Dead Channel ARG

0.9.2 Beta — Hold Your Breath

New optional horror encounter: /trigger dc_breath. In the Overworld, crouch within five seconds and hold until the eight-second scene ends while a listener counts your breaths. Success and failure unlock separate captioned lore entries in /trigger dc_breathlog. Forty-five-second cooldown; no damage or terrain changes. Story pause, hauntings off, spectator mode or leaving the Overworld cancels the encounter.

Fix: starting another Signal Lock case after the receiver cooldown could silently replace a still-active case and erase entered tones. New requests now preserve the active case and show guidance. Existing rehear behavior remains available. Negative-trigger recovery covers the new commands.

Retains existing original story, dimensions, classes, assets, Signal Lock discoveries and saved progress. Back up existing worlds before upgrading. Requires Minecraft Java 26.3, Forge 66+ and Java 25.

Validation: archive, JSON, metadata, internal function references, unchanged inherited assets/classes, isolated objectives, deterministic build and simulations of packaged commands passed. The active-case loss was reproduced against 0.9.1 and checked against the fix. No live Minecraft/Forge gameplay, audio, actual world-migration or multiplayer test was performed. Available Java is 21. Build reproduces pinned inherited binaries plus resource source; original inherited Java source is unavailable.