Echo Of The Void - Changelog v1.1.1

Date: 2026-04-04

Added / Balanced: Gameplay pacing pass (phase gates, weather, rarity)

• Weather events are now phase-gated to Phase 2+.

• Added anti-repeat weather selection: the same weather event is no longer selected twice in a row unless no valid alternative exists.

• Increased spacing/cooldowns between weather events for a less spammy pacing.

• Rain-family mod sounds are now rain-biome aware:

  • in biomes without rain (including snow precipitation), rain-like weather audio is blocked.

• Reduced intensity/frequency for weather loops that were too aggressive (including creak/tinnitus-style loops and false-rain loudness pressure).

• Reduced frequency of whisper/psss rain-side sounds.

• Bell mob-wave behavior is now restricted to Phase 2+ and remains very rare in phases 2 and 3.

• Specials are now constrained to Phase 2+ auto-spawn flow (with the dedicated first-night watcher exception below).

• Specials were further tuned to be significantly rarer overall.

• Specials are blocked when player context is invalid for spawn (including water-related invalid contexts already enforced in runtime checks).

• Attacker? (stalker channel) was made rarer and receives stronger cooldown pressure.

• Triple block-break echo events (tool-answer style) were made much rarer.

• Furnace psss event was made much rarer, less frequent, and quieter.

• Small ambient/noise events were slightly reduced globally.

• Bed disturbance (There is something in your bed.) now has click debounce between attempts to prevent right-click spam from instantly consuming the sequence.

• Added a first-night guarantee policy for Watcher?:

  • one guaranteed watcher appearance at first-night start window per player.

• Grand Warden automatic start policy now includes strict pacing gates:

  • event roll/start is constrained to Phase 4,
  • spawn warning delay is applied after the first warning line to avoid instant panic/instant trigger windows.

• Ghost Weaver cobweb cadence is now randomized to 5-8 seconds.

Fixed: Grand Warden sound hunt flow

• Sound investigation now starts from recent captured audible events and uses the real sound position, including projectile impact locations.
• Enforced strict investigation order:
  • travel to source,
  • local sweep around the source,
  • sniff on-site,
  • target decision,
  • roar/aggro only after sniff when a valid local target exists.
• Removed bypass paths that could lead to pre-sniff roar or aggro.
• If no valid target is found after sniff, the sound investigation now clears cleanly and the Warden returns to normal search behavior.

Improved: Sound-combat handling and recovery

• Added a dedicated sound-combat flow for both players and non-player living entities selected near the sound source.
• After kill, target loss, or invalid target, the Warden exits sound-combat and resumes normal investigation/search instead of forcing event end.
• Kept movement-trigger aggro behavior unchanged (unsneak movement trigger remains as before).

Improved: Grand Event freeze coverage

• During Grand Warden event runtime, freeze behavior is applied to non-player mobs in the event zone, with state restoration at event end.

Debug / observability

• Added and refined debug traces for:
  • sound source capture,
  • sound probe phases,
  • local sweep progress,
  • sniff fire,
  • post-sniff target selection,
  • escalation/clear reasons.