Modern Companions v4.39

This is a major cumulative update focused on companion progression, new equipment, magic compatibility, mount travel, loot, and a complete Jobs overhaul.

Companion Progression

• Added the Companion Table and Soul Reforging, allowing owners to reroll primary and secondary companion traits.
• Trait costs, Bond requirements, materials, and XP requirements are visible in the interface.
• Added the Beastmaster’s Wand and Soul Orbs for capturing compatible non-hostile mobs, releasing them, and swapping Beastmaster pets.
• Beastmaster pets now persist correctly through Soul Gems, Companion Mover storage, death, and Resurrection Scrolls.
• Added Steve/Alex model selection through the Bio screen, including proper armor geometry and Epic Fight support.

New Loot, Gear, and Economy

• Added 34 loot-only Legendary items with unique models, Epic rarity, vanilla-compatible behavior, and rare companion loadouts.
• Legendary items are available in the Modern Companions and Combat creative tabs but cannot be crafted.
• Added new medieval and fantasy armor sets with custom models, textures, recipes, and creative-tab entries.
• Added configurable loot-only currencies, Credit Cards, wallet storage, physical currency conversions, and JEI trade displays.
• Added Health Packs that fully restore the health of the user, another player, or a Modern Companions companion. Health Packs have a 30-second cooldown.

Magic and Mod Compatibility

• Added compatibility for Iron’s Spellbooks, Ars Nouveau, Curios, and compatible magical equipment.
• Magic gear can now affect companion Mana, spell power, regeneration, resistances, and casting behavior.
• Added a dedicated spellbook slot for magical companions.
• Legacy Cleric, Fire Mage, Lightning Mage, and Necromancer companions remain available without optional magic mods, using their bundled fallback abilities.
• Improved caster targeting, Mana use, healing priority, spell timing, and melee fallback behavior.
• Magical structures now avoid generating without a compatible resident.

Mounts and Following

• Added Assignment Wand mount linking for owned companions and saddled mounts.
• Companions can travel with the owner’s mount setup while preserving native mount speed, jumping, passenger order, and leash behavior.
• Mount assignments persist through relogging and recover safely after loading.
• Temporary fences and leashes are cleaned up without destroying player-owned replacements.
• Improved follow recovery, walking catch-up, emergency teleport safety, and configurable teleport delay/cooldown settings.

Placement Wand and Equipment Improvements

• Added the Placement Wand for deploying multiple Soul Gems around a targeted block.
• Sneak-use captures nearby owned companions without losing companions when inventory capacity is insufficient.
• Equipped Sophisticated Backpacks are checked before the player inventory for Soul Gem storage and deployment.
• Added long held models for spears, quarterstaffs, and glaives.
• Improved Epic Fight and Mekanism armor rendering.
• Cosmetic armor now remains separate from functional equipment and persists correctly through relogging, capture, redeployment, and resurrection.
• Added better support for Totems of Undying, carried torches, lanterns, and rare Sophisticated Backpack equipment.

Alchemist Improvements

• Added configurable Alchemist recipes with visible ingredient tooltips and JEI support.
• Alchemists brew splash potions automatically without consuming glass bottles.
• Brewing takes 200 ticks, and potions can stack to 64 inside an Alchemist’s inventory.
• Improved ally healing, buffs, enemy debuffs, offensive potion throws, targeting accuracy, and line-of-sight checks.
• Fixed recipe synchronization and potion consumption issues.

Jobs Overhaul

Jobs remain experimental and under construction - use at your own risk!

• Added and expanded the Farmer, Lumberjack, Miner, Fisher, Hunter, and Chef professions.
• Jobs now use the Work control, assigned work radius, required tools, and Assignment Wand delivery chests.
• Job progress survives combat, interruptions, unloading, relogging, Work being disabled, and temporary path failures.
• Workers now preserve active tasks instead of silently discarding them when routes, inventories, or chests are temporarily blocked.
• Farmers harvest, replant, and maintain crops.
• Lumberjacks process multiple trees and correctly replant species-specific single-tree and 2×2 layouts.
• Miners use safer bounded routes for caves, buried ores, bridges, and controlled excavation.
• Fishers use native fishing behavior and loot.
• Hunters support melee and ranged combat while collecting their own drops independently of the Pickup toggle.
• Chefs use native furnace, smoker, and campfire cooking behavior.
• Jobs now display clearer phases, waiting reasons, Hunter kill totals, and Chef meal totals.

Additional UI translations and Simplified Chinese localization have also been added.