Friendly Enderman 0.9.7

The biggest update yet for wild enderers, and above all for babies: they now have their own voice, play real games, sing, and listen to bedtime stories.

✨ New: Baby enderers

• Their own voice: babies only use baby lines now: 14,000+ lines in 700+ situations (firsts, family, the sky, every biome, structures, every mob kill, all 22 music discs, pets dying, other players, advancements, and more).
• Babies answer babies: another baby may answer with its own reply, and grown-ups answer them too.
• Games: every few minutes, babies near each other play together:
  • Tag, teleport tag, hide and seek, follow the leader, flower hunt and sing-alongs
  • In the End: a running race, a staring contest, a chorus fruit hunt and a jumping contest
• Player tag: a baby may come and play tag with you. Right-click it to tag it back. You get a countdown, sounds and sparkles.
• Hide and seek, done properly: up to 8 babies gather, the seeker closes its eyes and counts, and the hiders run to real cover and sit. The seeker actually searches, and giggles give hiders away. There are endings for "found everyone" and "time's up".
• Race: babies line up side by side, then tick, tick, tick, ding! A 24–40 block track, short sprints, best of 3.
• Jumping contest: everyone gathers in a circle, 3 jumps each, and the highest wins.
• Songs: 108 songs, 86 to sing and 22 lullabies: classic nursery rhymes plus Minecraft versions like "Three Blind Endermites". Music notes and note sounds play while they sing.
• Parents watch: Dad follows the babies, Mom follows Dad. They keep close but never teleport onto the babies, and they have their own watching lines.
• Tamed babies join games too, unless you told them to sit.

📖 New: Bedtime stories (56)

• 40 classic stories retold in simple words (Aesop, Grimm, Andersen, Peter Rabbit, Momotaro, Anansi...) and 16 Minecraft ones ("The Kid Who Cried Creeper", "Goldilocks and the Three Endermen", "The Dragon Who Couldn't Sleep"...).
• At nightfall, a mother sings a lullaby or tells a story, and sometimes Dad tells it. Every baby within 32 blocks comes (up to 16). They sit in a circle facing the teller, react ("Then what happened?"), and get sleepy at the end.
• In the End and the Nether (no night there), babies get sleepy after playing 3 games. The Nether only gets gentle stories, and the babies huddle closer.
• Babies tell stories to each other during the day.
• Endrina tells you a story at nightfall when you're near her. In the End and the Nether, rest near her for 30 seconds.
• During a story, everyone within 16 blocks keeps quiet, and grown-ups stay 8 blocks back. Hitting the teller or a baby ends the story.
• Stories are in their own file: bedtime_stories.json.

🌧️ New: Wild enderers

• Rain: they find cover (trees, porches, overhangs) and sit together until it stops.
• Bright sun: they walk to shade instead of teleporting around.
• 15,000+ new lines for wild reactions and conversations.

💜 New: Endrina

• Danger first: when you're close to dying, burning, drowning or in a fight, her danger lines come first and lighter talk waits.
• New things she reacts to: her own kills, which mob hurt her, your pets dying (by name), how you died, farming and animal care, archaeology and exploring, anvils and workstations, heights and depths, moon phases and the time of day.
• Multiplayer: she remembers other players. A stranger becomes a friend after time spent together. She defends herself from other players and comes running to you.
• The world: every structure has its own lines, plus new ones for desert wells, fossils, geodes and end ships.
• Creatures, kills and breeding: every creature she sees has 30 lines, every creature you kill 24, and breeding 20.
• Baby monsters have their own lines, and so do zombies banging on or breaking doors.
• Hairstyles: 8 enderwoman hairstyles by ILoveBluBerry, with permission. Only through the test command for now.

⚙️ New: Options

• "Your hits can't hurt your tamed enderers": off by default. Turn it on in Mod Menu or with /friendlyenderman settings protect_tamed true. When it's on, your punches, arrows and tridents don't hurt them or cost trust. Requested by a player, thank you!
• Speech bubbles stay above heads with F1, and don't vanish when you pause the game.
• Nitwits' mouths move when they talk.

🔧 Changed

• Tower game replaced by the jumping contest.
• Race: no more teleporting; it's a real running race now.
• Player tag: babies use their old, faster speed again.
• Boys' eyes close when they should, during counting and when sleepy.
• Endrina in the house: she ducks through 2-block doors and comes inside with you.
• Fights: your sweeps and misclicks no longer cost her trust.

🐞 Fixed

• Mothers teleporting to their playing babies (and pulling them away)
• Babies falling off edges during games
• Babies with a nitwit mother being pulled back to her mid-game
• Babies frozen in conversations during games
• Babies left sitting after leaving and coming back
• Babies spinning in place during stories
• Two stories, or songs, playing over each other
• A crash when wild enderers idled
• No knockback when hitting an enderer mid-conversation

❌ Removed

• The tower game and its lines
• The race's teleport lines, rewritten as running lines
• Debug logging ([rain] only shows with the debug log on now)

🧪 Test commands

/friendlyenderman babyplay <game> [song/story] · /friendlyenderman babyplay stop Games: tag, teleport_tag, hide_and_seek, follow_the_leader, flower_hunt, sing, race, staring_contest, chorus_hunt, jump, player_tag, lullaby, story, bedtime, endrina_story