When you see Haunting Statue, it just stands there, menacingly.

When you look away, it hunts.

Better don't look away.

Haunting Statue is a weeping-angel style NPC which is passive when there are no players nearby, but when it detects someone, it goes into haunting mode - chasing its target when not seen by the player, freezing in place when player turns towards it.
The mod adds a custom NPC with new animation, drops and crafting recipes. When NPC is killed, it drops a placable statue (identical to itself visually), and when player has collected 2 statues, they can be upgraded to a bigger model, and 4 statues (or 2 big statues) to even bigger model, just a decorative feature.

The statues spawn on most surface biomes, but get more common in end-game biomes, or can be spawned manually in case you are creating a custom map.
Mod Installation guide:
1. Download the .zip file
2. Move the .zip file to the game mods folder
```
%AppData%\Roaming\Hytale\UserData\Mods
```
  ("%AppData%\Roaming" may be different if you chose a custom install location of the game)
Setup for custom mod configuration / manual mod update:
1. In Mods folder create "HauntingStatue" folder and extract the zip file inside it.
  (It should be Mods\HauntingStatue and inside it you shold have folders "Common", "Server" and files "Manifest.json" and "Manifest.json.bak".)
2. When game (Hytale) updates, it may throw error that one or more mods are outdated. In that case you can either disable mod validation, look if I have updated the mod on curseforge, change server version in the asset editor (open any world in creative mode, use /op self command to enable use of asset editor (creative tools > assets tab, in inventory view), open asset editor, select the Haunting Statue mod in top left (By default it will show "Hytale:Hytale (Read-Only)", if the name of the mod is "DeRookie:Haunting Statue (Read-Only)" and not "DeRookie:Haunting Statue" it means you will have to extract the mod from .zip to a folder to allow changes, check if you don't have both .zip and extracted version present in mods folder), press 3 dots (. . .) near the title, press "Edit Pack" and near "Server Version" select "Current"

Mod configuration:

Most relevant NPC variables are neatly exposed in "Haunting_Statue.json" file. Additional parameters (like "KnockbackScale" or effect (/ compute) defitionions) are found in "Haunting_Statue_Active.json", in same folder.

Server/NPC/Roles/Undead/Haunting_Statue/Haunting_Statue.json (FFile explorer view)
Server/NPCRole/Undead/Haunting_Statue/Haunting_Statue.json (Asset Editor view)

{
  "Type": "Variant",
  "Reference": "Haunting_Statue_Active",
  "Modify": {
    "Appearance": "Haunting_Statue",
    "MaxHealth": 200,
    "MaxSpeed": 15,
    "ViewRange": 100,
    "HearingRange": 100,
    "AlertedRange": 100,
    "ViewSector": 240,
    "DropList": "Haunting_Statue"
  }
}

Also NPC attack damage and knockback can be modified in file "Haunting_Statue_Attack_Stat.json". This is the effect NPC casts when it attacks (referenced in "Haunting_Statue_Attack.json", in the same folder)

Server/Item/Interactions/NPCs/Undead/Haunting_Statue/Haunting_Statue_Attack_Stat.json (File explorer view)
Server/Item/Interaction/NPCs/Undead/Haunting_Statue/Haunting_Statue_Attack_Stat.json (Asset Editor view)

{
  "Parent": "DamageEntityParent",
  "DamageCalculator": {
    "BaseDamage": {
      "Physical": 50
    }
  },
  "DamageEffects": {
    "Knockback": {
      "Force": 2,
      "RelativeX": 0,
      "RelativeZ": -1,
      "VelocityY": 2,
      "VelocityType": "Set"
    },
    "WorldSoundEventId": "SFX_Brazier_Break",
    "LocalSoundEventId": "SFX_Brazier_Break",
    "WorldParticles": [
      {
        "SystemId": "Impact_Sword_Basic"
      }
    ]
  }
}

If you are making a custom map, and the NPC gets stuck on diagonal corners/hallways or narrow pathways, you may reduce its hitbox size (min and max values, bring them closer to 0) in
```
Server/Models/Haunting_Statue.json (File explorer view)
Server/ModelAsset/Haunting_Statue.json (Asset Editor view)
Hitbox > Hit Box - modify Min / Max of X and Z values
```
Here model scale can be modified as well.

In case you want to prevent NPC from spawning, you can either remove every field with "Id": "Haunting_Statue" from every file in:
```
1.0.0 / 1.1.1 versions:
Server/NPC/Spawn/World/Zone1-4/Wander_Zone1-4_Tier1-3 (File explorer view)
Server/WorldNPCSpawn/Zone1-4/Wander_Zone1-4_Tier1-3 (Asset Editor view)
1.2.0 and newer versions:
Server/NPC/Spawn/World/Zone1-4/Haunting_Statue_Zone1-4_Tier1-3 (File explorer view)
Server/WorldNPCSpawn/Zone1-4/Haunting_Statue_Zone1-4_Tier1-3 (Asset Editor view)
```
or simply delete files/zone folders for the zones you don't want NPC to spawn in from this mod folder. Currently Zone1 is default plains/forests, Zone2 is Desert biomes, Zone3 is Snowy biomes and Zone4 is volcanic islands.
If you want to change spawnrate or spawntime of the NPC, you can edit them in files mentioned above.

In the future I am planning to:
improve NPC hearing (the player) logic once the Hytale entity systems are expanded or I find a workaround to make it work. This is to allow the NPC to track player better when player hides behind 2 corners of same orientation and simmilar situations. V
Add more variants for biomes / specific use cases.
Add more complex (multi - step) haunting logic to make the statue more interractive and give player more time to react if he gets ambushed from behind.
Add a spawnable-only variant of Haunting Statue which would be immortal / would not take damage from player (for minigames or custom maps, escape rooms) (may be immortal unless some specific objective is complete)
Make versions of default / immortal statues with roaming / wandering logic in idle state, when not haunting the player. (This one's tricky for naturally spawning statues in wide open fields)
The model NPC is modified "Furniture_Dark_Temple_Statue_Gaia" made by Hytale team.
The NPC logic is based on heavily modifed "Cactee" logic, made by Hytale team.
Big thanks to Kaupenjoe, CurseForge Academy, camingjaming, TroubleDEV and Zeusley on Youtube for guides which helped me with this project <3
You can use my mod as you wish, just credit me if you use my content in a mod and that's it. I hope my mod brings joy, or fright to the worlds you will create.
If you have any questions you can message me on discord ( My name there's derookie_, you can also find me in official Hytale discord ) or ask in the comments down below.

When you see Haunting Statue, it just stands there, menacingly.

When you look away, it hunts.

Better don't look away.

In the future I am planning to: