Swarm Mobs

0.12.0-alpha.1 — Dynamic Division & Command Center Update

New

• Added Cloth Config-powered Swarm Command Center with scrollable categories and improved small-screen / high-GUI-scale support.
• Added prominent Local AI ON/OFF and Bounded Active AI ON/OFF controls on the Overview page.
• Added read-only Command Center access for non-operator players while keeping server-side configuration changes permission-gated.
• Added expanded live telemetry for swarm roles, engineering, navigation, communication, search, and AI status.

Swarm Intelligence

• Improved decentralized target sharing and target-memory behavior.
• Added safer bridging from vanilla mob targeting into Swarm target memory when targets are occluded.
• Preserved sensing-dropout behavior so vanilla targeting cannot bypass simulated sensor failures.
• Improved SEARCH-mode behavior and last-known-target handling after line of sight is lost.

Zombie Engineering

• Fixed Zombies failing to escalate into engineering when navigation remained stuck in obstacle-detour states.
• Improved engineering activation against real blocking terrain.
• Added bounded obstacle breaking and bridge-support behavior with material reuse.
• Improved local engineering task claiming, execution leases, and coordination cleanup.
• Added stronger protection against stale engineering tasks when block state changes during execution.
• Improved engineering telemetry cleanup when local plans or targets disappear.

Combat Compatibility

• Preserved vanilla-style combat handoff for:
  • Skeleton ranged attacks
  • Creeper swelling/explosion behavior
  • Spider melee behavior
  • Zombie close-range combat
• Prevented swarm movement goals from permanently suppressing core combat goals.

Navigation

• Improved obstacle-detour and recovery transitions.
• Improved path-evidence handling for engineering escalation.
• Cleared stale navigation and planner telemetry when local plans are discarded.
• Improved recovery behavior around walls and blocked routes.

AI / Ollama

• Improved optional local Ollama integration.
• AI remains bounded to high-level strategic biasing only.
• AI does not directly control attacks, block coordinates, or per-tick movement.
• Improved AI status reporting, latency/error telemetry, and activation controls.

UI / Networking

• Replaced the previous fixed-pixel Control Center layout with a responsive, scrollable interface.
• Prevented server snapshot responses from reopening the Command Center after it was closed.
• Removed duplicate AI toggle paths that could cancel each other.
• Preserved server-authoritative validation and clamping for all configuration changes.

Testing

• Expanded Runtime GameTests for:
  • Real Zombie engineering escalation
  • Occluded target acquisition
  • Sensing-dropout protection
  • Block-state mutation during engineering
  • Target-memory expiration
  • SEARCH transitions
  • Engineering cleanup and coordination
• Release candidate passed:
  • Compile
  • Unit Tests
  • Runtime GameTests
  • Build
  • JAR artifact generation

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.249+
• Java 21
• Cloth Config 15.x
• Ollama optional