Echo Of The Void - Changelog v1.0.5

Date: 2026-03-22

Worldgen & Structure Pipeline

• Continued use of native structure pipeline (registered structure type + piece + worldgen/structure and worldgen/structure_set JSONs).
• Added/maintained dedicated worldgen entries for all uncanny structure families, so they are discoverable with vanilla locate data and generated at chunk creation.
• Added per-feature generation checks to keep structures terrain-coherent (especially dry-surface checks for surface families and vertical constraints for spiral families).
• Added stronger feature spacing controls in world markers:
  • minimum distance between same feature type,
  • minimum distance between any two uncanny features.
• Added distance-based spawn-rate scaling in structure worldgen (lower near origin, higher farther away).

New/Expanded Structure Families

Implemented and integrated these families in generation + debug catalog:

• Anechoic Cube
• Mimic Shelter (+ multiple variants)
• Glitched Shelter
• Patterned Grove
• Barren Grid
• False Descent
• False Ascent
• Isolation Cube
• Bell Shrine (multiple variants)
• Watching Tower (multiple variants)
• False Camp (multiple variants)
• Wrong Village House (multiple variants)
• Wrong Village Utility (multiple variants)
• Sinkhole / Missing Chunk (multiple variants)
• Observation Platform (multiple variants)
• Wrong Road Segment (multiple variants)
• False Entrance (multiple variants)
• Storage Shed (multiple variants)
• Secret House debug generation entry

Spiral Structures & Secret House Integration

• Reworked false spiral math and orientation logic for both ascent/descent patterns.
• Added stable "with house" variants:
  • false_ascent_with_house
  • false_descent_with_house
• Fixed house alignment at spiral endpoints so entry flow is coherent (door aligned at end of stair route).
• Maintained dedicated marker support for house-attached spiral variants for locate/debug workflows.

Mimic Shelter & Related Structure Quality

• Expanded Mimic Shelter into multiple layout variants.
• Added dedicated variants with lore-supporting chest contexts (where relevant).
• Improved camp/entrance quality passes:
  • better bed placement in false camps,
  • removed repetitive/illogical central-door patterns in camp variants,
  • fixed stone stair entrance behavior to mirror proper false spiral logic.

Secret House, Lore Chest & Anti-Repeat Logic

• Secret house chest interaction now includes robust server-side state flags to prevent duplicate reward loops in the same chest resolution path.
• Lore roll behavior includes:
  • chance-based roll for lore outcome,
  • per-player tracking of missing volumes,
  • fallback logic once all volumes are completed.
• Behind-you fallback remains intentionally rare when all tomes are collected.

Lore System (Books)

• Uncanny Lore Piece is now a functional written-book style item.
• Added and wired full lore library through code-backed content generation.
• Total lore volumes available: 6.
• Added debug support to grant all lore tomes quickly for QA.
• Added/kept lore integration in structure systems that are intended to feed narrative progression.

New/Updated Blocks & Items (Post-1.0.4 Pass)

• Added/kept Uncanny Block usage for black visual language in structure content.
• Added/kept Uncanny Void Door integration for secret-house pathways.
• Added/kept:
  • Uncanny Reality Shard
  • Uncanny Reality Shard Piece
  • Reality Cube
  • Uncanny Lore Piece
• Updated black texture usage to use the project's custom black texture pipeline (color_black assets) where configured.

Custom Structure Villagers

• Added/maintained dedicated entity: uncanny_structure_villager.
• Added 5 sound-profile variants tied to distorted villager audio sets:
  • Flat
  • Huge Long Wide
  • Huge Thin
  • Very Wide
  • Very Long
• Added profile-based visual scaling + matching collision resizing.
• Added spawn integration in wrong-village-house family with profile-to-variant mapping and spawn chance gating.
• Added random behavior-mode assignment at spawn:
  • Normal
  • Aggressive
  • Neutral
  • No AI
  • Follow
• Naming/display fix:
  • structure villagers now display as Villager? instead of internal/modded full naming when profession data updates.

Devmenu / QA Workflow Improvements

• Devmenu structure category expanded with hierarchical family -> variant coverage.
• Added direct trigger entries for all major structure families and sub-variants.
• Added explicit entries for:
  • false spiral with house variants,
  • secret house generation.
• Added Structure Villager? devmenu group:
  • Spawn (Random Profile)
  • Forced profile spawns (Flat/Gigantic/Tall Thin/Very Wide/Very Long)
• Continued compatibility with QA status tracking workflow in devmenu.

Locate & Debug Commands

• Maintained custom locate command path for uncanny structure markers:
  • /uncanny locate structure <id>
• Added/maintained canonical ids for spiral house variants:
  • false_ascent_house
  • false_descent_house
• Improved structure marker usage for testing generated outcomes with and without attached secret house branches.

Terror (Special Entity) Follow-up

• Kept/iterated behavior as part of lore fallback flow:
  • player-facing event hook from lore fallback,
  • short oppressive interaction window,
  • movement/trigger flow linked to confrontation moment.
• Maintained associated eerie audio behavior integration during encounter flow.

Weather Balancing (Heavy Visual Events)

• Added anti-spam duration governor for highly oppressive visual weather events:
  • fog_breathing
  • fog_black
  • fog_static_wall
  • thunder_stroboscopic
• New heavy-visual duration rules:
  • normal heavy-visual range: 30s to 3m,
  • if previous heavy visual weather lasted >= 2m, next heavy visual weather is forced short (10s to 20s, capped at 20s).
• Added persistent world-state memory for the previous heavy-visual weather duration to keep behavior stable across reloads.

Stability & Persistence

• Expanded saved world-state fields for newly added systems (weather anti-spam memory + ongoing structure marker/state support).
• Preserved debug/state consistency through server saves and reload cycles for major systems touched in this pass.

Drops & Rewards

• Pulse? now has dedicated shard drop chances on death:
  • 10% chance to drop Uncanny Reality Shard
  • 50% chance to drop Uncanny Reality Shard Piece
• The two rolls are independent.