He is not your friend

The SkinWalker

Every night, something puts on a familiar face. Yours, or your friend's, with their name floating above its head. It walks like a player. It stops when you look at it. And with Simple Voice Chat, it talks to you with voices it heard.

Recommended for players 16+. Jump scares, screaming and flashing lights. Best played at night, with headphones and friends.

One night, four steps

• Dusk: it stands far away between the trees, watching you. Walk towards it and it walks away.
• It follows: it stays 15-20 blocks behind you. When you turn around, it stops and stares, its head tilted just a little.
• It gets closer: 6-10 blocks. It knocks on your door when you are inside. Sometimes it doesn't wait.
• Late night: it takes off the face. It turns dark, its eyes light up, it screams and runs at you. Sprint for 30 seconds or lose it, and it leaves... and comes back wearing someone else.

If it catches you, you see the face it was wearing up close, and you die. At dawn it falls apart into smoke.

It learns your voice (Simple Voice Chat)

• It listens to what you say into your microphone and understands the words, in English and Spanish. Speech recognition runs on the computer that hosts the world, with no internet and no account.
• With your own words it builds new sentences: it calls you ("hey... come here... come"), crouching and standing up again and again like a player trying to get your attention.
• It answers you. Ask "who is there?" and your friend's voice says "it's me".
• When it imitates a friend who is far away, it also writes to you in chat, as them.
• Look at it while it calls you and it goes silent.

Privacy: voices are kept only in memory while the world is open. Nothing is recorded to disk, nothing is sent anywhere, and everything is forgotten when the world closes. Please tell everyone you play with that this mod listens to voice chat.

The first time a world opens, the mod downloads two small speech models (about 40 MB each, once) from alphacephei.com into config/skinwalker. To use only one language, set idioma=en or idioma=es in config/skinwalker.properties.

Features

• Always on: no commands, it comes every night in the Overworld.
• Uses the real skins and names of the players in the world.
• Black fog that closes in through the night, heartbeat when it is near, footsteps behind you that sometimes belong to no one.
• It can't be hurt. Hitting it only makes it angry.
• Singleplayer and LAN / servers. Everyone needs the mod.
• Works without Simple Voice Chat too (it just won't talk).

Commands (cheats on, for testing)

• /skinwalker night: make it night now
• /skinwalker summon [0-3]: make it appear in front of you (0 watches, 1 follows, 2 close, 3 hunts)
• /skinwalker hunt, /skinwalker call, /skinwalker voice
• /skinwalker off and /skinwalker on

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer, Fabric API.
• Recommended: Simple Voice Chat 2.6.27 or newer for 26.3.

Credits

• Speech recognition: Vosk (Apache 2.0) by Alpha Cephei.
• Voice playback: Simple Voice Chat API by Max Henkel.