The Hush — v1.0.0 Changelog

Key Features and Highlights

Improved Animations: Added new dynamic trigger animations for specific AI behaviors (wall slamming and block breaking) and enhanced secondary ambient motions that scale with the entity's attention level.

Exploit Fix: Player sanity values are now correctly saved across server restarts and player logouts, preventing players from resetting their sanity by logging out.
Fog Interactions: The custom sanity fog no longer overrides vanilla fog types. Water, lava, blindness, and powder-snow fog will now display properly when active.
Bright Room Behavior: Fixed an issue where sanity whispers and drain mechanics would mistakenly trigger in well-lit rooms.
Block Hallucinations: Fixed visual bugs where phantom blocks would fail to clear upon logging out, and prevented fake diamond ore from spawning directly under a player's feet.

Loot Correction: Because the entity is completely immortal, a bug previously made "Cursed Pages" unobtainable in survival mode. They have been moved and now have a 20% chance to spawn inside nest loot chests.
Item Theft Mechanics: The entity will now steal an entire stack of matched items (such as torches) instead of just a single item.
Campfire Theft Visuals: Fixed a rendering issue where items stolen from campfires would still visually appear for the client.
Invisibility Fix: Fixed a rare loop where a vanishing entity that immediately re-entered a hunting state would stay permanently invisible.
Shield Mechanics: Adjusted shield-breaking logic to correctly register shields in the offhand even while eating.

Griefing Prevention: The "gaslight home" event is now strictly restricted to the Overworld, preventing unwanted block corruption in the Nether or the End.
Abduction Room Safety: Fixed the abduction mechanic to ensure it no longer destroys player-placed blocks during failed generations, and blocks teleports that would push players outside the world border.
Reduced World Corruption: The rate of permanent cobweb generation during light-dimming events has been reduced from 8% to 2% to protect long-term survival worlds.

Crash Prevention: Converted critical internal tracking data (attention maps, player memories, and entity caches) to thread-safe structures, eliminating random server crashes during high-activity ticks.
Hot-Loop Optimization: Replaced heavy distance calculation metrics with highly optimized alternatives, drastically reducing processing strain per tick.
Targeting Efficiency: Streamlined the entity's player-targeting mechanics to select targets in a single pass rather than multiple heavy loops.

Multi-Dimension Support: Fixed several world-generation checks that relied on hardcoded coordinates. Features like underground detection and nest placement are now fully dimension-aware and compatible with amplified, superflat, Nether, End, and custom modded worlds.
World Origin Fix: Resolved a math error that completely blocked the world coordinates (0, 0, 0) from receiving corruption or nest placements.
Unloaded Chunk Handling: Added safety checks to prevent silent data loss when corruption processing attempts to read unloaded chunks.

Dedicated Server Crashes: Fixed a major side-loading crash by ensuring client-only packet information is safely isolated from dedicated server environments.
Memory Leak Resolution: Added a 10-minute fallback timeout to automatically clear orphaned reposition locks when entities disappear, preventing permanent memory leaks.
Tab-List Cleanup: Fixed an issue where overlapping fake-player events left permanent "ghost" players on the server tab-list.

Real-Time Config Updates: Fixed a bug where changing configuration settings (including running /reload) failed to apply in real-time. Configured attributes like attack damage will now correctly apply to entities that have already spawned.
New Config Options: Promoted 11 previously hidden internal values to the configuration file, allowing custom adjustments for darkness drain rates, proximity drain distances, and hallucination thresholds.
Spawn Validation: Added safeguards to the configuration system to validate minimum and maximum spawn heights, preventing broken values from accidentally disabling natural mob spawns entirely.
Feature Toggle Fix: Fixed a bug where disabling the "climax rule breaking" mechanic in the configuration file had no actual effect on gameplay.