Haunted Hallows

Haunted Hallows - Major Content Update!!!

This update expands Haunted Hallows with trick-or-treating, new bosses, lycanthropy, the Endless Maize, decorations and much more!

HallowNight and Trick-or-Treating

• Added a repeating HallowNight calendar, with optional Serene Seasons integration.

• Added villager trick-or-treating! Wear a suitable costume, ring a doorbell and choose a treat.

• Treats use a weighted pool, keeping rarer sweets harder to find.

• Each household offers one treat per player each night.

• Added doorbells, treat bowls and visiting groups of costumed baby villagers.

• Players can host trick-or-treaters by providing a doorbell and enough treats.

• Villagers answering the door can hold a treat bowl.

• Village houses receive festive decorations during HallowNight.

• Libraries can generate doorstep treat bowls.

• Added festival jukebox generation around village meeting areas.

New Decorations and Music

• Added Ghost Sheet Lanterns, including standing and ceiling-hanging placement.

• Added Scarecrow decorations that can wear helmets, chestplates and pumpkins.

• Added Spooky Wall Decals with multiple designs and an item preview showing the next design.

• Added connectable Spooky Bunting.

• Treat bowls now support multiple designs and directional placement.

• Added custom music discs, looping jukebox playback and music for the Demon encounter.

• Added crow sounds and a doorbell sound.

The Endless Maize

• Added a new corn-filled dimension with maze passages, clearings and structures to explore.

• Added a gateway and return portals.

• Added structure loot and witches in hut clearings.

• Added a portal compass to help players find a way home.

• Added links between severe bad karma, corn mazes and entering the dimension.

• Adjusted the dimension’s fog, sky and lighting for a darker atmosphere.

Vampire Boss and Vampirism

• Added a Vampire boss and a naturally generating Vampire Castle.

• The castle includes themed loot, captive villagers and a coffin-room encounter.

• Added fast melee attacks, bat movement, lunges and life-draining grabs.

• Added a bloodletting attack: the Vampire collects blood, retreats and drinks it to heal.

• Powerful attacks can break shield defence.

• Added a final death burst that can spread vampirism.

• Expanded vampire gameplay, weaknesses and interactions with holy equipment.

Werewolf Boss and Lycanthropy

• Added a Werewolf encounter in taiga areas during a full moon on HallowNight.

• The first encounter begins with an ambush and a timed chance to defeat the beast before it escapes.

• Added a harder rematch near the original infection site, supported by hostile wolves.

• The rematch Werewolf persists if the player fails.

• Added lycanthropy, first awakening on the next full moon and causing nightly transformations afterwards.

• Wolf form provides increased health, speed and night vision, alongside hunger and equipment restrictions.

• Added feeding through raw meat and hunting.

• Lycanthropy can be cured by defeating the Werewolf or dying to a silver weapon.

Equipment, Holy Water and Boss Rewards

• Added silver materials, equipment and recipes, with particular strength against werewolves.

• Expanded holy water with obtainable recipes, splash and lingering variants.

• Expanded Purified to affect undead creatures, vampires and werewolves, including cursed players.

• Added generated reward chests for all three bosses.

• Added themed Vampire and Werewolf loot pools.

• Added placeable and wearable Demon, Vampire and Werewolf trophies.

• Updated relevant crafting recipes and survival acquisition methods.

Hallow Journal and Discovery

• Reworked the Hallow Journal with Calendar, Introduction, Functionality and Lore sections.

• Added the HallowNight countdown and moon phase.

• Added practical explanations, recipes, creature illustrations and expanded lore.

• Added entries that unlock as players explore and make discoveries.

• Integrated pumpkin, blood, costume and treat collections.

• Added commands for unlocking journal entries and collections.

• New players receive a journal to help them get started.

Improvements and Fixes

• Expanded karma and luck interactions with villagers, trading and trick-or-treating.

• Improved Demon combat, targeting and minion behaviour.

• Fixed vampire sunlight damage issues.

• Improved trick-or-treating compatibility with unemployed villagers and nitwits.

• Improved Herobrine’s encounter messages and festival-related chat appearances.

• Improved decoration generation, item models, textures and survival availability.

• Added a welcome message explaining the mod’s ongoing development.

Haunted Hallows is still being developed! Further bug fixes, visual improvements and gameplay adjustments will arrive through patches. Thank you for playing!

— RedCarlie