Playing with Pip

Mostly, you just talk to her and discover what she can do along the way. That's the point, so this page is for the curious.

Talking to her

• By voice: hold V, speak, and let go. Speech-to-text on your computer hears you, and she answers out loud. (Change the key in Controls → Kindred Spirit.)
• In chat: just type. In singleplayer everything goes to her; on a server or a LAN world, start with her name: "Pip, where are the cows?". Or use /kindred <message> (short: /ks). The chatMode setting chooses: all, name or command.
• Subtitles appear above her, with optional captions and a log in your chat that only you see.

She sees what's in her line of sight from where she floats, hears the game's sounds ("zombie groans" behind a wall), feels rain, snow and the cold, and notices what you do: what you place, mine, craft and eat. She speaks up on her own when a creeper sneaks behind you, lava or a big drop is ahead, or your hearts run low.

Things to try

• stay here
• come here
• follow me
• look at me
• do a spin
• any diamonds near me?
• where are the sheep? lead the way
• where's the nearest village? take me there
• push them away
• always protect me
• this is my base
• remind me in 10 minutes to check the furnace
• put my block back
• what am I missing to make a piston?
• build us a cozy cottage for three

Sneak while looking at her to pet her.

She discovers her powers with you

Pip starts out not knowing what she can do, and she never lists commands. The first time you ask for something new, she answers at once ("Diamonds? Ooh, I don't know if I can... but I'll try!"). Then, in the background, the power slowly wakes up: she senses something strange, maybe asks a small favour (stand still, pet her, say her name), and then it clicks: "I can sense diamonds now!" She remembers it after that. Powers you need right away, like pushing monsters back, wake up instantly.

Prefer her to know everything from the start? See her heart settings.

What she may do: power and style

You decide how much she can do, and the mod enforces it, not the AI. Use /kindred power and /kindred style.

Finding and guiding work everywhere. Anything that changes the world works in singleplayer, when you host a LAN world, and in a friend's LAN world whose game has the mod, always done the way a command would.

Her heart

Pip has a bond with you. Kindness brings her closer: she opens up, proposes plans, plays pranks (harmless ones, and she owns up). Hitting her or being mean makes her keep her distance, sulk, or vanish for a while. She forgives quickly. /kindred heart shows how she feels about you.

Her memory

She remembers who you are and what you like, your habits and places, what you found together, a diary of each session, and reminders. Each world has its own Pip by default: a new world means meeting a new her. To bring her along:

• /kindred memory shows what she knows here; /kindred memory worlds lists your worlds.
• /kindred memory import <world> brings what she knew about you from another world.
• /kindred memory forget <words>, or just say "forget that I ...".
• /kindred reset gives you a brand-new companion for this world.

Her memories live on your computer. More: docs/MEMORY.md.

Building from blueprints

Ask for a building ("build us a cozy cottage for three", "a small desert house") and she finds a matching blueprint, describes the best two or three when several fit, and checks before a big one. She can make one up, or use any .nbt, .schem or .litematic file in config/kindredspirit/blueprints/. With magic it rises in seconds; grounded, she first tells you the materials. She never builds over what you built.

Controls

The full list is in the README.