Nomadic Player Companion (NPC)

V3.0.4

Whats New

• Physical ram attack. About 1 in 4 Chance of the companion's attacks are charges and rams to the target directly instead of firing a photon bullet all the time. — same damage, same cooldown, same line-of-sight requirement, just a different delivery.

• A chargeable AoE Photon Blast that auto-fires on the NPC's next attack once its meter fills. Hits every monster within 10 blocks for 10× normal damage (walls don't block it) and heals every nearby player with Regeneration V for 10 seconds.

  Charge sources:

  +2% per NPC bullet or ram hit

  +2% per hit you land on an enemy

  +1% per hit you take

  In-game Photon Blast meter:

  A live actionbar display, shown for your main NPC once it's evolved.

• 0% PB [- - - - - - - - - -] 0%

• 10% PB [■- - - - - - - - -] 10%

• 20% PB [■■- - - - - - - -] 20%

• 30% PB [■■■- - - - - - -] 30%

• 40% PB [■■■■- - - - - -] 40%

• 50% PB [■■■■■- - - - -] 50%

• 60% PB [■■■■■■- - - -] 60%

• 70% PB [■■■■■■■- - -] 70%

• 80% PB [■■■■■■■■- -] 80%

• 90% PB [■■■■■■■■■-] 90%

• 100% Photon Blast READY! (next attack)

Changes

• Performance improvements. Reduced redundant entity lookups across the addon's tick loops — the legacy-save migration check now only runs once per player instead of on every single lookup, and the photon-bullet firing check was folded into the main movement loop instead of running as a separate, duplicate query. Net effect: roughly half the per-player entity queries per second, which should meaningfully reduce lag with multiple players/companions active.

• Disabled unnecessary physics overhead (world collision, piston pushability) on the companion entity — it's always directly re-positioned by script every tick, so these were pure recurring cost with no actual effect.

• The periodic 10-second snapshot (which backs up a companion's stats/color/evolution/etc. to the player) now skips writing entirely if nothing has actually changed/Updated since the last snapshot, instead of rewriting the same values every time.

Fixed

• NPCs set to Stay no longer freeze in place — idle bob, feeding bob, and random idle fidgets (spin/wiggle/bob) now keep playing while staying put, same as while following.