Nook of the Dead

0.2.0 (beta) - 2026-10

Everything is in. Numbers and rules may still change, and a world may not carry over to later versions unchanged.

Requires Nookworks 1.0.0 or later (below 1.1), NeoForge 26.3.

• The desert. Part of the wilds and farmland is now a town the sand took: dunes over the streets, buildings worn to their footings, sandstorms in place of rain, dried fields, camps and shafts the players left. Pyramids still stand - some untouched, some already dug out. The desert's own buildings: a caravanserai, a cistern house, a camel stable, courtyard houses, a covered bazaar, an archaeologists' dig whose suspicious sand can still be brushed, and, rarely, a great timber workshop or inn.
• The desert's dead. Mutated husks (their blow leaves you hungry), infected camels that ram, infected scorpions whose sting poisons.
• Bells. Ring one and every one of the dead near it comes. To call them away, or down on yourself.
• Screamers. Now and then one of the dead screams when it sees you, and the others come.
• Weather. Rain and storms close the world in.
• Traces of what happened. Carts left in the streets, barricades, walled-off blocks, burial grounds, canals with their boats, buildings fallen in or grown through by trees, the bands where fire went through.
• The makeshift grenade. Thrown, it bursts after a moment and puts down the dead round it; no block is broken. It is loud.
• More buildings. A field hospital, a market hall held from its roof, a prison made a settlement, a bell tower, a morgue, a school with a roof garden, a water tower, a checkpoint.
• The Vandal has a new look - and a face to fear.
• Smite works on all the plague's creatures (they are undead now); Bane of Arthropods on the scorpion. Looting works.
• Zombie villages sit level with the ground, out in the country only.
• Streets bend and follow the ground; worn paths cross the open ground.
• Spanish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese, as Nookworks has them (the Spanish also for Latin America, the Brazilian also for Portugal).
• /nzw start strong (cheats on): start the If armed to the teeth, for trying it out.
• Many fixes: the Vandal's size, its fall and minecarts; houses facing their streets; nothing left floating.

Worlds from 0.1.0: places you have not been yet generate with the new content; the desert can appear next to land you have already explored, with a hard edge between them.