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## [3.1.30] - 2026-01-27 - **Tuning**: Reduced the probability of "Pacifist" dogs triggering the "Wanderlust" event by 75%. They are now much more likely to stay close to their owner rather than exploring, reinforcing their "clingy" personality. ## [3.1.29] - 2026-01-27 - **Fix**: Adjusted Pacifist follow distance logic. If a dog is in "Wanderlust" mode (randomly exploring), it is now allowed to wander beyond its strict "Pacifist" leash distance without being immediately pulled back (Yo-Yo effect). Default "clingy" behavior (5.0 blocks) remains active when not wandering. ## [3.1.28] - 2026-01-27 - **Safety Hardening**: Backported "Smart Brakes" improvements from 1.21.11. Removed loose checks for jumping/airborne states to strictly prevent pushing-related falls. - **Improved Lookahead**: Increased cliff detection range to 5.0 blocks. - **Crash Fix**: Wrapped safety logic to ensure it strictly runs on the Server thread (preventing potential client-side cast errors). ## [v3.1.27] - **Cliff Safety (Smart Brakes)**: Wolves now passively detect cliffs 3 blocks ahead while moving. If a dangerous drop is detected, they will brake, crouch, and stop navigation to prevent falling. - **Safer Zoomies**: The Zoomies behavior now specifically avoids selecting targets over cliffs or void. - **Configuration**: Added `enableCliffSafety` gamerule/config to toggle this behavior. ## [v3.1.26] - **Zero-Overhead Social AI**: Implemented extreme performance optimizations for 2010-era hardware. - **Ghost Brain Architecture**: Schedulers are now strictly transient and lazy; they are created on-demand and purged from RAM when idle. - **Allocation-Free Registry**: Replaced per-tick list allocations with a managed O(1) selection pool using `WeakReferences`. - **Data Silence**: AI timers and states are now transient, preventing unnecessary disk IO and network synchronization (FerriteCore-inspired philosophy). ## [v3.1.25] - **Vanilla Spirit Purge**: Removed the `Howl` behavior entirely as it forced dogs to sit/stand, violating player control. - **Posture Respect**: Updated all social behaviors (Zoomies, Begging, Fetch, Wanderlust) to strictly respect the dog's sitting state. Dogs will no longer perform social actions if they are ordered to sit. - **Global Cooldown System**: Implemented a per-dog global cooldown in the scheduler. Dogs now have significant downtime (5+ minutes) between social behaviors. - **Dynamic Durations**: Behaviors now have specific, shorter durations (10-30 seconds instead of 20 minutes) defined in the Social Event core. - **Reaction Priority**: Critical reactive behaviors (Retaliation, Correction) now bypass global cooldowns for survival but still maintain proper lifecycle durations. ## [v3.1.24] - **FIXED**: Critical startup crash caused by missing package declaration in `ServerLevelMixin`. ## [v3.1.23] (Self-Healing Update) - **FIXED**: `AbstractMethodError` crash when loading old worlds with aggressive puppies. - **ADDED**: "Self-Healing" logic for old worlds (existing wolves automatically join the Hive Mind and receive DNA). - **HARDENED**: Hive Mind core now includes Level Verification to prevent cross-level pulsing crashes. - **OPTIMIZED**: Global Pulse moved to `ServerLevel` tick (Highlander Standard) for better server performance. ## [v3.1.22] (Hive Mind v6.1 - Character Update) - **Hive Mind Integration**: Fully integrated the v6.1 social core. Better Dogs now operates within a global social network that automatically merges with other Hive Mind-compatible mods. - **Digital DNA**: Wolves now possess a 64-bit DNA seed generated at spawn. This seed dictates personality traits, social event acceptance, and physical appearance. - **Size Variation**: Implemented DNA-driven scaling. Wolves now vary naturally in size (0.9x to 1.1x), rendered natively on the client. - **Character Events**: - **Begging**: DNA-driven "greedy" trait causes wolves to beg for food from their owners. - **Fetch**: Wolves in a playful mood will now seek out and retrieve dropped items. - **Idle Curiosity**: Ambient social interaction driven by a wolf's curiosity trait. - **Highlander Pulse Guard**: Drastically optimized AI performance using a version-negotiating master pulse.