MCA Capitals 1.3.5 - Houses & Heraldry

New Additions

• Added a full House system for noble and royal families.
• Houses can now exist as Royal, Great, or Noble Houses.
• Added persistent House histories that record House founding, leadership changes, elevations, disinheritance, separation, royal status changes, extinction, and restoration.
• Added support for new branches and Houses forming from existing family lines.
• Added House succession and automatic changes in House leadership.
• Added the Book of Houses.
• Each Capital can maintain a record of its noble and royal Houses.
• House records can include House name, rank, founder, current head, members, history, parent House, and extinct status.
• Added a custom double-page book interface.
• Added the House Ledger for House-related interactions and management.
• Added the Declaration of Separation.
• Eligible characters can establish a new House separate from their existing family line.
• Newly formed Houses are recorded in House history and succession records.
• Added new artwork for the Book of Houses.
• Added new artwork for the House Ledger.
• Added new House document artwork.
• Added a new double-page book interface.
• Updated the Capital Chronicle artwork.

Changes

• Expanded the Decree of the House system.
• Updated House name and House words management.
• Redesigned the House document interface.
• Expanded Chronicle support for House, royal, and noble events.
• Improved Court Herald announcement formatting.
• Improved the way titles and forms of address appear in Chronicle entries.
• Improved Royal Marriage announcement formatting.
• Improved how villager titles are applied and removed.
• Improved gender-specific titles.
• Improved handling of consorts, dowagers, heirs, nobles, and court officials.
• Titles are now handled more consistently as display information instead of becoming part of a villager's permanent name.
• House membership now updates as family and political status changes.
• House leadership can change through succession.
• House history persists as members are elevated, disinherited, separated, or succeed previous House heads.
• Improved normal succession handling.
• Improved wartime succession handling.
• Improved succession involving unloaded rulers and heirs.
• Improved syncing of Capital status, villager identity, titles, court positions, and House information.
• Improved handling of Capitals and residents across dimensions.
• Improved support for unloaded villagers and unloaded chunks.
• Improved Ambassador state handling and cooldowns.
• Improved diplomatic trade and exchange handling.
• Improved server-side court appointments and Royal Scepter actions.
• Improved Capital authority checks used by dialogue.
• Improved ambient court dialogue syncing and timing.
• Improved the use of names, titles, and gendered wording in dialogue.

Major Bug Fixes

• Fixed player sovereigns losing their reign after dying in normal Survival mode.
• Player death now triggers succession only in Hardcore.
• Fixed several dedicated server menus and dialogue options doing nothing when selected.
• Fixed Capital titles and names displaying incorrectly between the server and connected players.
• Fixed several systems failing when important villagers were unloaded.
• Fixed Capital ownership and lookup issues when Capitals, players, or villagers were in different dimensions.
• Fixed stale Capital data remaining after reconnecting or reloading a world.
• Fixed several succession cases where a Capital could lose track of its ruler or successor.
• Fixed villager identity and title data becoming incorrect after unloading and reloading.
• Fixed old Capitals titles becoming permanently attached to villager names.
• Fixed Royal Marriage Chronicle and Herald announcements displaying incorrectly.
• Fixed campaign participants becoming desynchronized after unloading or changing dimensions.
• Fixed stale Capital records leaving behind related diplomacy, campaign, justice, refugee, betrothal, and other Capital state.

Minor Bug Fixes

• Fixed several cases of incorrect gendered titles.
• Fixed inconsistent names and titles after marriage.
• Fixed title restoration when villagers changed rank or office.
• Fixed some incorrect consort, dowager, heir, and noble title displays.
• Fixed several court roles remaining assigned incorrectly after leadership changes.
• Fixed Ambassador cooldown state not always resetting correctly.
• Fixed some diplomatic interactions retaining outdated Capital information.
• Fixed ambient Capital chatter behaving incorrectly on dedicated servers.
• Fixed dialogue occasionally using outdated names or titles.
• Fixed several population and resident tracking inconsistencies.
• Fixed outdated cached Capital information surviving world reloads.
• Fixed several issues involving villagers entering or leaving loaded chunks.
• Fixed wartime succession edge cases.
• Fixed combat-related villager state not always being restored correctly after campaigns.
• Fixed some Royal Scepter actions not being handled correctly server-side.
• Fixed several House and Chronicle formatting inconsistencies.
• Various additional multiplayer, dialogue, marriage, title, succession, and Capital-state fixes.