Shadow Stalker
A tall horned shape at the edge of your sight. It vanishes when stared at and hunts you on the darkest nights. Bells and bright light drive it off.
How it works
Dread
Every player has a hidden fear value. It rises with darkness, depth, nights spent alone and every day you survive. As it climbs, you move through five phases, and each one lets worse things find you.
- QuietNothing yet. Mostly.
- UneaseFootsteps, mining in the walls, a door that was shut.
- ParanoiaFake chat, whispers, things in your base moved while you were gone.
- StalkedSomething is following you and doesn't hide it anymore.
- HuntedIt comes for you on the darkest nights.
Calming Tea, Camp Stew, the Ember Charm and a full set of Hollowsteel armor all bring your Dread down. On Intense, Dread grows twice as fast, hunts come more often and sleep no longer calms you.
What's out there
Eleven monsters
They come for one player at a time. Each one has a rule, and light, sound and salt drive most of them away.
Mimic
Wears your skin and your name and repeats what you type. With Simple Voice Chat installed it can talk with your voice.
Crawler
Pale and starved, it skitters through caves on all fours and climbs walls. Stare at it and it locks up, then lunges. It can't stand light.
Visitor
Knocks on your door at night, uses a friend's name and begs to be let in. Don't open the door.
Faceless
Very tall, with no face. It never walks. Every time you look away, it's closer.
Weeper
You hear sobbing in the dark. Get too close or stare too long and it stops crying, shrieks and runs at you.
Dangler
Hangs upside down from the ceiling. Walk underneath without looking up and it grabs you.
Lurker
Lives under your bed. Some nights you hear it breathing. Look straight at it and it lets you sleep.
Gravewight new
A moss-caked skeleton that claws out of disturbed graves. Its hits slow you down.
Ashen new
Burned figures that come to an abandoned camp's fire. Stay in the light until they crumble.
Toller new
A robed thing with a cracked bell for a head. Each toll slows you, darkens your sight and spikes your Dread.
Screenshots
From the game
Also in the mod
Places, tools and other surprises
The Hollow
A dimension of dead grass, ash and hollow stone with three biomes: the Hollow Wastes, the Hollow Woods and the Ashen Flats. Every ore has a Hollow version, and there's exactly one way out.
Under the bed
The thing under your bed can drag you into a huge dusty dark beneath it. Somewhere down there is the Nightlight, and you have until you wake up to reach it.
Structures that remember
Disturb a grave in the Hollow Remains, light the fire at an Abandoned Camp or ring the bell at a Survivor Cache, and something answers.
Hollowsteel
Tools and armor between iron and diamond that hit the mod's monsters 50% harder. Plus the Ember Blade, the Bell Hammer and the Grave Scythe.
Ways to survive
The Hollow Bell, Watcher's Eye, Tolling Charm and Ember Charm. Ward Candles keep a small safe zone and Bone Chimes rattle when something is near.
It talks back
A haunted main menu with something watching from the trees, and a chat that answers if you ask "who are you?". Survivor's Journals in chests tell what happened to the last one.
Before you install
Requirements
Simple Voice Chat is optional. Install it on the server and the clients if you want the Mimic to use voices.
About your voice
With Simple Voice Chat installed, the mod records short clips of your voice while you talk, so the Mimic can play them back near you.
- Clips stay in the server's memory. They are never saved to disk or sent anywhere, and they're wiped when the server stops.
- Only the last few short clips per player are kept. Whispering and group talk aren't recorded.
- Turn it off with Voice Recording in the mod's settings screen. Your clips are deleted from the server straight away.
- It's a setting on your own game, so a server can't record you if you said no.
Play it alone, at night
Free to play and to include unmodified in free modpacks, with credit. The mod is closed source; see the license for the full terms.
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