MCA Expressions

MCA Expressions (V0.4)

MCA Expressions is an addon for Minecraft Comes Alive Reborn that adds gestures, animations, and new ways to express affection, friendship, and closeness with its characters.

Hug your family, hold the hand of someone special, play with your young children, or receive a greeting from a friend. Interactions take into account your relationship with the NPC, their age, personality, and kinship, giving each encounter its own unique context.

The mod is designed for survival games, role-playing experiences, and players who enjoy building a life alongside the inhabitants of MCA.

Interactions You Can Share

From the Expressions button in the MCA interface, you can access different gestures:
- Head pat: a small gesture of affection accompanied by a reaction from the character.

- Cheek pat: a close interaction for those with strong bonds.

- Hug: share a hug with movements adapted to different characters, including children and short NPCs.

- Cheek kiss: features different variations and conditions for adults and children.

- Holding hands: includes romantic, familial, and reserved variations.

- High five: celebrate a moment with gestures adapted to different ages and heights.

- Peek-a-boo: play with your own babies and toddlers, with reactions of acceptance and rejection.

- Patting: share a familiar game with movements adapted to babies and children.

- Cradling baby: pick up and rock your baby for a ten-second animation before returning them to their position.

- Secret content: the Extras category holds a small surprise that you can discover during your game.

The available options are adjusted to the age and relationship with each character. Familiar gestures have their own context and responses.

NPCs can also take the initiative.

Since version 0.4, characters can approach you through spontaneous interactions:
- Your wife or husband can give you a kiss on the cheek, with a six-second animation and romantic dialogue.
- Your young children can ask for a hug by raising their arms before you respond. Teenagers have a more restrained version.

- Your teenage and adult daughters have a special ten-second hug: they wrap their arms around your neck, turn their head to one side, and close their eyes during the contact. A loving phrase accompanies the hug.

- Friends, partners, and other family members can greet you with a wave, using more expressive or discreet gestures depending on the character.

These initiatives require a sufficient relationship and respect a rest period between encounters. Rejecting or ignoring a spontaneous invitation does not reduce hearts.

A wheel to organize your expressions.

Interactions are presented in a radial menu with five categories:
- Romantic
- Friendly
- Fun
- Family
- Extra
The wheel organizes gestures according to the character you are interacting with. Its options and requirements are updated using relationship and kinship information from the server.

A Customizable Experience

The settings knob lets you tailor NPC initiatives to your play style:
- Enable or disable spontaneous interactions.

- Adjust their probability.

- Choose the minimum interval between initiatives.

- Keep or disable prior confirmation.

- Enable or disable wheel transitions.

Confirmation is enabled by default. Invitations appear in the chat, and you can accept or decline them. If you prefer automatic interactions, you can disable confirmation; a warning explains this change within the settings.

Automatic initiatives check conditions such as combat, movement, open menus, and other ongoing interactions before starting.

Contextual Dialogues

Responses take into account the relationship between the player and the NPC, their personality, life stage, and family relationships.

Children may address the player as "Dad" or "Mom," while partners use expressions appropriate to their relationship. New initiatives include different invitation, acceptance, and rejection phrases to add variety to encounters.

Personality adds nuance to tone and some movements. A reserved character can express themselves more subtly, while a more expressive one shows their affection with greater enthusiasm.

Animations include movement of arms, forearms, body, and legs, as well as details like gazes, head tilts, and closed eyes in certain gestures. Interactions are adapted for both first- and third-person perspectives.

Available Versions
Minecraft Mod Loader
1.20.1 Forge
1.21.1 NeoForge
1.21.1 Fabric

To play, you need MCA Reborn and the dependencies corresponding to your chosen version.