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Licensed MIT
Published last week
Updated 2 weeks ago
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0.1.1
Release
Villager Chess 0.1.12 weeks ago 48
Compatibility
Minecraft: Java Edition
26.2
Platform
Fabric
Supported environments
Client and server
Required content
Any compatible version
Changes
First public release.
Added
- Play Chess button on every villager's trade screen - challenge any villager to a full game of chess (you play White).
- Difficulty scales with the villager's trading level: Novice (hangs pieces) → Apprentice → Journeyman → Expert → Master (near-unbeatable).
- Full chess rules: castling, en passant, pawn promotion with a piece picker, threefold repetition, 50-move rule, and insufficient-material draws.
- Click-to-move board UI with legal-move highlights, check indicator, and Resign/Close buttons.
- Abandon handling: walking more than 16 blocks away, the villager dying, or disconnecting abandons the game; closing the board resigns.
- From-scratch chess engine (negamax + alpha-beta + iterative deepening + quiescence search) running on a background thread; move generation is perft-verified.
- Fully server-authoritative: the server owns all game state; clients only send move attempts.
Fixed
- The Play Chess button now stacks below other Villager Games mods' trade-screen buttons instead of landing on the same pixel. With only this mod installed the button is exactly where it was.
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build.gradle:
repositories {
exclusiveContent {
forRepository {
maven {
name = "Modrinth"
url = "https://api.modrinth.com/maven"
}
}
// forRepositories(fg.repository) // Uncomment when using ForgeGradle
filter {
includeGroup "maven.modrinth"
}
}
}
// Standard Gradle dependency
dependencies {
implementation "maven.modrinth:ipHVrxI2:YufWykCR"
}
// Legacy Loom dependency
dependencies {
modImplementation "maven.modrinth:ipHVrxI2:YufWykCR"
}

