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Pretend You Have Friends

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.

Troubleshooting and FAQ

Notices appear as toasts at the top right and stay in Recent in the friends menu for the session. See The Friends menu.

My friend won’t think or talk

Section titled “My friend won’t think or talk”
  • “Pip can’t think without an AI connection (…)”: choose or fix a connection in the friends menu under AI connection. Simple orders still work meanwhile. See Choosing a connection.
  • “the AI connection needs you to log in again”: sign in again in the official app, or press Sign in with ChatGPT for the ChatGPT route.
  • “the AI connection is busy (rate limited)”: your plan or account has hit a limit. Wait, or use another connection you choose yourself; the mod won’t switch for you.
  • “Codex has extra tools or settings turned on, so it can’t be used safely”: the ChatGPT route refuses to run with extra Codex tools or settings. It uses its own Codex folder, so your own Codex setup is not changed.
  • “Pip got confused and didn’t come up with a usable plan.”: the AI’s answer couldn’t be used. Try again, perhaps in simpler words, or try a stronger model.
  • “Things changed while Pip was thinking. Try again.”: the world or the job moved on while the plan was being made, so the server refused the old plan.
  • A friend owned by someone else answers “Pip seems busy right now.”: their owner has stranger chat off, is offline, or has no working connection. See Trust and multiplayer.

My friend won’t do what I asked

Section titled “My friend won’t do what I asked”
Message Why
“Pip only takes orders from their owner and people they trust.” You aren’t trusted for that friend.
“Only Pip’s owner can do that.” Setting home, trust, editing and removing are owner-only.
“Pip is busy with a job for their owner.” The owner’s job comes first.
“You can’t break the block at … yourself, so I won’t either.” You couldn’t break it there: game mode, spawn protection or a claim.
“I’m not allowed to break the block at …” A claim or protection refused the friend. See Servers.
“That block at … is taking forever. I need a better tool.” It has no tool good enough. Give it one.
“I can’t find a way to …” or “I’m stuck trying to get to …” No path. Clear the way or bring it closer.
“I can’t follow you through portals yet. I’ll wait here.” Friends don’t use portals yet.
“My pockets are full.” / “I can’t carry any more.” Its inventory is full.
“PvP is turned off on this server, so Pip won’t attack players.” See Fighting.

My friend won’t hear me

Section titled “My friend won’t hear me”
  • Nothing happens when I hold V. Check Voice is on in Voice settings, and that V isn’t bound to something else in Controls.
  • “No microphone found.”, “The microphone is busy or not allowed.”: pick another Microphone in Voice settings, close other programs using it, or allow microphone access in your system settings.
  • “Microphone blocked: the system is sending only silence.”: your system is blocking the microphone; check its microphone permission.
  • “Didn’t catch that.”: speak a little closer to the microphone, then try the microphone test.
  • “Who was that for?”: say the friend’s name, or look at the friend while you talk.
  • “Hands-free is off: choose it under Listening in voice settings.”: hands-free listening is not chosen yet.
  • “The offline voice engine’s files don’t match this build, so it won’t start. Reinstall the mod.”: the speech files were changed or damaged. Typing still works.
  • “The offline voice engine doesn’t run on this kind of computer.”: use typing, or choose OpenRouter as the speech engine if you accept that clips leave your computer.

Questions

Section titled “Questions”

Is there a download? Not yet. The mod is in development. See the Roadmap.

Does it cost money? Only if you choose a paid connection. Subscriptions use your plan’s limits, and local models are free. See Prices and spending.

Can friends speak out loud? Not yet. They answer in chat and speech bubbles. Friend voices are planned for a much later phase.

Can friends build, craft or farm? Not yet: today they walk, mine, pick up, give, eat and fight. Gathering and crafting come next, then building. See the Roadmap.

Does the server see my chats? No. Your private chats, memories and notes are stored on your computer, never on the server, and sent only to the AI connection you choose when your friend thinks. Your keys are stored on your computer too. See Privacy.

My friend came home with everything it had. “Pip couldn’t get back to where they were, so they came home with everything they had.” It couldn’t get back to where it was working, so it went home and kept its items.