MCA Family Life

• First words: when your baby grows into a toddler, they say "Mama!" or "Dada!" to the parent who spent the most time with them.
• Bedtime stories: a new Talk option for your young children in the evening, once per night, for hearts and a sleepy reply.
• Love letters: come home after 3+ days away and your spouse will have written you a letter. It's left in a chest nearby, and it changes with how long you were gone and how they've been feeling.
• Birthday reminders: a morning chat note when a loved one has a birthday. On by default.
• Anniversary reminders: the same for your wedding anniversary. Off by default.
• More dialogue:
  • New lines for spouses, including morning, evening and night greetings.
  • New lines for fiancés, toddlers, children, teens and grown-up children.
• /familylife debug (operators): shows the active calendar, and for the nearest villager their birthday, wedding date, and whether Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary would work right now.
• Fix: being next to an asleep, staying or busy spouse sometimes counted as being away.

New Compatabilities

• Serene Seasons / Ecliptic Seasons:
  • The year follows the seasons, so birthdays and anniversaries always fall in the same season.
  • Dates read like "Early Summer 3, Year 2" (Serene) or "Grain Rain 5, Year 2" (Ecliptic).
  • Your spouse remarks on the first day of each season.
• Townstead:
  • Family Life uses Townstead's calendar, and villagers' birthdays are their Townstead dates of birth ("I was born on Early Winter 1, 998").
  • Spouses don't snack from chests, since Townstead's hunger handles eating. They still stock chests after work.
  • With Townstead's shift scheduler, only a real work shift counts as a day at work.
  • Loved ones still talk to you as themselves, not in their job role, even with Townstead's villager voices.
  • If a future Townstead update moves its calendar, Family Life turns its own birthday features off instead of running a second calendar.
• Dates in chat, commands and the wedding-ring tooltip now come from whichever calendar is active.

Bugfixes;

• Memory leak: leaving a world and loading another one kept the old world in memory. This is the leak behind your long-session out-of-memory crash question.
• Leftover errands: villagers that died or unloaded mid-errand (gift delivery, chest trip, walk) left that errand behind. Now it's forgotten instead of piling up.
• Absence time: how long you'd been away from your spouse is now saved with the villager. Before, the welcome-home gift could be skipped after the villager unloaded or the game restarted.
• Chests and barrels:
  • Lids a villager left open now close before the world shuts down.
  • Lids in unloaded chunks wait until the chunk loads again, instead of loading the chunk just to close them.
• Date popup: the morning "Day X, Year Y" popup is now off by default (announceNewDay in the config). /familylife date still works.

Please do know that the compatibilities are for Townstead 0.7.6, and most versions Of Serene Seasons Or Ecliptic Seasons, and they have not been deep tested, just played thouroughly.