Comes Alive (HCA)

0.1.0 — First release

Everything below is new, because this is where the mod starts.

Villagers

• Villagers are generated as humans with their own appearance, first name and surname. Their looks are stored and restored, never re-rolled.
• 15 personalities and 18 traits (athletic, tough, frail, left-handed, heterochromia, albinism, colour-blind, lactose intolerant, coeliac, diabetic, dwarfism, bisexual, homosexual, asexual, infertile, ageless…).
• Five age stages — baby, infant, child, teen, adult — with real growth over time, and height that follows the stage and the traits.
• Mutual attraction: who can fall for whom is decided by both sides.
• A floating nameplate with their name and who they are to you.

You

• The first villager you meet asks who you are: sex, who you your own traits. It decides who can return your affection and inherit.
• /ca profile to look it up later.

Talking to them

• Press F on a villager for their page: affinity, patience, traits and what they are saying.
• Seven social interactions: chat, tell a joke, ask for a story, flirt, hug, kiss, apologise.
• Answers depend on personality, bond and history — includin already asked the same thing five times today.
• No cooldown timers. They grow tired of you instead, and th shown on their page.
• All of it is data-driven: dialogue lives in editable JSON catalogues, one set per language.

Gifts

• Give a villager anything you are holding.
• Gifts are matched by item family, so flowers, jewels, coins, food, fish, weapons and metals all land differently.
• Reactions depend on personality and traits: a greedy villager peaceful one does not want your sword.

Marriage, children and family

• Marry a villager: courtship, engagement with a cost, weddi and divorce.
• Marry another player: /ca marry <player>, answered with /ca accept or /ca decline. Your family gets its own surname, which eve
• Children with your spouse, villager or player: a baby yo care for until they grow up.
• Children inherit from both parents — face, height and trai has may pass on; what both have passes more easily.
• Infertility is respected: if either parent carries the tra no children, and the game says so plainly.
• Villagers court, marry and have children among themselves, so the village grows without you.
• A navigable family tree that shows villager and player par when a player parent is offline.
• Family Staff: gathers your spouse and descendants around y

Orders and work

• Orders: follow me, wait here, come here, carry on, assign
• Hire a lumberjack and the work is real: they walk to a tre bring you the timber.
• They will not chop on land they are not allowed to touch, and trunks — never your wooden walls.
• Wages on a timer: stop paying and they stop working, and they hold it against you.

Villages

• Register a building from inside it. Validation is honest: a roof, with a bed inside.
• Nine building types, recognised by what you put in them: house, manor, inn, smithy, armoury, tannery, library, laboratory, kitchen.
• A village is your land claim — widen the claim and the vil
• Standing, from Outcast to Mayor, earned from both halv the people and what you have built.
• Village Register screen with six tabs: map, buildings, res standing and decrees.
• Assign homes in one click, or give a villager a house from their own page.

Ruling a village

• Population cap by standing — and from Notable upward the many as you can house.
• The cap gates every way in: contracts, travellers, and even th birth rate.
• Decrees, unlocked as you rank up: birth rate, weddings, travellers and curfew.
• Inns attract travellers you can offer a life in the villag refuse.
• Villagers stay in the village they live in; walked into anothe out for themselves whether there is room for them there.

Daily life

• They sleep in their own bed at night, under their village's curfew.
• They sit down on chairs, stools and benches when there is nothing to do.
• They open and close doors on their way.

Items

• Villager Contract — bought from the wandering merchant for of Life. Only works inside a village.
• Village Register — crafted at the Workbench (Tools).
• Family Staff — crafted at the Workbench (Tools).
• Baby — handed to you when a child is on the way.

Commands

• /ca — your villagers, with affinity and where they are
• /ca profile — who you are
• /ca marry <player> · /ca accept · /ca decline · /ca child · /ca divorce
• /ca lang esp | eng — switch the mod's language

Language

• Fully playable in English and Spanish, switchable in game, villagers' dialogue included.
• Item names follow the game's own language.

Under the hood

• A villager's record is the source of truth: bodies are res restarts and chunk unloads, so nobody disappears.
• Guards against two engine crashes that take the whole world down with them, both triggered by incomplete villager bodies.
• No telemetry. The mod never connects to anything.

Requires

• SimpleClaims for the village system: villages are built on both triggered by incomplete villager bodies.
• No telemetry. The mod never connects to anything.

Requires

• SimpleClaims for the village system: villages are built on