AfterEcho The World Remembers

Your house remembers. Your shadow learns. Every promise leaves a mark.

Afterecho turns your home, your shadow and the places you discover into a connected survival adventure. Explore strange realms, restore forgotten settlements, master your companion and confront the forces behind the Eternal Pact. Wandering rifts now bring optional, unpredictable encounters to your journeys.

Follow the signal of a crafted **Rift Resonator** to discover wandering rifts in the Shattered Veil and Deep Echo. They appear rarely on suitable loaded ground while you explore, remain dormant until activated and fade if ignored. They do not replace your house or reshape the terrain.

Choose your challenge:

- **Shardstorm:** escape violet ground strikes while fighting its remnants.
- **Hollow Tide:** move inside or outside the marked danger ring.
- **Timewound:** avoid amber marks that damage and slow you.

Stabilize a rift to begin three waves, or invite up to three friends during the ten-second preparation. Party size increases enemy numbers and health. Your activated shadow and bonded combat companion can help. Only participating players can fight its enemies, and each present survivor earns their own rewards.

Seal three rifts to unlock **Overcharge**: four stronger waves with double base rewards. Earn **Rift Cinders**, a personal currency saved in your Codex, even when your inventory is full. Attune your Resonator through three ranks, increase its scan range, claim three one-time archive milestones or refine Cinders into Nightglass and Soul Thread. Completed progress survives restarting the world; unfinished rifts close safely.

Broken orbital rings, suspended crystals, glowing runes and colored warning circles give each rift a distinct appearance. Shadows smoothly fade when they overlap the first-person camera and remain fully visible at normal companion distance and in third person.

Your permanent shadow is a player-sized, dark violet version of your own skin. Pieces of its back and head crumble into purple smoke as it moves. Activate it with an Echo Focus to mine, build or fight beside you. Guide it through the order wheel, practice combat abilities and supply materials for bridges, walls and stairways. Eventually, bind one ultimate: exchange places with your shadow, protect nearby encounter allies or interrupt a dangerous boss.

Your actual house can awaken. Its selected blocks, size and built trap components shape the encounter. Blocks and container contents are recorded and restored, with recovery snapshots for interrupted sessions. Check in at least once per online hour. Ten minutes before the deadline, the house creaks and glows violet. Offline time pauses the timer; presence does not grant passive upgrades.

Choose your home's path through construction and offerings: a healing Sanctuary, a binding Workshop or a stronger Nightmare Keep. Develop three ranks and fill its journal with meaningful memories.

Discover the Shattered Veil's thirteen surface biomes and Deep Echo's three cavern biomes. Structures are rare and unevenly distributed. Ten large wild biome dungeons contain loot chests and configured mob spawners without custom bosses. Original guardian sanctums and covenant arenas are separate destinations.

Follow the First Echo campaign and choose to Seal, Bind or Free its power. Continue into a nine-chapter story that remembers that decision. Work with Mira, Orin and Lyra, complete real expeditions, develop your home, fulfill the covenants and raise a monument. The ending opens a playable epilogue with rematches, expeditions and archive trades.

Face four distinct covenant guardians:

- **Glass Sovereign:** shatter mirrors, expose its guard and escape crystal beams.
- **Rootbound Colossus:** climb physical platforms or strike its elevated wound from range.
- **Clockless King:** react to changing timing and alternating time rings.
- **Hollow Architect:** survive marked attacks as physical arena cover changes.

Craft sequential covenants from their unique materials and chart native arenas with an Expedition Compass. Explicit parties support up to four explorers, scaling boss health and awarding individual victory loot. Reconnect grace and journalled terrain recovery handle interrupted challenges.

Take retrieval, rescue, machine-repair and rift expeditions from Haven keepers. Recover owner-bound memories, repair actual machinery or defeat party-bound remnants at rare native destinations. Participation and rewards are individual. Optional mega-dungeon rooms add functioning arrow traps, two-lever bridge puzzles, water traversal and alternative routes.

Bond a Shadow Wolf, ride and steer a Crystal Stag or travel with a Veil Glider. Each has its own registered body, custom model, animation and glowing details. Develop talent paths, Soul Point abilities, relic forging, weapon affinities, armor and shields. Physically restore Haven workshops, bridges and archives.

The graphical **Echo Codex** contains objectives, requirements, controls, all **39 crafting layouts**, maps, talents and settings. Open it with **K** or **`/afterecho help`**. No other named command is needed. Press **Z** for orders; key bindings are configurable. Effects and trails offer Low, Balanced and Cinematic settings without a shader pack.

Requires Minecraft Java 26.3, Java 25, Fabric Loader and matching Fabric API. Use the same Afterecho version on clients and servers. New structures generate in new chunks. Back up worlds before updating. This release candidate has native singleplayer, dedicated-server and two-client rift coverage. Long-term survival balance and broader mod compatibility remain under evaluation.