Neighborhood | Living Players — v0.10.2

This major update transforms Living Players into controllable companions with parties, equipment, unique appearances, specialized jobs, improved movement, and persistent construction.

New Party System

• Recruit up to four Living Players into your personal party.

• Order individual companions—or your entire party—to follow you.

• Release companions so they can return to their normal class work.

• Party membership remains saved when companions are unloaded or far away.

• Added the craftable Party Manager using one Compass and one Book.

• Residents cannot be recruited by multiple players simultaneously.

New Party HUD

• Added a custom portrait-based party display.

• View each companion’s name, class, health, distance, appearance, and current status.

• Party members are marked as following, working, away, or in another dimension.

• Supports up to four companions at once.

Real Inventory and Equipment Management

• Every companion now has a protected 27-slot backpack.

• Added dedicated equipment slots for:

  • Helmet

  • Chestplate

  • Leggings

  • Boots

  • Main-hand item

  • Off-hand item

• Transfer complete item stacks between your inventory and companion backpacks.

• Equip and unequip items directly through the Party Manager.

• Custom names, enchantments, durability, and other item data are preserved.

• Equipment is protected against duplication and accidental drops.

• Armor and shields now affect companion protection.

• Sharpness and Fire Aspect work on equipped weapons.

• Equipment loses durability through normal use.

• Off-hand Totems of Undying can rescue defeated companions.

16 Selectable Appearances

Every companion can now choose between the original class outfit and 15 additional appearances:

• Cobalt Engineer

• Harvest Farmer

• Lavender Healer

• Crimson Guardian

• Woodland Ranger

• Copper Mechanic

• Twilight Mage

• Coral Performer

• Midnight Veteran

• Rose Gardener

• Tide Sailor

• Olive Scout

• Cream Chef

• Ember Smith

• Sky Scholar

Changing appearance does not reset the resident’s name, class, equipment, relationships, inventory, or goals.

Expanded Class Work

Living Players now behave according to their assigned class:

• Builders clear land and complete construction projects.

• Miners gather stone, coal, ore, and other resources.

• Blacksmiths collect materials and forge equipment.

• Farmers till soil, plant seeds, harvest crops, replant fields, and bake bread.

• Fighters guard nearby players and engage hostile mobs.

• Explorers travel and discover new locations.

• Scouts investigate distant areas and routes.

• Social residents focus on relationships, conversations, and community goals.

Players can order party members to follow them or resume their natural class work at any time.

Persistent Blueprint Construction

• Construction projects now use persistent saved blueprints.

• Builders clear and level the selected plot before construction begins.

• Projects pause when materials are missing and resume after supplies are gathered.

• Interrupted projects can recover after the world reloads.

• Builders inspect finished structures and replace missing blueprint blocks.

• Player-created or protected blocks are no longer silently destroyed.

• Obstructed blueprint sections remain queued until the obstruction is removed.

• Dirt-only platforms have been replaced with proper paid floor blueprints.

Movement and Navigation Improvements

• Added bounded hazard-aware pathfinding.

• Residents can navigate around walls and common obstacles.

• Supports one-block rises and controlled drops of up to two blocks.

• Residents check for full two-block walking clearance.

• Wooden doors can be opened when approached.

• Lava, fire, water, cactus, magma, campfires, powder snow, portals, and other dangerous routes are avoided.

• Removed competing movement systems that caused walking in place and twitching.

• Walking animations are now based on actual distance traveled.

• Stalled residents temporarily return to native movement instead of repeatedly pushing into the same obstacle.

Neighborhood Interface Improvements

• Added a redesigned Neighborhood Tablet interface.

• Household profiles display health, food, energy, mood, goals, relationships, and current activity.

• Added custom portraits, icons, buttons, backgrounds, and companion equipment screens.

• Added dedicated Neighborhood Tablet, Pocket Communicator, and Party Manager visuals.

• Interfaces support scrolling and smaller display sizes.

Compatibility

• Both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack must be enabled.

• Minimum supported engine version is now Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.

• Uses stable Script API 2.0.0 modules.

• No additional programs, servers, or experimental APIs are required.

• Existing pack UUIDs were retained to support updating older installations.

Back up important worlds before updating an existing save.