• Voluntary Households (marriage-style grouping)
• Family proximity buff when household members are nearby
• Tiered bonuses that scale with shared survival time
• Mourning debuff when a household member dies
• Persistent bond tracking across reconnects & restarts
• Fully server-authoritative and multiplayer-safe
• Dedicated-server compatible

/marry <player> — Invite a player to your Household
/ido — Accept the most recent invite
/idont — Decline the most recent invite
/divorce — Leave your current Household

• Proximity range (meters)
• Tier pacing (days per tier)
• Tier bonus scaling & caps
• Buffed stats:
  • Movement speed
  • Damage
  • Stamina regen
  • Health regen
  • Eitr regen
• Mourning duration & penalty scaling
• Carry weight penalty during mourning
• UI behavior (tooltips, progress toasts, announcements)

• All logic runs server-side
• Clients cannot spoof tiers, buffs, or progression
• Bond time persists across reconnects and restarts
• Stable player identity resolution (host + dedicated safe)
• Proximity checks use ZDO-backed positions

Persistent data is stored at:
BepInEx/config/pix.marriage.households.txt

• BepInEx

v0.8.0

• Polished & futureproof'd code
• Reassortment of debug/verbose/diags

v0.7.7

• Improved persistent player ID resolution reliability
• Hardened RPC handling on dedicated servers
• Stabilized household proximity and Family status effects
• Persistence fixes and internal cleanup

v0.7.0-4

• Smoothing interlacing proximity+persistency
• Fixed household persistence on ServerSync / dedicated servers
• Improved stable player ID resolution (Steam + ServerSync compatibility)

v0.6.5-9

• Further amendments to persistence logic
• Fixed Household persistence issues across relogs and server restarts
• Reworked stable player identity resolution (route UID → persistent ID)
• Household membership now reliably restores on reconnect
• Family status effect correctly reapplies after login
• Fixed custom Family icon failing to load in some environments
• Improved server ↔ client Family tier synchronization
• Fixed edge cases where Family buffs could silently drop
• Optional one-time VFX on marriage acceptance
• Tooltip refresh reliability and UI stability improvements
• Minor internal cleanup and polish

v0.5.1

• Adjustments to message popups

v0.5.0

• Refined Family status effect UI: tier is now displayed cleanly without crowding the title
• Improved client-side tooltip updates for smoother, more consistent Family progression feedback
• Added variety to rejection responses for a more playful, immersive experience
• General UI polish and internal cleanup for production release

v0.4.0

• Fixed an infinite loading screen on respawn caused by a rare VFX + respawn timing interaction
• Removed enter-range VFX for stability (Family is now purely status-effect based)
• Fixed invites in private hosted worlds (listen-server/host now resolves correctly)
• Improved invite delivery and pending tracking
• General refactor and cleanup

v0.2.6

• Fixed respawn soft-lock related to Family proximity
• Family buff now activates immediately on marriage
• Mourning debuff stability fixes
• Household effects persist correctly across reconnects

v0.2.3–0.2.5

• Initial public release
• Early tier system adjustments

• Mom
• Dad