Coming in the future

Planned for Pretend You Have Friends but not in the mod yet. Plans can change, and none of this has a date.

Menus and controls

A command wheel, roster and quick-talk boxHold a key and flick to pick a friend and give an order; a roster with a gear button for settings; a quick-talk box for typing a line. Being built now.
A voice orbWhile you hold the voice key, an orb sits clearly above the hotbar: the "Shell" design, a rotating 3D point cloud that swells in a wave as you talk.
Friends in the tab listFriends show in the player list when you hold Tab, with a grey name and their owner, for example "Pip · Alex's friend". For display only.
Assistance optionsFour helps you can switch on yourself: unsticking a stuck friend and easier survival (Phase 3), keeping items on death and catching up by teleport (Phase 5). Survival stays the default.

Work in the world

Acting like a real playerFriends aim, mine, use items, click through menus, craft and trade the way a player does. Planned for Phase 2B.
Real crouchingFriends crouch for real: they stop at ledges, bridge across gaps, greet you with a crouch and copy your crouch taps back.
Rails, minecarts, shulker boxes and an ender chestRiding rails in minecarts, packing shulker boxes, and an ender chest of the friend's own.
How the world treats friendsMobs go after friends and villagers remember them, as with players, but a friend never causes phantoms or raids.
Skills they write themselvesFriends write, practise and save their own small programs for jobs, in a sealed sandbox that can only ask the server to act.
Gathering, crafting and deliveryGet wood, make tools from empty hands, cook, store and bring things back, from real materials.
Farming, breeding and villager tradingPlanting, harvest, feeding animals and trading with villagers, paying with real items.
Fishing, boats, horses and bucketsBasic fishing, riding and liquid handling.
Building from a descriptionAgree a small build in chat, then watch it go up block by block, with simple redstone.
Adventures and the Nether and EndExpeditions, enchanting, brewing, portals and boss fights alongside you.
Fetching dropped gearA friend that died goes back for its own items when it has nothing else to do.
Following through portalsToday a friend stays behind and says so.

Friends who feel alive

Promises and follow-upsThey remember what you said you would do, and their own plans, and bring them up later.
A journal and a nightly thinkDated entries in their own words, written when they sleep, kept on your computer.
Body language and moodHead turns, nods, sitting by a fire and a mood you can see.
Your story and their tastesShared milestones, favourite places and quirks learned from playing together. They unlock nothing.
Off-the-record talkChat that never goes into memory.
A new-friend interviewA few questions that draft a personality you can edit.
Friends talking togetherSeveral friends planning, splitting jobs and helping each other, including friends of two players who both agree.
Competence sliderHow well a friend plays, from relaxed to expert. It never changes what a friend is allowed to do.

Connections and voice

Understanding your modpackFriends learn modded items, dimensions and mods from the game itself. When you ask, or when they are unsure, they look things up online: Modrinth, wikis and GitHub first, then your AI connection's own search, with a notice about what is sent.
Local models with a guided setupFinds Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, KoboldCpp or Jan on your computer and walks you through it.
Free hosted optionsMistral's free plan and Cloudflare Workers AI's free plan, each with a notice before the first message. Planned for the connections slice after Phase 2.
A spending counterA running count of what replies have cost, with an optional stop cap.
Inventory and status panelSee what a friend carries and how it is doing.
Simple Voice ChatOptional: friends hear you through Simple Voice Chat's key too, with speech still turned into text on your computer.
Friends speaking aloudPlanned for a much later phase. Today friends answer in text and speech bubbles.

Release

A public downloadThere is no release yet. Other game versions and loaders are decided at release.

The roadmap has the whole plan, phase by phase.

Death and respawn

A friend can die like a player. It is the same friend when it comes back: same name, personality and memories.

When a friend dies

Its items drop once, where it died, like a player’s.
It comes back about 10 seconds later at its home. The mod tells you: “Pip will be back at home in 10 seconds.” and then “Pip is back at home.”
It comes back empty-handed. It doesn’t get new equipment; its old items are wherever they dropped.
There is only ever one of it. A friend is never duplicated by dying, saving, logging out or a restart.

Going back to collect its dropped items by itself is planned, not built yet (see the Roadmap).

Where it comes back

A friend respawns at its home: a bed or a spot you set with Home here or “this is your home” (see Orders). With no home, it comes back at world spawn. It comes back in its home’s dimension.

If home isn’t safe to stand in, the mod says “Pip can’t find a safe spot at home to come back. Trying again in a moment.”

If you are in another dimension when it comes back, it waits at home and tells you: “I’m back at home. I’ll wait here until you come back.” Friends can’t travel through portals yet.

Hunger

Friends get hungry like players and eat their own food. They can’t fetch food for themselves yet, so a hungry friend asks you: “I’m getting really hungry. Do you have any food for me?” Hand food to it, or drop some for it. Hunger never kills a friend: starving stops at low health.

If the server stops unexpectedly

If the server stops unexpectedly, a friend’s body can occasionally be lost. The friend then comes back at home, empty-handed, and the mod says so: “Pip’s body was lost when the server stopped unexpectedly. They will come back at home, empty-handed.” When the friend’s items can be put back, it says “Pip’s items were put back after the server stopped unexpectedly.”