Ultimate Friendly Enderman

Friendly Enderman

Current version: 0.9.5

Hi! I’m the dev, still working on these features and adding new ones. I update this checklist as I go and tick each item off when it’s done for its release, so stay tuned. A [X] means that feature is finished.

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1. More lines for Endrina: about 10,000 new lines for actions and situations she doesn’t react to yet. (Now: 993 situations, 19,816 lines) [ ] 1.0.0

   • Every creature she sees, kills you make, animals you breed, raids and danger
   • Bosses (Ender Dragon, Wither, Warden, Elder Guardian) get extra lines
   • Baby monsters (baby zombies, husks, drowned, piglins, hoglins, zombie villagers) get their own lines
   • New situations: a mob hitting you, a mob hitting her, zombies breaking down a door

2. More life for wild Enderers and their children: about 8,000 new conversation lines and 5,000 new reaction lines, so they feel more expressive and alive. (Now: 198 conversations, 2,164 lines · 603 reactions, 4,928 lines) [ ] 1.0.0

   • Your tamed babies get their own conversations, with each other, with Endrina and with your other tamed Enderers

3. Endrina reads the room: when you’re in danger she puts it first. Low health, a creeper next to you or drowning comes before chatting about snow or thunder, and her small talk waits until the fight is over. [ ] 1.0.0

4. New looks for wild Enderwomen: several new hairstyles, so not every Enderwoman looks the same. Endrina keeps hers. [ ] 1.0.0

5. Enderers sleep at night: tamed Enderers lie down and sleep, Endrina most of all, with her own sleeping pose. Babies curl up near their mother. They wake when you come close, get hit, or a monster shows up. [ ] 1.x

6. Heart-to-heart talks with Endrina: after she learns your language, she starts real conversations with you at trust milestones (40, 50, 65, 75, 90 and 100). These are about the two of you, in order, not random lines. [ ] 1.x

7. Quests and cutscenes for Endrina and the Enderers, with a story-driven plot. I’m planning over 100 quests and cutscenes, so this will take a while. While a cutscene plays, monsters won’t see or attack you or Endrina. I haven’t started yet, and it won’t be part of 1.0.0. It comes out once it’s all done and I’m happy with it. [ ] 1.x

8. Dialogue wheel, like in Fallout 4. You choose what to say and talk back to Endrina and to random Enderers. This adds about 15,000 lines across both. It will be its own small library mod, so other mods can use it too. Coming after the major release. [ ] 2.0.0

9. More on the way! Got an idea? Leave a comment and I’ll add it to the checklist.

Have you ever wanted to tame the tallest creature in all of Minecraft? Well, welcome to the wacky mod of Friendly Enderman.

Rescue Endrina, a tied-up enderer, from a pillager camp. She follows you, guards you, rides with you, and talks about almost everything you do.

Meet Endrina

Character inspired by the artist Kaiarts

Somewhere in a pillager outpost lies a map to a pillager camp, and there an enderer is tied up. Break her free and she’s yours: a companion who walks with you, fights for you, and has something to say about nearly everything.

She talks. A lot. Like, really A LOT!

– Nearly 20,000 lines across almost 1,200 situations: she reacts to all 66 biomes, every structure, 93 mobs, weather, your health, your armor, every food you eat or feed her, what you mine, craft, smelt and build, your advancements, your stats, and more. Just like the Villager News add-on, but way bigger!!!

– Speech that feels alive: her lines show as captions just above your hotbar, with her name, and she looks at whatever she’s talking about. She even uses gestures with her lines: nodding, waving, shrugging, pointing, covering her face…

– Her own language: below 25 trust she only speaks Ender, which you can’t understand, and half the time she’s saying things because you can’t understand. Once she learns your language, she gives you 101 little Ender lessons, and finishing them all earns her Phrasebook. She also keeps a book of every secret she told you in Ender.

– No repeats: a line she just said won’t come back for a day. Any NPC repeating the same thing over and over gets annoying, so I made sure there’s enough dialogue to keep her fresh.

– Idle talk: every few minutes she just… talks. About her past, about the two of you, jokes, random thoughts. By a campfire, at bedtime, by the sea, or riding together she has her own things to say.

Oh, and by the way, I couldn’t write those thousands of lines without the help of AI. I tried to, but it’s not possible without it. I checked all the dialogue, approved it, and debugged all of it.

The other enderers talk too!

– Conversations: wild enderers chat with each other in speech bubbles: couples, parents and kids, strangers, nitwits. Almost 200 conversations about the world, about danger… and about you.

– Reactions: around 600 Villager News style reactions to mobs, weather, blocks you place or break, what you wear and what you do.

– Endrina joins in: she chats with wild ones, babies and your other tamed enderers, and if a wild one comes after you, she steps in and defends you.

Trust (-100 to +100)

How she talks depends on how much she trusts you. Below 25 she speaks only Ender, from 25 she’s cold and guarded, from 50 she’s herself, and from 75 she gets chatty and teases you. At 100 she has things to say that she won’t say to anyone else.

Earn trust by feeding her (each food is worth its own amount), petting her, giving her flowers and gifts, fighting side by side, and keeping her safe. Hitting her is not recommended. A trust bar takes the place of your XP bar whenever it changes. Just remember that getting to +100 might take 10 hours, no speedrunning.

Things to do together

– Modes: Sit, Follow, Wander or Guard. Or just tell her in chat: “Endrina stay”, “hey come”, “Endrina what’s that”… Sometimes she kisses you 0w^ (depending on the trust meter)

– Feed her: chorus fruit, or any food you can eat. Inspired by Kaiarts, ’cause she eats a lot. At full health she takes her time with a proper meal.

– Ride together: at 50 trust she climbs on behind you on a horse, donkey, mule, camel or happy ghast, with her arms around your waist.

– Pet her, put a flower on her head, dress her in outfits (inspired by Kaiarts again!), or give her haircuts (her hair grows back after 3 days).

– Dance: play a music disc and she dances, with her own dance for each disc.

– Iron and snow golems leave tamed enderers alone. Turns out they attack endermen no matter what, which is how I lost mine ;(

– She brings you gifts like ore blocks, and at high trust she might kiss you 😉

A whole Enderer family

This mod was originally made for exactly this: being able to tame normal enderers (male and female ender).

– Endermen and Enderwomen: enderers come as male or female, which the base game lacks, each with their own model.

– Babies: enderers can have little ones, smaller versions of the adults, either male or female, and they sometimes breed on their own, so keep watch on them. Female-female or male-male pairs won’t breed.

– Family roles: an enderwoman can have between 1 and 3 babies, and all babies follow their mother. The father plays his role as protector, and both the babies and the enderwoman follow him. Don’t forget that zombies sometimes attack babies and the adults defend them. If you hit one of their kids, they’ll gang up on you.

– Nitwits: nitwits are a different kind, and they make up 50% of the enderer population. They aren’t affected by taming or calming (non-nitwits can be calmed with a golden apple). They’re the same in terms of family and babies (a baby nitwit can’t be adopted by a non-nitwit. Yes, babies can be adopted).

– Tame any enderer: not just Endrina. Tamed enderers follow you, wander, guard and stay by your side. Taming babies is hard: you have to tame the baby’s mother.

Animations (built in!)

Install Entity Model Features (EMF) and the animation pack turns on by itself, no separate download. Breathing, smooth poses, gestures, expressions, blushing, closed eyes. Without EMF the mod works fine, just with simpler animations.

Settings (Mod Menu, optional)

– Endrina: chattiness, rare lines, captions, and how often her Ender lessons come – Wild enderers: conversations on/off, how often they talk, reactions on/off – Other: tamed enderers picking up blocks on/off, debug log

Commands

• /friendlyenderman endrina spawn [trust] [player] – spawn Endrina, already freed and tamed, at any trust from -100 to 100 – /friendlyenderman endrina tied – spawn her tied up, like at the camp – /friendlyenderman say <target> <situation> [step] – make her say a line (for testing) – /friendlyenderman situations [section] – list her situations – /friendlyenderman settings ... – change settings without Mod Menu – These commands are for testing, and are left for you nerds to use as you like. More to come

Requirements

**- Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader, Fabric API

• Optional: Mod Menu (settings screen), Entity Model Features (animations)**

Credits

• Male enderman model and base animations: FreshLX (Fresh Animations), used with permission – Female enderman model and textures: EnderWoman by Kotisimo and poolb, CC BY 4.0 – Music in her first-words scene: “Mice on Venus” by C418 (the game’s own file) – Full credits are in CREDITS.md inside the jar – Utmost credit to Kaiarts (my legend), who I spoke with about stuff to add

AI disclosure

Parts of this mod’s code, fixes and dialogue were written with help from an AI assistant (Claude). I designed the mod, made the decisions, tested everything in game and edited the result. Endrina’s character and the ideas behind her are mine. And since no one made a mod like this, I had to make one for myself, and release it to you NERDS to have fun.

~ Peace