SmartBrainLib is a comprehensive library designed to significantly improve and simplify the entity AI brain system within Minecraft. Mojang's original implementation, while intended for more complex mobs and advanced entity handling, is often described as cryptic, overly complex, and inefficient. This often leads developers to favor the existing, simpler goal system, despite its limitations for advanced AI. SmartBrainLib directly addresses these shortcomings by overhauling the brain system, making it genuinely usable, configurable, and efficient for creating sophisticated mob behaviors that were previously difficult or impossible to implement effectively, thereby unlocking new possibilities for modded gameplay. The core functionality of SmartBrainLib revolves around a multi-faceted approach to enhancing the brain system. It automatically handles the registration of memory types, eliminating the need for developers to manually manage these modules for their entities. Furthermore, it introduces dynamic sensors that can be configured and managed on the fly, allowing for far more advanced and flexible environmental perception for mobs. The library also provides advanced behaviors, enabling the creation of new behaviors based on an extensible class that includes built-in callbacks, predication, and cooldowns, alongside runtime-safe modification capabilities to add, remove, or alter behaviors dynamically from existing entities, offering unparalleled control over mob actions and responses. This library is designed for broad compatibility across various Minecraft versions and loaders. It officially supports Minecraft versions 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, and 1.21.11, as well as versions 26.1.2 and 26.2. SmartBrainLib is specifically required on the server-side and is not supported on the client. It is compatible with the Fabric, Forge, NeoForged, and Quilt mod loaders, ensuring that a wide range of server setups can benefit from its advanced AI capabilities, making it a versatile tool for modpack creators and server administrators alike. To install SmartBrainLib, the process is straightforward for compatible loaders. For Fabric, Forge, NeoForged, and Quilt, the mod file should be placed directly into the 'mods' folder of your Minecraft server installation. Before launching the server, it is crucial to ensure that you have the correct versions of the mod and its dependencies installed, and that your server is running a compatible Minecraft version. Verifying the server logs after installation is also recommended to confirm that SmartBrainLib has loaded correctly without any errors, ensuring its advanced AI features are ready to be utilized.
