3.0.0: The Armed Guard

Back up your world and config before updating. The guard settings moved to new places. Your old values are moved over automatically on the first start.

New: the Armed Guard

This mod's own village guard, with the player model. No other mod needed.

• Spawns in every village with living villagers: at least 2, one per 2 villagers, at most 8. Fallen guards are replaced one at a time (every 10 minutes by default).
• Works in vanilla villages, player-built villages (a bell and villagers are enough) and villages from structure mods. Extra structures can be added in [armed_guard.village] structures. Fallback for villages without bell or villagers: structure_pieces, like Guard Villagers does it.
• Patrols between the villagers' workstations and stays within 128 blocks of the bell. Lost or stuck guards walk back, or are teleported back if there is no way.
• Spawns with a random TaCZ gun, ammo and food. With Iron's Spells, 10% spawn as battle mages.
• Right-click opens his window: armor, hands, 18-slot pouch, name.
• Who may open it: Friendly reputation with the villagers or the Hero of the Village effect (creative always). Changeable with [armed_guard] inventory_access: standard, friendly, hero, not_hostile, anyone, operators.
• Recruiting: with Hero of the Village and Friendly reputation, his window shows Recruit. You get a mercenary contract with exactly this guard: gear, pouch, name and skin. Costs 25 reputation, one recruit per village per hour, the village gets a new guard later. All of it under [armed_guard.recruit].
• Skins: put 64x64 player skins into config/taczarmedmobs/skins/ (..._slim.png for slim arms). Every guard picks one and keeps it. F3+T reloads.
• Same diplomacy as the other guards: warnings, strikes, white flag, disguise. Zombies, skeletons and illagers attack him like an iron golem.
• Gets ammo at villages and bells, walks to the bell when low on ammo, eats from his pouch.
• Spawn egg in the creative tab, /summon taczarmedmobs:guard.
• Own settings under [armed_guard], fully separate from Guard Villagers guards.

Guard Villagers is now optional

• The mod starts and works without Guard Villagers.
• Without it, the Armed Guard takes its place: villager faction in Faction Wars, villager caravans, mercenary contracts. Old contracts for Guard Villagers guards give an Armed Guard.
• With it, its guards still get guns and the AI like before.
• Both installed? A one-time menu on the title screen lets you keep both, let Armed Guards only fill the gap, keep only Armed Guards or keep only Guard Villagers' guards. Server admins get a chat note on their first join instead.

Config changes

• [guards] now holds everything for Guard Villagers guards: guns, spread, warnings, disguise, pouch, resupply. It's only shown when Guard Villagers is installed.
• New [armed_guard] section with its own combat, diplomacy, pouch, resupply, village, window access and recruiting settings.
• [resupply] now only covers mobs from [extra_mobs]. include_extra_mobs is gone.
• Old values ([ai] extra_spread_degrees, the guard parts of [diplomacy], [pouch], [resupply]) are moved over automatically on the first start.

Other

• New guidebook entry "The Armed Guard". Pouch, mercenary and config pages updated.
• /taczarmedmobs debug works on Armed Guards too.
• Mercenary contracts name the exact soldier and weapon when they come from a recruited guard.