Threat Director 2.0

Threat Director 2.0 is a complete overhaul focused on systemic hostile AI, configurable difficulty, multiplayer fairness, server compatibility, and performance.

Awareness System

• Added persistent movement, sound, and light Awareness profiles for hostile mobs.
• Mobs may receive one or more additional senses alongside their vanilla AI.
• Added reactions to real server-side events:
  • Mining and block destruction
  • Explosions
  • Doors
  • Containers and chests
  • Combat
  • Entity damage
  • Projectile attacks
  • Sound-aware mobs investigate the event location without gaining artificial omniscience.
  • Movement and light detection remain line-of-sight dependent.
  • Awareness assignment and behavior are configurable.

Mob Traits

• Added rare persistent trait combinations.
• Added the following traits:
• Coward
• Berserker
• Leader
• Regenerative
• Swift
• Resilient
• Traits use restrained visual feedback and emphasize systemic behavior.
• Trait prevalence, limits, effects, and individual traits are configurable.

Difficulty Rebalance

• Reduced ordinary difficulty pressure outside Blood Moons.
• Reduced excessive ranged projectile density and knockback pressure.
• Improved progression around iron-tier equipment.
• Made high-end equipment challenging without keeping ordinary Hard difficulty permanently apocalyptic.
• Preserved the previous full-intensity profile for Blood Moon events.
• Continued scaling abilities, detection, population, and pursuit per target player.

Blood Moons

• Added persistent Blood Moon scheduling.
• Blood Moons occur every several nights using a configurable randomized interval.
• Added atmospheric daytime omens.
• Added several randomized omen messages.
• Prevented active Blood Moon nights from being skipped by sleeping.
• Added a dedicated full-apocalypse pressure profile.
• Added configurable scheduling, announcement, and sleep behavior.
• Blood Moon state persists across restarts.

Drowned and Ocean Pressure

• Increased drowned swimming pressure at night.
• Added difficulty and threat-scaled trident access.
• Added high-probability Riptide behavior during dangerous conditions.
• Added underwater dash approaches.
• Trident impacts can destroy occupied boats.
• Ocean pressure remains configurable and becomes strongest during Blood Moons.

Skeleton Improvements

• Added long-range player detection.
• Added predictive aim against moving players.
• Added homing arrows.
• Added configurable arrow-effect payloads:
  • Slowness
  • Poison
  • Nausea
  • Blindness
• Added bounded effect durations with an approximate configurable mean.
• Added retreat movement and backward dashes.
• Skeleton pressure scales with difficulty, per-player Threat, and Blood Moon state.

Zombie Improvements

• Added sticky aggro after acquiring a player.
• Added nearby zombie aggro propagation when one zombie is attacked.
• Added per-player targeting ranges.
• Added lightning-backed horde calls.
• Added bounded reinforcement behavior.
• Added configurable weapons, tools, pickaxes, and shields.
• Added player-style zombie shield blocking.
• Successful blocks now negate damage and play vanilla shield feedback.
• Axe attacks disable zombie shields for ten seconds by default.
• Reduced default shield spawn probability.
• Reduced default pickaxe spawn probability.
• Tool-equipped zombies can break suitable blocks under strict safety rules.

Creeper Improvements

• Added silent movement.
• Added increased speed while approaching players from behind.
• Added variable fuse durations.
• Added persistent target memory after temporary line-of-sight loss.
• Added shelter and wall analysis.
• Added coordinated breacher assignment.
• A nearby creeper may sacrifice itself against a viable wall to open a path for the horde.
• Breaching respects:
  • mobGriefing
  • Loaded chunks
  • World borders
  • Spawn protection
  • Block hardness
  • Protected block entities
  • Compatible claim systems

Spider Balance and Abilities

• Added configurable speed, regeneration, jump, and strength variants.
• Added on-hit cobweb placement.
• Added spider hatchlings on death.
• Reduced ordinary hatchling pressure.
• Significantly reduced the chance of producing a cave spider during normal Hard gameplay.
• Reserved stronger hatchling behavior for extreme Threat and Blood Moons.

Enderman Improvements

• Added shared anger when nearby hostile mobs are attacked.
• Added pursuit behavior tied to per-player Threat.
• Added support for moving through two-block spaces.
• Added conditional anti-pillar teleport behavior.

Other Hostile Mobs

• Added bounded thematic behaviors for additional hostile families.
• Added configurable targeting, repositioning, ambush, support, and area-denial behavior.
• All additional behavior remains difficulty-, Threat-, and performance-gated.

Per-Player Threat and Multiplayer

• Preserved fully independent Threat calculations for every player.
• Added playtime and XP progression to prevent permanent difficulty avoidance through deliberate under-equipping.
• Death now removes part of the effective playtime contribution, providing a recovery window after losing equipment.
• Detection range, aggro, abilities, and encounter pressure scale against the actual target player.
• Improved group scaling with diminishing returns.
• Improved encounter behavior for groups of three or four players.
• Prevented inexperienced players from inheriting the full pressure of a heavily equipped teammate.
• Improved integrated-server host authority and dedicated multiplayer behavior.

Encounter Direction

• Improved coordinated encounter phases:
  • Stalking
  • Positioning
  • Engaging
  • Searching
  • Climax
  • Relief
  • Retreating
• Improved tactical roles, sectors, population budgets, reinforcement timing, and cooldowns.
• Existing loaded mobs are preferred before reinforcements are generated.
• Added stronger safety bounds around population and planner work.

Configuration Overhaul

• Added a fully documented JSON5 configuration.
• Added exactly three root categories:
  • general
  • vanilla
  • modded
• Added independent master switches for Vanilla and Modded behavior.
• Added per-feature toggles and editable values throughout the mod.
• Added English comments before every generated property.
• Added strict validation for:
  • Probabilities
  • Ranges
  • Durations
  • Minimum and maximum pairs
  • Population caps
  • Performance limits
• Invalid reloads preserve the previous valid configuration.
• Added automatic migration from the previous schema without deleting the original file.

Localization

• Added complete English localization.
• Added complete Spanish localization for:
  • Spain
  • Mexico
  • Argentina
  • Chile
  • Ecuador
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
• Localized:
  • Blood Moon omens
  • Sleep denial
  • Commands
  • Errors
  • Threat states
  • Encounter phases
  • HUD diagnostic values
  • OP logging
• Language is selected independently by each client.
• Custom configuration messages remain unchanged.
• Added readable English fallbacks for clients missing a translation resource.

Invisible Unmodded-Client Support

• Unmodded clients can join servers running Threat Director.
• Unmodded clients receive no:
  • Threat HUD
  • Blood Moon announcements
  • Custom sleep messages
  • Debug telemetry
  • Threat Director commands
  • Command suggestions
  • Raw translation keys
• Server-side AI, encounters, scaling, and mob behavior continue operating normally.
• Modded and unmodded players can coexist on the same server.

HUD

• Kept the Threat bar in its dedicated space between the XP bar and hotbar.
• Maintained the Minecraft-style XP bar appearance.
• Preserved the green-to-purple Threat palette.
• HUD remains limited to operators or players explicitly enabled by an operator.
• HUD packets are sent only to compatible modded clients.

Commands and Debugging

• Simplified the main command surface.
• Added commands for:
  • Viewing personal or targeted Threat
  • Forcing Threat
  • Clearing forced Threat
  • Controlling HUD visibility
  • Enabling OP-only chat logging
  • Inspecting encounters
  • Forcing test scenes
  • Inspecting performance
  • Reloading configuration
• Hidden the command tree from unmodded clients.
• Added session-oriented OP chat telemetry for feature verification and bug reports.

Performance

• Expanded staged Performance Governor behavior.
• Added configurable planner operation and time budgets.
• Reduced decision frequency and expensive work under load.
• Disabled new encounters during severe degradation.
• Preserved active encounter cleanup and safety behavior.
• Added hard population, reinforcement, scan, and path-planning bounds.

Safety and Compatibility

• Preserved vanilla mobGriefing behavior.
• Added protections for:
  • Spawn regions
  • World borders
  • Unloaded chunks
  • Containers
  • Block entities
  • Hard or forbidden blocks
  • Compatible claimed regions
• Peaceful difficulty remains protected.
• Recently defeated and distressed players receive recovery consideration.
• The Vanilla layer remains fully server-sided.
• The Modded layer contains extraordinary behavior and optional presentation features.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Fabric Loader 0.18.4 or newer compatible release
• Fabric API 0.92.11+1.20.1
• Java 17