Charon's Echo

1.3.0 — the Keeper takes his post

• Minecraft 26.3. The mod now targets 26.3 (Fabric); a 26.2 build ships alongside it for servers not ready to move. Under the hood 26.3 renamed a wide band of APIs (signs, the chunk-generation pipeline, inventory prediction, recipe storage) — behavior is unchanged.
• Charon's Vault. A gamemaster posts the Vault Keeper (an evoker who audits rather than casts) by placing a gilded blackstone plinth in the graveyard, crouching, and touching it with a Charon's Obol. With a Keeper posted, the stone offers a fourth way back: pay in kind — Charon takes the most valuable item from your grave and hangs it on the trophy wall behind the Keeper; everything else returns to you. Owners ransom their goods back from the Keeper (vault-ransom-obols, default 2, or vault-ransom-levels, default 30); unclaimed goods are forfeited after vault-expiry-days (default 30). The wall shows the newest vault-display-limit items (default 12); the frames are fixed and cannot be robbed. Breaking the plinth dismisses the Keeper — the ledger keeps its goods for when he is re-posted.
• The level-0 toll hole is closed (where a Vault stands): a player who dies with no XP no longer rides the toll for free — Charon eyes their goods instead. Without a Vault, behavior is unchanged.
• New config: war (default 1). Set to 0 for a peaceful graveyard: no armies muster, nothing fights, and the stone offers only the fare and the toll — the oath is withdrawn. The keepers stay on as quiet groundskeepers. Anyone under arms when the war goes quiet is stood down, and their service clock holds its place should the war return.