Silence in the Forest

[0.4.0] — 2026-06-17

Added

• JSON config file — server-side settings now live in config/silence_in_the_forest.json and are loaded on startup. All values are clamped and written back on load so new fields appear automatically in existing configs. Configurable fields: death countdown, sprint-escape duration, hatch min/max days, proximity radius and window, night multiplier, shadow patrol radius.

• Grave soul particles — the vashta_grave block emits drifting soul particles above it (via animateTick) so the grave is visible from a distance without coordinates.

• Soul compass — on respawn after a marked death, the player receives a Soul Compass pointing to their grave (lodestone compass with LodestoneTracked: false, no real lodestone required). Destroying the grave block also removes the compass from the breaker's inventory; breaking the grave before the player respawns cancels the pending compass.

• Grave drops bones — vashta_grave now drops 1–3 bones when broken instead of the block itself.

• Shadow companion animation — the second-shadow companion entity now mirrors the tracked player's full limb animation (walk cycle, arm swing, body poses) via PlayerModel.setupAnim, so its silhouette matches the real player under shaders.

• Shadow debug commands (cheats required):

  • /sif debug shadow visible — toggles the companion entity visible with a Steve skin for in-game tuning
  • /sif debug shadow tilt <0–30> — sets the companion's sideways lean in degrees (live, no restart)
  • /sif debug shadow distance <0.1–3.0> — sets the perpendicular offset from the player in blocks (live)

Changed

• Shadow companion defaults — tilt 30°, distance 0.4 blocks (tuned from in-game testing).
• Shadow companion scale — companion model now renders at the correct 0.9375× scale to match the vanilla player renderer. Companion entity sized to player proportions (0.6 × 1.8).
• Shadow companion lag fix — position was frozen at spawn because putNonPlayerEntity does not add entities to the tick list. Fixed: position is now pushed directly each render frame via pushPosition(), bypassing the broken tick path.