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
