Imperial Pillager —historical weapons

# Napoleonic Musket 1.3.0 — The Grande Armée Update

Raids now look like a Napoleonic army on the march: new pillager troops, heavy cavalry, bigger waves and a fully animated musket reload.

## New Pillagers
- **Pillager Fusilier.** Replaces the crossbow pillager. Wears a line infantry uniform (shako, blue coat, crossbelts and cartridge box) and carries the flintlock musket. Marches with shouldered arms, closes to about 20 blocks, halts, aims and fires in a cloud of smoke. Reloads standing still with the full animation and fights with the bayonet up close. Has a small chance to drop its musket.
- **Pillager Sapper.** Replaces the vindicator. Wears a bearskin cap, beard and leather apron, and carries an axe. Keeps the vindicator's behaviour (breaks doors, charges with the axe).
- **Napoleonic Evoker.** Dressed as a marshal, with a gold-embroidered coat, red sash, high boots and a bicorne. Its vexes wear a tiny bicorne too.
- Pillagers and vindicators already in your worlds are converted when they load.

## New Unit: Pillager Cuirassier
- Heavy cavalry on a fast war horse, armoured in a steel helmet and cuirass and armed with a pistol and sabre.
- Replaces the ravager in raids, and extra cuirassiers join from wave 3.
- **Cuirassier armor set** for players (helmet, cuirass, breeches and boots, stronger than iron), plus a cuirassier caparison for your horse.

## Bigger Raids
- Every raid wave now brings **twice as many raiders**. This is configurable.

## New Musket Animations
- **New third-person reload.** The soldier primes the pan, then stands the musket upright with the butt on the ground and pours the powder. He draws the ramrod and rams it three times, with his hand following the ramrod. Then he returns the musket to closing the pan and cocking the hammer.
- Polished musket model and texture, with a sling, a visible cartridge and a glowing 3D muzzle flash.
- New smoke, spark and dust effects when firing.
- Cannon: a huge muzzle blast and an automatic third-person camera when you fire.

## Work in Progress: Artillery Pillagers
- Pillager gun crews that load, aim and fire the bronze cannon are in development (Pillager Artillery addon). Expect changes and rough edges.

## Configuration
You can turn each change on or off in `config/napoleonic-musket.json`: `replacePillagers`, `replaceVindicators`, `replaceRavagersInRaids`, `raidSizeMultiplier`, `cuirassiersInRaids`, `napoleonicEvokers`, `napoleonicVexes` and more.

**Requires:** Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader 0.19.5+, Fabric API and GeckoLib 5.5.7.

⚠️ If you remove the mod, any pillagers and vindicators it converted will disappear from your world.