PARANOIA AYBW

PARANOIA-AYBW (Paranoia: Are You Being Watched)

Paranoia-AYBW is a psychological horror mod built around a dynamic sanity system, player behavior tracking, and unsettling atmospheric shifts. Instead of relying purely on jumpscares, it focuses on building tension, paranoia, and a constant feeling of being stalked.

Sanity System and Atmosphere
Your sanity is a constant factor. It drops based on darkness, proximity to anomalies, and exposure to disturbing events. As sanity declines, the environment changes:
- Heavy, localized fog rolls in, restricting visibility.
- VHS static, UI corruption, and screen flickers distort your view.
- The audio design shifts, introducing quiet footsteps that mimic yours, distant whispers, heartbeat pulses, and low ambient drones.
- At critically low sanity levels, the mod plays psychological tricks on the player, such as sending fake OpenGL/LWJGL error codes in chat, generating cryptic log files on your real desktop, and executing fake game crashes.

Behavior Tracking and AI
The mod tracks your playstyle in real time. It monitors if you are camping in one spot, running away constantly, or looking around in a paranoid pattern. Stalking entities (like the Stalker, Demon, Watcher, Killer, and Shadow) adapt to these patterns:
- Stalkers will appear in your blind spot and freeze when you look directly at them.
- If you camp, entities will spawn close by to force you to move.
- If you run constantly, entities will spawn directly in front of you.

Mimic Animals
The horror extends to passive animals. Cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs have a chance to spawn as mimics (or convert into them during low sanity events). 
- Mimics look identical to regular animals from a distance, but their skins are visibly glitched with noise and color distortions.
- Their ambient and hurt sounds are heavily pitched down, warped, or replaced with whispering and giggling.
- When approached, they cease passive behaviors, charge at the player with high speed, lunge to attack, and trigger aggressive full-screen screamers.

World Structures and Anomalies
The mod generates unique, atmospheric structures in the world:
- Abandoned Cabins, Sacrificial Altars, and Graveyards.
- Chests in these locations contain custom creepy artifacts (like old keys, ritually carved daggers, pocket watches, and bloody bandages) that play into the lore.
- Interacting with these areas or holding certain items can trigger further anomalies.

         P A R A N O I A A Y B W "Are You Brave Enough to Keep Playing?" 

  Minecraft 1.21.1 | Forge | Singleplayer & Multiplayer Created by XALoEX | Horror Mod 

WHAT IS PARANOIA AYBW? Paranoia AYBW is a VHS-style psychological horror mod that transforms Minecraft into a brutal survival experience. This is not a simple jumpscare pack; it is a psychological engine that tracks your sanity in real-time, adapting the environment to punish your behavior.

REQUIREMENTS & WARNING Minecraft 1.21.1 (Forge) No dependencies required. WARNING: Ages 16+. Features 4th-wall breaking, file generation, disturbing audio, and forced game shutdowns.

THE SANITY SYSTEM Sanity starts at 100 and cannot be restored. 100-50: Ambient sounds, heavy fog, and subtle unrest. 50-30: Entities appear; screen corruption begins. 30-10: Fake crashes, radio signals, and "The Director" AI hunts you. 10-1: 4th wall breaks; files appear on your PC. 0: THE VOID. There is no return.

THE DIRECTOR AI An adaptive AI monitors your playstyle: Running? Entities spawn in your path. Hiding? Entities spawn inside your "safe" zone. Static? A Shadow materializes behind you after 60 seconds. Sleeping? The bed deals damage and teleports you away.

VHS CAMERA SYSTEM Craft a VHS Camera to see through the darkness. It features: Authentic grain, scanlines, and tracking errors. Night vision with color bleeding. Limited battery and rare Cassette Tapes.

12 UNIQUE ENTITIES Hand-drawn textures. All vanilla hostile mobs are removed. THE STALKER: Watches from the shadows. THE DEMON: A relentless, fast hunter. THE CRAWLER: Stays invisible until it strikes. THE SHADOW: Your dark reflection, always behind you. THE CINEMATIC: The final entity that triggers at Sanity 0.

VISUAL & WORLD HORROR Forced Minimum Gamma: You cannot see without tools. UI Corruption: HUD glitches when danger is near. Red Moon & Heavy Fog: Sudden world-altering events. Sky Silhouette: Colossal beings watching from above.

4TH WALL BREAKS File Generation: Cryptic .txt files appear in your game folder. User Targeting: The mod reads your username for threats. Fake Crashes: Realistic error screens hide a running game. The Ultimate Scare (0.01%): Your client shuts down instantly.

THE VOID (Final Stage) At 0 Sanity, you are taken to a custom dimension of nothingness. A scripted cinematic boss sequence concludes your journey with explosive, blood-red visual events.

PERFECT FOR CONTENT CREATORS Features like fake player joins, 4th wall breaks, and the "Scare" are designed to confuse and terrify audiences.

INSTALLATION

Install Forge 1.21.1.

Drop the .jar into your /mods/ folder.

Launch and try to survive.

  "The only thing more terrifying than what you can see... is what you can't."