MCA Equipment Compat

MCA Equipment Compat is a lightweight unofficial addon for MCA Reborn — CurseForge / MCA Reborn — Modrinth that expands villager equipment management with manual equipment slots, Trinkets support, optional Accessories compatibility, player-like equipment durability, Mending support, and compatibility with other mods.

The addon is designed to work alongside MCA Reborn's own equipment system instead of replacing it. Equipment controlled by MCA remains managed by MCA, while equipment supplied by players is handled separately as manual equipment.

✨ Features

🧑 Adult Villagers Only: MCA Equipment Compat's equipment and accessory systems are available only to adult MCA villagers. Babies, toddlers, children, and teenagers continue using MCA Reborn's normal behavior without the addon's custom equipment interfaces.

🛡️ Manual Equipment Slots: Adds dedicated helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots, main-hand, and off-hand slots for adult MCA villagers.

⚔️ Modded Equipment Support: Compatible armor, weapons, shields, and other items using Minecraft's normal equipment system can be equipped on MCA villagers.

🔄 Manual / Automatic Equipment System: Player-equipped items are treated as MANUAL equipment and protected from MCA's automatic equipment logic. Equipment selected or generated by MCA is treated as AUTO and remains controlled by MCA. When a manual item is removed or breaks, MCA can resume control of that slot.

🔒 Automatic Equipment Protection: MCA-managed AUTO equipment is displayed as a locked preview and cannot be removed or duplicated through the addon interfaces. Replacing an AUTO item with valid manual equipment does not give the MCA-controlled item to the player.

🏹 Profession Equipment Protection: MCA's automatically generated profession equipment, such as guard armor, shields, and an archer's bow, remains controlled by MCA while still being represented correctly in supported equipment interfaces.

🔁 Native MCA Equipment Logic: MCA Equipment Compat does not replace MCA Reborn's own equipment selection system. Inventory changes allow MCA's native equipment logic to refresh while manual equipment remains protected from automatic replacement.

🎒 Trinkets Support: Trinkets — CurseForge is the primary accessory system used by MCA Equipment Compat. Supported Trinkets slots and compatible accessories can be used by adult MCA villagers.

⚠️ Trinkets Slot Compatibility: The standard supported Trinkets slots work normally with MCA villagers, but support for Trinkets does not automatically guarantee compatibility with every mod that adds its own custom slots. Mods may register new slots only for players or use custom rendering, special abilities, or player-only behavior. In those cases, MCA Equipment Compat may require a dedicated compatibility update for that mod.

💍 Accessories Compatibility: Adds optional compatibility with Accessories — CurseForge while Trinkets remains the addon's primary accessory system. Accessories' own supported slots are available to adult MCA villagers, with synchronized armor and off-hand equipment slots, manual equipment interaction, protected AUTO equipment previews, and support for compatible Accessories-based items.

⚠️ Accessories Slot Compatibility: The standard supported Accessories slots work normally with MCA villagers, but mods that add their own custom Accessories slots are not automatically guaranteed to work. Custom slots may be registered only for players or depend on special rendering, abilities, or other player-specific behavior. In those cases, MCA Equipment Compat may require a dedicated compatibility update for that mod.

⚒️ Equipment Durability: Manually equipped weapons and armor use player-like durability behavior where MCA normally does not consume durability.

✨ Enchantments: Item enchantments and NBT are preserved. Vanilla enchantments such as Unbreaking continue to work through Minecraft's normal durability system.

🟢 Mending Support: MCA villagers can use XP to repair damaged manually equipped items with Mending, including attracting and collecting nearby XP orbs.

🍞 Recovery Food Safety: Manual hand equipment is safely preserved when MCA temporarily replaces it with food. The previous equipment is restored after eating, world/server reloads, and death handling without losing the player-supplied item.

🎒 Traveler's Backpack Compatibility: When Traveler's Backpack [Fabric] — CurseForge is installed, backpacks can be equipped on compatible adult MCA villagers while keeping their native storage, upgrades, tanks, and supported functionality.

🧩 Traveler's Backpack Upgrade Safety: Unsupported or player-only backpack abilities are prevented from being used by MCA villagers when necessary, helping avoid broken behavior while preserving supported backpack features.

🛏️ Sleeping Bag Compatibility: Traveler's Backpack sleeping bags can be used by MCA villagers without replacing their normal MCA home or residence.

🎨 Cosmetic & Accessory Compatibility: Includes support for Cosmetic Armor [Fabric] — CurseForge, Not Enough Trinket Slots (NETS) — CurseForge, and supported Trinkets- and Accessories-based accessories.

🖼️ Modded Cosmetic Rendering: Includes compatibility for supported third-party cosmetic armor renderers that would otherwise display missing/purple models or textures on MCA villagers.

🔥 Torches 'n' Trinkets Compatibility: Adds the legs/torchslot slot to MCA villagers and supports Torches 'n' Trinkets — CurseForge, including Torch Belt, Lantern Belt, and Soul Lantern Belt rendering and dynamic lighting.

🪽 Icarus Compatibility: Wings from Icarus — CurseForge equipped in supported cape slots are rendered on MCA villagers using Icarus' own wing renderer. Flight and other player-controlled wing mechanics remain player-only.

🌌 The Aether Compatibility: Adds support for accessory slots and supported items from The Aether — CurseForge, including its accessory slots for MCA villagers, supported cape rendering, and compatible Accessories integration.

⚔️ Better Combat Compatibility: Adds compatibility with Better Combat — CurseForge, including correct supported two-handed weapon rendering on MCA villagers.

🧲 Artifacts Compatibility: Includes compatibility handling for supported accessory effects from Artifacts — CurseForge, including the Universal Attractor.

🪂 Player-Only Glider Protection: Glider items that rely on player-only mechanics are prevented from being equipped on MCA villagers. Attempts through Trinkets or Accessories slots, real equipment slots, or Shift+Click are blocked when necessary, and previously equipped incompatible glider items are safely returned to the villager inventory.

🛡️ Unsupported Equipment Protection: Items and accessories that depend on unsupported player-only mechanics can be blocked from MCA villagers to prevent crashes, broken behavior, or invalid equipment states.

💡 Optional Dynamic Lighting: Supports LambDynamicLights — CurseForge for compatible Traveler's Backpack lantern functionality and supported Torches 'n' Trinkets equipment.

📖 EMI Compatibility: When EMI — CurseForge is installed, the villager backpack interface includes compatibility for EMI's item list and GUI exclusion areas.

💾 Data Preservation: Equipment, Trinkets, Accessories, cosmetics, backpacks, manual equipment state, and temporary recovery-food equipment state are preserved through saves, restarts, and supported MCA restoration flows.

🔄 Safe Age Migration: Existing worlds that previously stored addon-managed equipment on non-adult MCA villagers are handled safely. Unsupported equipment is recovered instead of being silently lost, with fallback handling when the villager inventory is full.

🌙 MCA Bewitchment Compat: Compatible with MCA Bewitchment Compat — CurseForge, preserving supported equipment and addon data through vampire and werewolf transformation/restoration flows.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Mod Loader: Fabric
• Java: 17
• Fabric API — CurseForge — Required
• MCA Reborn — CurseForge / MCA Reborn — Modrinth — Required
• Trinkets — CurseForge — Required

Optional Integrations

• Accessories — CurseForge
• Traveler's Backpack [Fabric] — CurseForge
• Cosmetic Armor [Fabric] — CurseForge
• Not Enough Trinket Slots (NETS) — CurseForge
• Torches 'n' Trinkets — CurseForge
• Icarus — CurseForge
• The Aether — CurseForge
• Better Combat — CurseForge
• Artifacts — CurseForge
• EMI — CurseForge
• LambDynamicLights — CurseForge
• MCA Bewitchment Compat — CurseForge

Mods that add new Trinkets or Accessories slots are not automatically guaranteed to work with MCA villagers. Their own custom slots may be registered only for players or may depend on custom rendering, special abilities, or player-only mechanics. Dedicated MCA Equipment Compat support may be required for those mods.

⚠️ MCA Reborn Version Compatibility

MCA Equipment Compat 1.0.5 is designed and tested for MCA Reborn 7.7.1-beta.1 on Minecraft 1.20.1.

Because MCA Equipment Compat interacts directly with MCA Reborn's equipment, inventory, villager, and rendering systems, other MCA versions may require an addon update.

Because MCA Reborn releases may become available on CurseForge and Modrinth at different times, always check the MCA Reborn version required by the specific MCA Equipment Compat file before updating.

🔗 Original Projects

This addon extends compatibility with:

• MCA Reborn — CurseForge / MCA Reborn — Modrinth
• Trinkets — CurseForge
• Accessories — CurseForge
• Traveler's Backpack [Fabric] — CurseForge
• Cosmetic Armor [Fabric] — CurseForge
• Not Enough Trinket Slots (NETS) — CurseForge
• Torches 'n' Trinkets — CurseForge
• Icarus — CurseForge
• The Aether — CurseForge
• Better Combat — CurseForge
• Artifacts — CurseForge
• EMI — CurseForge
• LambDynamicLights — CurseForge
• MCA Bewitchment Compat — CurseForge

Glider items with player-only mechanics are intentionally blocked on MCA villagers and are not treated as a functional optional integration.

Optional integrations are only used when their respective mods are installed.

Support for Trinkets or Accessories does not automatically mean that every mod using those APIs is fully compatible. Their standard supported slots can work with MCA villagers, but mods that introduce their own slots, custom rendering, special abilities, or player-only mechanics may require dedicated compatibility support.

👤 Credits

MCA Equipment Compat created by zClashTM.

MCA Equipment Compat is an unofficial addon and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the developers of MCA Reborn or the other supported mods.

All referenced mods and their assets remain the property of their respective authors.