Starter Wolf

v1.2.0 - The Alpha Pack & Resurrection Update

🐺 The Alpha Designation & Pack System

• Alpha Designation: You can now manually assign the "Alpha" status to your wolves! Simply crouch (sneak) and right-click any of your standard tamed vanilla wolves with a Stick to permanently awaken its RPG powers, making it the leader of your pack. (Note: Standard pack members will not level up or use abilities; only the Alpha gains RPG mechanics).
• Pack Tactics (Alpha Damage Buff): Your main companion's damage dynamically scales alongside you. The Alpha Starter Wolf receives a permanent, stackable +0.5 Attack Damage bonus for every additional tamed wolf near you.
• Alpha Blessing (Player Defensive Buff): Bringing standard tamed wolves within 10 blocks of your Alpha activates a pack synergy! You receive a passive Regeneration aura and +0.5 temporary regenerative Golden Hearts (1 Absorption Point) for every additional wolf in your pack.

🛏️ Death & Bed Resurrections

• Death Protection System: Losing your highest-leveled companion is no longer permanent. When your Alpha Starter Wolf falls in battle, its exact Level and EXP are securely saved to your character.
• Inn Revival: To revive your Alpha with all its stats intact, you must return home and sleep in a Bed to call it back from the shadows! (Note: The resurrection only triggers when using a bed. Relogging into the server will not bring it back, and manually awakening a new Alpha overrides the saved death to prevent cloning).

✨ New Combat Abilities

• Level 20 Capstone Ability - "Devour": Reaching the max level (20) unlocks the Devour passive ability. If a Level 20 Alpha lands a killing blow while in Berserk Mode, it will consume the enemy, healing itself for 30% of the target's maximum health (complete with audio and visual heart particles!).
• Giant Wolf Mounts (Saddle Interaction): You can now ride your max-level companion into battle! Right-clicking a Level 20 Alpha with a Saddle allows you to mount it. Ride as a passenger and fire your bow while your giant wolf auto-hunts in Berserk mode.
• Ominous Berserk Aura: Berserk Mode has received a massive visual and audio overhaul. Enraged Alphas now constantly emit a terrifying aura of dark smoke and angry particles, accompanied by periodic feral growls.
• Expanded Berserk Range: The Berserk Mode auto-hunting AI has been heavily buffed. Wolves will now detect and sprint toward hostile targets from a massive 32-block radius.

⛏️ The Companion Miner

• "Wolf's Blessing" Mining Assistant: Your Alpha will now passively help you mine! As long as it is within 10 blocks, you receive a massive block-breaking speed boost that perfectly stacks with vanilla Haste potions and Beacons. The speed scales with your companion's level:
• Levels 1-4: Wood Pickaxe Speed (+2.0)
• Levels 5-9: Stone Pickaxe Speed (+4.0)
• Levels 10-19: Iron Pickaxe Speed (+6.0)
• Level 20: Diamond Pickaxe Speed (+8.0)
• Custom HUD UI: When receiving the blessing or pack buffs, a custom UI text box will smoothly appear in the top-left of your screen, dynamically displaying your active mining tier, bonus hearts, and Alpha damage buffs.
• Mining Experience: Combat restrictions have been lifted! Whenever you break a block that drops vanilla experience (like Coal, Redstone, or Diamonds) while your Alpha is nearby, it instantly absorbs 25% (1/4) of the generated EXP.

🛠️ UI & Admin Commands

• Interactive Tooltips: Added a sleek, interactive hover-event to the Stick UI. Hovering your cursor over the "Devour" ability in the chat box will pop up a detailed description of the skill.
• New Command Branch (/starterwolf): Added commands for server admins and players with Cheats Enabled (Requires Permission Level 2).
• /starterwolf summon: Instantly spawns a brand new, Level 1 Alpha at your feet.
• /starterwolf addxp <amount>: Instantly injects the specified amount of EXP into your nearby Alphas.

📈 Enhancements & Progression

• Rebalanced EXP Requirements: Increased the amount of EXP needed to level up, making the journey to Level 20 a much more rewarding achievement.
• Stat Scaling Buffs: Alphas now gain +1.0 Max Health (1 full heart) per level, and their physical size growth rate has been doubled to 0.1 per level, making max-level wolves massive.
• Bonus Kill EXP: Alphas now earn bonus EXP equal to a mob's maximum health if they secure the final killing blow.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Technical

• Fixed Berserk AI Crash: Resolved a Java crash that occurred during Berserk Mode by removing a conflicting Player-class check within the targeting list.
• Fixed the "Zero EXP" Bug: Resolved an issue where spawned wolves would not earn EXP until manually name-tagged by the player.
• Fixed Data Loss on Mob Death: Overhauled the damage tracker to securely save the wolf's data, preventing the game from losing track of damage calculation when a mob dies.