Vanilla But Wrong

A Fabric psychological horror mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 centered on shared sanity, adaptive events, trauma progression, and UI/audio corruption.

Overview

But Vanilla is Wrong introduces a global sanity model for multiplayer and singleplayer sessions. The game tracks pressure, escalates intrusions, and turns ordinary survival decisions into high-stakes risk management.

Key Features

• Global shared sanity system (hivemind model)
• Context-driven Director events with escalation phases
• Event priority/lock orchestration for coherent pacing
• Low-sanity visual/audio/UI corruption
• Trauma stack system tied to death progression
• Medicine-based recovery layer
• First-join written manual with mechanic + recipe guidance

Sanity Model

• One sanity pool for everyone on the server
• Passive and impact loss channels
• Environmental pressure scaling:
• hunger stress
• darkness stress
• weather/biome stress
• dimension pressure modifiers
• Controlled low-band pacing near critical values

Event Framework

• Director attacks selected by sanity phase and context
• Priority-aware event locking to prevent noisy overlaps
• Critical-phase event sets for endgame pressure
• Execution states block lower interruptions

Trauma and Recovery

• Death increases trauma burden
• Trauma reduces long-term ceiling/stability
• Dedicated medicine items for recovery workflows
• Death/respawn handling integrated with cap-aware sanity flow

UX and Horror Presentation

• Dynamic sanity HUD and phase readability
• Corrupted overlays on menus and in-game screens at low sanity
• Button instability effects for psychological tension
• Tooltip/name corruption and ambient discomfort cues
• Retuned passive encounter audio for cleaner, less fatiguing horror

Multiplayer Notes

• Built for co-op pressure and consequence sharing
• Join/respawn grace handling for fairness
• Session/world state handling tuned to avoid unintended carryover behavior
• New arrivals are integrated into active world pressure state

Compatibility

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Mod Loader: Fabric
• Java: 21
• Environment: Client + Server
• Play modes: Singleplayer + Multiplayer

Version Direction

The current overhaul generation focuses on:

• better pacing
• cleaner event logic
• stronger atmosphere
• fewer unfair edge cases
• better onboarding and readability