Pareidolia

🚀 The Forge Port is Here!

Welcome to the official Forge release of Pareidolia! We've taken the opportunity not just to port the mod, but to massively improve the psychological horror experience, stability, and code quality.

👁️ Horror Experience Expanded

• 5 Brand New Events: Added shadow_mimic, horizon_observer, breathing_cave, peripheral_pulse, and tension_spike.
• Perception Engine Integration: The server can now dynamically warp your vision, triggering subtle FOV shifts and vignette pulses during intense hallucinations.
• Watcher Entity Overhaul: The Watcher now flawlessly spawns at ground level, is completely invulnerable to attacks, bypasses physical collision, and vanishes into a cloud of smoke when observed.

🛡️ Crash Prevention & Stability

• Thread-Safety Hardened: Eliminated severe race conditions across all 6 core engines (Skinwalker, SpatialFold, VoidPocket, etc.) by upgrading to concurrent data structures.
• Robust Error Handling: Every single subsystem now runs in isolated try-catch environments. A failure in one hallucination will no longer crash the server!
• Null-Safety: Completely secured all client renderers (Doppelganger, Skinwalker, Watcher, TorchTintModifier) against random rendering crashes.
• Version Range Fix: Locked the Forge version range perfectly to [1.20.1, 1.20.2) to prevent accidental crashes on Minecraft 1.20.2+.

🔧 Under the Hood

• Fixed over 40+ minor bugs, deprecation warnings, and performance bottlenecks.
• Cleaned up mods.toml metadata and improved overall project architecture.