MCA: Conversations

Conversations replaces the repeatable chat buttons of MCA with a larger hub covering topics such as everyday life, profession work, food preferences, village life, dreams and fears, personal history, relationships and gossip. Each villager keeps individual interests and values, remembers earlier discussions and reacts differently depending on the topic and the player's answers. Events happening around the village can carry a conversation across several encounters.

Available topics depend on the relationship with the villager, so relationship-specific subjects only appear once the bond is strong enough. Hearts remain MCA's authoritative relationship value, and Conversations builds on them with extra context, memory and personality. Many topics unfold as full exchanges rather than single lines, and the player decides how to respond to a villager's bad day, disagreement or personal concern. Some deeper responses use deterministic dialogue checks that are influenced by the relationship and the villager's mood.

The add-on requires the Minecraft Comes Alive mod, and Conversations is published for Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, with 1.8.0 as the latest file. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. The code is under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later and is open source.