Villager Retaliation!

Added

• Villager family/social graph system for persistent family, ancestry, adoption, and relationship data
• Villager gender assignment, gendered preset name pools, and stored villager identity data
• Family-aware dialogue filters and placeholders, including parent, sibling, spouse, child, grandparent, descendant, cousin, extended family, and deceased family references
• Relationship-aware dialogue filters and placeholders for crushes, dating partners, fiances, spouses, separated partners, and widowed partners
• Debug-only villager breeding stick and maturity emerald items
• Biological birth, adoption, same-gender adoption mode, orphan adoption, and instant maturity debug flows
• /villagerretaliation setNearestRelationship <crush|dating|engaged|married|separated> debug command
• Maximum recruited follower distance config and behavior
• Recruited villagers can now board the player’s vehicle while following
• Configurable villager interaction chat positioning
• combat.player_killed notification trigger for villager or wandering trader player kills
• alert.player_attacked_villager notification trigger for immediate player-hit villager reactions
• Alert placeholders for {attacker}, {player}, {villager}, {villager_name}, {villager_kind}, and {profession}
• Datapack-driven player item reactions for dialogue, dialogue options, and notifications
• ambient.player_item world-text trigger for nearby held/equipped/inventory item reactions
• Player item filters: player_items, player_item_tags, player_item_slots
• Player item slots: main_hand, off_hand, hands, armor, hotbar, inventory, equipment, any
• Player item placeholders: {player_item}, {held_item}, {player_item_id}, {held_item_id}, {player_item_slot}, {held_item_slot}
• Gift preference response_key support for custom item-specific gift response messages

Improved

• Dialogue can now react to known family and relationship context across many new filters
• Villager display names, custom names, genders, and preset names are resolved more reliably for dialogue/social systems
• Preset villager names now support separate male and female name pools while keeping legacy names fallback support
• Recruitment following is safer with configurable max distance and vehicle synchronization
• Villager interaction chat can be anchored/configured instead of always using the old layout
• Gift response selection can use specific datapack-defined message keys per gift rule
• Pack documentation now recommends unique dialogue and notification filenames instead of overriding built-in global.json by accident
• Dialogue, notification, gift, pack development, and villager-name wiki docs expanded with newer datapack fields and examples

Performance And Reliability

• Added server-aware caches and cache clearing for structure/story lookup resources
• Limited structure search work per lookup and skipped structure logic entirely when structures are disabled
• Added village membership resolve caching with TTL, size limits, and cache pruning
• Added nearest weapon search caching and validation for villager weapon pickup logic
• Added weather-event deduplication to avoid repeated village event spam
• Added staggered villager scan checks for cleric support, creeper avoidance, hostile targeting, weapon searches, and combat survival scans
• Added creeper threat caching for villager rule checks
• Added gift candidate caching and gift-knowledge existence checks
• Added dialogue context snapshots to avoid repeated social/family/event data collection
• Added warmup/clear hooks for newer social, village, weapon, notification, and resource caches

Fixed

• Villager structure/story systems now avoid unnecessary or unsafe lookups in worlds with structures disabled
• Followers now stop following when they exceed the configured max follow distance
• Followers dismount cleanly when follow state is cleared
• Alert world text now preserves generic alert.villager_damaged fallback behavior while allowing player-specific attack responses
• Pack docs now warn that using built-in global.json paths can unintentionally hide default dialogue/options/notifications