➕ Added

• Added a full Personality System for enhanced mob AI.
• Added persistent personality profiles that are assigned when supported mobs spawn.
• Added personality archetypes:
  • Aggressive
  • Cautious
  • Hunter
  • Ambusher
  • Coward
  • Social
  • Bruiser
  • Balanced
• Added numeric personality traits:
  • Aggression
  • Bravery
  • Cooperation
  • Intelligence
  • Patience
  • Curiosity
  • Self-Preservation
• Added mob-specific personality defaults so different mob types naturally behave differently.
• Added configurable personality randomness for unique individual behavior.
• Added a complete Squad AI System.
• Added squad formation logic for nearby compatible mobs.
• Added squad roles:
  • Leader
  • Flanker
  • Bruiser
  • Ranged
  • Reserve
  • Support
• Added squad target sharing for coordinated threat response.
• Added squad threat tracking based on member health and active targets.
• Added squad coordination for:
  • Zombies
  • Skeletons
  • Illagers
  • Spiders
  • Creepers
  • Endermen
  • Villagers
  • Herd Animals
  • Iron Golems
• Added a complete Memory System.
• Added short-term memory for recent sightings, threats, targets, and tactics.
• Added long-term memory for:
  • Danger zones
  • Escape routes
  • Hostile players
  • Repeated player interactions
• Added player reputation tracking for mobs and villages.
• Added memory-based danger avoidance.
• Added memory recording when mobs:
  • Observe entities
  • Target entities
  • Deal damage
  • Receive damage
• Added memory recording when nearby player deaths occur, creating remembered danger zones.
• Added new configuration options for personality, squad, and memory systems.
• Added detailed configuration comments for server owners.
• Added persistent personality data storage on supported entities.

Changed

• Upgraded the AI core to initialize Personality, Squad, and Memory systems for all enhanced entities.
• Improved decision-making so mob behavior is no longer purely deterministic.
• Improved Zombie AI:
  • Retreat timing
  • Encirclement behavior
  • Pursuit speed
  • Group coordination
• Improved Skeleton AI:
  • Retreat sensitivity
  • Repositioning distance
  • Strafing frequency
  • Hunter-style tactics
• Improved Villager panic behavior:
  • Panic duration
  • Flee speed
• Improved Herd Defense behavior through personality influence.
• Improved Illager formation logic:
  • Formation willingness
  • Formation speed
  • Group coordination
• Improved Raid behavior:
  • Target scoring
  • Blitz movement speed
• Improved pathfinding to avoid remembered danger zones.
• Improved damage handling so mobs remember attackers.
• Improved targeting events to feed directly into the Memory System.
• Improved reload handling for clean Personality, Squad, and Memory resets.
• Improved plugin shutdown cleanup for squad and memory data.
• Updated configuration versioning for the new AI framework.

✨ Improved Gameplay Experience

• Mobs now feel significantly more alive and unpredictable.
• Two mobs of the same type can now react completely differently to the same situation.
• Zombies may:
  • Rush aggressively
  • Retreat early
  • Wait for reinforcements
  • Coordinate encirclements
• Skeletons may:
  • Maintain cautious distance
  • Apply aggressive pressure
  • Hunt patiently from range
  • Use evasive strafing tactics
• Villagers may react with varying levels of panic, caution, social awareness, or bravery.
• Herd animals now defend groups more naturally based on bravery and cooperation.
• Illagers behave more like organized tactical units.
• Mobs remember recent combat encounters instead of instantly forgetting targets.
• Players can develop a reputation based on repeated hostile actions.
• AI squads share awareness and react collectively to threats.
• Combat encounters now feel more tactical and coordinated.
• Squad behavior scales dynamically with nearby allies.
• Pathfinding considers remembered danger from previous encounters.

⚙ Technical

• Added modular AI managers for Personality, Squad, and Memory systems.
• Integrated all new systems into the existing AI architecture.
• Maintained compatibility with the existing behavior tree implementation.
• Maintained compatibility with the existing state machine architecture.
• Added memory cleanup systems to prevent unbounded growth.
• Added squad cleanup for dead and unloaded entities.
• Added persistent personality loading and saving.
• Added configuration-backed tuning for all AI systems.
• Maintained compatibility with config reload workflows.
• Maintained compatibility with existing mob behavior classes.
• Successfully built and packaged the plugin.

Fixed

• Fixed squad coordination compilation issues by safely reading targets only from supported mob entities.
• Fixed missing default configuration entries for new AI systems.
• Fixed missing runtime initialization for Personality, Squad, and Memory managers.
• Fixed memory persistence issues during entity state resets by separating behavior memory from long-term memory.
• Fixed squad cleanup when members die or unload.
• Fixed potential unbounded memory growth through per-entity memory limits and expiration cleanup.