Description
Townstead is an unofficial expansion for MCA Reborn that gives villagers deeper daily needs and more complex work behaviour.
To bring more immersion to your MCA Reborn village, Townstead adds three new needs for each of your villagers: Hunger, Thirst, and Energy.
Hunger adds a new hunger meter and mechanic to the villagers that requires them to eat food or else they will get depressed and slow down. To help you keep up with this need, farmers will now automatically harvest, and expand farms using blueprint-style planning, tracking planting hydration, progression tiers, and tell you if they are unable to do their job.
Butchers will also work on their own, smoking meat to help the village survive.
If you want even more advanced meal production, by adding Farmer's Delight your village can have Cooks from the new profession, as well as new catalog entries for a tiered Kitchen building. The farmer will automatically support the new crops from Farmer's Delight and even use the knife to cut grass for ropes.
For Thirst, this unlocks by having Thirst Was Taken or Legendary Survival Overhaul installed. Below the hunger meter will show up the thirst meter, and the villagers will look for drinks or food to quench their thirst, using similar logic than a player's. Pair this with Rustic Delight and a list of Cafe buildings will appear in your blueprint catalog for you to build, so that you can have Barista prepare and serve drinks (and purify water!) for your village. This will free up the cooks from drink preparation so they can make more delicious meals for everyone!
As for Energy, your villagers will accumulate fatigue as they stay awake and work on various tasks. If you set the villagers to work 24 hours with the new Shift Scheduler for example they will hit a wall and stop as they collapse from needing sleep. So be sure to provide a nice home with a place to rest and your villagers will thank you for it.
Mod Compats
Roadmap
All of this is subject to change at any point, but here is a short-term look at the planned releases
Bugs, Suggestions, Questions
Please leave them in the comments, always happy to get any feedback, or join the Discord
Permissions
Can I include in modpacks? Yes! Videos? Yes! Compatibility/addons/integrations? Yes!
Credits
MCA Reborn: Townstead depends on MCA Reborn and is designed as an add-on that builds directly on its villagers, systems, and gameplay direction. Thank you to Luke100000 and the entire MCA Reborn team and contributors for building and maintaining this wonderful mod!
MCA Reborn links
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Compatible Mod Credits
Farmer's Delight: thank you to vectorwing for the amazing mod that inspired me to start my own
Chef's Delight: thank you redstone3game for this great mod; sorry to overwrite your professions by default!
Rustic Delight: thank you PhantomWing for all of your excellent mods, and for being just an amazing and encouraging human being!
Thirst Was Taken: thank you mlus, ghenghen_, and mrdrip404 for the great mod, I'm a big fan of the design philosophy (even though Townstead is more in the opposite direction)
Legendary Survival Overhaul: thank you Alex_Hashtag, krampus_there, and armkath for the detailed mod, and for being welcoming to community interactions with the mod
Farming for Blockheads: thank you BlayTheNinth for the mods and for being such a titan in the Minecraft modding world
Butchery: thank you to Jmods for all the hard work on this extensive and detailed mod, it's a lot of fun to play with
Starcatcher: thank you to wdiscute for this foundational and for this mod that very clearly a lot of love was put in
Traveler's Titles: thank you to YUNGNICKYOUNG for this and all your other mods, it really adds to the feel