Echo Of The Void - Changelog v1.0.3

Date: 2026-03-10

Multiplayer / Audio Consistency

• Reworked event audio playback to be player-targeted for paranoia events (no unintended global broadcast to nearby players).
• Reworked weather-event audio to use local per-player playback where appropriate.
• Fixed Fog Breathing weather audio so players no longer hear another player's breathing track.

Specials / Entities

• Added anti-powdered-snow behavior for all special entities so they no longer sink/get trapped in Powdered Snow.
• Improved Watcher direct-look logic:
  • flee trigger now requires continuous direct eye contact for more than 3 seconds,
  • look timer resets immediately when look/LOS conditions break.
• Improved Watcher owner/target tracking:
  • safer fallback targeting when the original watched player is invalid/offline/out-of-dimension,
  • controlled orphan despawn instead of erratic behavior.
• Reduced Pulse heartbeat repetition significantly to make it rarer and more impactful.
• Knocker now reacts immediately to being hit, interrupting its current sequence and switching to attack behavior.

Door / Interaction Logic

• Kept special entities able to operate doors (including iron doors where intended).
• Knocker no longer breaks iron doors:
  • if the target door is iron, it flees instead of breaking it,
  • wooden-door behavior remains unchanged.
• Added/kept robust navigation door support for special entities requiring door traversal.

Event Logic / Balance

• Hardened Armor Break validation:
  • event now requires actually equipped, breakable armor,
  • event no longer triggers in no-armor situations.
• Bed Disturbance (There is something in your bed) fully rebalanced:
  • much rarer base trigger chance with phase/profile scaling,
  • dedicated per-player cooldown after trigger,
  • anti-chain protection to prevent repeated back-to-back bed disturbances,
  • requires a normal sleep before this disturbance can trigger again after a completed sequence.

Weather System

• Reduced overall weather-event durations across categories for better pacing.
• Reduced weather trigger regularity:
  • lower base trigger pressure,
  • stronger random jitter in check delay and cooldown,
  • less predictable distribution over time.
• Reduced THUNDER_TARGET_STRIKE (fake lightning in front of player) duration specifically.
• Kept fake lightning visual-only behavior safe (no damage/fire).

Structure Generation

• Improved natural structure generation stability to avoid sudden "pop-in" structures in already explored terrain:
  • automatic generation now prioritizes fresh chunk contexts (newly visited/low-inhabited chunks),
  • debug/forced generation commands remain available.