Llamafone + Llamadate AI

v3.6 — bugfix The original v3.6 release zip accidentally bundled llamafone.cfg, which overwrote users' existing configs on update (including your API key). Fixed — this zip contains only the mod files.

No functional changes to the mod code.

Messages move relationships, custom world context, sim bios, service NPCs, OpenRouter (v3.6)

Player-authored context you can pass into every prompt, messages that actually move friendship and romance, service-NPC roles, time-of-day awareness, and a fifth AI provider. Drop-in over v3.5.

New:

• Save notes. One free-form text field per save, prepended to every AI prompt as WORLD CONTEXT. Use it for challenge rulesets, long-running narrative context, or house rules the AI should treat as universally binding. Under Llamafone → Settings → Save notes.
• Sim bios. Per-sim character notes — backstory, motivations, secrets, quirks — that get injected into that sim's descriptor block anywhere they appear in a prompt. Distinct from the Llamadate bio (dating-facing) and the per-relationship contact note (scoped to one pair). Under Llamafone → Settings → Sim bios. Travels with the save.
• Service NPCs stay in role. Hired butlers, maids, babysitters, nannies, gardeners, and repair techs now write in the right register — butlers professional and deferential, maids task-focused, babysitters kids-first, gardeners talking plants and season, repair techs quoting parts and timing. Layered detection reads the household's live service records, the active zone's situation manager, direct household attributes, and the sim's career track, so it works across pack combinations. When a hired service NPC is on shift, the prompt says "currently on shift as the household's butler" instead of the generic "at work right now" — no more contradictions when you call your live-in butler.
• Messages move relationships. Warm, flirty, hostile, or otherwise emotionally-charged messages now nudge the actual Sims 4 friendship and romance tracks — bidirectional, hard-capped, tunable. Default cap is ±3 per message, well below the game's own social-action deltas, so exchanges accumulate naturally without one text reshaping a relationship. Toggle and cap under Llamafone → Settings.
• Time-of-day awareness. Every prompt now includes the current in-game clock (e.g. [CURRENT IN-GAME TIME: 7:15 PM (evening)]). No more "dinner ready by six" replies when it's already 7. Same for morning / afternoon / night phrasing.
• Llamadate origin persists across sessions. When two sims connect via Llamadate, that fact is now stored on both sides of the pair and referenced in every future prompt between them. Reconnect with a match three in-game weeks later and the AI still knows how you met. Includes mutual-friend intros (records the mutual's name too). Stored alongside contact preferences in a structure ready for future asymmetric events (who kissed who, who proposed to who, etc.).
• OpenRouter provider support. Fifth provider option in llamafone.cfg: one API key, dozens of models (Claude, GPT, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, etc.) via vendor/model naming. Useful if you want to A/B-test models without juggling separate accounts.
• Update-mod button in the startup notification. When a newer release is on GitHub, the startup popup now has an "Update now / Later" dialog. "Update now" opens the CurseForge project page in your default browser.

Bug fixes and polish:

• Llamadate matches now know your name. The bio-only privacy block was worded so vaguely ("this is ALL you know about them") that AI-driven matches occasionally asked what your sim's name was, even mid-conversation. Now explicit: they know your first name from your profile and can't ask.
• Llamadate initial friendship boost tuned down. Reduced from +15 to +5 on both sides at match, so subsequent messages have room to grow the relationship naturally under the new per-message impact.
• Llamadate outreach no longer fakes IRL sightings. Cold outreach messages used to open with "I swear I saw you at the coffee shop last week" or "I think we do the same gym" even for total strangers. Fixed — the sender stays in-character as someone who found an interesting profile online, no fabricated past encounters.
• Long-distance calls and texts now engage with your in-person visit proposals. The "different worlds" rule used to make sims push back three messages in a row when the player suggested "come see me this weekend." Now there's an explicit exception: when you propose a visit, the AI says yes, negotiates timing, or expresses excitement instead of stonewalling.