Kingdom Expansion
By drewgoesboo
Kingdom Expansion turns clusters of five or more beds into full-fledged, defended settlements with stone-brick perimeter walls, gates, corner towers, spaced royal castles, specially seeded villagers, guarded throne rooms with persistent iron golems, and a one-time fanfare when a kingdom is founded, with wall generation that respects existing kingdoms and an infrastructure score that grows as settlements expand. Befriend villagers and royalty by holding any item and pressing G while looking at them to give gifts—friendship unlocks quests, rewards, and ledger-tracked statuses via the Kingdom Interaction Tool (which shows hostility, justice, grace, quest entries, and more); villagers will also place short-lived blocks to solve pathing, contributing to infrastructure, and a universal Player Anger Reset treats player death as “justice served,” clearing gossip, bounties, and hostility while granting a short respawn grace window. To keep interactions stable, any villager you open a UI with (trading, gifting, kingdom, quest, offering or other merchant screens) is completely frozen: all AI, navigation, brain/gossip/POI/profession/schedule/trade refresh and panic/attack/construct behaviors are paused so UIs no longer auto-close, and everything resumes normally when you close the screen; this freeze is compatible with guards, royalty, Bodhi guardians, kingdom villagers, special professions, and modded villager-like entities and custom UIs.
