The Village Fights Back 1.3.0 -- the MCA Reborn update

Minecraft 1.20.1 / Forge. Requires Guard Villagers. Minecraft Comes Alive (MCA Reborn) is now fully supported and entirely optional: install it and the whole village becomes MCA humans, leave it out and nothing changes.

MCA Reborn compatibility

• Every villager the mod spawns is an MCA human. Settlers, sunset reinforcements, reflex villagers, spawn eggs. No more MCA families living next door to blank-faced villagers. Toggle with the new mca_compat config (default on).
• They keep everything. Stage kits and weapons, wall building, miner and settler roles, the Limbo Sage profession, virus immunity, the angry combat face.
• Guards are MCA humans too, with human faces and MCA's guard clothing, and they still get the village kit: emerald knight with the mace at stage 3+, virus crossbow archer at stage 2.
• Guards now count as guards. The Brain Node report no longer shows "Guards: 0" with a full garrison, and guards are no longer skipped by the stage-2 upgrade, the mega-brutal buff or Darius's squad.
• Guards stay soldiers. No settling, wall building or mining, and no more dithering between fleeing and fighting.
• Outlaws and cultists are raiders, not citizens. The village fights them instead of adopting them, arming them with its own weapons and letting them walk through its gates.
• Your town hall survives. The Brain Node settles beside the village bell instead of replacing it, so MCA's residency, marriage, taxes and guard spawning keep working.
• Defenders keep their weapons. MCA's equipment task was silently stripping the stage weapon moments after it was given.
• The emerald truce holds for MCA's villagers, guards and golems, in both directions.

Graves and the Limbo Scythe

• A villager that killed at least one hostile is buried where it falls, under the new Village Memorial. One that never fought is not, so a besieged village does not carpet itself in headstones.
• The stone reads Defended the village: killed 3 hostile mobs, carved on both faces.
• General Darius is always buried. His memorial is retired when the Brain Node marches out a new champion.
• Memorials behave as MCA graves: they register as an MCA graveyard building, MCA villagers mourn at them, and MCA's own Scythe raises them.
• Memorials cannot be eaten by the village's own block infection.
• The Limbo Scythe is new. Crafted from a Limbo hoe with 4 amethyst blocks (corners), a golden apple (top) and soul sand (sides and bottom). Reap anything with 20+ max health to store a soul, spend a soul on a grave to raise the defender in it. Holds 16, glints, and carries a purple amethyst speckle.

Everything else

• Village buildings are immune to block infection, both the ones the village raises and naturally generated village houses. Existing worlds are retrofitted on load.
• Summoned units can no longer spawn inside blocks, and a big unit that does not fit above the Brain Node now appears beside it.
• Summons no longer land on the town hall roof.
• Brain Node placement is vetted: real ground, room to summon, headroom, and never a roof.
• Game modes renamed to Evolving Village / with Block Infection / with Block + Mob Infection.
• A send-off panel after picking a game mode, with a single "Enter the world" button.
• A starter-bell hint for a player who spawns away from a village, shown on their first steps and cleared when the bell is placed.
• Wall builders take no fall damage, so a work site is no longer a chorus of yelping villagers.
• A hand-placed General Darius fights instead of standing inert. The summoned champion is unchanged.

Compatibility

• MCA Reborn optional, developed against minecraft-comes-alive-7.7.0-beta.2+1.20.1.
• Without MCA everything behaves exactly as before. No MCA class is imported; everything is matched by registry id at runtime.
• Guard Villagers still required.
• 1.20.1 only.

Known limitations

• MCA's equipment task owns armour slots, so an MCA guard wears MCA's iron set rather than the village's emerald armour. The weapon is held.
• MCA still buries its own villagers by relationship hearts, on its own terms. Those graves are raised by the Limbo Scythe too.