MCA: Kingdoms

0.2.0 — 2026-10-27

A major usability and visual update for MCA: Kingdoms, with redesigned books, clearer guidance and easier access to settlement, guild and kingdom management.

Redesigned Books and Menus

• A consistent book-inspired appearance. The Book of Kingdoms, Village Ledger, Kingdom Tasks and management screens now share parchment pages, leather controls, illustrated openings and clearer selection highlights.
• Improved book layouts. Larger windows display facing pages, while smaller windows use a single page without shrinking the text.
• New book artwork. The Book of Kingdoms and Village Ledger have distinct bindings, illustrations and updated item icons.
• Better accessibility. Improved text contrast, keyboard navigation, narrator support, scrollbars and tooltips. Recipes, diagrams and kingdom heraldry include text descriptions.
• More reliable scrolling. Reading a long kingdom record no longer accidentally scrolls the surrounding list.

Book of Kingdoms

• Visible crafting recipes. Recipes now appear as crafting grids with quantities, ingredient alternatives and the required crafting station. They reflect the connected server’s recipes and update after a reload.
• Clearer instructions. Expanded guidance across 70 topics, with numbered steps, requirements, consequences, diagrams and links to relevant tasks.
• Easier navigation. Added chapter ribbons, bookmarks, recent topics, improved search and clearer page controls. Going Back restores your previous reading position.
• Better guidance for new players. New topics explain the two books, crafting them, using Kingdom Tasks and understanding kingdoms, governments and territorial control.
• Information that matches your game. Instructions show your assigned keybindings, and the guide includes a gallery of the server’s kingdoms.

Kingdom Tasks and Management

• A more useful start screen. See your current location, suggested next steps, favourite and recent tasks, and the features available on your server.
• Easier task discovery. Browse categories or search for goals such as “paid work,” “make peace” or “become ruler.” Search handles different word orders, accents and common synonyms.
• Requirements shown before you act. Tasks explain what is ready, what is missing and what could not be checked, including permissions, guild standing and nearby contacts.
• Clearer forms and confirmations. Fields show limits and units, preserve your answers when going Back, and let you edit individual answers before confirming.
• More helpful results. Actions explain whether they completed, are waiting or failed, with reasons and relevant next steps. Error screens can copy support details.
• Improved Village Ledger. Search settlements by current or former name, sort by name or distance, filter by kingdom and open related government, guild and military pages.
• Improved Guilds screen. View membership, standing, rank progress, service requirements, nearby contacts and jobs. Joining, leaving and using services now include a review step.
• Clearer government and War Room screens. Important information, responsibilities and available actions are easier to find. Unavailable features explain which setting, requirement or companion mod is missing.
• Resident founding now works. When enabled, eligible residents of an ungoverned kingdom can establish its first government through Kingdom Tasks.

Settings, Languages and Server Tools

• In-game settings. Customise settlement arrival titles, choose what the Tasks key opens, adjust the introductory screen and recipe animation, and clear bookmarks and history.
• Expanded translations. Spanish and Simplified Chinese now cover all guide topics and the task, government, guild and War Room interfaces.
• Better server diagnostics. Added clearer server-health information, reload errors and tools for reviewing and reconciling settlement records.
• Updated documentation. Expanded player guides, configuration references, modpack presets and examples for datapack and addon creators.

Fixes and Compatibility

• Fixed lost form answers and guild actions being rejected because another player changed their membership.
• Fixed misleading search matches, unclear refusal messages, missing translations and outdated guide instructions.
• Fixed the configured handling of unknown kingdoms being ignored by some integration checks.
• Improved compact layouts, kingdom selection and settlement-list refresh behaviour.
• Existing saves, server settings and older guidebook resource packs remain compatible.
• Clients and servers must both be updated to this build.