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A psychological horror mod that introduces a dynamic sanity mechanic, terrifying hallucinations, and an intelligent entity that stalks you.

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This mod is currently in its early beta stage. Features are functional, but you may encounter bugs. Please report any issues in the comments!

#  About Kabus: The Nightmare Mod
"Kabus" is an immersive psychological horror mod built around a dynamic **Sanity System** for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge). Darkness is no longer just a lack of light—it is a threat to your mind. As your sanity drains, the world around you will begin to fracture, forcing you to question what is real and what is a hallucination.

## Core Features:
* **Dynamic Sanity HUD:** Track your mental state with a custom hotbar overlay that shakes and turns red as paranoia sets in.
* **Environmental Sanity:** Staying in pitch-black areas, sprinting, being low on health, or caught in the rain will drain your sanity. Holding a Flashlight or staying near campfires/pets will help restore it.
* **The "Kabus" Entity:** A terrifying, tall, shadow-like stalker with glowing white eyes. It destroys blocks in its path to reach you, but it plays by psychological rules—approaching faster when your back is turned and vanishing when stared at.

## Advanced Horror & Uncertainty Systems:
1. **Shadow Figures:** Spot distant humanoid silhouettes wearing random skins—or even your own. They vanish when approached or directly observed (<30% Sanity).
2. **Inventory Hallucinations:** Distorted item counts, swapped textures, or valuable ores looking like stone (visual only, actual items are safe).
3. **Mimic Sound System:** Hear fake Creeper hisses, footsteps, breaking blocks, or opening doors right behind you.
4. **Nightmare Sleep Event:** Trying to sleep with critically low sanity might trigger sudden wake-ups, glowing eyes, and terrifying sounds.
5. **Uncertainty System:** Reaching 0% sanity won't always spawn the monster. Sometimes it’s just blindness, sometimes it's pure silence. You will never know if you are truly safe.
6. **Name Whispering:** Dynamic spatial audio that literally whispers YOUR Minecraft username in the dark, paired with faint gray [Whisper] chat messages.
7. **Reality Distortion:** Experience rare, client-side visual anomalies like blood moons, inverted trees, or screen-inverting shader effects (`invert.json`).
8. **Disturbing Notes:** Stumble upon extremely rare notes left in the world reading: *"don't look behind you"*, *"it knows"*, or *"stop running"*.
9. **Adaptive AI & Psychological Tracking:** Kabus tracks your movements and how many times you look behind, changing its hunting patterns based on your behavior.

## 🛠️ Crafting Recipes
It is highly recommended to use **JEI (Just Enough Items)** to see all crafting recipes in-game for items like the Flashlight and Calming Syrup.

Kabus Mod v2.0.0 — Major Update


 Dungeon Combat Arena

  • Rooms now spawn monster waves when you enter them
  • Iron doors between rooms stay locked until the wave is cleared

 Boss Summon System

  • Type anything with "come" in chat to summon the Nightmare Boss
  • A red countdown shows on screen: THE NIGHTMARE is coming in 5...
  • 60-second cooldown between summons

 Flashlight & Battery

  • New Battery item found in camp and tower chests
  • Press R to recharge your flashlight
  • Flashlight flickers when below 25% charge

 Hallucinations

  • Low sanity causes fake ores (diamond/gold) to appear in the world
  • Ghost chests spawn nearby — they vanish when you get close

 Simon Says Event

  • 1.5 seconds to react — fail and you get punished
  • Moving your camera also counts as moving during DON'T MOVE

Collection Challenge

  • Random event: a chest spawns nearby with a sign saying "Put Items Here"
  • You have a time limit to gather and deposit the required items

 Kabus Realm

  • A dark dimension made of floating obsidian islands in the void
  • Activate 3 Ancient Altars scattered across the realm to break the shield around the Heart of Nightmare
  • Destroy the Heart to purify the world and end the nightmare forever
  • Low gravity, random levitation, and shadow hands punish you for standing still

 Misc

  • New hidden clues added to the starter book

This mod is currently in its early beta stage. Features are functional, but you may encounter bugs. Please report any issues in the comments!

#  About Kabus: The Nightmare Mod "Kabus" is an immersive psychological horror mod built around a dynamic Sanity System for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge). Darkness is no longer just a lack of light—it is a threat to your mind. As your sanity drains, the world around you will begin to fracture, forcing you to question what is real and what is a hallucination.

Core Features:

  • Dynamic Sanity HUD: Track your mental state with a custom hotbar overlay that shakes and turns red as paranoia sets in.
  • Environmental Sanity: Staying in pitch-black areas, sprinting, being low on health, or caught in the rain will drain your sanity. Holding a Flashlight or staying near campfires/pets will help restore it.
  • The "Kabus" Entity: A terrifying, tall, shadow-like stalker with glowing white eyes. It destroys blocks in its path to reach you, but it plays by psychological rules—approaching faster when your back is turned and vanishing when stared at.

Advanced Horror & Uncertainty Systems:

  1. Shadow Figures: Spot distant humanoid silhouettes wearing random skins—or even your own. They vanish when approached or directly observed (<30% Sanity).
  2. Inventory Hallucinations: Distorted item counts, swapped textures, or valuable ores looking like stone (visual only, actual items are safe).
  3. Mimic Sound System: Hear fake Creeper hisses, footsteps, breaking blocks, or opening doors right behind you.
  4. Nightmare Sleep Event: Trying to sleep with critically low sanity might trigger sudden wake-ups, glowing eyes, and terrifying sounds.
  5. Uncertainty System: Reaching 0% sanity won't always spawn the monster. Sometimes it’s just blindness, sometimes it's pure silence. You will never know if you are truly safe.
  6. Name Whispering: Dynamic spatial audio that literally whispers YOUR Minecraft username in the dark, paired with faint gray [Whisper] chat messages.
  7. Reality Distortion: Experience rare, client-side visual anomalies like blood moons, inverted trees, or screen-inverting shader effects (invert.json).
  8. Disturbing Notes: Stumble upon extremely rare notes left in the world reading: "don't look behind you", "it knows", or "stop running".
  9. Adaptive AI & Psychological Tracking: Kabus tracks your movements and how many times you look behind, changing its hunting patterns based on your behavior.

🛠️ Crafting Recipes

It is highly recommended to use JEI (Just Enough Items) to see all crafting recipes in-game for items like the Flashlight and Calming Syrup.

Kabus Mod v2.0.0 — Major Update  Dungeon Combat Arena Rooms now spawn monster waves when you enter them Iron doors between rooms stay locked until the wave is cleared

 Boss Summon System Type anything with "come" in chat to summon the Nightmare Boss A red countdown shows on screen: THE NIGHTMARE is coming in 5... 60-second cooldown between summons  Flashlight & Battery New Battery item found in camp and tower chests Press R to recharge your flashlight Flashlight flickers when below 25% charge  Hallucinations Low sanity causes fake ores (diamond/gold) to appear in the world Ghost chests spawn nearby — they vanish when you get close  Simon Says Event 1.5 seconds to react — fail and you get punished Moving your camera also counts as moving during DON'T MOVE Collection Challenge Random event: a chest spawns nearby with a sign saying "Put Items Here" You have a time limit to gather and deposit the required items

 Kabus Realm A dark dimension made of floating obsidian islands in the void Activate 3 Ancient Altars scattered across the realm to break the shield around the Heart of Nightmare Destroy the Heart to purify the world and end the nightmare forever Low gravity, random levitation, and shadow hands punish you for standing still  Misc New hidden clues added to the starter book

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  • fight
    fight fight with kabus
  • who are you too
    who are you too ???
  • THE NIGHTMARE
    THE NIGHTMARE THE NIGHTMARE ıt has found you at last...
  • the Realm
    the Realm true ending
  • the boss
    the boss beat the boss
  • entity detected
    entity detected unknown entity detected in your region
  • survive
    survive escape from the kabus
  • kabus biome
    kabus biome kabus biome
  • THE NIGHTMARE
    THE NIGHTMARE THE NIGHTMARE ıt has found you at last...
  • survive
    survive escape from the kabus
  • entity detected
    entity detected unknown entity detected in your region
  • fight
    fight fight with kabus
  • the Realm
    the Realm true ending
  • the boss
    the boss beat the boss
  • kabus biome
    kabus biome special biome

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