Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

[0.1.2-beta] - 2026-03-11

Added

• Horror stability/performance guard rails:
  • per-player horror event budget per minute
  • global anti-spam cooldown for horror triggers
  • network limiter for jumpscare/scare pulse packets
  • particle burst clamping for directed hallucination effects
• New debugging workflow:
  • /sanity debug on
  • /sanity debug off
  • /sanity debug status
  • detailed sanity tick debug messages (gain/loss sources, multipliers, stage transitions, event budget)
• Sanity Afflictions V1 improvements:
  • short breath-pressure style exhaustion pulses
  • light tremor moments via scare pulses
  • soft disorientation/slowdown progression at low sanity
• Ritual Safe Zones V2 feedback:
  • subtle calming aura particles
  • audible safe-zone confirmation pulse

Changed

• Rebalanced data-driven profiles (light, medium, hardcore) with tighter values for:
  • sanity decay/recovery pacing
  • contextual multipliers
  • horror pacing intervals
  • stalker/bloody creeper pressure windows
• Ambient horror pacing on client is now budgeted/cooldown-gated to reduce event stacking.
• Dread fog naming cleanup:
  • unified config keys to dreadFogEnabled, dreadFogIntensity, dreadFogNightBoost
  • removed legacy references with external-theme naming.
• Fog presentation pass:
  • smoother fog transitions
  • reduced visible line artifacts in the overlay layer.
• Sanity HUD style pass:
  • sanity bar moved to dark gray/white palette
  • pill icon integrated in sanity HUD badge
  • removed inline numeric label (S:100) for cleaner immersion.

Fixed

• Reduced immersion-breaking visible horizontal fog banding artifacts.
• Improved safety against event/network/particle over-triggering under low sanity pressure.

[0.1.1-beta] - 2026-03-11

Added

• Contextual sanity decay multipliers (night, rain, underground).
• Reworked sanity HUD (more discreet metallic style).
• Ambient fear fog with cave/night/weather pressure.
• Torch-based fog repelling and torch-in-hand visibility support.
• Dynamic horror ambience director (heartbeat, breath, directional sound traps, pressure stingers).
• Near-miss events (behind-you sprint cues + short edge silhouette).
• Rare cave mining hallucination sequence (multi-hit stone break sounds).
• Bloody Creeper fear explosion (visual/audio only, no player damage, no block damage).
• Camera scare pulse system for high-impact hallucination moments.
• Zero sanity collapse mode:
  • visual panic HUD overlays,
  • countdown,
  • accelerating heartbeat,
  • death after configurable delay.
• Sanity Journal system with commands:
  • /sanity journal
  • /sanity journal clear
• Ritual Safe Zones (torch ring + pill in hand).
• Nightmare sleep outcomes (replayable variants).
• Paranoia mimic sounds (fake environmental threat cues).
• Mental afflictions at low sanity.
• Stalker Hunt v2 behavior (observe/phase/flank behavior, non-lethal hallucination pressure).
• Accessibility and safety options:
  • accessibilityVisualIntensity
  • accessibilityAudioIntensity
  • noHardFlashes
  • streamerSafeMode
• Data-driven profile support:
  • light, medium, hardcore, custom
  • command: /sanity profile <light|medium|hardcore|custom>
• False UI paranoia events.
• Corrupted loot psychological events (no real loot corruption).
• Biome personality events (biome-specific fear signatures).
• Party stress link (nearby panicked players add sanity pressure in multiplayer).
• Anomaly structure detection hooks (ritual-like destabilization zones).
• Mental Shield Totem support (sanitycraft:mentalshieldtotem):
  • restores sanity to max on use,
  • blocks hallucinations for a configurable duration.

Fixed

• Crash on invalid custom packet resource location initialization.
• Hallucination particle spawn safety (no packet encode crash if particle is missing).
• Sanity persistence behavior after death via configurable respawn sanity.
• Multiple mapping/API compatibility issues for Fabric 1.21.8.
• Mental shield item binding mismatch (mental_shield_totem vs mentalshieldtotem).
• Item texture mip warning by converting mentalshieldtotem texture to power-of-two size.

Notes

• This beta is focused on atmosphere systems and configurable psychological pressure.
• Most systems are designed to remain MCreator-compatible (additive integration).