Recruits Morale Addon

Each recruit has a morale value that drops when it takes damage, and the loss scales with the damage actually dealt. Heavy hits cause a larger drop than light ones, and recruits that have gained experience lose morale more slowly. Whether a recruit loses morale in a fight depends on who it faces: archers grow nervous under cavalry charges, cavalry break under spears and polearms, spearmen stay composed when cavalry come at them, and infantry keep their nerve against archers.

Morale recovers slowly over time, but the regeneration pauses for a configurable delay after damage and is not restored by food or healing effects during active combat. Recruits standing near friendly recruits regenerate morale faster, which rewards fighting in formation. That bonus is capped so it cannot be stacked for abuse, and it switches off while a recruit is panicking. When a nearby recruit dies, allies lose morale at once, so panic can spread through a losing line.

A recruit that falls below the panic threshold starts panicking and stays that way until its morale recovers past a safe level. The addon adds retreat and formation-break behavior on top of the Recruits mod, and it works with the Epic Knights addon and its weapons, which are supported unit types. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. It is published for Forge only, for 1.20.1, under the MIT License.