🧠 SENTIENTMOBS v2.4.0 | THE WORLD THINKS NOW

A YUGE update bringing smarter AI, living villages, leadership, diplomacy, performance improvements, and 20+ fixes.

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🧠 Improved AI & Pathfinding

• Improved pathfinding for approximately 25% of supported mobs.
• Better destination tracking, obstacle avoidance, stuck detection, route recalculation and recovery.
• Added configurable AI Distance Tiers.
• Added async pathfinding support for complex mob navigation.
• Improved State Machine safety, behaviour priorities and entity lifecycle handling.

🏘️ Villages Come Alive

• Persistent Village IDs, names, biomes, centres, Community Chests and Signs.
• Automatic biome-aware Village Name generation with collision protection.
• Added Village-to-Village Diplomacy: NEUTRAL • ALLIED • AT_WAR
• Added experimental village warfare.
• Improved village persistence and loading safety.

👑 Village Leadership

Villages now have recognised leaders.

• Persistent Village Leader identity.
• Leadership driven by the existing Council system.
• Automatic leader replacement when a leader is removed or becomes invalid.
• New leadership states: NORMAL • ALERT • DEFENDING • HOSTILE_RESPONSE • DIPLOMATIC
• Integrated with Defence, Diplomacy, Memory, Personality, Squads and Iron Golems.
• Added VillageLeaderChangeEvent.
• Added /sentientmobs village info.

⚙️ Performance & Configuration

• Configurable AI tier ranges through performance.ai-tiers.
• Added configuration validation and warnings.
• Improved hot-reload behaviour without unnecessarily restarting active AI state.
• Reduced unnecessary village scans and persistence operations.
• Improved async task lifecycle and shutdown safety.
• Added configurable villager dialogue reply timing.

🧑‍🌾 Villager Improvements

• Smarter profession-aware villager name generation.
• Improved /talk permission handling.
• Improved villager registration, lifecycle handling and error reporting.

🛠️ Developer Tools

• Added developer AI debugging tools.
• Inspect state machines, behaviours, priorities, targets, squads and pathfinding.
• Improved diagnostics for AI and village systems.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fixed 20+ issues across:

AI • Pathfinding • Memory • Villages • Leadership • Configuration • Commands • Scheduling • Thread Safety • Entity Lifecycle • Update Checker

Including:

• activeEntities memory leaks
• Duplicate update-checker execution
• State Machine NPEs
• World-unload handling
• Unsafe entity movement
• Duplicate Iron Golem behaviour registration
• Configuration inconsistencies
• Reload failures
• Stale Village Leader state
• Leadership authority conflicts
• Unnecessary YAML writes
• Partial village-load data loss
• Async task cleanup
• Command permission mismatches
• Fragile update-checking behaviour
• Non-deterministic behaviour priorities

🔧 Configuration

performance:
  ai-tiers:
    tier1-range:
    tier2-range:
    tier3-range:

pathfinding:
  async-pathfinding:

village:
  leadership:
    enabled: true
    decision-interval: 100

📦 Persistence

Village identity, leadership, diplomacy, names, signs and locations are persisted safely across restarts, with improved migration and recovery handling.

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SENTIENTMOBS 2.4.0

Smarter mobs. Living villages. Real leadership. Diplomacy. Better performance. Experimental warfare.

The world thinks now.