The Siege Overhaul v4.12.0 - Command Center HUD Redesign

Full redesign of the Command Center HUD toward a modern-sleek medieval-fantasy look, plus a dedicated Territory tab with a draggable map and live NPC portraits on hire cards.

What's new

Visual system

• Midnight-navy panels with aged-gold framing, drop shadow, and heraldic L-bracket corner ornaments (replaces the previous rivets and parchment palette).
• All framing is procedural: no textures, no per-frame allocations, works at every GUI scale.

Icons and tab emblems

• Icon set upgraded from 12x12 monochrome to 16x16 four-tone glyphs (fill, highlight, outline, drop shadow). New glyphs: BOOK, MAP, FLAG.
• Four new 32x32 crest emblems watermark the tabs: crossed swords over shield (Army), banded treasure chest (Loot), classical bank building (Bank), parchment map with trail (Territory).

Territory tab (new)

• Draggable minimap in its own tab. Left-click drag to pan, mouse wheel to zoom (2 / 4 / 8 blocks per pixel), right-click to recenter on the player.
• Compass rose, live X / Z / bpp readout, gold-and-white player marker with a facing tick.
• Helper buttons: Recenter, Zoom in, Zoom out.
• Samples vanilla MapColor from loaded chunks only, budget-capped at 320 chunks per frame, cache cleared on close and on zoom change.

Live NPC portraits on hire cards

• Portrait tile now renders the actual Recruits / Workers mob for each hire slot, with heads that follow the mouse cursor (same renderer vanilla uses for the inventory character preview).
• Full body (head to feet) fits inside the tile with a small padding.
• Heroes glow with a soft aureole so they read as legendary.
• Falls back to a procedural bust if another mod's client-side entity constructor throws.

Hire card layout

• Portrait tile on the left with heraldic corner brackets around it.
• Info column on the right: character name, role/class, gear glyph row, signature item chip.
• Big gold "Hire" button spans the bottom-right of the card, labeled "N Hire" for cleaner scanning.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.3.0+
• Recruits Mod (required)
• Workers Mod (required)

License

GPL-3.0-only for source code. Name, logo and artwork reserved as trademarks.