Smiley's Better Brain 3.0.0

Changes since 2.1.1

AI providers

• Updated the primary chat backend to Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
• Added an Experimental config tab
• Added experimental Groq chat support using Verity JE's llama-3.3-70b-versatile
• Added a separate Groq API key setting
• Preserved Better Brain prompts, tools, memory, history, actions, and early TTS when Groq is selected
• Added automatic Gemini fallback for Better Vision screenshot turns while Groq is selected
• Removed the native-system-prompt testing option; Better Brain enhancements now remain active whenever the mod is enabled

Rate limits and reliability

• Raised Gemini's local quota gate to match the free tier:
  • 15 requests per minute
  • 250,000 estimated tokens per minute
• Local quota pressure now waits for a rolling-window slot rather than immediately showing an error
• The “slow down” message now appears only after a real provider HTTP 429 / RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED response
• Added provider-specific cooldown tracking
• Added support for provider Retry-After / retry-delay values
• Kept Gemini and Groq cooldowns independent
• Added streaming Groq JSON parsing and early speech support

Verity JE 5.7.3 support

• Rebuilt Better Brain specifically against Verity JE 5.7.3
• Updated runtime compatibility to Verity JE 5.7.3–5.7.x
• Updated prompt matching for Verity 5.7.3's personality format
• Added a dedicated-server-safe Verity 5.7.3 base prompt path
• Preserved Better Brain behavior on integrated and dedicated servers without loading client-only Verity classes

Expanded abilities

Added Better Brain actions for:

• Time, weather, moon phase, and day information
• Current dimension
• Player health, hunger, saturation, armor, air, XP, gamemode, and effects
• Equipment and held items
• Respawn point and world spawn
• Nearby hostile mobs
• Looked-at block details
• Structure hints for villages, fortresses, monuments, mansions, strongholds, and buried treasure
• Looking at the player
• Changing expression
• Coming to the player
• Staying in place

Added world/admin abilities for:

• World seed, entity details, and server status
• Summoning entities
• Applying and clearing effects
• Damaging, healing, and extinguishing entities
• Teleporting entities
• Riding and dismounting
• Placing blocks
• Changing weather, time, and difficulty
• Spawning lightning
• Granting experience

Immersive world powers

• Privileged abilities are now enabled by default
• Removed per-action Approve/Deny popups
• Added an optional server-side OP-level requirement
• Added per-category server controls and safety limits
• Added configurable limits for range, counts, effects, damage, healing, XP, and weather
• Added server audit logging
• Protected other players and bosses by default
• Restricted dangerous, valuable, rare, and survival-unobtainable block placement
• Matched set_block rarity restrictions to Verity's drop_item rules

Action bug fixes

• Fixed “ride me” targeting so Verity rides the player by default
• Fixed Verity's model/hitbox desynchronization while riding
• Stopped follow/pathfinding AI from pulling Verity away from his vehicle
• Added explicit passenger and teleport synchronization for riding
• Fixed “strike yourself with lightning” targeting the player instead of Verity
• Lightning results now report the entity actually struck
• Added clearer target guidance for self (player) versus verity (Verity)

Personality and prompt cleanup

• Reorganized Better Brain instructions into clearer, easier-to-follow sections
• Added detailed guidance explaining when and how each action should be used
• Strengthened Verity's physical identity as a floating yellow smiley entity
• Instructed Verity to treat his abilities as natural actions rather than external tools
• Prevented references to prompts, tools, JSON, APIs, mods, configs, connections, or fictional “systems”
• Prevented responses such as “I'm having trouble connecting to my healing system”
• Prevented Verity from acknowledging or discussing the system prompt
• Removed “returning to my neutral state” and similar internal-mode narration
• Reduced repetitive use of the word “beautiful”
• Improved cheerful, energetic default behavior
• Preserved darker or sharper reactions when Verity is insulted or mistreated
• Prevented unsolicited pet names and terms of endearment
• Limited unsolicited darkness/light-level discussion
• Kept horror/demon-stage behavior intact

Memory and conversation

• Expanded configurable short-term history to 10–100 messages (default: 20)
• Persisted short-term history across world restarts
• Preserved safe idle conversations Verity starts himself
• Added durable long-term memory for explicitly requested facts
• Added explicit forget and forget-everything support
• Added per-world memory storage
• Prevented synthetic tool follow-ups from polluting history
• Prevented injury/system-override fragments from poisoning future tone
• Added cleanup for pet-name-contaminated history
• Excluded sensitive consent turns from memory
• Improved immersive-mode handling for tool follow-up replies

Better Vision and Better Voice integration

• Combined Better Vision screenshots and chat into a single Gemini multimodal request
• Added HUD-free screenshot handoff support
• Added ephemeral vision-turn handling
• Prevented duplicate looked-at-block context during vision turns
• Preserved Better Voice prompt additions
• Added early streamed TTS playback
• Prevented duplicate TTS playback after streamed speech
• Kept Fish/Cartesia-compatible speech behavior

Consent-gated privacy interactions

Added stage-gated, optional consent dialogs for:

• Sharing the computer hostname
• Recording whether theoretical camera access would be allowed
• Allowing a later broad city/region/country question

Safety behavior:

• Available only during unsettling/glitching stages
• Explicit value preview and consent before sharing
• No camera activation or image capture
• No GPS access or exact location requests
• Easy refusal with no punishment
• Per-player pending requests and cooldowns
• Sensitive responses excluded from history and long-term memory

Configuration and UI

• Added Gemini API key configuration
• Added Fast / Balanced / Smart Gemini thinking levels
• Added long-term-memory toggle
• Added configurable short-term memory size
• Added an Experimental provider selector
• Added a separate Groq API key field
• Added clear Gemini fallback guidance for Groq-mode vision
• Added server notes for privileged abilities and privacy behavior
• Removed the native-system-prompt toggle

Testing and internal improvements

• Added prompt/identity snapshot tests
• Added policy and validator tests
• Added provider selection tests
• Added Groq request and stream parsing tests
• Added enhanced-schema tests
• Added Gemini quota configuration tests
• Added dedicated-server prompt fallback tests
• Improved compatibility helpers for unit tests and early Forge initialization

Release artifact

Smiley's Better Brain-3.0.0.jar