CreatureChat™

[2.0.0] - 2025-06-30

Added

• Compatibility with Minecraft 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4
• New Chat UI (with image buttons + hover + new positioning)
• Creaking support for spawn and despawn without loosing chat history
• Added new entity icons (armadillo, bogged, creaking, breeze, and wolves)
• Wither now drops a Nether Star at max friendship (for pacifists)
• Added Entity Maturity (baby or adult) into system-chat prompt
• Added many new speaking styles (minimalist, nerdy, stupid, gen-z, old timer, boomer, etc...)
• Check friendship direction (+ or -) in LLM unit tests (to verify friendship is output correctly)
• Added LLM Comparison HTML Output (for human eval of different LLMs with CreatureChat)
• Rate limiter for LLM unit tests (to prevent rate limit issues from certain providers when running all tests)
• Include all markdown files in JAR (LICENSE.md, LICENSE-ASSETS.md, TERMS.md, and so on)

Fixed

• Bees no longer forget their chat data when entering/leaving hives (writeNbt & readNbt modified)
• Vexes no longer take damage when chat data exists
• Wandering Trader no longer despawns if it has chat data
• Removed randomized error messages from chat history (so it doesn't break the chat history when errors are shown)
• Reduced death message output in logs to use DEBUG log level
• Fixed unit tests for friendship (some were being skipped)

Changed

• Updated hundreds of entity chat icons (updating color palette and style, new license for non-code: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
• Simplified system-chat prompt (less tokens), rounded health & hunger values, and improved variety of examples (less tokens)
• Improved error handling to prevent broken "..." pending chat status. (HTTP and message processing is more protected)
• Broadcasting and receiving chat messages now ignores if the UUID is valid (to keep data synced)
• Removed a few variables from the chat context (creative mode, hardcore, difficulty)
• Replacing isIndirect() usage with a more generic version
• Replacing teleport() usage with a more generic override (more compatible with later versions of Minecraft)
• Refactored render methods (vertex, bufferBuilder, Tessellator, getTexture) into QuadBuffer class
• Refactored squid swimming (helper method, interface)
• Refactored damage functions (onDamage, and applying damage)
• Refactored "Use Item" methods (show item & use item)
• Updated docs & asset licensing to use CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and added SPDX headers to all source-code files
• Integrated reuse licensing checking into build pipeline, to ensure 100% coverage of copyright and licensing info
• Updated TERMS with new section related to AI generated content, and updated eligibility and licenses sections.
• Improved LLM unit tests to check for both a positive and negative behaviors (i.e. FOLLOW and not LEAD, ATTACK and not FLEE, etc...)
• Updated Gradle to 8.12 (fabric-loom to 1.10.1)