I've tried working on a few features again (and failed), but I think the time has come to ship The Big Brother Mod™©®. I've made a new banner, new logo, and new trailer (for the demo). I'm planning something big (next project: AI Villagers, like Grox's videos).

📢PLAYER STATUES IMPROVED📢
▶ I fixed the different bugs with the statues. I'm going to make them grayscale so that it looks like it's carved out of stone.

📢PLAYER STATUES ADDED📢
▶ Villagers will now be able to admire a beautifully rendered version of your skin, craftable with only three stones. Improves loyalty, and flatters your ego.
▶ Thanks to The Big Brother Mod™©®, cult of personality (in Minecraft) has never been easier. Just make sure villagers are loyal enough, or they might start destroying these statues.
✷ If you have any feature ideas that I could implement, comment them here or mention me on Slack (same pfp). Idea suggested by @yehor on Slack. Follow this project to stay updated. (I also updated the project banner btw!)

📢LOYALTY SYSTEM ADDED📢
▶ Villagers can now serve help 👍 you depending on how loyal🫡 they are to you. Propaganda loudspeakers, posters and emeralds increase loyalty. Hitting them decreases it (temporarily).
▶ Thanks to The Big Brother Mod™©®, villager organization has never been easier. Just pay attention to militia villagers, they might turn against you if you don't pay them well enough.
✷ I plan on adding a few final features in the next devlogs before shipping a V1.0 (most probably singleplayer-only). Follow this project to stay updated.

📢MILITIA VILLAGERS ADDED📢
📢MINECRAFT COUP D'ETAT UPDATE📢
Militia Villagers have been added to The Big Brother Mod™©® and can be bribed with only one emerald. They will fight any mob you attack. They will contribute greatly to the order of local villages. I was planning on working on adding player statues but I ended up being distracted and decided to work on these villagers. Follow The Big Brother Mod™©® and mention me on Slack if you have any ideas. Idea by @manni the wizard

📢PROPAGANDA POSTERS📢
This will contribute greatly to the happiness of mending villagers.
Check previous devlogs. Follow The Big Brother Mod™©® for more villager Happiness™.

🎥SECURITY CAMERAS TO MONITOR VILLAGERS ADDED🎥
Security cameras have been added to the mod (after a long long session of debugging...). Use this in combination with the PROPAGANDA LOUDSPEAKER block to create an enjoyable work environment for your mending villagers 😊😊😊.

Militia villagers (can be bribed to attack other mobs)
Added my first entity to the Big Brother Mod. it was long and hard because I had to look through long docs (again).

📢PROPAGANDA LOUDSPEAKERS NOW WORK📢
Villagers hearing propaganda will now trade with you at reduced prices!
Listen to the beautiful propaganda sfx I made in the previous devlog

Villagers now follow you when holding emeralds. Propaganda loudspeaker helps with making all of this feel welcoming.
Next devlog: Bribing villagers.

Loudspeakers now play propaganda on loop (successfully)

I don't know if markdown works here. Villagers can now listen to my beautiful low-pitch voice edited on Audacity talking in their language about why they should reduce their prices. Took me a few hours of reading documentation and debugging random stuff.

Loudspeakers now diffuse player-specific propaganda to villagers. I am currently implementing the price reduction system

Villagers will know listen to Propaganda Loudspeakers so that players can enjoy reduced prices (work in progress)

Created the skeleton for my first Fabric mod after spending a few hours (re)-learning Java!