Midnight Madness

In the 1.3.6 update:

Demons:

• Added Soulseeker and Imitator. Reaper will be added later with the config update (probably next update).
• General:
  • Added "Battle Mode" mechanic to Necromancer, Skeleton King and Underworld Guardian.
• Dark Wolf:
  • Decreased minimum light level required for spawn from 9 to 7.
  • Now identified as Undead.
• Hanged Man:
  • Updated all animations.
  • Decreased movement speed from 0.45 to 0.42.
• Fallen King:
  • Added missing spawn restrictions.
• Skeleton King:
  • Changed step height to 3 blocks.
  • Decreased movement speed from 0.66 to 0.63.
  • Added chat messages.
  • Added "Call of the Skeleton King" ability.
  • Updated "Champion's Subordinates" ability: now spawns 8 skeletons instead of 9, improved procedure.
• Underworld Guardian:
  • Updated "Ground Shake" ability:
    • Minimal possible damage changed to 6.
    • Changed damage range to 25.
    • Now deals 6 more damage every 5 blocks closer to the Underworld Guardian (6 damage at 25 block range, 12 at 20, 18 at 15 etc.).
  • Changed step height to 2.4 blocks.
  • Disabled attack animation (Underworld Guardian now stomps the target instead of punching).
  • Now identified as Undead.
• Underworld Horror:
  • Changed step height to 1.6 blocks.

Blocks:

• Added Rotten Oak Door and Trapdoor.
• Blocks made of Rotten Oak can now be used as a fuel for furnaces.

Items:

• 1 new item: Strange Note.
• Midnight Necronomicon:
  • Added new information.
  • Added page numeration.
  • Fixed text mess in Resources, page 2.

Armory & Tools:

• Increased Demonic Armor enchantability from 9 to 17.
• Changed amount of Souls needed to create Soul-Cursed tools from 13 to 9.

Advancements:

• 4 new advancements:
  • Demonic Impudence (Let the Soulseeker steal a Dragon or Horrifying Soul from you).
  • The Fall of Humanity (Let the demons kill 666 human beings).
  • Demon Slayer (Kill 666 demons).
  • Full Moon Hunter (Kill 13 full moon demons during one full moon night).

Other:

• Updated welcoming message.
• Improved soul drop system. And some other minor changes and fixes, as usual.

In the "Demonic Era" update:

Demons:

• General:
  • All demons are now identified as undead.
  • Added "Battle Mode" mechanic:
    • Allows demons with abilities to use them only when in battle.
    • Turns on when the demon takes damage.
    • Turns off 2 minutes after last damage was taken.
• 1 new demonic boss - Demon King:
  • Has 1000 health, 20 armor, 36 attack damage.
  • Lives in his castle in the Underworld.
  • Has 4 active abilities:
    • "Lord of Death" - Demon King summons demons and armored Wither Skeletons to fight for him.
    • "Eternal Chaos" - Demon King buffs all demons in 27 block radius.
    • "Heart of the Underworld" - Demon King calls out to the Underworld and heals himself and all demons in 30 block radius. Demon King doesn't use the ability outside of the Underworld.
    • "Withering Horror" - Demon King summons the Wither.
  • Has 3 stages which define what abilities he can use:
    • 1st stage(800 and more health) - only "Lord of Death" ability.
    • 2nd stage(300-800 health) - "Lord of Death" and "Eternal Chaos" abilities.
    • 3rd stage(50-300 health) - "Withering Horror" and "Heart of the Underworld" abilities.
  • Has passive Fear aura as well.
• Dark Wolf:
  • Decreased minimum light level required for spawn from 9 to 7.
• Fallen King:
  • Added missing spawn restrictions(Thanks Zhyrux).
• Hanged Man:
  • Updated all animations.
  • Decreased movement speed from 0.45 to 0.42.
• Imitator:
  • Added missing spawn restrictions(Thanks Zhyrux).
• Reaper:
  • Changed step height to 1.2 blocks.
• Skeleton King:
  • Changed step height to 3 blocks.
  • Decreased movement speed from 0.66 to 0.63.
  • Added chat messages(can be disabled in config).
  • Added new ability - "Call of the Skeleton King":
    • Passive aura, applies new "Call of the Skeleton King" effect on all entities in 18 block radius.
    • If a human being dies with this effect, a Skeleton(80%) or Wither Skeleton(20%) will spawn on its place.
  • Updated "Champion's Subordinates" ability: now spawns 8 skeletons instead of 9, improved procedure.
• Underworld Guardian:
  • Updated "Ground Shake" ability:
    • Minimal possible damage changed to 6.
    • Changed damage range to 25.
    • Now deals 6 more damage every 5 blocks closer to the Underworld Guardian(6 damage at 25 block range, 12 at 20, 18 at 15 etc.).
  • Changed step height to 2.4 blocks.
  • Disabled attack animation(Underworld Guardian now stomps the target instead of punching).
• Underworld Horror:
  • Changed step height to 1.6 blocks.

Structures:

• 1 new structure - Demon King's Castle:
  • Spawns in the Underworld, Underworld Wastelands biome.
  • Rare, 1 structure in 124 chunks.
  • Contains spawners of demons and chests full of loot.
  • Also contains a boss to fight - the Demon King himself!
  • Often gets cut off on one side because of how MCreator and Minecraft work with large structures, I'm still trying to fix this.
• Arena:
  • Structure removed.
• Necropolis:
  • Removed unnecessary blocks inside the structure.

Items:

• Added 1 new Strange Note that will help the player to understand that the Demon King is tired of waiting.
• Added 1 new Necronomicon Page(Demonic Bosses, page 3).
• Horrifying/Dragon Souls are now immune to fire.
• Midnight Necronomicon:
  • Added new information.
  • Rewritten all Demonic Bosses' pages. The lore has slightly changed.
  • Text fixes and corrections for some pages.

Armory & Tools:

• 1 new sword - Awakened Eternal Devourer:
  • Has 32 damage, 6666 durability, 28 enchantability.
  • Has 100% chance to extract soul from killed entity.
  • Has active ability - "Soul Hunger": for 10 seconds Awakened Eternal Devourer consumes every soul it extracts and heals the owner with it. Cooldown: 60 seconds, health on kill: 20% of target's maximum health.
  • Disables soul drop when the "Soul Hunger" is active.
• 1 new armor part - Awakened Dark Crown:
  • Has a curse that previously belonged to the Dark Crown(Unchanged).
  • Prevents souls from escaping the wearer's inventory.
  • Makes wearer fearless as well.
• Rebalanced Cursed swords.
• 24 new Cursed tools: Netherite and Demonic Pickaxes, Axes, Shovels and Hoes cursed with all possible types of souls.
• 4 new Broken tools: Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe. Can be obtained the same way as Broken Sword(by performing nonexistent ritual with Netherite tool).
• Dark Crown:
  • No longer prevents souls from escaping the wearer's inventory.
  • No longer curses the wearer.
  • Increased durability.
  • Changed enchantability.
• Increased Demonic Armor enchantability from 9 to 17.
• Changed amount of Souls needed to create Soul-Cursed tools from 13 to 9.

Advancements:

• 4 new advancements:
  • The Revenge of Humanity(Defeat the Demon King).
  • Grim Fate(Defeat the Skeleton King using Awakened Eternal Devourer).
  • Horrifying Harvest(Curse the Demonic Hoe with Horrifying Soul).
  • The One True King(Equip the Awakened Dark Crown and the Awakened Eternal Devourer at the same time).

Other:

• Improved soul drop system.
• Added config option to enable/disable full moon power-up for demons(Midnight Madness Configuration).
• Decreased the default chance of Souls leaving from 0,005 to 0,004(from 0,009 to 0,008 during Soul Harvest).
• Decreased the default chance of Dark Souls leaving during Soul Harvest from 0,007 to 0,006.
• Added new "Armory & Tools" creative tab.
• Fixed Cursed Altar consuming more souls than needed(Soul Energy mechanic).
• Updated JEI info for certain items.
• Updated ???'s chat messages, added new, cleared unused.
• Suspicious Stew made from Fearflower now gives Fear instead of Wither.
• Fearflower now works like Wither Rose: it applies Fear for 3 seconds to any entity that passes through it. And a lot of other small changes and fixes.

Enjoy the demonic era, mortals! I'll go back to my necronomicon...

Demons:

• General:
  • All demons are now immune to fear.
• Dark Wolf:
  • Decreased damage from 8 to 6.
  • Slightly decreased spawn rate and density.
• Soul Weaver:
  • Slightly decreased spawn density.
• Skeleton King:
  • Now casts the "Champion's Subordinates" ability 10 seconds after spawn.
  • Improved the procedure of space-checking before spawning.
  • Now gains Resistance lvl 5 while spawning.
  • Updated Eternal Devourer model.
  • Improved ability "Immortal Power"(2nd ability):
    • Skeleton King now casts it 10 seconds after his health went below 300.
    • Cooldown of ability now starts the moment Skeleton King's health went below 300.
    • Decreased cooldown.
• Underworld Guardian:
  • Now casts the "Ground Shake" ability 10 seconds after spawn.
  • Improved the procedure of space-checking before spawning.
  • Fixed spawning too high when awakened from statue.
  • Now gains Resistance lvl 5 while spawning.

Structures:

• Underworld Portal:
  • Updated the structure.
  • Moved to the Overworld.
• Necropolis:
  • Updated the structure.

Tools and Armory:

• Necromancer's Staff:
  • Added recipe: 2 Sticks, 1 Skeleton Skull and 1 Dark Essence.
  • Now drops from Necromancer similar way a Bow drops from Skeleton.
  • Decreased cooldown.

Other:

• Updated descriptions for Midnight Necronomicon and Enchanted Midnight Necronomicon.
• Removed fire spreading properties from Infernal Soil and Infernal Stone.
• Improved Fear and Fearlessness effects mechanics.
• Wandering Trader is now considered human.
• Added Fear potions. Can be brewed from Horror Clot.

<???> Greetings, mortals and everyone who reads this! This update is tied to 1 year anniversary of Midnight Madness' demons invading and terrorising Minecraft world! So, any of you, who install this update, will receive a gift upon entering any Minecraft world. But don't leave it for later! After 13th April, 2024 there will be no more gift for you!HA HA HA!

<kotishe666> You're right, horrifying gentleman. Install the update and reveal, why is this gift called corrupted... Anyway, I thank all of you for playing and supporting the mod through this year. Its been a long and difficult ride, and this is not the end...Nooo...Further - more. I still have a lot of plans for this wonderful, yet terrifying world, which becomes more and more dark with every new update. Also, I heard Skeleton King has some plans for you too!...Who knows what his mind is up to...

In the "Rise of the Full Moon" update:

Demons:

• 1 new full moon demon - Imitator:
  • Has 60 health, 4 armor, 8 attack damage.
  • Imitates sounds of 13 Minecraft mobs, chooses the mob to imitate upon spawning. In future may also evolve to imitate sounds of mobs from other mods.
  • List of mobs this demon can imitate: find it out yourself.
  • Drop: 13 xp, 1 Dark Essence(100%).
• General:
  • All demons are now immune to Fear.
  • Regular demons now gain Strength lvl 2 and Resistance lvl 1 during the full moon nights.
• Dark Wolf:
  • Slightly decreased spawn rate and density.
  • Decreased attack damage from 8 to 6.
• Soul Weaver:
  • Slightly decreased spawn density.
• Reaper:
  • Decreased attack damage from 11 to 9.
  • Now applies Wither lvl 2 for ~5-6 seconds on attack, affects only human beings(Reaper's Scythe passive ability).
• Skeleton King:
  • Now gains Resistance lvl 5 while spawning.
  • Updated Eternal Devourer model.
  • Improved ability "Immortal Power"(2nd ability):
    • Skeleton King now casts it 10 seconds after his health went below 300.
    • Cooldown of ability now starts the moment Skeleton King's health went below 300.
    • Decreased cooldown.
• Underworld Guardian:
  • Now gains Resistance lvl 5 while spawning.

Structures:

• 1 new structure - Demonic Forge:
  • Can be found in The Underworld, Underworld Wastelands biome.
  • Contains 3 chests with useful demonic loot.

Items:

• 2 new items:
  • Corrupted Gift.
  • Strange Note:
    • Contains a tip to help with mod's exploration, describing the way to obtain Midnight Necronomicon.
    • Is given to player in 2 scenarios: 1)When the Soul Harvest ends. 2)When player wakes up after the full moon night.
    • Won't be given to player if they have the "Demonic Encyclopedia" advancement.
• Midnight Necronomicon:
  • Added new information.
  • Added page numeration.
  • Fixed text mess in Resources, page 2.

Armor, tools and weapons:

• 1 new weapon - Reaper's Scythe:
  • 9 attack damage, 1.3 attack speed.
  • Applies Wither lvl 2 on hit, affects only human beings.
  • Drops from Reapers, just like Bow drops from Skeletons.
  • Can also be found in Demonic Forges.
  • Can be repaired with Demonium.
• Necromancer's Staff:
  • Decreased cooldown.

Advancements:

• 1 new advancement:
  • Full Moon Hunter: Kill 13 full moon demons during one full moon night.

Other:

• Added integration with JEI, which includes information tips for some mod items/tools/weapons.
• Added integration with Nonexistent+.
• Added integration with Born in Chaos.
• Added new configuration file, which determines compatibility settings(Midnight Madness Compatibility).
• Improved Fear and Fearlessness effects mechanics.
• Added Fear potion. Can be brewed from Fearflower.
• Wandering Trader is now considered human being. And some other minor changes and fixes.

Thank you for 100,000 downloads on CurseForge!

The Demonic Era is coming...

In this update:

• Added description to Midnight Necronomicon.
• Updated description of Enchanted Midnight Necronomicon.
• Improved Reaper's spawn mechanic(Human is low health condition).
• Decreased the Reaper's default spawn chance from 25% to 10%(Human is low health condition).
• Decreased Reaper's health from 100 to 90.
• Decreased Reaper's attack damage from 13 to 11.

In this update:

• Improved Reaper's spawn mechanics:
  • Condition 1(Totem of Undying triggered): small sound corrections.
  • Condition 2(Low health human): reduced the chances and delay before spawn; fixed a bug with too many Reapers spawning at the same time; now triggers if human took damage and has 6 or less(instead of 5 or less as was before) health; sound corrections.
• Configuration corrections.

In this update:

Demons:

• 1 new regular demon - Reaper:
  • Haunts the humans, spawns only when Totem of Undying is triggered or when the human took damage and has 5 or less hp left.
  • Some parameters of this demon's spawn procedures can be configured, more details below.
  • Has 100 health, 4 armor, 13 attack damage.
  • Drop: 26 xp, Dark Soul.
• Skeleton King:
  • Now casts the "Champion's Subordinates" ability 10 seconds after spawn.
  • Improved the procedure of space-checking before spawning.
• Underworld Guardian:
  • Now casts the "Ground Shake" ability 10 seconds after spawn.
  • Improved the procedure of space-checking before spawning.
  • Fixed spawning too high when awakened from statue.

Structures:

• General:
  • Updated all structures to be the "true" Minecraft structures, excluding the Floating Islands, which have stayed as features.
  • Updated generation settings of all structures.
• Necropolis:
  • Updated the structure.
  • Slightly changed loot table.
• Underworld Portal:
  • Updated the structure.
  • Moved from the Nether to the Overworld.

Items:

• 2 new items: Dark Essence Particle, Necronomicon Page(Regular demons, page 5).
• Midnight Necronomicon:
  • Removed the "Nether Structures" page.
  • Added new information.

Blocks:

• Updated tags of some blocks.
• Blocks made of Rotten Oak can now be used as a fuel for furnaces.
• Rotten Oak/Cursed Planks can now be used to craft a Bowl, Crafting Table and Sticks.
• Removed fire spreading properties from Infernal Soil, Infernal Stone and Horror-Soaked Infernal Stone.

Armor, tools and weapons:

• Necromancer's Staff:
  • Added recipe: 2 Sticks, 1 Skeleton Skull and 1 Dark Essence.
  • Now requires Dark Essence Particles to shoot.
  • Now drops from Necromancer similar way a Bow drops from Skeleton.

Other:

• Added Minecraft Forge 1.20.1 support.
• 2 new advancements:
  • The Fall of Humanity(Let the demons kill 666 human beings).
  • Demon Slayer(Kill 666 demons).
• Changed the welcoming message.
• Added new configuration parameters, which allows to:
  • Control the amount of Soul Energy Cursed Altar receives from every type of soul.
  • Enable/Disable the Soul Harvest event and its sound effects.
  • Enable/Disable the chat messages from ???, Cursed Altar and Restless Soul.
  • Enable/Disable the welcoming message.
  • Configure parameters of the Reaper's spawn procedures:
    • Enable/Disable Reaper spawning after Totem of Undying is triggered.
    • Enable/Disable Reaper spawning when human took damage and has 5 or less hp left.
    • Change the delay before Reaper's spawn(low health human condition only).
    • Change the chances of Reaper spawning for each condition.
• Other minor changes and fixes.

In this update:

• Fixed mod recipes for crafting table being incompatible with JEI.

In this update:

• Removed The Underworld due to partial end of support for Minecraft 1.18.2.
• Removed /enterunderworld command.
• Improved the escape mechanic for all types of souls.
• Updated Fiend's spawn sound to play only when the Dark Soul escapes the player.
• Updated Underworld Horror's texture and idle animation.
• Underworld Horror is now immune to wither and potion effects.
• Increased Underworld Guardian's "Ground Shake" ability damage.
• Updated Necromancer's loot table.
• Fixed issues with Demonic Sword(Cursed with Horrifying Soul).
• Updated properties of the Necromancer's Staff: reduced projectile power, damage and knockback. Decreased cooldown.
• Slightly increased Demonic Armor durability.
• Demonic Ores can now be smelted using the Blast Furnace.
• Updated Necropolis' chest loot table.
• Updated Soul Crystal recipe.
• Updated texture of Infernal Soil.
• Updated texture and description of the Infernal Core.
• Underworld Guardian is now unable to cast "Ground Shake" ability if he has 50 health or lower.
• Fixed demons dropping xp twice.
• Updated Skeleton King and Underworld Guardian to drop the loot after death animation.
• Improved the look of ritual recipes pages of Midnight Necronomicon.