Arvan Characters

# Arvan Characters 1.7.3

This is a major update from 0.1.0-alpha.1, rebuilding the character creator, wardrobe, generated skins, account safety, and overall user experience.

## Character system

- Configurable persistent character rosters with 1–20 custom slots.
- Permanent Minecraft Profile option preserving the player's original UUID, name, Mojang skin, inventory, and progression.
- Independent UUIDs, inventories, advancements, statistics, positions, classes, progression, appearances, and optional CustomNPC data for every custom character.
- Added safe character deletion, recovery states, logout switching, barber editing, and administrative recovery controls.
- Improved atomic saving, verification, shutdown handling, and protection against character-state mixing.
- Added complete dedicated-server, single-player, and LAN roster enforcement.

## New 256×256 character creator

- Upgraded generated character skins from 64×64 to true 256×256 atlases.
- Rebuilt the creator into a compact eight-stage interface.
- Added live front, back, left, and right previews.
- Added customizable skin, eyes, brows, hair, facial hair, clothing, accessories, markings, sleeves, colors, and height.
- Added Bald, Buzz Cut, Receding, and Horseshoe options drawn directly on the base head layer.
- Added independently customizable accessory colors.
- Removed the nonfunctional Build selector while preserving old stored values for compatibility.
- Realigned cards, controls, previews, navigation, and footer elements within the illustrated frames.
- Removed repetitive promotional text to give more space to the character preview.

## 512 themed outfits

- Restored all 512 stable outfit IDs as selectable designs.
- Organized the wardrobe into sixteen collections:
  - Frontier Guilds
  - Medieval Commons
  - Knight Orders
  - Arcane Academy
  - Mage Guilds
  - Court & Nobility
  - Adventurers
  - Rangers & Hunters
  - Desert Caravan
  - Seafarers
  - Northern Realms
  - Festival & Artisans
  - Dark Fantasy
  - Eastern Kingdoms
  - Otherworld City
  - Otherworld Leisure
- Added recognizable medieval, fantasy, academy, adventurer, noble, mage, knight, ranger, eastern, modern, formal, streetwear, winter, activewear, and beach roles.
- Every outfit has its own front, rear, side, sleeve, lower-body, footwear, seam, closure, pocket, armor, and accessory treatment.
- Reworked beach outfits into actual beachwear with exposed skin, camp shirts, board shorts, sandals, and complete rear designs.
- Used online skin galleries only as broad visual research; no third-party skins are copied or bundled.

## Better materials and recoloring

- Removed the old shared glossy shading and generated-looking pattern treatment.
- Added restrained material-specific lighting for cloth, knit, denim, leather, silk, metal, armor, quilting, wraps, pleats, and sportswear.
- Added native-resolution seams, folds, stitching, piping, embroidery, pockets, hardware, panels, and wear.
- Primary, secondary, accent, leather, metal, and accessory colors remain customizable.
- Recoloring preserves each outfit's authored shading, construction, and details instead of flattening it into one color.

## Important fixes

- Fixed death respawns disconnecting players when CustomNPCs initialized replacement player data early.
- Fixed stale parent-account reservations blocking immediate reconnects after a respawn quarantine.
- Improved CustomNPC clone transfer and live-state restoration.
- Strengthened quick-reconnect, logout, deletion, recovery, and shutdown coordination.
- Added extensive automated coverage for appearance rendering, all 512 outfits, storage, authentication, respawning, networking, and release integrity.

## Compatibility

- Minecraft 1.20.1
- Forge 47.4.22 through 47.4.x
- Java 17
- Arvan Characters must be installed on both client and server.
- PasswordGate is bundled. Do not install a separate PasswordGate JAR.
- CustomNPCs is optional. Supported integration build:
  CustomNPCs 1.20.1.20260227
- Pehkui 3.8.2+ is optional and enables persistent character height scaling.

Back up your world before upgrading from the original alpha.