Servant 0.2.0-beta.1

Minecraft 1.21.1 - NeoForge

This beta is a major rebuild and direction change for Servant. The mod now focuses on rare, player-like companions that must be found, freed, bound, equipped, upgraded, and managed.

Highlights

• Reworked Servant acquisition around Pillager Outpost prisoners.
• Added Easement Seals as the main binding item.
• Added Reinforced Easement Seals for Assistant progression.
• Added linked Seal inventory behavior, suspension, and ownership transfer.
• Added player-like humanoid rendering, equipment rendering, and role-based skins.
• Added Curios compatibility.
• Added Sophisticated Backpacks rendering and interaction support.
• Added tiered Servant Workbenches.
• Added Assistant imitation, tool handling, and owner support behaviors.
• Added dimension travel support for following Servants and Assistants.
• Fixed recipe visibility for recipe viewers such as JEI.

Servant Prisoners

• Servants can now appear as prisoners in Pillager Outposts.
• Outpost cages can contain at most one Servant prisoner.
• Prisoners use localized names:
  • English: Prisoner
  • French: Prisonnier
• Prisoners flee away from the outpost when they have room to escape.
• Escaped prisoners wander nearby instead of staying at their spawn point.
• Prisoners avoid hostile mobs.
• Added dedicated summon IDs for prisoner/servant/assistant variants.

Easement Seals

• servant:seal is now the main Easement Seal item.
• The legacy servant:servant_seal remains supported as a compatibility alias.
• Easement Seals are no longer craftable.
• Seals are intended to be found through dangerous or advanced exploration.
• Binding a Servant links the Seal to that specific Servant.
• Linked Seals display a glint and tooltip data.
• Advanced tooltips show the linked Servant UUID.
• Removing the linked Seal from the special Seal slot suspends the Servant.
• Suspended Servants no longer work, follow, patrol, defend, produce, or obey normal orders.
• Returning the correct linked Seal reactivates the Servant.
• A linked Seal can transfer ownership if the Servant is currently loaded.
• Transfer checks are performed at the start and end of the use animation.
• Assistant ownership transfer respects the one-Assistant-per-player limit.

Assistant

• A Servant can only become an Assistant by using a Reinforced Easement Seal.
• Each player can only own one Assistant.
• Assistant promotion is refused if the player already owns one.
• The Assistant order button was removed from the Servant GUI.
• Network order packets can no longer turn a Servant into an Assistant.
• Assistants cannot be switched into Guard mode.
• Assistants can observe and imitate selected player actions.
• Assistants can chop nearby logs after seeing the player chop wood.
• Assistants can mine visible ores after seeing the player mine underground.
• Assistants can swap tools from their inventory.
• Assistants look at the block they are breaking.
• Assistants look at entities they attack.
• Assistants play repeated swing animations while mining, chopping, or attacking.
• Assistant pathfinding toward work targets was reinforced.
• Assistants can place blocks and break blocks to help reach their owner.
• Assistants can attempt water bucket clutch behavior after long falls.
• Assistants try to recover the placed water after the fall.
• Assistants can pick up equipment thrown by their owner.
• Owner-thrown equipment is compared by role and utility, not only raw attack value.
• Assistants can protect nearby owner death drops, prioritizing tools, weapons, armor, and backpack storage.
• Assistants no longer panic-flee hostile mobs like regular Servants.
• Melee Guards and Assistants use safer Creeper combat behavior instead of simple panic fleeing.

Rendering and Skins

• Servants now use a slim, player-like humanoid model.
• Added a dedicated Assistant skin.
• Added a dedicated Prisoner skin.
• Added a dedicated Farmer skin.
• Added a dedicated Miner skin.
• Added seven stable random melee Guard skins.
• Added four stable random ranged Guard skins.
• Armor, held tools, and weapons render more like player equipment.
• Fixed missing limb rendering issues on role skins.
• Removed invalid equipment icon sprites.

Curios and Sophisticated Backpacks

• Added Curios compatibility for Servants and Assistants.
• Curios slots are available through the Servant/Assistant inventory.
• Curios back-slot equipment can render on Servants.
• Sophisticated Backpacks can render on the Servant's back.
• Sophisticated Backpacks can be opened from the Servant.
• Backpacks remain visible and accessible when equipped through a Curios back slot.

Workers and Workbenches

• Added tiered Servant Workbenches.
• Basic Servant Workbench: 1 worker, 16 block radius.
• Advanced Servant Workbench: 2 workers, 32 block radius.
• Ultimate Servant Workbench: 5 workers, 64 block radius.
• Each Workbench worker slot can have its own assigned Servant and task.
• Workbench GUI was updated to support multiple worker slots.
• Breaking a Workbench now detaches its assigned workers cleanly.
• Reassigning a worker to another loaded Workbench clears the old Workbench slot.
• The Servant Workbench recipe now requires one Easement Seal.
• Added recipes for Advanced and Ultimate Servant Workbenches.
• Added a recipe for the Servant Wand.

Mining Deposits

Mining Deposit recipes were nerfed.

Deposits now require matching resource blocks instead of ore blocks:

• Coal Deposit: Coal Block
• Copper Deposit: Raw Copper Block
• Iron Deposit: Raw Iron Block
• Gold Deposit: Raw Gold Block
• Redstone Deposit: Redstone Block
• Lapis Deposit: Lapis Block
• Diamond Deposit: Diamond Block
• Emerald Deposit: Emerald Block
• Quartz Deposit: Quartz Block
• Ancient Debris Deposit: Netherite Block

Recipes and JEI

• Fixed recipe JSON format for Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge.
• Recipes now use explicit item and tag ingredient entries.
• Recipe viewers such as JEI can display the mod's recipes correctly.

Balance

• Servants are harder to obtain.
• Seals are tied to exploration instead of direct crafting.
• Assistant progression is limited by Reinforced Easement Seals and one Assistant per player.
• Mining automation requires expensive deposit blocks.
• Workbench automation now scales through Basic, Advanced, and Ultimate tiers.

Known Limitations

• This is a beta release.
• Subdued Pillagers and allied Ravagers are planned but not implemented yet.
• Assistant imitation currently focuses on early behaviors such as chopping wood, mining visible ores, tool handling, and owner support.
• Advanced and Ultimate Workbenches currently reuse the Servant Workbench visuals.