Learn or Die 0.5.0: questions wait until you finish mining

• Questions with buttons wait until you finish mining. A question could open in the middle of breaking a block and stop it, so with a question every 15 s a slow block like obsidian never broke. Now the question waits while you mine, attack, eat, drink, draw a bow or hold up a shield, on land and under water, and comes a moment after you stop. The timer line says "Next question: when you finish".
• Voice answers: let go of the key a little early and you are still heard. If you are still speaking when you release B, the helper keeps listening until you stop, for up to half a second more, so the end of the phrase is not cut off.
• The voice helper comes back after its window was closed. If the helper's window was closed while it was loading or later, the game kept waiting for it and changing the language did not bring it back. Now the game sees within seconds that the helper is gone, the button in the settings works again, and changing the language starts the helper again.
• Turning the teacher off ends an open spoken question. No penalty for a question you can no longer answer.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar
Japanese	learn-or-die-japanese-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-japanese-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.5.0+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.5.0+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.9: questions with buttons come on time

• Questions with buttons come on time again. With Question every set to 15 s, the next question with buttons came 15 s plus the time the last one stayed open on the screen, often half a minute. Now it comes 15 s after your answer.
• Questions with buttons no longer wait for a calm moment. The world stops while one is open, so it does not wait any more until you land, finish mining or stop fighting. It still waits while a menu is open and while you are away from the keyboard. Spoken questions do not stop the world, so they still wait for a calm moment.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar
Japanese	learn-or-die-japanese-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-japanese-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.9+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.9+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.8: the angry teacher throws your things on the ground

• The angry teacher throws your things on the ground instead of deleting them. After 5 wrong answers in a row (it was 3) she throws everything you carry on the ground around you, armour too. Pick it all up again quickly: in lava it burns, off a cliff it falls.
• Your choice. Settings (I) → Advanced settings… → Angry teacher: drops all (the default), takes all (the old way: everything is gone for good) or off. Angry after N wrong sets how many wrong answers in a row make her angry, from 1 to 10. Your settings switch to the new default when you update; if you had turned her off, she stays off, and a number you had changed stays.
• The guide (U) has a page about her, with the angry face of your language's teacher and what she does with your settings. The buffs and debuffs page shows the current settings.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar
Japanese	learn-or-die-japanese-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-japanese-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.8+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.8+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.7: Japanese is back, new Chinese and Japanese voices

• Japanese is back. The Japanese teacher has a new voice that reads every word the Japanese way, exactly as it is written on the screen.
• A new voice for the Chinese teacher. Clearer tones, and words like 藤蔓 now sound the way the screen shows them (téng wàn).
• Counted phrases name the right thing. "I picked up 5 apples" now says apples in Japanese, and the number and the item join more smoothly in Chinese and Japanese.
• Speech means speech. With Quiz set to speech, every question is spoken, item names too, and no buttons pop up. Short answers are judged more gently: a Chinese answer of one or two syllables and a Japanese item name never need more than 50%.
• The world stops for a question with buttons. In singleplayer the game pauses while you pick an answer, so a fight or a fall cannot kill you meanwhile. It is on by default, in existing settings too; turn it off in Settings (I) → Advanced settings… → Pause on question. Spoken questions do not pause the game.
• Japanese voice answers are judged by the right reading. 木の剣 is ki no ken, 生の鮭 is nama no sake: a right spoken answer no longer fails because the judge expected another reading of a word.
• TNT is dynamite now in every language: ダイナマイト, das Dynamit, la dynamite, a dinamite, dynamite (Chinese 炸药 and Spanish dinamita already said it).
• Copper gear has its own words in every language: copper sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe, helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots and blocks of copper (Minecraft 26.3).

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar
Japanese	learn-or-die-japanese-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-japanese-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.7+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.7+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.6: voice answers that hear you

• Your whole answer is heard. While a spoken question waits for you, the voice helper keeps the microphone open, so the first word of your answer is never cut off, even if you start speaking a moment before you press the key. On a Mac the orange microphone dot stays on while a spoken question is open.
• French answers are judged by how they sound. French writes one sound in many ways, and the speech recognition writes what it hears in its own way. The helper now compares the sounds of your answer, not its spelling, so right answers pass far more often. A fully right answer appears in the chat the way the phrase is written.
• A busy computer no longer breaks voice answers. When recognition takes a while, the game waits for it instead of restarting the helper.
• Microphone too slow to wake up? If it missed the start of a try, that try does not count: just say it again.
• The teacher no longer narrates every step. Walking, running, jumping, swimming and the like are now off, in existing settings too. Turn them back on in Settings (I) → Advanced settings… → What the teacher talks about… → Movement.
• Japanese is not included for now. The Japanese teacher's pronunciation needs fixing; the pack will be back when it sounds right.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.6+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.6+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.6+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.6+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.6+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.6+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.6+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.6+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.6+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.6+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.6+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.6+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.5: the guide key

• The guide is one key away. Press U any time to open the guide: keys, how often the teacher speaks, quizzes, buffs and debuffs, voice answers. Every time you enter a world, one chat line reminds you: "The guide is here any time: press U, or I → How it works…". The guide's Keys page lists it too.
• Did you know? Look at a block or a creature and press V: the teacher says its name in the language you learn.
• Japanese is not included for now. The Japanese teacher's pronunciation needs fixing; the pack will be back when it sounds right.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.5+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.5+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.5+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.5+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.5+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.5+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.5+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.5+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.5+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.5+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.5+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.5+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.4: questions after death, download progress

• Questions keep coming after you die with one open. Dying while a question was on screen left the quiz stuck: no timer, no new questions until you re-entered the world. Now such a question is simply dropped, without a penalty, and the next one comes as usual. (Only possible on a server or with "Quiz pauses game" off; thanks for the report.)
• The voice helper shows its download. The first time a language is used for voice answers, the helper downloads that language's speech model (about 1.2 GB). You now see it: "Voice answers: downloading the French model… 630 of 1262 MB" under the counter, a chat line that says what is happening and to keep the helper's window open, and the window itself prints the progress. If the helper does not answer for 90 seconds, the teacher says so and tells you where to look.
• Japanese is not included for now. The Japanese teacher's pronunciation needs fixing; the pack will be back when it sounds right.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.4+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.4+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.4+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.4+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.4+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.4+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.4+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.4+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.4+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.4+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.4+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.4+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.3: French, and the sound off

• French. The sixth language: a French teacher with 520+ words and 2,600+ phrases about what you do (Je creuse la terre, J'ai ramassé la bûche, Je mange la pomme), counting the French way with liaison and gender (J'ai ramassé vingt et une torches, vingt et un diamants, deux émeraudes), and the Dictionary (J) with articles, genders, plurals and verb forms.
• Sound off, text on. Press M (or Settings → Sound: OFF) when you do not want to hear the teacher: her phrases still appear, the quizzes still come and count, buffs and debuffs still work. "Sound off (M)" under the quiz timer reminds you. What you ask for is still spoken: the name of what you look at (V), a listening question, Play in the Dictionary.
• The guide has the new key, and its pages now fit small screens (GUI scale Auto on a 1080p screen cut the Quizzes page before).
• Japanese is not included for now. The Japanese teacher's pronunciation needs fixing; the pack will be back when it sounds right.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.3+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.3+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.3+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.3+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.3+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.3+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.3+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.3+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.3+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.3+mc1.21.1.jar
French	learn-or-die-french-0.4.3+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-french-0.4.3+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.2: the guide

• A short guide when you start. The first time you enter a world with the teacher on, five pages explain how the mod works: the keys, how often the teacher speaks, the quizzes and the answer time, buffs and debuffs with the penalty settings, voice answers. Skip it any time, and read it again from the settings: "How it works…".
• The Dictionary in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Press J in every language now: the meaning of every word, genders and plurals, verb forms and other forms of the sentence. The notes follow your Minecraft language (English, Spanish, Russian or Korean so far, English otherwise).
• Japanese is not included for now. The Japanese teacher's pronunciation needs fixing; the pack will be back when it sounds right.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.2+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.2+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.2+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.2+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.2+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.2+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.2+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.2+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.2+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.2+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.

Learn or Die 0.4.1: numbers before the word

• Numbers before the word. When you pick up, drop or hold a stack, the teacher counts the way people do: "I picked up fourteen apples" instead of "I picked up the apple, fourteen". With the right grammar in every language: Chinese measure words (我捡到十四根木头), German plurals and counting words (Ich nehme vierzehn Stück Holz, zwanzig Blatt Papier), Spanish and Portuguese genders (veintiún diamantes, veintiuna antorchas, duas maçãs). Each sentence plays as one sound.
• Chinese counts up to 64 with every measure word. Twenty sheets of paper, thirty seeds or forty leaves used to be said without the number.
• The Dictionary in German. Press J in German too: the meaning of every word, the case and gender of each noun, plurals, verb forms and other forms of the sentence. The notes follow your Minecraft language (English, Spanish, Russian or Korean so far, English otherwise).
• Bigger files. The counted phrases make the Chinese file about 140 MB.
• Japanese is not included for now. The Japanese teacher's pronunciation needs fixing; the pack will be back when it sounds right.

Language	Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25)	Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)
English	learn-or-die-english-0.4.1+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-english-0.4.1+mc1.21.1.jar
Chinese	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.1+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-chinese-0.4.1+mc1.21.1.jar
Spanish	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.1+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-spanish-0.4.1+mc1.21.1.jar
German	learn-or-die-german-0.4.1+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-german-0.4.1+mc1.21.1.jar
Portuguese	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.1+mc26.3.jar	learn-or-die-portuguese-0.4.1+mc1.21.1.jar

Each file is the whole mod for one language: Learn or Die and, for Fabric, Fabric API are inside, and it works on Fabric and NeoForge. Put it into your mods folder. Full instructions: How to install.