SIDEKICKer 1.1

Your favorite sidekick mod is back! Plenty of additions, changes and bugfixes:

SIDEKICKer 1.1 Features

• Added full NUZLOCKer compatibility, supporting up to 10 pool Nuz sidekicks at once!
• NUZLOCKer pools can automatically appear as sidekicks in pool order.
• Pool sidekicks update when characters are added through 1-Ups.
• Characters beyond the ten visible pool slots remain accessible through character rotation.
• Added compatibility controls to NUZLOCKer and prevented its swapping controls from conflicting with SIDEKICKer.
• Added door-transition “snaking,” temporarily drawing sidekicks into a line before spreading back into formation.
• Added vertical formation handling for poles, trees, and recognized climbing actions.
• Added /sidekicker-help.
• Added L + R forced sidekick reset after 1.5 seconds.
• Added safer character swapping that blocks swaps to dangerously distant or lost sidekicks.

Compatibility Features

• PIGGYBACKer: Sidekicks can self-stack, ride other players’ sidekicks, form multiplayer towers, use character-specific offsets, and send overflow sidekicks along on foot.
• NUZLOCKer: Pool-driven sidekick parties, automatic appearance caching, 1-Up additions, and pools larger than ten.
• POOPer: Sidekicks poop with independently randomized sizes and colors, including applicable special variants, without affecting records.
• ColorSHIFTer: Match Palette can reproduce animated shifting gradients.
• MarioFIGHTer: Sidekick swapping avoids disruptive swap hops during 2D battles.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sidekicks changing character when their owner changes character.
• Fixed natural, preset, same-character, and custom palettes spreading between sidekicks.
• Fixed custom palettes temporarily repainting the next selected character.
• Fixed ColorSHIFTer gradients becoming stuck during character changes.
• Fixed grabbed objects, enemies, Bowser, and other held items appearing in every sidekick’s hands.
• Fixed the real held object being thrown from a sidekick’s position.
• Fixed sidekick animations eventually freezing into a single frame.
• Fixed sidekicks briefly displaying the wrong character after swapping.
• Fixed sidekick swap cycles skipping particular characters.
• Fixed rapid swapping allowing repeated altitude gain.
• Fixed numerous sidekick reset Lua errors involving invalid object fields.
• Fixed unreliable manual resets, including NUZLOCKer-managed sidekicks.
• Reduced sidekicks becoming permanently lost in pits or outside level boundaries.
• Reduced late sidekicks zipping ahead of the player or endlessly resetting.
• Improved formation recovery when the player stops moving.
• Improved path timing for sidekicks farther back in the formation.
• Fixed door transitions softlocking when MMX sidekicks were active.
• Reduced sidekicks spawning inside walls after door transitions.
• Fixed pause behavior corrupting movement history and formation targets.
• Fixed the fifth Delta sidekick using the wrong movement delay or failing to jump.
• Fixed piggyback sidekicks bunching on their owner instead of mounting corresponding sidekicks.
• Fixed overflow piggyback sidekicks scuttling in sitting poses.
• Fixed numerous riding offsets for Kirby, Toad, Bowser Jr., Pikachu, MMX characters, and other short models.
• Fixed sidekick attacks unintentionally hurting distant players.
• Fixed sidekick removal explosions causing damage.
• Improved multiplayer visibility and synchronization.
  
  (note: please update all -er series mods for full compatibility features)