NPC, Animation & Tool Improvements

A collection of improvements to NPCs, animations, items, and tools alongside the major feature updates.

Cloner Tab Overhaul

The Cloner now supports folders and subfolders for organizing all cloner categories (animations, abilities, forms, auras, outlines, effects, linked items). Full-width directory browser, improved tab navigation, and tag-based quick filtering.

Animation Improvements

Data Store for passing data across animation events and frames
Task System - Consumer-based animation lifecycle events
Expanded scripting API

Animated Textures

Frame-based animated textures for linked/scripted items, custom effect icons, ability hotbar icons, and scripted GUI textured rectangles. Configurable frames per row, ticks per frame, and interpolation.

NPC API Additions

Hitbox Data (IHitboxData) - Independent width/height scaling
Tint Data (ITintData) - Hurt tint and persistent color tints with alpha
Behavior Properties - Sprint, swim, doors, fire reactions, tactical chance, walking range now scriptable
Sound Control (ISound) - Volume, pitch, repeat, position
Skin Overlay Colors - getColor()/setColor() for tinting overlay layers
Knockback API - With support for respecting/ignoring knockback resistance
Six Overlays in Singleplayer now work properly
Error Reporting - Script exceptions report to Script Console with stack traces

Natural Spawn Improvements

Improved GUI, runtime control, despawn handling, and fixed biome spawn persistence.

NPC Combat & Behavior

NPCs now properly respect attack speed before allowing hits
Passive Faction Protection prevents damage to passive faction NPCs
Improved track speed handling for smoother target following
Invalid Texture Fallback to default skin instead of errors

Additional Changes

Player Dialog Events now work like NPC Dialog Events
Linked Item attack speed configuration and new scripting API methods
Right-click cycling on multi-option NPC buttons (Hair, Eyes, Fur, etc.)
Legacy Quest Import (CustomNPCs 1.6.4 format)
Fullscreen & pannable GUIs, unified menu background
Textfield CTRL shortcuts (A, C, V, etc.)
java.lang.reflect banned in scripts for security
Server-side fix for entity packet loss (invisible NPCs)

Bug Fixes

Scripting Engine

Fixed script config sync between server and client
Fixed Bukkit integration compatibility

Quests & Dialogs

Fixed quest cooldown for MC Custom and RL Custom timer types
Fixed quest/dialog modification names, saving, and category assignment
Fixed bard music restarting/duplicating on dialog open

NPCs

Fixed spawner yaw using camera yaw instead of proper facing
Fixed biome spawn settings not persisting
Fixed NPC invisibility from request client packet issues
Fixed track speed handling and set speed edge cases
Fixed missing spawn data, block waypoint pathing, and job spawner behavior
Fixed hitbox scaling and collision issues

Animations

Fixed animation offsets conflicting with vanilla offsets
Fixed lookup failures, syncing, resync on teleport
Fixed wrong names on registration and controller loading twice on startup

Mounts

Fixed movement jitter (now follows vanilla horse/boat sync pattern)
Fixed dismount edge cases

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