AI Manhunt — Changelog

Version: 1.1.0 | Update: AI Intelligence Update

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Single-file Hunter Pathfinding: Fixed multiple hunters running in a straight single-file line toward the exact same point. They now spread out and approach from different angles instead of clumping together like duplicates of the same entity.
• Sluggish Pillar/Tower Climbing: Fixed pillar/tower climbing being extremely slow and "struggling". Hunters were fighting their own climb due to a distance-check bug that sent conflicting navigation signals mid-climb. Climbing is now fast, clean, and aligns underneath the player before rising.

🧠 Smarter AI

• Predictive Targeting: Hunters now lead a moving player instead of chasing their exact current position, making it much harder to simply outrun them in a straight line.
• Flanking Behavior: When multiple hunters are active, each approaches from a different angle around the player and only converges once close, instead of all following the same path.
• Combat Strafing: Hunters sidestep left and right during close combat instead of walking straight at the player, each on its own independent timing so groups of hunters don't move in sync.
• Adaptive Sprint: Hunters speed up when far from the player to close distance quickly, then settle back to normal speed for precise combat once nearby.
• Mine-Through-Walls: Hunters can now break through a single thin wall block when that is genuinely the fastest route, decided automatically by comparing it against going around or bridging. Indestructible blocks (bedrock, obsidian, command_block, structure_block, etc.) are permanently protected and will never be mined.

⚙️ Under the Hood

• Distance checks near the player now use true 3D distance instead of horizontal-only distance, fixing several edge cases involving height differences.
• Pillar climbing processes multiple blocks per tick instead of one, roughly doubling climb speed.
• Every hunter now carries a persistent flank angle and a randomized combat phase, assigned at spawn.
• A Pathfinder:* Extended with a new "mine" move type, weighed against walk/jump/fall/bridge costs so hunters always pick the genuinely shortest path.

🔧 Technical Details

• Verified against @minecraft/server 2.8.0 and @minecraft/server-ui 2.1.0 — no API changes required.
• All new script functions confirmed against official docs before implementation (getVelocity, addEffect, applyImpulse, block.typeId).
• Shield-blocking detection was researched and confirmed NOT available in Bedrock's scripting API — intentionally left out rather than guessing at a non-existent method.
• All JSON files validated and script syntax-checked before release.
• Both Behavior Pack and Resource Pack versions aligned to 1.1.0.

• Released by: PROGAMER91
• Platform: Minecraft Bedrock Edition
• Version: 1.1.0