Sapience: Living Villagers

## Sapience beta.356

Beta.356 focuses on problems found while testing a new village on rough forest terrain.

### Main changes

- Fixed the several-second freezes caused by large building-site searches.
- Improved construction placement so houses are grounded, reachable, and do not trap villagers or get built around somebody.
- Compact cottages now provide two real, reachable beds.
- Farms now form complete irrigated fields instead of scattered farmland and random holes.
- Farmers can hand a valid farm location to another villager when their own path is blocked.
- Mining now produces useful amounts of stone, uses safer descents, and seals abandoned digging.
- Fixed unnecessary duplicate village chests.
- Crafting-table work now requires real materials, access, line of sight, and working time.
- Improved village defense, melee commitment, attack spacing, cornered self-defense, and recovery after danger.
- Added persistent career clothing using Minecraft’s normal villager clothing and badge layers.
- Villagers no longer change appearance merely because they walked near a different workstation.

The exact release jar passed the complete beta.356 certification suite, including survival, natural-world behavior, determinism, farming, mining, housing, combat, movement, save/reload, stress testing, and a seven-day simulation soak.

### Requirements

- Fabric
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- Fabric API
- Fabric Loader 0.16.9 or newer
- Java 21

NeoForge, Sinytra Connector, and other Minecraft versions are not supported.

There is currently no vanilla player trade screen. Right-click greets a villager and sneak-interact offers a gift.

Please back up important worlds before updating.