MCA Expressions

MCA Expressions v0.3
Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge

New Animations

• Peek-a-boo: a 6-second interaction with your babies and children, featuring different reactions depending on their life stage.
• Patty Cake: a 6-second animation. Children join in, while babies watch and make their first attempts at clapping.
• Cradle Baby: a 10-second interaction where the player kneels, gently lifts their baby visually, rocks them, and returns them to their original position.
• High Five: a 5-second gesture adapted to the NPC’s height and personality. With your own babies, it becomes “Give Me Your Hand.”
• New Easter Egg: a hidden animation featuring a cinematic introduction and original music. Its discovery is saved individually for each player.

Dialogue and Immersion

• New dialogue adapted to the NPC’s age, personality, family ties, and relationship with the player.
• Separate responses for children, relatives, friends, spouses, and romantic interests.
• Three acceptance and completion variants, plus two rejection alternatives.
• Nonverbal reactions for babies and appropriate family forms of address.
• Full localization in English, European Spanish, and neutral Mexican Spanish.
• Facial expressions during the cinematic for compatible MCA faces, including blinking, eye movements, and subtle smiles.

Improvements and Fixes

• Improved first-person camera and arm positioning during the new interactions.
• Refined hand positioning, contact, and sound synchronization for High Five.
• Improved cape movement while preserving babies’ seated and crib poses.
• Fixed Peek-a-boo and Patty Cake appearing for teenagers and adults.
• Adjusted the interaction menu to keep buttons within smaller screens.
• Added smooth transitions between the cinematic music, the secret animation, and the jukebox record.
• Fixed a startup crash related to the camera adjustment.

Multiplayer: both the client and server must use the same mod version.