Null Presence

Null Presence 1.0.1-forge-1.20.1

This update heavily improves Null’s horror behavior, stalking logic, and world presence.

Added

• Added a new From The Fog-inspired stalking system for Null.

• Added randomized sightings instead of predictable appearance cycles.

• Added close-range appearances where Null can spawn directly behind the player, near the shoulder, in blind spots, or just outside the player’s view.

• Added medium-range stalking appearances.

• Added long-range lurking appearances where Null watches from far away.

• Added cave and tunnel stalking behavior.

• Added contextual false footsteps based on nearby blocks:

  • Stone
  • Deepslate
  • Grass
  • Dirt
  • Wood
  • Gravel
  • Sand
  • Snow

• Added rare environmental hauntings.

• Added rare Null signs.

• Added ghost-door style haunting events.

• Added stronger “presence” behavior so Null can appear during normal player actions such as walking, sprinting, mining, opening containers, jumping, crouching, taking damage, and exploring caves.

• Added new broken moon visuals with darker and more disturbing phases.

• Added safety checks to keep Null grounded.

• Added water and lava checks so Null no longer appears floating over lakes, rivers, or lava.

• Added cleanup for orphaned Null display entities.

Changed

• Null’s appearances are now fully randomized instead of following a fixed pattern.
• Close sightings are now more common to make Null more threatening.
• Long-distance sightings still happen, but no longer dominate the experience.
• Hauntings now vary more between sightings, footsteps, ghost doors, traces, signs, and ambient events.
• Sign events are now much rarer.
• False footsteps are less frequent and less spammy.
• Null now respects pause windows between appearances so he feels unpredictable rather than constant.
• Cave stalking no longer relies on surface heightmaps, so Null should appear inside caves instead of above them.
• Spawn placement has been improved so Null stays on solid ground.
• Manual and automatic spawning were made more reliable.
• Advancements now trigger more consistently when Null appears.
• Config toggles were repaired and should no longer reset themselves incorrectly.
• The mod is now much quieter overall.

Removed / Disabled

• Disabled Null’s custom playsound events.
• Removed unwanted Darkness effects from Null events.
• Removed excessive particles from vanish and appearance logic.
• Disabled floating water/lava spawns.
• Removed predictable close → far → haunting appearance order.

Audio

• Null no longer uses custom sounds.
• Only vanilla cave ambience and contextual vanilla block footsteps may play.
• Custom audio files remain inside the JAR but are not actively played by commands.

Fixes

• Fixed /function null_presence:admin/summon.
• Fixed automatic spawn by selected day.
• Fixed Null spawning in the sky. (partially)
• Fixed Null spawning inside the ground.
• Fixed Null spawning over water.
• Fixed some missing function references.
• Fixed several broken config toggles.
• Fixed Null display entities remaining after the controller was gone.
• Fixed cave spawns being redirected to the surface.
• Fixed pitch-based placement bugs that could send Null too high or too low.

Notes

This version focuses on making Null feel more unpredictable, silent, and psychologically oppressive. He should now appear closer, more often, and in more varied situations, while still using pauses and randomized haunting events to avoid becoming too predictable.