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Better NPCs!
Does not follow a specific thematic focus apart from vanilla Minecraft.
Features a central focus of farming and villages/ homesteading.
Features role-playing elements like character progression, quests, and story-driven gameplay.
Includes quests that drive progression, whether through a quest book, NPC, or other in world source.
Adds or enhances hostile creatures and enemies.
Adds or improves non-hostile and neutral creatures.
Introduces new non-player characters with various roles and behaviors.
Enhances social interactions and roleplaying elements, ideal for servers and communities.
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Adds extra features or content to an existing mod.
Includes systems for trading and managing economies.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
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- Mobs now talk! Skeletons will swear at you and demean you, merchants will offer their wares, and villagers will say hello!
- Player-Entity Memory DB allows entities to remember previous interactions with the player and what was talked about
- Chickens fight back ?!?!
- In-game narrator w/ custom narration of game state
- New Realtime OpenAI implementation now gives narrator a voice as well! (Planned: Extend speech capability to all mobs)
- New trading mechanics
- New Better Trader mob! Replaces Wandering Trader and has an associated profession and tier to add more variations to their trade tables
- Trader now has custom configurable spawn mechanics. Initially set to spawn roughly every 3 days
- New speech levels offer trade discounts on ALL traders, gain levels by trading more!
- Reputation system generates price modifications based on entity-specific, local, and (Planned: global) player history for ALL traders!
- Reply to human entities and shout to the heavens (trigger narrator) through the in-game chat using "\r"! Results dependent on game context
- MCA Reborn and MineColonies compatibility!
- FTB Quests compatibility! Narrator will respond appropriately whenever a quest is completed.
How to install
- Step 1: Download and install BetterNPCs.
Step 2: Add your API key:
From within your profile folder:
- Open the ./defaultconfigs folder

- Find and open the betternpcs-server.toml
- Add your OpenAI API key to the "apiKey" field
- Step 3: Create a new MC world and load it up.
- Step 4: Navigate to the "Resourcepacks" menu in-game and enable the `betternpcs-speech` resource pack.




- Step 5: Enjoy success.
- Step 6: ???
- Step 7: Profit
Check out the Patreon for an API key!
Also check out GenCraft for the full experience!
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