Spooky Nights

Spooky Nights hits v1.0.0!

Version v1.0.0 brings brand new content! The old mod has evolved into a complete gameplay system that I hope you will find much more fun. A new progression mechanic now allows you to gear up properly to face these new creatures.

The mod is highly configurable, so feel free to tweak it to your liking!

Note on default settings:

• 👻 **Specters:** Spawn only at night, but all year round.
• 🍬 **Candies:** Are only available in **October** (Month 10). 
• All of this can be changed in the config files to suit your preferences or your server needs.

⚔️ Spectral Combat Mechanics

This is the core of the mod. Spectral creatures are not made of flesh and blood. They possess a natural Spectral Resistance.

• Conventional Weapons: All standard weapons (copper, iron, steel, etc.) deal -50% damage to spectral entities.
• Spectral Weapons: The mod's alloys ignore this resistance and deal massive bonus damage.

New Interface: Watch your in-game tooltips. Effective weapons display a line of purple text (e.g., Spectral Power: -4.5 hp) indicating the actual damage against these entities.

⚒️ New Metallurgy

To survive, you must master new alloys by harvesting Spectral Hearts from your enemies (You can also find some at certain treasure hunter merchants).

Tier 1: Spectrium

• Obtaining: Crush a Spectral Heart with a hammer in the crafting grid to get nuggets.
• Smelting: 1025°C.
• Usage: The base metal. Normal damage (100%) against specters.

Tier 2: Etherium

• Obtaining: Alloy in the crucible.
• Composition: 60-70% Copper, 30-40% Spectrium.
• Advantage: +20% Damage against specters and superior durability.

Tier 3: Aetherium

• Obtaining: Alloy in the crucible.
• Composition: ~40% Spectrium, ~40% Bismuth, ~20% Silver.
• Advantage: +40% Damage against specters. The ultimate ghost hunter metal.

☠️ New Arsenal

Adapt your gear to your fighting style:

• The Warscythe: A unique polearm with an exceptional range of 3.2m.
  Advantage: Keeps enemies at bay.
  Drawback: Heavy and cumbersome (-15% Walk Speed, increases hunger rate).
• Classic Weapons: Prefer the classics? Forge Spears, Arrows, and Falx blades with the new metals to keep your usual fighting style.

👻 The Spectral Bestiary

Shadows have come to life. This mod introduces spectral forms of the creatures that already populate your world.

• The Specters: Face ethereal versions of wolves, bears, Drifters, glowing in the dark and much tougher.
• The Colossus: The bravest will dare to challenge the Giant Spectral Bear, a fearsome apex predator guarding the best loot.
• Reward: Every defeated entity may drop a Spectral Heart (from poor to bountiful), an indispensable ingredient for the new metallurgy, and gears.

🎃 Treats & Tricks

Find Candy Bags on monsters (Right-click to open). Beware, every candy is a double-edged sword!

• Ghost Caramel: Restores Temporal Stability, but reduces your physical damage (Weakness).
• Mummy Gum: Heals and prevents knockback, but heavily slows you down.
• Spider Gum: Grants Super Jump and negates fall damage, but poisons you.
• Vampire Teeth: Massive instant heal, but drains your Temporal Stability (-30%).
• Shadow Cube: Pure chaos. Can bless you (Full heal, speed) or curse you (Blindness, failed teleportation).

⚙️ Configuration & Guide

• Integrated Handbook: The mod includes a complete in-game guide (Press H).
• Configurable: Adjust monster spawning or enable/disable candy loot via the spookynights-server.json and spookynights-client.json files.

"AllowedCandyMonths": [ 10 ],
"AllowedSpawnMonths": [ 10 ]

"SpawnOnlyOnFullMoon": true,
"CandyOnlyOnFullMoon": true,
"AllowedCandyMonths": [],
"AllowedSpawnMonths": []

"SpawnOnlyAtNight": true,
"CandyOnlyOnFullMoon": true,
"AllowedCandyMonths": [],
"AllowedSpawnMonths": []

🛠️ Utility Commands

This mod adds simple chat commands to help you check your environment and understand how the Sanity mechanics apply to your current location.

• /snlight : Checks the light level at your exact position. This will help you configure the LightLevelThreshold value to your liking. (14 by default)
• /snmoon : Displays the current moon phase.

License: GNU General Public License v3.