## Blocklings Revival 1.0.9 First of all, I apologize for the issues in version 1.0.8. I had a hard drive malfunction while working on the update, and unfortunately an issue slipped through testing. ### 🌳 Woodcutting Fix - Fixed an issue where Blocklings would only cut down trees grown from Oak Saplings. - Blocklings should now correctly recognize and cut other supported tree types. ### 📦 Improved Item Pickup Because Blocklings are very small, Minecraft's vanilla item pickup system would often fail to detect dropped items even when a Blockling walked directly over them. This has now been improved for both Fabric and NeoForge: - Blocklings can pick up dropped items within approximately 2.5 blocks while walking. - After cutting down a tree, including when using the Falling Tree behavior, the Blockling will collect dropped items around the trunk. - Collected items are placed directly into the Blockling's inventory instead of being left on the ground. Thank you for your patience, and sorry again for the problems with 1.0.8.

## Blocklings Revival 1.0.9 First of all, I apologize for the issues in version 1.0.8. I had a hard drive malfunction while working on the update, and unfortunately an issue slipped through testing. ### 🌳 Woodcutting Fix - Fixed an issue where Blocklings would only cut down trees grown from Oak Saplings. - Blocklings should now correctly recognize and cut other supported tree types. ### 📦 Improved Item Pickup Because Blocklings are very small, Minecraft's vanilla item pickup system would often fail to detect dropped items even when a Blockling walked directly over them. This has now been improved for both Fabric and NeoForge: - Blocklings can pick up dropped items within approximately 2.5 blocks while walking. - After cutting down a tree, including when using the Falling Tree behavior, the Blockling will collect dropped items around the trunk. - Collected items are placed directly into the Blockling's inventory instead of being left on the ground. Thank you for your patience, and sorry again for the problems with 1.0.8.

## Blocklings Revival 1.0.8(NeoForge + Fabric) ### Persistence Tamed blocklings no longer vanish when you leave their chunk. Their backpack stays with them. Tools and gathered items drop correctly on death. ### Gathering — `dropGatheredItemsWhenFull` New config option (NeoForge and Fabric). - **`false` (default):** mining, woodcutting and farming **pause** when the backpack is full. Nothing is thrown on the ground, so nothing despawns after 5 minutes. Pair this with a deposit-to-container task to keep them working. - **`true`:** they keep working with a full bag and **drop the surplus on the ground**. Those item entities despawn after ~5 minutes if nobody picks them up (vanilla). Use this if you want the old “keep chopping and leave a pile” behaviour. ### Falling Tree When [Falling Tree](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/falling-tree) is installed, a woodcutting blockling fells the whole tree the same way a player would, then scoops the nearby drops into its inventory. ### Mending & XP XP the blockling earns (mining, woodcutting, farming, combat) is applied like vanilla: **Mending repairs its tools first**, leftover XP goes into the matching skill bar. Right-click (or throw nearby) a Bottle o’ Enchanting to feed combat XP. ### Combat - **Attack Owner's Attacker** (Novice Guard): your blockling fights whoever hits you. - **Tactical Retreat** ([#5](https://github.com/MLGMagicHoodini/Blocklings-Revival/issues/5)): buy **Advanced Guard** (Combat 15). Set a retreat health % — below that, it stops fighting and runs back to you. Protection mode can also cover your other tamed mobs / blocklings. ### “Please stop eating my house” Woodcutting blocklings **ignore logs you placed**. Cabins, floors and decorative wood are no longer treated as trees. Natural trees are still fair game. ### GUI Equipment / tasks / skills stay aligned when you resize the game window, like vanilla inventories. Slots no longer drift, and the HUD no longer shows through the panel. ### Also Woodcut + Follow: after a tree is done, the blockling **walks** back to you instead of teleporting like a forest terminator. Mixed wood types and elevated trunks are handled more reliably.

## Blocklings Revival 1.0.8(NeoForge + Fabric) ### Persistence Tamed blocklings no longer vanish when you leave their chunk. Their backpack stays with them. Tools and gathered items drop correctly on death. ### Gathering — `dropGatheredItemsWhenFull` New config option (NeoForge and Fabric). - **`false` (default):** mining, woodcutting and farming **pause** when the backpack is full. Nothing is thrown on the ground, so nothing despawns after 5 minutes. Pair this with a deposit-to-container task to keep them working. - **`true`:** they keep working with a full bag and **drop the surplus on the ground**. Those item entities despawn after ~5 minutes if nobody picks them up (vanilla). Use this if you want the old “keep chopping and leave a pile” behaviour. ### Falling Tree When [Falling Tree](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/falling-tree) is installed, a woodcutting blockling fells the whole tree the same way a player would, then scoops the nearby drops into its inventory. ### Mending & XP XP the blockling earns (mining, woodcutting, farming, combat) is applied like vanilla: **Mending repairs its tools first**, leftover XP goes into the matching skill bar. Right-click (or throw nearby) a Bottle o’ Enchanting to feed combat XP. ### Combat - **Attack Owner's Attacker** (Novice Guard): your blockling fights whoever hits you. - **Tactical Retreat** ([#5](https://github.com/MLGMagicHoodini/Blocklings-Revival/issues/5)): buy **Advanced Guard** (Combat 15). Set a retreat health % — below that, it stops fighting and runs back to you. Protection mode can also cover your other tamed mobs / blocklings. ### “Please stop eating my house” Woodcutting blocklings **ignore logs you placed**. Cabins, floors and decorative wood are no longer treated as trees. Natural trees are still fair game. ### GUI Equipment / tasks / skills stay aligned when you resize the game window, like vanilla inventories. Slots no longer drift, and the HUD no longer shows through the panel. ### Also Woodcut + Follow: after a tree is done, the blockling **walks** back to you instead of teleporting like a forest terminator. Mixed wood types and elevated trunks are handled more reliably.

## Bug fix — Tasks screen crash ### What was broken Opening a task configuration (for example a fighting/hunting task) could crash the game with: `java.lang.StackOverflowError: mouseReleased event handler` This often happened on the **Tasks** screen when a task name was longer than 32 characters — common with some translated names (Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, etc.). ### Cause The task name text field could enter an infinite loop: `setText` → `EditBox.setValue` → responder → `setText` again. Minecraft's `EditBox` stores truncated text but notifies listeners with the full string, which retriggered the update forever. ### What we fixed - Added a guard in `TextFieldControl` to stop recursive text updates. - Increased the task name field limit to **64 characters** so long localized names are kept correctly. - Fixed name field setup order on the Stats screen. - Shared fix in the `common` module, so **NeoForge and Fabric** are both covered. ### How to verify 1. Open a Blockling's **Tasks** screen. 2. Configure a combat task (Hunt, Retaliate, Attack Owner's Target, etc.). 3. Use a language with long task names, or rename a task with a long custom name. 4. The screen should open normally with no crash.

## Bug fix — Tasks screen crash ### What was broken Opening a task configuration (for example a fighting/hunting task) could crash the game with: `java.lang.StackOverflowError: mouseReleased event handler` This often happened on the **Tasks** screen when a task name was longer than 32 characters — common with some translated names (Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, etc.). ### Cause The task name text field could enter an infinite loop: `setText` → `EditBox.setValue` → responder → `setText` again. Minecraft's `EditBox` stores truncated text but notifies listeners with the full string, which retriggered the update forever. ### What we fixed - Added a guard in `TextFieldControl` to stop recursive text updates. - Increased the task name field limit to **64 characters** so long localized names are kept correctly. - Fixed name field setup order on the Stats screen. - Shared fix in the `common` module, so **NeoForge and Fabric** are both covered. ### How to verify 1. Open a Blockling's **Tasks** screen. 2. Configure a combat task (Hunt, Retaliate, Attack Owner's Target, etc.). 3. Use a language with long task names, or rename a task with a long custom name. 4. The screen should open normally with no crash.

### Fixes - **C2ME / chunk generation crash** - Spawning a blockling while chunks were generating (especially with C2ME) could crash the server with a `ConcurrentModificationException` on a C2ME worker thread. - Cause: attack-target setup created real entities (e.g. bees). Vanilla bee AI uses the server thread’s `ThreadLocalRandom`, which breaks off-thread. - Fix: targets are now classified from `EntityType` / `MobCategory` only. No entities are created during spawn or on C2ME threads. GUI previews are still created on the client only. - **Held item rendering** - Tools and items in a blockling’s hands were misplaced or rotated wrong. - Items now follow the arm pose again (original 180° / 190° hand offsets) so pickaxes, swords, and other equipment sit correctly in the stub arms, including left and right hands. ### Additions - **New type: Pumpkin** - Food: pumpkin, carved pumpkin, jack o’lantern, pumpkin pie, pumpkin seeds - Spawn: Overworld, under open sky, on grass or farmland, near a pumpkin or pumpkin stem - Farming specialist (higher farming speed) - Passive: grows nearby crops and pumpkin stems - Active (Shift + right-click, empty hand): **Harvest Burst** — accelerates every crop in range ### Compatibility - **Mystical Agriculture** (optional — only if the mod is installed) - Extra Farmer skills appear in the farming tree (Essence Farmer, Mystical Almanac, resow, watering, essence farmland, and related bonuses). - Blocklings can farm Mystical Agriculture crops and seeds (crop/seed whitelist after Almanac). - They can use watering cans, convert vanilla farmland to essence farmland, and place growth accelerators from their inventory. - Inferium / Prosperity / Soulium ores can be mined like other ores. - No hard dependency: without Mystical Agriculture, the vanilla skill tree is unchanged.

### Fixes - **C2ME / chunk generation crash** - Spawning a blockling while chunks were generating (especially with C2ME) could crash the server with a `ConcurrentModificationException` on a C2ME worker thread. - Cause: attack-target setup created real entities (e.g. bees). Vanilla bee AI uses the server thread’s `ThreadLocalRandom`, which breaks off-thread. - Fix: targets are now classified from `EntityType` / `MobCategory` only. No entities are created during spawn or on C2ME threads. GUI previews are still created on the client only. - **Held item rendering** - Tools and items in a blockling’s hands were misplaced or rotated wrong. - Items now follow the arm pose again (original 180° / 190° hand offsets) so pickaxes, swords, and other equipment sit correctly in the stub arms, including left and right hands. ### Additions - **New type: Pumpkin** - Food: pumpkin, carved pumpkin, jack o’lantern, pumpkin pie, pumpkin seeds - Spawn: Overworld, under open sky, on grass or farmland, near a pumpkin or pumpkin stem - Farming specialist (higher farming speed) - Passive: grows nearby crops and pumpkin stems - Active (Shift + right-click, empty hand): **Harvest Burst** — accelerates every crop in range ### Compatibility - **Mystical Agriculture** (optional — only if the mod is installed) - Extra Farmer skills appear in the farming tree (Essence Farmer, Mystical Almanac, resow, watering, essence farmland, and related bonuses). - Blocklings can farm Mystical Agriculture crops and seeds (crop/seed whitelist after Almanac). - They can use watering cans, convert vanilla farmland to essence farmland, and place growth accelerators from their inventory. - Inferium / Prosperity / Soulium ores can be mined like other ores. - No hard dependency: without Mystical Agriculture, the vanilla skill tree is unchanged.

## Bug fixes - Tool animations were stretched over the entire block break, so mining hard blocks looked frozen. Swings now run at a fixed 8-tick cadence. - The glowstone blockling removed and replaced its light block every tick, causing constant flicker. The light only moves when the blockling travels more than 2 blocks. - Partially chopped logs broke tree detection, leaving trees half-standing. Logs and leaves are now tag-based and a trunk may mix normal and chopped logs. - Chopped logs dropped nothing, because the block entity was missing from the loot context. - Blocklings chopped down wooden builds. Stripped logs and full wood blocks are now excluded. - The take task emptied every container slot and counted whatever came out as the requested item, deleting unrelated items and creating the wanted one out of thin air. - On Fabric, inserting "into slot N" actually inserted into the whole inventory, corrupting free-space calculations. - The take task could not use composters or ender chests, unlike the deposit task. - On Fabric the whistle never renamed itself after binding, even though teleport and sound worked. - Reading a blockling's custom name without a null check could crash the player inventory tick. - Actions synced every tick and clients sent packets the server always rejected. Only start/stop crosses the wire now. - Blockling state was broadcast to every player in the level; it is now limited to players within 160 blocks. - The block-break overlay was resent even when nothing changed. - Large-tree searches were quadratic; visited positions now use a hash set. - Every blockling was named "Blockling", making types indistinguishable. Names now carry the type, e.g. "Obsidian Blockling". ## Mod compatibility Nothing below is a required dependency. Containers go through the loader APIs (`IItemHandler` capability on NeoForge, Transfer API on Fabric), so any mod exposing an inventory works without being known to the code. Supported through code changes: - HT's TreeChop - Falling Tree - Applied Energistics 2 (+ AE2 Wireless Terminals, Applied Mekanistics) - Mekanism - Sophisticated Backpacks / Sophisticated Core - Create (+ Create: Enchantment Industry, Create Aeronautics) - JourneyMap, Xaero's Minimap, Xaero's World Map, VoxelMap - Jade - Scalable Lux and other lighting/performance mods Verified as conflict-free, no integration needed: - JEI, GuideME, AppleSkin, Jade - Clumps, ModernFix, EntityCulling, Puzzles Lib, Balm, Architectury API - Mouse Tweaks, Inventory Essentials - Waystones, Trading Post, Gravestone, Sable, Diagonal Fences, Leaves Be Gone - FTB Essentials, FTB Library - Essential Mod ## Needs testing Nothing was tested in game; both jars were only compiled. In rough priority order: - Take task pointed at a Mekanism machine or an AE2 ME interface (biggest behaviour change) - Deposit and take on Sophisticated Backpacks / barrels - Chopping a tree with HT's TreeChop installed - Chopping a tree with Falling Tree installed - Blockling type names showing on JourneyMap and Xaero's - Light flicker with Scalable Lux installed

## Bug fixes - Tool animations were stretched over the entire block break, so mining hard blocks looked frozen. Swings now run at a fixed 8-tick cadence. - The glowstone blockling removed and replaced its light block every tick, causing constant flicker. The light only moves when the blockling travels more than 2 blocks. - Partially chopped logs broke tree detection, leaving trees half-standing. Logs and leaves are now tag-based and a trunk may mix normal and chopped logs. - Chopped logs dropped nothing, because the block entity was missing from the loot context. - Blocklings chopped down wooden builds. Stripped logs and full wood blocks are now excluded. - The take task emptied every container slot and counted whatever came out as the requested item, deleting unrelated items and creating the wanted one out of thin air. - On Fabric, inserting "into slot N" actually inserted into the whole inventory, corrupting free-space calculations. - The take task could not use composters or ender chests, unlike the deposit task. - On Fabric the whistle never renamed itself after binding, even though teleport and sound worked. - Reading a blockling's custom name without a null check could crash the player inventory tick. - Actions synced every tick and clients sent packets the server always rejected. Only start/stop crosses the wire now. - Blockling state was broadcast to every player in the level; it is now limited to players within 160 blocks. - The block-break overlay was resent even when nothing changed. - Large-tree searches were quadratic; visited positions now use a hash set. - Every blockling was named "Blockling", making types indistinguishable. Names now carry the type, e.g. "Obsidian Blockling". ## Mod compatibility Nothing below is a required dependency. Containers go through the loader APIs (`IItemHandler` capability on NeoForge, Transfer API on Fabric), so any mod exposing an inventory works without being known to the code. Supported through code changes: - HT's TreeChop - Falling Tree - Applied Energistics 2 (+ AE2 Wireless Terminals, Applied Mekanistics) - Mekanism - Sophisticated Backpacks / Sophisticated Core - Create (+ Create: Enchantment Industry, Create Aeronautics) - JourneyMap, Xaero's Minimap, Xaero's World Map, VoxelMap - Jade - Scalable Lux and other lighting/performance mods Verified as conflict-free, no integration needed: - JEI, GuideME, AppleSkin, Jade - Clumps, ModernFix, EntityCulling, Puzzles Lib, Balm, Architectury API - Mouse Tweaks, Inventory Essentials - Waystones, Trading Post, Gravestone, Sable, Diagonal Fences, Leaves Be Gone - FTB Essentials, FTB Library - Essential Mod ## Needs testing Nothing was tested in game; both jars were only compiled. In rough priority order: - Take task pointed at a Mekanism machine or an AE2 ME interface (biggest behaviour change) - Deposit and take on Sophisticated Backpacks / barrels - Chopping a tree with HT's TreeChop installed - Chopping a tree with Falling Tree installed - Blockling type names showing on JourneyMap and Xaero's - Light flicker with Scalable Lux installed