Hollow Steve [HORROR]

Hollow Steve adds a ten-phase horror campaign to Minecraft.

The first days are quiet but not normal. You may hear footsteps with nobody nearby, notice something watching from the darkness, or find that sleeping is no longer safe. When the hunt begins, Hollow Steve becomes a persistent boss that grows stronger after every defeat.

Escaping through a portal will not save you. The same hunt continues through the Overworld, Nether, End, and compatible modded dimensions.

👁️ From Watching to Hunting

The campaign begins when the mod is first installed in a world. Old world age and /time set cannot skip its progression.

• The Watch: distant appearances, footsteps, whispers, strange sounds, particles, Darkness, and other anomalies.
• The Hunt: Hollow Steve begins selecting and pursuing real targets.
• The Progression: every victory advances the campaign to the next phase.
• The Final Hunt: phase 10 becomes a three-stage enraged boss fight.
• New Game+: restart the campaign after victory with stronger health, damage, and speed scaling.

Hunts begin on Day 3 by default and can be configured from Day 1 to Day 30.

⚔️ Hollow Steve

Hollow Steve does more than run directly at the nearest player.

• Tracks players using sight and sound.
• Remembers the last position where a target was seen or heard.
• Hears sprinting, block breaking, block interaction, and item use.
• Selects multiplayer targets based on distance, threat, and damage dealt.
• Chases players on land.
• Swims and fights underwater without drowning.
• Leaps diagonally toward players within jump range.
• Uses warned teleportation when a target is far away or the pursuit becomes stuck.
• Follows targets between dimensions without resetting the encounter.
• Opens doors, trapdoors, and fence gates in later phases.
• Breaks selected light sources when enabled.
• Breaks shelter blocks when enabled.
• Can destroy boats and minecarts during later phases.
• Uses dedicated animations for idle, walking, chasing, attacking, taking damage, swimming, jumping, spawning, vanishing, and dying.

Hollow Steve does not receive a player's live location without seeing or hearing them.

🌌 Cross-Dimension Hunts

Changing dimension does not create another boss or reset the fight.

The active Hollow Steve disappears from the previous dimension and returns near its target in the destination dimension. Its phase, health percentage, rage stage, and target are preserved.

If no safe position is available, the encounter is canceled and retried later instead of placing Hollow Steve inside blocks or outside the playable world.

🛏️ Sleep Is Not Safe

Hollow Steve can interrupt sleep.

When a valid sleep attempt is made:

• Sleeping is canceled.
• One of ten random messages may appear.
• Darkness may be applied.
• A Creeper may appear near the bed.
• Repeated bed interaction is rate-limited.

Daytime, occupied beds, and dimensions where beds normally explode retain their vanilla behavior.

The sleep trap, Creeper, messages, effects, and cooldown can all be configured or disabled.

🎁 Personal Rewards

Defeating Hollow Steve gives every eligible player their own reward package.

Rewards are locked to the receiving player, so multiplayer loot cannot be stolen or claimed by only one person. A recovery system protects tracked rewards that are destroyed, unsafe, near the void, too far away, or left in another loaded dimension.

Progression rewards include:

• Totems of Undying
• Healing, Swiftness, Strength, Regeneration, Night Vision, and Fire Resistance potions
• Golden Apples and Enchanted Golden Apples
• Milk Buckets
• Shields and arrows
• An enchanted bow
• Strong enchanted Netherite armor
• A Netherite Sword with Sharpness V, Unbreaking III, and Mending

Each reward is intended to prepare players for the next and more difficult phase.

🏆 Final Victory Reward

After defeating phase 10, every eligible player receives:

• 5 stacks of Diamond Blocks
• 6 stacks of Netherite Blocks
• 2 stacks of Iron Blocks
• 4 stacks of Enchanted Golden Apples
• 3 Totems of Undying
• 1 Nether Star
• 4 Potions of Strong Healing
• 2 Potions of Night Vision

The final victory also awards the Alone Again challenge advancement and unlocks New Game+.

🌐 Multiplayer

Hollow Steve supports singleplayer, LAN, dedicated servers, and modpacks.

Only one real progression encounter is active across the server by default. Players in separate locations or dimensions cannot create duplicate bosses, skip phases, or duplicate shared progression.

Multiplayer difficulty scales using nearby players who can actually be hunted.