Shadow Companion 1.0.0 — Initial beta

• Added an owner-bound companion with persistent inventory, equipment and recovery.
• Added summoning through the Black Book and interface access through the Link Book.
• Added configurable combat styles, sword and offhand combat, situational bows, hunger and healing.
• Added gradual progression, four skills, resource collection, mining and woodcutting.
• Added selected recovery beds, guard posts, patrols, physical storage deliveries and bounded chunk loading while the owner is online.
• Added authorized wooden-door and fence-gate interaction along navigation routes.
• Added separate player-skin and display-name settings and English/Spanish translations.
• Added optional integrations for Epic Fight 21.17.3.1 and MineColonies 1.1.1403-1.21.1.
• Added colony warehouse supply, worker material requests, citizen escort and colony patrols.

Minecraft Java 1.21.1 / NeoForge. Optional-integration versions are pinned; install each integration's dependencies separately.

Custom multi-point patrol routes and the broader interface redesign are not included in this build.