Kenny 6.0.0 - The Curse Learns [PRIME KENNY]

Kenny 6.0.0 is a major horror, combat, progression, and reliability update. Kenny is now more aggressive, more capable across difficult terrain, and significantly harder to defeat. The complete encounter has also been expanded across the Overworld, Nether, and The End.

Added

• Added new combat abilities:
  • Kenny can leap toward players on towers and other elevated positions.
  • Kenny can jump over trees and obstacles when a direct chase route is unavailable.
  • Kenny can throw players after a close-range attack combination.
  • Kenny can kick nearby mobs directly toward the player.
  • Kicked mobs damage the player on impact.
  • Kenny can throw primed TNT toward the player during a chase.
  • Kenny can launch fireballs at distant or elevated targets.
  • Kenny can rapidly destroy blocks directly obstructing his path.
• Added full swimming and amphibious pursuit:
  • Kenny can chase through water instead of stopping at the shoreline.
  • Kenny can choose routes across both land and water.
• Added dedicated animations for spawning, idling, walking, chasing, swimming, attacking, jumping, throwing players, throwing TNT, throwing mobs, breaking blocks, and dying.
• Added expanded daily horror events:
  • TNT anomalies begin on Day 2 and are distributed throughout the day.
  • Day 2 has up to 3 TNT anomalies.
  • Day 3 has up to 7 TNT anomalies.
  • Day 4 has up to 10 TNT anomalies.
  • Day 5 and later have up to 16 TNT anomalies.
  • The End has its own anomaly activity regardless of the current day.
  • Lightning anomalies now appear with controlled delays.
  • Distant footsteps can approach from behind the player.
  • Door-opening and block-placement sounds can occur nearby.
  • Chase sequences can include heartbeat sounds, darkness pulses, and visual disturbance.
• Added rotating horror dialogue for escapes, dimension changes, TNT anomalies, sleep traps, daily progression, and supply drops.
• Added daily supply drops for every eligible player:
  • Supply drops begin on Day 2.
  • Every player receives an individual drop above their own position.
  • Supplies improve as the world progresses.
  • A short warning gives players time to move into an open area.
  • Kenny and unrelated anomalies pause briefly while supplies are being delivered.
• Added new Kenny Totem effects:
  • Holding the Totem grants Speed.
  • Nearby hostile and neutral mobs flee from the holder within 15 blocks.
  • The fear effect is disabled in The End.
• Added improved Kenny defeat rewards:
  • Two stacks of enchanted golden apples.
  • An enchanted Kenny Sword with 24 attack damage.
  • A full enchanted Kenny Armor set.
• Added Kenny advancements for major progression, combat, Totem, and End milestones.
• Added /kenny restart for restarting the curse after Kenny has been permanently sealed.
• Added an in-game Mod Menu configuration screen when Mod Menu is installed.
• Added configuration options for Kenny's combat abilities, block breaking, block blacklist, anomalies, sleep traps, supplies, sounds, effects, Totem powers, difficulty, and progression.
• Added a configurable cooldown for sleep encounters to prevent repeated bed interaction from creating excessive entities or TNT.

Changed

• Changed Kenny's chase behavior:
  • Kenny now prioritizes direct pursuit like an aggressive melee creature.
  • Kenny continuously faces and runs toward his selected target.
  • Kenny recovers more quickly when a route becomes blocked.
  • Alternative routes are considered before a jump is used.
  • Jumping remains available for towers, terrain, and failed routes.
  • Kenny no longer pauses to behave like a ranged-only enemy.
• Changed obstacle breaking:
  • Kenny now physically clears a complete 5-block-long, 5-block-wide, and 5-block-high volume in front of him when the chase is obstructed.
  • The sweep includes the center and begins at Kenny's current ground level.
  • Breaking uses bounded four-block batches with a short safety delay to protect server performance.
  • Block breaking still respects mobGriefing.
  • Server owners can disable block breaking or blacklist protected blocks.
• Changed encounter difficulty:
  • Kenny begins with 30 hearts.
  • Later encounters repeatedly increase Kenny's health and damage.
  • The first encounter requires sustained player damage rather than a few strong hits.
  • Encounters after Kenny's first defeat are substantially harder.
  • Kenny is highly resistant to knockback and environmental hazards.
  • Kenny deals more melee damage and stronger knockback.
  • Kenny defeats non-player mobs with a single successful hit.
• Changed The End encounter:
  • Kenny uses his complete Overworld and Nether moveset in The End.
  • Kenny receives major health, damage, and speed increases.
  • TNT and lightning events avoid damaging the Ender Dragon.
  • Horror events are more frequent and intense.
• Changed Nether encounters:
  • Nether Kenny now uses the same complete pursuit and combat behavior as Overworld Kenny.
  • Spawn placement searches for a valid location within the Nether instead of using the roof.
• Changed the close-range combat sequence to repeatedly combine melee attacks, player throws, pursuit, jumps, mob throws, and TNT attacks.
• Changed close-range decisions so two melee hits open an alternating TNT or fireball attack before pursuit resumes.
• Changed obstructed chase decisions so block breaking takes priority over ranged attacks and uses the break-block animation.
• Changed fireball attacks to use the throw animation instead of continuing the normal chase animation.
• Changed nearby obstructing mobs to be kicked toward the locked player before Kenny resumes the combat sequence.
• Changed hostile mob behavior so common hostile creatures treat Kenny as an ally.
• Changed WATCH and sleep encounters into separate encounter tasks:
  • They cannot appear at the same time.
  • A pending encounter waits for the active encounter to finish.
  • The regular WATCH schedule is not consumed or reset by a sleep encounter.
• Changed sleep handling:
  • Sleeping is interrupted while the curse is active.
  • The first five Day 1 sleep attempts across the entire world can summon a dedicated Sleep-Watch Kenny.
  • Multiplayer shares this five-encounter limit; it is not reset or multiplied per player.
  • Sleep-Watch Kenny disappears four seconds after spawning; this duration is configurable.
  • Further Day 1 attempts and every attempt from Day 2 onward place armed TNT above the bed.
  • TNT traps are tied to the bed being used: each sleep attempt creates one trap above that bed, so separate beds can trigger separate TNT.
  • Sleep-Watch limits, dialogue, trap start day, fuse, chance, and cooldown are configurable.
  • Sleep encounters pause during supply delivery and after Kenny has been permanently sealed.
• Changed Sleep-Watch dialogue to rotate through multiple messages while preserving “You are not alone.” as the first warning.
• Changed Kenny's arrival and departure effects so both are marked by visible, harmless lightning.
• Changed WATCH encounters so staring at Kenny for too long causes increasing darkness and nausea.
• Changed gameplay messages to a shared action-bar queue:
  • Horror messages no longer clutter normal chat.
  • Messages are spaced so simultaneous events do not overwrite each other.
  • Multiplayer players receive the same global story messages in the intended order.
  • The queue has a safe pending-message limit to prevent spam from affecting server performance.
• Changed supply delivery into an exclusive grace period:
  • Kenny, TNT, lightning, footsteps, door sounds, and other anomalies pause while supplies are delivered.
  • Normal horror activity resumes after players have had time to collect their supplies.
• Changed Kenny's hunt start day so it can be configured from Day 2 through Day 20; Day 3 remains the default.
• Changed progression after each Kenny defeat so future encounters continue becoming stronger.
• Changed sound event names and organization for clearer resource-pack and configuration support.
• Changed default horror text to shorter, cleaner, and more natural language.

Fixed

• Fixed a freeze that could occur when sleeping, waking, and triggering a Kenny encounter during the same night transition.
• Fixed WATCH Kenny and sleep-triggered Kenny attempting to appear at the same time.
• Fixed the regular WATCH task being delayed or consumed by a sleep encounter.
• Fixed crashes reported when attempting to sleep.
• Fixed Day 1 bed interactions not immediately interrupting sleep before a Sleep-Watch encounter.
• Fixed Day 2 and later bed interactions not consistently triggering the configured TNT trap.
• Fixed Sleep-Watch encounters changing or consuming the regular WATCH schedule.
• Fixed the first sleep encounter sometimes being ignored because of a timer overflow.
• Fixed repeated bed interaction being able to create excessive sleep encounters or TNT traps.
• Fixed sleep encounters incorrectly sharing the normal WATCH countdown.
• Fixed Sleep-Watch encounters in different dimensions bypassing the configured global Kenny limit.
• Fixed Kenny sometimes standing still or running in place while chasing a visible player.
• Fixed Kenny facing away from the player during an active chase.
• Fixed Kenny's body and head drifting away from the targeted player while pursuing on land or in water.
• Fixed slow water turning that could make Kenny swim in the wrong direction during a chase.
• Fixed Kenny circling or turning aimlessly in front of a reachable player instead of closing in and attacking.
• Fixed melee pursuit stopping when a hidden player did not have an immediately valid path.
• Fixed Kenny losing nearby players merely because a tree or house blocked line of sight.
• Fixed Kenny occasionally pausing in water when amphibious pathfinding could not produce a route.
• Fixed Kenny stopping at water or failing to follow players through water.
• Fixed Kenny taking too long to decide when jumping toward elevated players.
• Fixed Kenny failing to jump toward towers or over common terrain obstacles.
• Fixed Kenny failing to break trees and other blocks directly obstructing a chase.
• Fixed Kenny breaking blocks while a usable chase route was still available.
• Fixed Kenny failing to break directly obstructing house walls after navigation became stuck.
• Fixed break-block animations playing without clearing enough space for Kenny to continue chasing.
• Fixed large block-update chains during obstacle breaking that could briefly freeze the game.
• Fixed excessive block searches that could reduce performance during obstacle breaking.
• Fixed thrown mobs traveling in the wrong direction or missing without damaging the player.
• Changed mob throws into immediate kicks aimed at the locked player.
• Changed kicked mobs to follow a straight, constant-speed projectile path.
• Fixed nearby mobs not being selected for Kenny's throw attack.
• Fixed player throws being ineffective against heavily armored players.
• Fixed TNT thrown by Kenny behaving differently from his other aimed projectiles.
• Fixed anomaly TNT appearing inside solid ground.
• Fixed Kenny being killed by his own TNT, Creepers, lightning, Iron Golems, or other mobs.
• Fixed Kenny taking damage from anomaly lightning.
• Fixed anomaly lightning appearing cut off when the player was standing on a tower.
• Fixed excessive lightning and TNT events occurring without sufficient delay.
• Fixed Kenny spawning on the Nether roof.
• Fixed Kenny permanently stopping halfway through a world.
• Fixed Kenny failing to participate in the Ender Dragon encounter.
• Fixed blindness, darkness, and nausea continuing after Kenny and the Ender Dragon were defeated.
• Fixed restarted worlds immediately reusing an earlier Ender Dragon victory state.
• Fixed duplicate Kenny entities after dimension changes, reloads, or interrupted encounters.
• Fixed Kenny encounters interfering with the daily supply sequence.
• Fixed TNT anomalies appearing while supply items were being delivered.
• Fixed ambient sounds, footsteps, doors, and lightning continuing during the supply grace period.
• Fixed players receiving the same daily supply drop again after leaving and rejoining.
• Fixed supply completion not being committed before items appeared, preventing duplicate drops after reconnecting.
• Fixed multiplayer supply drops being delivered to only one player.
• Fixed relogging being able to replay global day messages for the entire server.
• Fixed queued horror messages appearing after Kenny was sealed or the curse was restarted.
• Fixed malformed custom TNT or sleep-trap message lists potentially causing an error.
• Fixed excessive action-bar requests being able to grow the pending queue without a limit.
• Fixed Overworld TNT limits affecting The End's anomaly activity.
• Fixed death rewards being dropped more than once.
• Fixed older Kenny configuration files loading without the settings required by this release.
• Fixed several encounter timers and progression states being lost after restarting the game or server.
• Fixed Kenny becoming stuck while chasing through water-filled caves.
• Fixed underwater collisions not immediately triggering Kenny's controlled block-breaking attack.
• Fixed sleep encounters cancelling bed use before the sleeping animation could begin.
• Fixed interrupted sleepers waking without the intended disorientation effect.
• Fixed sleep encounters potentially allowing the night to advance before the interruption completed.
• Fixed repeated bed attempts sometimes waking the player without spawning a Sleep Watch or bed trap.
• Fixed regular Kenny Watch encounters delaying a newly triggered Sleep Watch.
• Fixed Kenny occasionally pausing in front of a reachable player instead of attacking.
• Fixed houses, walls, and underwater obstructions not being recognized quickly enough as chase barriers.
• Fixed block-breaking temporarily stopping Kenny's pursuit movement.
• Changed Kenny in The End to reacquire players, detect obstructions, jump, and choose special attacks more aggressively.
• Changed regular Kenny Watch encounters to disappear seven seconds after spawning.
• Changed Kenny's forward block-breaking area to clear eight blocks vertically by default.
• Fixed Kenny continuing an old block-breaking action while a visible player was already within melee range.
• Fixed single-block steps being treated as walls instead of being climbed during a chase.
• Fixed delayed spawn sounds surviving player death or a Kenny dimension handoff.
• Fixed old dimension taunts and anomaly text appearing after a later teleport or respawn.
• Fixed repeated End transitions stacking duplicate global taunts and hostile sounds.
• Fixed stale Kenny entity references repeatedly firing false dimension-handoff text and audio.

Removed

• Removed the previous chase behavior that could leave Kenny idle or running in place.
• Removed the mob pickup and holding phase from Kenny's mob throw attack.
• Removed overlapping WATCH and sleep encounter execution.
• Removed horror text from normal chat; gameplay dialogue now uses the action bar.
• Removed duplicate and legacy sound naming from the resource layout.
• Removed the previous configuration format. Kenny 6.0.0 creates a new configuration with the complete set of supported options.

Notes

• Compatibility, loader, and dependency requirements depend on the downloaded file.
• Check the compatibility information on the download page before installing.
• Install every required dependency listed for your selected build.
• Mod Menu is optional and only required for the in-game configuration screen on supported builds.
• Kenny supports singleplayer, LAN, multiplayer, dedicated servers, and modpacks.
• Progression, defeat state, supplies, and active encounters are stored per world.
• /kenny restart only restarts the curse in the current world.
• Existing 5.x configuration files are replaced with the new 6.0.0 configuration format. Back up custom settings before upgrading.
• Review the newly generated kenny.json before opening a long-running server or modpack world.
• Back up important worlds before installing any major mod update.
• This changelog applies to all official Kenny 6.0.0 builds.