Changed: Synergy

Changed: Synergy 0.1.1-beta.1

This beta adds absorption takeover, faction diplomacy, gaze-based hypnosis, creature armor, and several new configuration options.

Changed: Synergy has also passed 1,000 downloads on CurseForge! Thank you to everyone who has played the mod, reported issues, shared ideas, and helped test new builds!

Absorption takeover

• Added a configurable takeover system for qualifying absorption encounters.
• A latex creature may retain control after absorbing a player who started the conflict. Competitive and show-off personalities may also initiate a takeover.
• During a takeover, the player observes from inside while the creature moves and follows its usual behavior.
• Added a takeover radial menu for requesting temporary control or attempting one forced escape.
• A successful escape immediately releases the player and briefly stuns the creature. A failed attempt causes the player to lose consciousness before waking in a safe location.
• Proactive takeovers and punitive containment use different dialogue and control-sharing behavior.
• Non-hostile takeover outcomes may compensate the player with oranges.
• Added the Localhost breakout advancement.
• /untf and /untransfur can forcibly end an active takeover.
• When takeover is disabled, absorption continues to use the negotiation system.

Exoskeleton mechanics

• Added Exoskeleton takeover for players in Benign Wolf or Benign Orca form.
• Exoskeleton takeover does not allow negotiation, borrowed control, or escape attempts.
• The Exoskeleton controls the player's movement and view while wandering on its own.
• Added yellow and pink hypnosis visuals while a benign-form player wears an Exoskeleton.
• Added separate configuration options for Exoskeleton hypnosis visuals, takeover, and unconsciousness.
• If Exoskeleton unconsciousness is disabled, control returns when the takeover timer ends without forcing the player to sleep or removing the Exoskeleton.

Hypnosis

• Reworked Synergy hypnosis around gaze and resistance instead of button prompts.
• Hypnotic creatures pull the player's view toward their eyes.
• Direct eye contact strengthens the effect, while repeatedly looking away builds resistance.
• Filling the resistance meter breaks the hypnosis. Failing to resist causes Mesmerized.
• Hypnotic creatures can speak clearly during hypnosis even before permanent telepathy is unlocked.

Factions and reputation

• Added seven linked faction rivalries: Dark and White, Mountain and Cave, Aquatic and Desert, Forest and Badlands, Taiga and Jungle, Swamp and Savanna, and Plains and Snowy.
• Forming an alliance with one faction can affect the player's standing with its rival, but peaceful relations with every faction remain possible.
• Added optional pursuit squads when a player's reputation with a faction reaches its minimum.
• Pursuit squads use faction-specific warnings and respect Peaceful difficulty, mob-spawning rules, and post-transfur protection.
• Updated faction advancement requirements to account for the diplomacy system.
• Added a gamerule for the initial reputation assigned when a player first encounters a faction.

Social interactions and equipment

• Human players can use up to two light, bare-handed hits to tell an approaching creature to back away.
• Competitive creatures may treat this as a challenge instead. Heavy attacks, weapons, and repeated hits still count as aggression.
• Added a configuration option that disables pacification through patting without disabling ordinary pat interactions.
• Voluntary transfur now requires the highest friendship tier.
• Close friends can access a creature's inventory without forming an exclusive bond.
• Friends and bonded creatures can be equipped by sneak-right-clicking them while holding compatible armor.
• Armor must fit the creature's body shape and can only be placed in an empty equipment slot.
• Juvenile dark latex wolves retain their normal interactions but cannot open Synergy's radial menus until they become adults.

Sleeping and post-transfur protection

• Added special dialogue and the Latex Pajamas advancement for sleeping while wrapped by a bonded creature or absorber.
• Sleeping can reverse organic transformations that cannot be removed through negotiation.
• Added a configurable post-transfur ceasefire. Setting its duration to 0 disables it.
• Players affected by an involuntary secondary transfur temporarily cannot harm members of the responsible faction.

Communities and interface options

• Added configurable minimum spacing between independently claimed outposts. Compatible nearby creatures can share an existing outpost.
• Added separate height controls for dialogue popups and scrolling dialogue.
• Setting the telepathy unlock requirement to 0 now prevents transfur from permanently unlocking telepathy.

Relationship persistence

• Named, tamed, bonded, and befriended latex creatures are now preserved when the world is switched to Peaceful difficulty.
• Contact records are removed when a creature permanently ceases to exist, including removal methods other than ordinary death.
• Creatures that have become hostile through betrayal no longer initiate friendly pat interactions.

Existing-system fixes

• Improved the consistency of relationship records when creatures are permanently removed from the world.

Compatibility

• Added Better Combat 1.9.0 compatibility. Hidden creatures providing friendly wrapping are no longer treated as attack targets, preventing them from interfering with mining and combat-state detection.
• Added coexistence compatibility for Furmutage 0.1 and Changed: Survive Protocol 1.2.0. Their creatures do not participate in Synergy systems.
• Experiment 009 Boss, Experiment 10 Boss, Foxyas, Void Fox, and both boss variants of the Luminarctic Leopard from Changed Addon Plus are excluded from Synergy systems.
• Updated the network protocol for 0.1.1-beta.1. Clients and servers must use the same Synergy version.

Supported versions

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.4.x
• Changed 0.15.7
• Changed Addon Plus 2.9.2c or Changed Additions 0.1.0-V4-Fix (optional)
• Changed Vanilla 1.0.1 (optional)
• Better Combat 1.9.0 (optional compatibility)
• Furmutage 0.1 and Changed: Survive Protocol 1.2.0 (coexistence compatibility only)

Thank you

A special thank-you to everyone in the Changed: Synergy Discord server. Your bug reports, logs, videos, suggestions, and repeated testing have played an important part in the mod's development. Reaching 1,000 CurseForge downloads would not have happened without you!

This beta contains several major system changes. Please back up important worlds before updating and include the relevant crash report or latest.log when reporting a reproducible issue.