Locks Reforged

[1.7.2]

A major quality-of-life and stability update focused on Awareness locks, villager-proof doors, optional itemless lock picking, and clearer key pairing.

Fixed Awareness Locks

• Awareness locks no longer block their own owner from using the locked chest or door.
• Owners can now interact with their locked block normally while the lock continues protecting it from everyone else.
• Sneak + right-click with an empty hand now handles opening/removing the lock itself.
• Owners can once again break their own Awareness-locked blocks.
• Fixed overlapping Awareness locks accidentally toggling each other.
• Fixed Curios key rings interfering with lock removal.

Awareness protection still applies to villagers, redstone, hoppers, pistons, explosions, and other non-owner interactions.

Locked Doors Now Stop Villagers

Fixed villagers and other door-opening AI being able to walk through locked doors.

• Locked doors now block vanilla villagers, raiders, and compatible modded mobs.
• AI can still close a locked door, but cannot open it.
• Re-locking an open door now automatically closes it.
• Placing a lock on an already-open door also closes it.

This applies to normal DoorBlock-based doors. Unusual modded doors using their own opening systems may require separate compatibility.

Optional Itemless Lock Picking

Added:

Allow Itemless Lock Picking — default off

When enabled, players can right-click a locked block with an empty main hand to play the normal lock-picking minigame without carrying a lock pick.

• No item is consumed or damaged.
• Complexity cannot prevent an itemless attempt.
• Auto-Pick is not used.
• Getting a pin wrong resets solved pins.
• Normal keys and Awareness ownership still take priority.

Physical lock picks continue to work exactly as before.

Key Pairing Improvements

Fixed several confusing issues when pairing keys with locks.

• Newly crafted locks and keys now receive their ID immediately.
• Locks taken directly from Creative Mode can now be paired without first sitting in the player's inventory.
• The pairing recipe now properly recognizes actual locks and keys instead of accepting unrelated items with similar NBT.
• Master Keys, Key Rings, and lock picks cannot accidentally be used for pairing.
• Added helpful tooltips to Key Blanks.
• Right-clicking a placed lock with a blank key now explains that pairing must happen before the lock is placed.
• Added clearer pairing instructions to the README and mod description.

Safer Lock Picking

• Lock-picking sessions now close if the player moves more than 8 blocks away.
• Spectators can no longer continue an active lock-picking session.
• Fixed malformed lock-picking packets potentially causing server errors.
• Fixed key-ring scans accidentally writing lock data into Minecraft's shared empty-item stack.

Multiplayer

Network protocol updated from 2 → 3.

Clients and servers must both use Locks Reforged 1.7.2. Mismatched versions are rejected cleanly when connecting.