Zombie Village 4.57.328 — release notes

Rollup 4.57.324 → 4.57.328. UAT: 324/325 and the Soul Well picker (326/327) are live-server verified by Jason; the 328 delta (Soul Gate chunk-release fix) is server-logic only and is pinned end-to-end by GameTests (full suite 128/128).

What's new

• You now choose what your Soul Well becomes. Placing a Soul Well no longer auto-detects terrain — the well waits, dormant, and right-clicking it opens a choice: Village or Catacomb. A hint names the recommended option by depth (Y ≤ 25 suggests Catacomb), but both are always available — building a catacomb on the surface or a village deep underground is fully supported.
• Deciding later is safe. An undecided well builds nothing, spawns nothing, and can simply be picked back up. Press Esc to close the menu; right-click any time to choose. The choice is one-way per placement — to change it, break the well and place it again.
• Your Soul Well and Soul Gate are now recoverable. Breaking your own well or gate is a fixed 20-second hold with ANY item (or bare hands — no diamond tool needed) and returns the block as an item. Non-owners can't even start breaking (no cracks). A well with no owner can be broken by anyone.
• Re-placing your well where a village once stood restores it after you choose — buildings and banked storage pick up where they left off, no rebuild.
• Command fallback: /zv soulwell mode village or /zv soulwell mode catacomb (stand near your well).

Fixed

• Wrong village type from terrain misdetection is gone by design: a well under tree cover no longer builds a surprise catacomb, and a well at the bottom of a dug shaft no longer builds a surface village.
• Items can never be lost into an undecided well: storage screens (well AND gate-side), the Soul Interface, and hoppers/pipes all stay dormant until you choose, and anything that somehow lands inside drops back as items if the well is broken.
• Breaking a Soul Gate near a village no longer strips the village's chunk-loading until the next restart — a gate's released chunks now respect any overlapping Soul Well or gate that still needs them.
• Breaking an untethered Soul Gate no longer leaves its chunks force-loaded forever.
• The Soul Well choice menu renders as one clean panel.

Requires / compatible with

• Minecraft 1.21.1, NeoForge 21.1+
• Freedom Lib 0.10.1+ (unchanged), ZV-Houses 0.1.148+ (unchanged), Spells & Spellcrafting 1.0.0+ (unchanged) — all required
• JEI optional

Migration notes

• Existing worlds carry over automatically. Wells already standing keep running exactly as before — only NEWLY placed wells prompt for the Village/Catacomb choice. No configs or caches to reset.