Cave Buddy: Miner's Canary

Changelog Version 1.0.0

Here is the list of features included in the first release of the mod:

Added a rare custom Miner's Canary with an original model, yellow-and-gold texture, animations and sweet chirping sounds.

Added natural spawning in selected plains, meadow and forest biomes.

Added vanilla seed taming with non-combat Follow, Sit and shoulder companion behaviour.

Added priority-based warnings for nearby creepers, hostile mobs, lava, low air, critically damaged pickaxes and dangerous underground darkness.

Added bounded once-per-second server-side danger scans with configurable radius and cooldown for better performance.

Added five persistent bond ranks: New Hatchling, Cave Scout, Danger Singer, Veteran Canary and Miner's Guardian.

Added underground companionship progression with rank-up feedback.

Added the high-bond Last Chirp emergency rescue with a configurable cooldown and exclusions for Creative Mode, Spectator Mode, `/kill` and void deaths.

Added permanent recovery for tamed canaries instead of ordinary lethal death.

Added protection against block suffocation, direct kill removal and void loss for tamed companions.

Added the permanent Canary Whistle with nearby, shoulder and optional cross-dimension recall.

Added the permanent Cave Buddy Badge, which opens a mobile-friendly vanilla 9x3 companion panel.

Added companion status, bond progress, warning information, danger statistics, emergency saves, Recall and Follow/Sit controls to the panel.

Added Overworld SavedData persistence, entity-NBT reconciliation and UUID-based duplicate protection.

Added player commands including `/cavebuddy status`, `/cavebuddy recall` and `/cavebuddy panel`.

Added operator commands including `/cavebuddy setbond <minutes>` and `/cavebuddy resetbond`.

Added common configuration for spawning, warnings, bond progression, Last Chirp, recovery and recall.

Added dedicated-server support with zero third-party mod dependencies.