MCA: Crime

MCA: Crime 0.7.5 — September 30, 2026

This update expands restraints, prisons and jailbreaks, adds crime reporting and village news, and fixes several gameplay and compatibility issues.

• Overhauled restraints: Handcuffs, shackles and other restraints now use separate head, arm and leg slots. Each restraint tracks its own durability, with options for keys, lockpicking and struggling to escape.
• Built-in locks and lockpicking: Added padlocks, safes, lockable cell doors, key rings and key molds. Lockpicking includes adjustable timing settings.
• More prison equipment: Added chains, fixed attachment points, improved prisoner escorts, pillories, guillotines, prison bunks and reinforced building blocks. The prison lamp also has a new medieval design.
• Working jailbreaks: Temporary holding cells now use reinforced blocks, bars and a padlocked door. Picking the padlock opens the door. Escaping puts your remaining sentence on hold until you surrender or are recaptured.
• Search restrained suspects: Frisking is available through the crime menu. Lawfully confiscated belongings are returned when custody ends; taking items unlawfully counts as theft.
• Report crimes peacefully: Report crimes you experienced or witnessed, receive a response from local guards and track your report’s status.
• Village news: Receive local crime news through MCA’s mailbox, with personal subscription settings.
• Configurable thief combat: Added options to prevent reputation penalties for fighting thieves, with exceptions for protected prisoners.
• Configurable capital punishment: Servers can enable death sentences specifically for killing guards. Executions require a deliberate action at a guillotine and never happen automatically.
• More gameplay options: Added five restraint enchantments, two restraint presets, configurable restraint application times, world creation options and additional admin commands.

Several existing systems are also more reliable:

• Doors, bars and padlocks: Bars connect properly to cell doors and barred windows. Door halves line up consistently, open doors block the correct space, and padlocks sit correctly and keep their facing after a reload.
• Restraint interactions: Applying restraints now respects configured distance and line-of-sight limits. Timed applications show progress and cancel if interrupted. The optional gag setting now muffles typed chat.
• Sentences and bounties: Escaped prisoners correctly see their sentence as paused. Bounty contracts update properly after restarts, while completed contracts awaiting turn-in remain valid.
• Guards and relationships: Fixed guards immediately abandoning some chases. Rescues now grant the intended gratitude and reputation benefits, and witnesses correctly lose trust after seeing an assault.
• Compatibility and performance: Improved integration with MCA: Quests, MCA: Reputation, MCA: Conversations and Ultima Kingdoms, including a startup failure when Ultima Kingdoms was installed. Also reduced unnecessary processing, network traffic and log warnings.
• Smaller fixes: Double reinforced stone slabs now drop both slabs, and bundle hoods can be applied correctly.

For Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge, with MCA Reborn required. Update both the client and server together.

Restraints, locks and lockpicking are included directly—Cuffed and Locks Reforged are optional. Existing Cuffed data is not imported. If you customized older restraint settings, review and reapply them using the replacement options.

Bundle hoods require Minecraft’s Bundle experiment for normal crafting and use; without it, they can only be applied using a dispenser.

Includes features adapted from Cuffed by Lazr Productions, under GPL-3.0.