs Of War Custom Weapons resource pack with 5 name dependant animations.

I am hoping this system allow me to add new weapon support way more easily than before.

There is a catch though! The way animations works is you have to define a math formula for each axis of rotation and translation. I'm afraid all those variables might cause some FPS drops because it adds a LOT of code. I have done some testing myself, but my computer is quite good, I have not seen any problems so far. So I'll let the pack in BETA for some time to get feedback from you all, especially if you have a low end computer, I would appreciate if you can compare the 1.5.x series to 1.6.x

Once this performance issues are clarified, I plan to support Villager Recruits since Fresh Friends is not updated anymore. They will use the same animations as Guard Villagers.

Open an issue on GitHub for your feedback!

• Other reasons of this being a BETA:

  • I only added the villager model of guards for this BETA. Steve Model will come anytime soon, also after those performance issues are fixed.
  • Forge Guard have their arms glitching from time to time. You might see some Z-Fighting with their biome outfit, and they sometimes wiggle a bit time to time. I don't know how to cancel that in my animations so you don't see 2 set of arms. This is quite subtle but still noticable.
  • I also finally added compat with Better Mob Combat. But this is also not perfect. On Fabric you might need to refresh the resource pack a few times (F3+T) for the armor to synchronize with the guard models.
  • On Forge with Better Mob Combat the head will clip to the helmet while they're attacking. I don't know which mod is broken, or if this is on me. But this is better than having some 4 handed guards for now! :P
  • They will not hold their weapon in custom location when using Better Mob Combat! (This only affects the melee guards)

And I have not checked the other supported mods, I will update once I do!

• Moobloom
• Iceologer
• Wildfire
• Illusioner is already in Fresh Animations itself!

• Both Villager and Steve Model
  • Steve Model does not work with 1.6.x yet!

• Cat
• Cow
• Pig
• Sheep
• Wolf

• Cabbager
• Ravager

• Creepie
• Executioner
• Griefer
• Trickster
• Iceologer
• Skeleton Villager