Never Look Back Again

0.2.0 beta — Echoes After Midnight

• Added Case 02: The Lighthouse That Never Existed, with binary/ASCII clues, a nighttime coordinate search, an amethyst ritual, and a fourth ending.
• Added rising signal pressure, phantom footsteps, and soul echoes.
• Added a lantern ward: hold a lantern and look down for three seconds to reduce pressure.
• Added Nightmare mode, a clue journal, optional signal HUD, and reduced-darkness setting.
• Included the offline Case 99 archive in the JAR.
• Preserved Case 01 and existing progress from 0.1.0.

Requires Minecraft Java 26.3, Fabric Loader 0.20.1+, Fabric API for 26.3, and Java 25+.

Headless server checks passed for the new mechanics and original ending transitions. Full graphical playthrough and real-player co-op remain untested.