MCA: Quests

1.8.0 — 2026-10-29

Forge 1.20.1 · NeoForge 1.21.1

Fixes item hand-ins across MCA: Quests, clarifies which items you keep, and updates affected active quests without losing their progress.

Correct Item Hand-Ins

• Delivery requests now take the goods they ask for. Corrected requests including Egg Hunt, Ink and Quill, Coal for Winter, Berry Picking and others that previously completed while leaving the requested items in your inventory.
• Crafting commissions now require the finished goods. Requests such as Forge Ahead, A Fine Bow and Cobbler’s Apprentice require both crafting and handing over the items. Buying an item does not replace the crafting requirement, and losing a crafted item does not erase your crafting credit.
• Fishing requests now require the catch to be delivered, while keeping their existing fishing, weather and failure conditions.
• A Splash of Color accepts any mixture of eight small flowers. Hand them over using Deliver, Deliver & complete, or MCA’s Gift interaction. Carrying them alone no longer completes the request.
• Ice and Fire armour orders now collect the requested armour, including the hippogryph and dragon armour commissions.
• Corrected missing donations in Embers and Wart, Honey for the Healer and Ink and Index.
• Only the amount still owed is taken. Earlier deliveries and gifts are credited, extra items stay with you, and equipped armour and offhand items are left alone.

Clearer Requirements and Fewer Unnecessary Items

• Quests that only ask to see or make something still let you keep it. Updated dialogue makes this clear for requests involving the recovery compass, decorated pot, diamond sword, anvil, catches and other retained items.
• Possession objectives now explicitly say “yours to keep,” including those used by custom quest packs.
• Echoes Below no longer requires extra echo shards after crafting the recovery compass. Visit the ancient city and craft the compass; you keep the finished item.
• The Relic beneath the Well no longer requires spare pottery sherds after crafting the decorated pot. Visit the trail ruins and craft the pot; you keep it. Brick-only pots still satisfy the crafting objective.

Existing Quest Progress

• Affected built-in quests accepted in 1.7.1 update in place, rather than becoming stuck with a “definition changed” message.
• Existing visits, crafting and fishing progress, genuine earlier deliveries, deadlines and selected rewards are preserved.
• Newly added delivery requirements start unpaid. Previously carrying an item does not count as having handed it over.
• Completed quests are not reopened or charged again, and updating does not take items from your inventory on login.
• Custom datapack overrides and MCA: Kingdoms institutional commissions retain their own definitions.

Safer Deliveries and Rewards

• Hand-ins are verified before they are credited, preventing rewards from being granted when an inventory change did not actually happen.
• Failed transfers are restored where possible. If a transfer cannot be safely resolved, the quest is placed on hold, its timer stops, and an administrator is asked to review it before further items can be taken.
• Deliver & complete now finishes the exact quest copy you paid, fixing incorrect completion when holding multiple copies of the same repeatable request.
• MCA: Kingdoms faction standing is awarded only after a successful hand-in, preventing failed attempts from granting standing repeatedly.
• Added clearer delivery diagnostics and an administrator command for releasing quests held after unresolved transfers.

Configuration and Compatibility

• enableDefaultQuestPack = false now works correctly. It removes the mod’s built-in quests and related content while preserving custom datapack overrides.
• Active quests disabled by this setting remain in the quest log with a clear explanation and a paused timer. They can still be abandoned.
• If your server already has this setting disabled, built-in content will disappear after updating. Set it to true to keep that content enabled.
• Updated relevant messages and dialogue in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Simplified Chinese.
• Network protocol remains unchanged at version 18.
• Downgrading to 1.7.1 can pause quests that were upgraded by this release.