Changelog

0.1.0 — First beta

The first public beta of TheHollowing, a slow-burn horror mod for Minecraft Java 26.2 on Fabric and NeoForge.

Dread

• Every player has a hidden Dread value. It rises with darkness, depth, nights spent alone and every day survived.
• Dread moves you through five phases: Quiet, Unease, Paranoia, Stalked and Hunted. Each phase unlocks worse things.
• Sleeping calms you down, unless you play on Intense.

Paranoia events

• More than 30 events: footsteps behind you, mining inside the walls, knocking, scratching, tapping, creaking and footsteps above you.
• Whispers, close whispers in your ear, distant screams and a music box playing somewhere it shouldn't.
• Your base changes while you are away: doors left open, doors slamming, torches burning out, blank and named signs.
• Items get renamed, your hotbar gets shuffled, the world goes silent or blacks out, and you see fake death messages.
• Strangers type in chat, and the chat answers back if you ask it something like "who are you?".
• Jumpscares, which you can turn off.

Monsters

• Shadow Stalker: a tall horned thing that watches from far away, vanishes when stared at and hunts you on the darkest nights.
• Mimic: wears your skin and your name, repeats what you type and only moves when nobody is looking.
• Crawler: a pale, starved thing that skitters through caves on all fours, climbs walls and can't stand light.
• Visitor: knocks on your door at night and begs to be let in, using a friend's name.
• Faceless: a tall figure with no face. It never walks, but every time you look away it is closer.
• Lurker: lives under your bed and won't let you sleep.
• Weeper: sobs in the dark. Don't stare at it and don't get close.
• Dangler: hangs from the ceilings of dark rooms, waiting above you.

The Hollow

• A Hollow monster that kills you can drag you into the Hollow, a foggy dimension, instead of letting you die.
• Follow the bell to the exit doorway before what lives there finds you. If you die in the Hollow, you die for real.

Items

• Hollow Bell, Calming Tea, Watcher's Eye, Survivor's Journal, Shadow Horn, Flare, Salt, Stand-In Effigy, Smelling Salts, Dreamcatcher, Bone Dagger and Hollow Lantern.
• The Dreadsight enchantment.
• Spawn eggs for every monster.

Blocks

• The Ward Candle keeps a small safe zone, Bone Chimes rattle when something is near, Salt Lines keep things out, and torches can burn out.

Structures

• Abandoned Camps, Survivor Caches and Hollow Remains, each with their own loot.

Menus and settings

• A haunted main menu with a foggy night-forest panorama, eerie music, a flickering title and new splash texts.
• An in-game settings screen with Normal and Intense modes, Dread speed and toggles for every major feature.
• Config files thehollowing.json and thehollowing_chat.json, reloadable with /thehollowing reload.
• Advancements for surviving, crafting and hunting.