The Archivist v1.4.0 — Changelog

Added

• Added an explicit consent screen before the mod starts.
• Restored desktop screenshot events.
• Restored Windows Camera and browser-opening events.
• Restored process scanning, clipboard replacement, mouse movement, system beeps, and text-to-speech.
• Restored IP address, system username, OS, and hardware-based horror events.
• Restored desktop note creation.
• Added resistance sequences for quit and window-close attempts.
• Restored forced render distance, darkness, and video settings.
• Added physical observation notes that appear on nearby walls.
• Added blackouts that temporarily remove nearby light sources.
• Added full multiplayer body swaps, including inventory, armor, offhand, health, hunger, and saturation.
• Restored destructive ending outcomes, world corruption, inventory wipes, extreme teleportation, and forced disconnects.
• Added /archivist safeip to redact displayed identity and network information without disabling horror events.

Changed

• Completely rewrote the Archivist’s dialogue and lore.
• Removed generic AI-style horror phrases such as “I see you,” “there is no escape,” and “look behind you.”
• Gave the Archivist a consistent cold, bureaucratic, evidence-based voice.
• Rewrote all ten archival lore records.
• Rewrote every ending description.
• Reworked fake chat messages to sound like believable player messages.
• Rewrote HUD glitches, item names, system messages, exit messages, and external fourth-wall text.
• Restored real torch destruction, block transformation, item dropping, inventory interference, XP manipulation, and time changes.
• Restored forced Survival mode and sleep disruption.
• Restored the Archive File block’s controlled crash report.
• Updated the README with accurate consent, privacy, and destructive-event information.

Performance

• Replaced accumulating delayed-event listeners with a centralized tick scheduler.
• Reduced expensive player, entity, and environment checks.
• Cached Archivist target searches and path recalculations.
• Made camera disturbances tick-based instead of FPS-dependent.
• Prevented repeated paranoia events from being selected consecutively.
• Moved native Windows operations away from the Minecraft server thread.
• Spread large world-corruption operations across multiple ticks.
• Spawned the 50-Archivist infection ending in controlled waves.
• Reduced unnecessary renderer reloads.
• Reduced particle and pathfinding overhead.

Size

• Optimized the mod icon from 739×739 to 256×256.
• Reduced the release JAR from 869,356 bytes to approximately 441 KB.
• Total release size reduction: approximately 49%.

Fixed

• Fixed delayed events permanently accumulating tick listeners.
• Fixed high-FPS systems receiving excessive camera jitter calculations.
• Fixed native commands blocking the main game thread.
• Fixed repeated paranoia events occurring back-to-back.
• Fixed pending tasks surviving server shutdown.
• Fixed expensive isolation checks running too frequently.
• Fixed several multiplayer event synchronization issues.
• Fixed dedicated servers attempting to perform local host OS effects.
• Fixed inconsistent Java and CI versions.
• Fixed non-reproducible JAR output.

Validation

• Clean Java 21 build passed.
• Unit tests passed.
• Dedicated server startup test passed.
• All mixin configurations loaded successfully.
• All resource JSON files validated successfully.
• Reproducible build hash confirmed.