Az's Companions

Az's Companions

A wholesome adult companion for Minecraft 1.21.1 — follow you through the world, fight beside you, sleep at night, and (optionally) chat with you via a local or remote LLM.

Characters are explicitly adult, wholesome, and non-sexual.

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Since 1.0.9 CCI support is merged in the main file.

What you get

Summon a companion with the Companion Charm, then command them with the in-game menu (default keybind K) or charm + Shift + right-click:

• Follow / Stay / Sit / Wander — Sit uses a visible sit pose on humanoid forms; animal forms keep their native sit
• Customize — forms (player + mobs), coat/breed variants, proportions, skins, and activity outfits (Sleeping / Bathing / Adventuring) for player form
• Inventory — store and manage their gear
• Combat — fixed netherite-sword melee; optional team fights for streamers / ops
• Worldplay — flower gifts, night sleep (Kon Bed), ride-along when you mount, swim follow, dimension teleport with you (vanilla + modded), logout park / login restore
• Mob flavor — cat form scares creepers; wolf form scares skeletons; wander mode can playfully interact with nearby mobs
• Child Bits — companions can have children that stick with the family
• Optional AI — /ask dialogue, idle chatter, and event reactions when you configure an LLM (off by default)

Owned companions do not naturally despawn. Desert pyramids can drop a Companion Charm (~5%; disable with world.enableLoot).

Editions (pick one jar)

Install one Az's Companions jar per loader — never standalone + CCI together.

Requirements: Minecraft 1.21.1, Java 21, NeoForge 21.1.x or Fabric Loader ≥0.16 + Fabric API.
CCI editions only: CCI 1.13.0 + iChunUtil 1.0.3 for the same loader.

Soft compatibility

Works without these; nicer with them:

• FTB Teams / Chunks / Ranks (trust & claim-aware behavior)
• Map icons (Xaero's, JourneyMap)
• Dynamic lights soft-detect
• Simple Voice Chat detect (no full TTS bridge)

Multiplayer & hosts

• Companions are per-owner. Commands and /ask only target your companions.
• On disconnect, owned companions park and restore near you on login.
• Chunk tickets (default on) keep summoned companions / Bits loaded nearby so follow and sleep keep working when you walk away — not FTB claims.
• Dedicated / LAN hosts configure AI once on the server (keys stay on the host). See AI settings below.

AI settings (optional)

Default: disabled. Without a provider, companions use short offline / scripted lines only. Enabling AI never forces a cloud API — you choose local or remote.

How chat works

• Talk with /ask <message> or /az ask <message> (optionally name a companion).
• Replies appear as in-character chat for the owner (Thinking HUD while waiting).
• Each companion keeps its own persona and memory — shared host endpoint ≠ one shared brain.
• First-create persona onboarding (Who / What / How + optional speech, relationship, quirks); edit anytime with /az persona edit.
• Idle chat (toggle in admin): occasional ambient lines when nearby (~75–180s by default).
• Reactive chatter: short reactions to nearby events (explosions, darkness → ask for light, crafting gear, notable finds ~once per 14 days real-time per owner). Uses the LLM when configured; otherwise sparse scripted fallbacks.
• LLM is text dialogue only — no “AI Mode” that puppets the world. Gathering / tasks use normal companion behavior commands.

Join consent & privacy

• On join you may see an optional yes/no prompt. It asks; it does not auto-enable or lock you into a server LLM.
• Your choice is remembered once per server (client file) — no nag every join.
• API keys never leave the host. Clients only see key status (config / env / not set), never the secret.
• Prefer env var AZS_LLM_API_KEY over pasting keys into config files.

Providers

Configure in /az admin → AI Config (or /az ai config) — ops / host / whitelist:

Files: Fabric config/azscompanions-ai.json · NeoForge config/azscompanions-ai.toml.
Save & apply writes the file and hot-applies admin fields (no restart required for those).

Use server LLM

• OFF (default): Personal / host-local setup. Great for singleplayer or your own LAN host pointing at LM Studio, Ollama, LiteLLM, or a remote API.
• ON (opt-in): Shared host endpoint for everyone on that world. Joiners do not need their own keys or local LLM.
• On dedicated servers, /ask always runs in the server process (no per-joiner client LLM). Turn Use server LLM on when you want that shared endpoint intentional.

Knobs players & admins care about

Status: /az ai status. Full reference: Companion AI docs.

Safe setup (recommended)

1. Leave provider Disabled until you want AI.
2. Start a local server (LM Studio / Ollama / LiteLLM) or pick a remote OpenAI-compatible API.
3. Open /az admin → AI Config → choose a profile → set model → save.
4. Put the key in AZS_LLM_API_KEY (or masked apiKey on the host only).
5. Try /ask hello near your companion.
6. For multiplayer sharing, turn Use server LLM ON only when you intend a host-wide endpoint.
7. Turn Idle chat OFF if you only want on-demand /ask.

Commands (quick)

• /az — primary root (alias /azscompanions)
• /ask · /az ask — talk to your companion
• /az admin · /az ai config — admin / AI panel
• /az persona … — view / edit persona
• /az teamfight on|off|status — ops team-fight toggle

Known limitations

• NeoForge 26.2 / newer Minecraft lines: not shipped in 1.0.0
• VoiceMod TTS / full SVC entity speech: detect-only soft-compat
• Old saves with removed items/forms simply no longer spawn those features

Links

• GitHub
• Companion AI guide
• CCI / streaming
• Admin panel