TheHollowing

# 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.