v3.1.4

3.1.4 - Companion Persistence and Return Hotfix - 2026-08-12

Fixed

• WORLD_TIME_SCALED needs now preserve negative world timestamps, so hunger and thirst resume normally after storage or reload.
• Soul Collector releases now pause needs timers while companions are stored, and flute revival no longer restores lethal death health or needs state.
• Tamed companions now cancel a marker-driven despawn that was already pending when spawn authority was detached. This prevents nearby companions from disappearing even while their chunk and player remain loaded.
• Recall no longer treats a timeout or a missing live UUID as proof that an ordinary companion is Lost. This prevents partial, randomized replacements.
• Tamework now saves exact, integrity-checked companion entity checkpoints and restores the full serializable NPC state only after Hytale loads the exact source section and confirms that the saved body is absent.
• When a retired original companion returns after a generated replacement, Tamework now keeps the original full state, safely replaces the current command UUID, and removes the duplicate only after the restored entity is live. Conflicting duplicate evidence remains unchanged for manual review.