Villager Identity Mod - Release Changelog

This release focuses on performance, reliability, dialogue polish and stronger compatibility while preserving every existing identity feature.

Dialogue Improvements

• Expanded ambient, profession, family, trust, and community dialogue.
• Fixed returning-player greetings so they remain queued until a villager can actually speak.
• Preserved the established presentation:
  • Ambient chatter appears in the actionbar.
  • Greetings, relationship lines, danger warnings and gifts appear in chat.
• Reduced repeated player-search allocations during dialogue checks.

Performance Improvements

• Added adaptive crowd safety for unusually dense villages.
• Culture routines and social movement now automatically calm down around crowded meeting points.
• Trust, gifts, homes, families and persistent memory remain fully active during crowd protection.
• Added configurable safe, balanced and lively performance presets.
• Added per-world limits for expensive identity checks and movement requests.
• Identity now skips unnecessary crowd calculations outside active social periods.
• Optional behavior remains expressive without overwhelming server ticks.

Village Memory

• Improved village-key caching around bells, homes and fallback regions.
• Meeting-point changes now refresh village identity immediately.
• Villagers without an established bell refresh their fallback village information regularly.
• Established bell-based village identities remain stable and efficiently cached.
• Custom villager type IDs are now used consistently when resolving village identity.

Configuration

• Improved config/villageridentitymod.txt migration between versions.
• Fixed global settings being incorrectly placed inside villager-type profile sections.
• Previously misplaced generated settings are repaired automatically.
• Existing user-created profile values remain preserved.
• Added or finalized configuration for:
  • Gift cooldown and gift chance
  • Culture sampling
  • Performance presets
  • Crowd detection radius and threshold
  • Heavy-check and movement-request limits
• Missing or invalid settings continue to use safe defaults.

Compatibility

• VillagerHomeLandsMod was a required dependency, now it is an optional one and remains responsible for villager types, homes and village generation. It will become a required dependency once it is stable enough.
• Added support for the current VillagerHomeLands Mod public API.
• Custom and expanded villager types now resolve to their intended Identity profiles more reliably.
• Compatibility remains prepared for richer homeland and culture information in future VillagerHomeLands Mod versions.
• Villager AI remains optional and continues to own advanced movement and pathfinding behavior.
• Defensive and combat behavior remains outside Villager Identity.

Fixes

• Fixed return dialogue being lost during the re-entry delay.
• Fixed stale fallback village keys lasting too long after meeting-point changes.
• Fixed repeated config migration entries.
• Fixed generated global settings being interpreted as type-specific settings.
• Reduced unnecessary work performed during inactive villager schedule periods.
• Improved optional-mod detection efficiency.
• Improved release documentation and dependency information.

Verification

• Clean Fabric 1.21.4 build completed successfully.
• All bundled profile, dialogue, and gift resources validated successfully.
• Release jar contains no duplicate entries.
• No existing trust, dialogue, gift, home, family, culture or alarm functionality was removed.