Every time something like this is done, we must pay our respects to Calvin

1:15 The one who watches when The one who listens walks in

"decently popular" so humble XD

TOWW is definitely a pretty major cornerstone of the “dwellers” at this point. Awesome to see the love and attention put into this mod!

Even a One more phase where getting under a 2 blocks tall doesn't resolve any problem would be actually Terrifing. Like seeing It suddenly crawl at me out of nowhere one day is Nightmare fuel

My singular complaint about this is the fact phases are time based and there is no way to reduce them, meaning if you decide you're going to play a world for a very long time, you'd just become stuck in phase 5 which would cause him to get stale much faster. I personally recommend implementing some kind of method to reduce the phase level (even something so simple as it resetting if he kills you, which would allow for tension to rebuild) and changing the way the phases increase to something more akin to EXP: each interaction with the player would increase a counter by one, once that counter reaches a high enough number, the phase increases without any warning to the player. In cases where he is actively hostile and can properly kill you, him successfully starting a chase sequence would increase the counter by 1 and the player successfully avoiding him until he leaves would be the failstate where it does not increase. Still, the changes you made in this video are very good and dealt with some of the bigger problems OWW had, you have my respect for actually taking the time to continue developing and improving this mod instead of abandoning it after initial hype died down, good job!

I think that once this mod gets custom animations, this will be a massive 10/10. For sure the best of the recent "dweller" mods

1:16 Needs to be in top cinco scariest jumscares.

LETS GO HES IMPROVING IT WITH ACTUAL HORROR AND NOT JUST CHEAP JUMPSCARES!!!

This mod just keeps getting better and better.

1:15 The one who whistles

so I tried it and boy was it terrifying! at one point I was looking for a village and a thunderstorm happened. then I saw the one who watches, I turn and start heading home and right when I thought I lost him he was now in front of me. Seriously good job on the mod. I've never been able to fine one that scares me until now!!!

1:15 almost got a heart attack

Good to see these fixes getting implemented, wanted to give it a try before but the large teleport distance making him just show up on top of you and kill you plus the high amount of hallucinations dissuaded me. Will definitely give it a shot now though!

Really good changes! I was using TOWW in a personal modpack of mine but removed him because the hallucinations spawned way too often and it got to the point where I had around 2 or 3 in my house just being a nuisance. By the sounds of it, this Stages sytem might help to mitigate that? Idk, but I'll be giving the mod another shot I think

Suggestions.. The one that jumps from above should scream and cause an impact wave on the drop, the impact being very small but if the player gets hit his screen should start shaking. And for the stalking stage he should have actual glowing eyes that can be seen in the dark and the eyes are the only thing that move while he looks at the player (despawning if the player gets off his view). Also the stalker should totally search stuff to hide behind and peak his head out off instead of just standing there.

2:54. "The Stocking Version". Ah yes, this man will help sort your chests.

aurrrgh!! its so scary when the (couple of scary adjectives) makes a really loud screaming noise and beats the shit out of me and kills me and i have no chance to fight back!!

This is awesome, I love the new changes and how things just become scarier over time. Overall amazing work and keep doing what you’re doing.

Pixel started speaking enchanted table language at start of video, man u need to do jumpscare warning

Bro I used it pretty much as soon as it came out! you did a great job man! Keep up the good work!👍

Ah, my watching brother seems to have been updated, great update Mr.Pixel Coder.

YES! Finally! The missing puzzle piece is in place! I believe we now finally have, the un-debatable best Minecraft horror mob! This was honestly a huge issue and you’ve made it so much better. Though I do hope you will keep on continuing to update it to perfection Suggestion: I’ve played with mod on multiplayer with friends and that’s brought up an issue. The one who watches is clearly balanced for single player. with the multiple watchers patrolling and waiting to attack in multiple places at once in hiding, having several friends with you means there will very rarely be a period of time longer than 4 minutes where someone isn’t actively being attacked. This is a huge problem that breaks all tension and turns the creature into a massive annoyance instead of a terror. And in my multiplayer world I have a friend who is constantly being harassed and just gets really pissed. This is just a multiplayer issue, hell maybe it’s even just a personal issue for me but I would still greatly appreciate if there was some way to balance it for multiplayer maybe a spawn cool down? Thank you for reading and massive respect for what you do!

Fire introduction im gonna go check it out

oooo, maybe you can do things like scratch marks and dead mob end trails, like pigs, cows, sheep, during these stages to tell that this mob is active, and in later stages gets more indestcriminate with what it kills, like zombies, skeletons, creepers, endermen working up to go after you

Hey, nice work! This mod looks cool and refreshing with the tension building you’ve added! Although I’d like to say that ensuring that it isn’t invincible would give a lot more horror factor in the sense that players don’t get annoyed when they realize they can’t fight back (I’ve seen this with a few KZfaqr’s reactions and felt it would be worth noting) Well made mod btw! Would try it if I could! :D 👍

I know you've already made some changes, but I feel like you could make a "Hysteria" meter type thing. So like, if you make very erratic movements (looking everywhere very quickly) or are in a tight or dark space, it would go up by a point, maybe being at low health too. Even just seeing his hallucinations increase hysteria. Each 10 points would increase the chances of him spawning. But, of course you can lower hysteria by doing calming tasks, such as swimming, eating cooked food, and being next to a bed/light source. I kinda feel like that would elevate the stress and actual scare factor. 0 points he wouldn't spawn, 10 points would be unlikely, so on so forth.

This mod is so cool, it’s nice to see a horror mod where the entity isn’t a black figure with white eyes for once. I have noticed something that takes away from true scare factor of the mod though, and I’ve seen it happen with a lot of KZfaqrs playing this mod. When TOWW spawns in front of you, sometimes it isn’t facing the player and it just slowly turns around to look at the player after already spawning in. I don’t make mods so idk how this would work, but I feel like if you made it so the entity is always facing the closest player when it spawns in, that could make the initial shock of it being there a lot better. Other than that, this mod has made me jump way more times than I’d like to admit, great job 😭😭

Yes sirrrr!!!! Keep up the great work! love the videos

This is super cool! I read you were looking into adding settings for this that make it take longer and I think you totally should. I've been looking for some good spooky monster mods to pop onto a survival minecraft for awhile and this is fantastic, and would be even cooler if it worked long term. : )

good to see someone genuinely improving their mod

nice to see my boy JFrostie in there Also amazing changes! I think this will improve our server well!

Dude I swear I love this guy and this mod I downloaded a few scary mods and I was really looking forward to “the one that watches” but I thought he was bugged because he never spawned. Adding footsteps (2:00) is such a smart idea I get spooked when I hear those footsteps but I didn’t know this mod has stages to it

I think you should make some horror mobs that act like regular mobs or mini bosses. Kinda like lethal companies monsters. Not simply jump scaring you but spawning in caves and at night. Chasing you if you get too close. It would be more balanced yet still scary.

I think this dude is way too standing out in his current form. Like white is so easily noticeable it kinda makes that „mystery” to go away. I think he should be more „grayish” also it would be great feature if his opacity dropped down the further he is. It’s great move forward with his behavior changed, cus horror in minecraft isn’t really about fighting monster. It should be like with minecraft sounds, the „ominous thing” in the air. This dude shouldn’t become „enemy” we have to deal with in head on combat, and be more like herobrine in older mods, where it’s the presence is what’s really scary. His mechanic imo should base on „jumpscary” attacks like,he eventually rush you from the trees and hit you once for big chunk of dmg and simply vanish in dark particles with proper music background. Like his behavior should be more about toying with player instead of fighting him so it’s not like 40 second shield-hit competition. Cool idea would be that he could destroy blocks but not all, but like recently placed so he’s more of a threat when someone is blocking away. There should be places where player can feel safe cus it would make many players get really tired if we had to deal with this dude constantly. Also fighting him back should be more about crafting some amulets like totems of undying but especially designed to like make his presence weaker for few encounters maybe one or two untill it breaks and you are vulnerable again. Something you didn’t want to happen in caves for example. That would also add this „build up” where like he appears close twice (jum-scaring you) but you somewhat are safe untill you have your charm protecting you. Also there should be like ominous sound that plays when he’s about to show up so player gets that „goosebumps” when chase is about to begin. Imo with all these horror mods biggest issues is goofy fight with the monsters or the running animations which kinda destroy the immersion. I don’t wanna give any advices about his art style, but maybe making him more of a ghostly figure without legs at all would be nice? So only his upper body parts being straight on visible, and lower being faded in? That would deal with running animation problem for the most par. And His head could be animated with some kind of croocked-twitching head kinda style?

great to see all the discourse inspiring change from horror modders

I'd suggest implementing a way to kill or dispel him for a time, before he comes back. Just so it's not like all these other trend dwellers who only exist to be an unkillable jumpscare entity, and is actually feasible to play in a horror survival world with. On top of that, not knowing when you will have to deal with him next will add to the psychological horror. I look forward to the future of this mod, keep up the good work!

1:15 the one who whistles

oh yeah, this was a much needed update. very pleased to see you giving it the improvements it needed!

I HEAVILY respect you for taking the criticism in stride and improving your mod. I don’t have much to say other than keep up the great work! 👍👍

wow a dweller. love seeing concepts that have never been done before

this whole video is full of suspense and tension

You're right about the jump scaring part XD

ur mod is so good hes scares me really well i was minining and i could see him in the deep cave just watching me in the fog

W mod creator 🔥🔥 it’s like seeing behind the scenes. Everyone appreciates you listening 👂🏼

1:13 bro really got me with the 🤚🏻😶✋🏻

The fnaf "jumpscare" was great, thank you for that hueheuehuehe Also, thank you for actually listening to feedback and trying to make the mod scarier instead of just cheap jumpscares and being always the same thing like....well, most mods all there, ans horror games tbh. It's a breath of fresh air seeing devs that actually care about what people think, we need more of that

Hey man as an idea, maybe give him more animations, like him deep breathing, when he chases you he chases with his arms out like he’s trying to catch you, creepier crawling animation etc.

I want the dread to feel like what zeemyth said. In a minecraft 100 days singleplayer world and coming back home after mining only to see your chest has moved one block to the right

I certainly really like this mod its creepy because the scares are subtle it stands out from the rest of the dwellers keep up the good work! The only thing I find annoying Is I wish there was a way to turn off wood stripping because I like the creepy factor but its annoying when he constantly strips logs on my house and have to keep fixing them.

I haven't tried this mod yet, but I've seen videos and it looks pretty terrifying. I'll definitely try it soon

This is a really cool mod and I got some suggestions: maybe sometimes when he normally goes invisible to get closer to you he could have a chance of only being faded to where you can just slightly see him? so it doesn’t seem like he always comes out of no where and you can actually see when he’s coming at you which sounds scary, especially knowing the fact that he could or could not always be invisible. also maybe adding a variant where you can rarely find his body hanging from a tree in a forest and as soon as you stare at it a loud scream in the distance can be heard and he spawns starting a random either stalking or chase stage.

If SCP-096 and Minos Prime had a baby:

Small suggestion : I noticed during playtesting that with higher tier gear, golden apples and ender pearls, it's possible to survive an encounter. At this point, TOWW becomes very loud and almost impossible to shed off. I play Hardcore a lot, so I think it'd be cool if, when you survive an encounter, TOWW despawns and goes down a few levels. This would allow to rebuild the tension even during long term plays.

Started watching before he got popular it so nice to see him get the recogniztion he deserves

Ty man this mod just got 5x better the spawn rate was low key insane

I wanna see a ‘scary’ mod that has an entity that has no model. You cant see it but its there. Footsteps, doors opening, maybe a shadow in a doorway or window. The scariest thing is the fear of the unknown and an unknown entity in your world is kinda spooky imo

I really appreciate that you're working on this mod and trying to make it interesting compared to the other "dweller" mods. I think there's still one glaring issue which is that he just dissapears and reappears, which is kind of lame. Not sure if it's part of design or because of limitations, but if it's part of design, it would be cool if particles appeared around him as he disappeared/appeared, almost like a smoke bomb so that you can't tell he's just toggling visiblity. If not, it would be cool if he did a sort of slow-walk towards the player.

I have some stage ideas to make The One Who Watches more horrifying! This stage should be that when he's chasing you, he can swim down, up, anywhere to avoid players going to the ocean. The next one is that he can crawl under 2 blocks and 1 blocks. The final one should be that if you stay behind walls (or doors ) for too long, it will destroy na noor (or wall).

I found this horror short movie called *Special Day* made by Alter and I thought your mod was just like that entity. I just thought you would like to see it like what a real life version of your mod would be like.

i really like this mod, and i have a few suggestions if you’re open to them! - for horror to be successful over the long term, unpredictability is key. you’ve definitely improved that here, but adding more variability and breaking up his activity patterns will be crucial to not just making him scary, but *keeping* him scary. It might be best to let him mix up his behavior within/between stages a bit, and perhaps most importantly, don’t disclose exactly how these mechanics work to the community - make it so that people will have to study and learn from him to best deal with him! there’s nothing scarier than not knowing what’s going on and what’s going to happen next. Perhaps adding a library of different unique behaviors (think ghost events from Phasmophobia) that could be randomly sampled from without telling people what those behaviors/attacks are could be a good start to implementing this. I’ve noticed, watching some videos from folks playing with this and other horror mods, that people catch on very quickly to sound cues and behavior patterns, which makes the monsters more of an annoyance than a terrifying presence. - when you want to truly scare, the best way to go about it from a psychological perspective is to return to our evolutionary roots. Consider what is frightening to people, but also *why* that is scary. In our past, we were very much hunted by other predators in our environments, and carried those vigilant survival instincts with us into the modern day. Giving the One Who Watches a darker, more mottled texture that blends into the environment better could be a huge step for making him more intimidating - at the moment, he stands out quite a bit from his surroundings and is easier to see. having him blend in makes it easier for him to get closer and closer to the player without notice, and implements an element of paranoia - he always *could* be there, but we may not immediately know. this will encourage people to spend time looking around them, constantly questioning their surroundings and their safety. his invisibility at times does help contribute to this, but there is little reason for people to search if he is impossible to see or fairly obvious when he *is* physically present. at least to me, there’s little that is more terrifying than staring out into the darkness and suddenly having your brain process the threat that is actually right in front of you. - this idea might be a bit of a more unpopular one, but i hope you’ll hear me out; longer periods of inactivity and a variable schedule of progression between stages could do a lot here. you’re already on the right track for this with your recent changes, but i think you could kick it up a notch to find the ideal balance. long periods of quiet will allow the player to settle, to an extent. they may even stop thinking about him, or entirely forget he’s in their world. upon a subtle, slow return or a series of sudden, unpredictable and violent attacks before returning to a ‘baseline’ activity level for the stage could really take him to the next level of terrifying. it also suggests greater intelligence and strategy on behalf of the creature - he is so confident that he knows he can take as much time as he likes, and understands *himself* how to scare (rather than giving the impression that *you* as the creator of the mod know how to scare - he has more life, agency, and personality in-game himself). of course, this sort of thing isn’t always ideal for the content creation angle, as it could take a lot longer for exciting things to happen, but i’d argue that the boost to the tension would make for a better experience both playing and watching others play. Once it becomes obvious how he works, the fear is gone - so have him take his time, play his cards carefully, and when he’s ready to *really* attack, he’ll make it count. apologies for the essay-length response, but i hope some of these ideas might help! if you want to chat further, i’d love to - i’m a big fan of horror and currently a psychology student who loves using what i’ve learned to analyze the hell out of horror media and figure out why and how it is effective (or not!). thanks to anyone who read through all this!

I don't think this would actuaoly scare me yet, but it's definately getting closer

I just imagine having a mini map mod with an enemy radar and just seeing a red dot rapidly approach you only to turn around and see nothing.

You should make the footsteps sound slightly different, so it's easier to notice and amplifies the effect in multiplayer. Adding a config file for the time of each stages could also be bery good, since it is short for long runs

Finally he won't jumpscare me as soon as I start a new world I am very thankful for this

I love the entity's stance in the thumbnail like a jojo pose..

The one who subscribes

Dude I love your Videos and this new Update will probably make this my favorite dweller. you should also make the footsteps get louder the closer he gets on stage one. If you could add an animation for when he spawns and disappears that would make it the only dweller that does that so far. Also when he walks (if he does) he should have the normal "run" animation, but when He Actually Runs After you, He Runs on all Fours. Note: It would be cool if his head is always facing the player kinda like Huggy Wuggy From Poppy Playtime, and made him crawl on the celling. Great Mod Though!

Don't take this the wrong way, but the concept is good, though given the increase in mods that are essentially "Lanky man chases you." I feel like alot of reactions to your mod are infact KZfaqrs who simply scream in order to generate views and replayed moments whenever the creature shows up. If you ask me, overhauling the run animation would help with this greatly. Perhaps make him spawn exclusively at night, and disable the ability to sleep when they are actively stalking / hunting the player. Additionally, the onscreen jumpscare is simply not needed when nothing is ACTUALLY happening, nor is that kind of thing really needed in general when creating something scary, just take that one video of the Enderman running up the stairs for example. The idea of it stalking the player is really good, and hanging on the cave ceilings actually makes it unexpected, but how about instead of simply jumpscaring the player with all forms of tension essentially thrown out the window once the player gets used to their antics, you could perhaps after a certain number of chase sequences, have the behavior change. If there's no bed or other structures within several hundreds of blocks of the player, and they're essentially in the middle of nowhere you could have it enter a bluff state, where it lurks at a distance, but doesn't actually chase the player until they look AWAY from it in order to run away. For example, if you're in the desert and you see him in the distance, you have to watch him and back up a couple dozen blocks, before it turns away and runs off in a direction away from the player. In my opinion, these features would make The One Who Watches a dynamic aspect of gameplay in which you have to actually apply logical thinking and trial and error rather than just "Oooh run from the spooky white man"

This video slaps in 1.25 :D Cool mod tho, well designed

I love how he dropped down slowly turning to you 😂

You should make the hallucination grab the player and force them to look at them, and then they scream out and disappear with some sort of flash effect (like make the players screen white and then the white quickly fades while they instantly disappear).

Im assuming this update came before the recent two or most recent Calvin videos because wow TOWW has one of the best moments in the newest hour long video, definitely a great addition to Minecraft horror mods

This mod is already amazing and just got even better, but here are some suggestions I have you could add to TOWW: 1. Adding some kind of drop (even just XP) would be really nice, because when you play with other mods you can kill him quite easily (especially with the Apex Guns addon to Mr Crayfish's gun mod) 2. What would make TOWW scarier and even more dangerous imo, would be to give him the ability to crawl and crouch down (like the original cave dweller) so he can't be cheesed as easily Nevertheless, as I already said the mod is amazing, these are just the thoughts from someone who's been playing with it pretty much since it got released

I think perhaps there should be an earlier watching stage where he's REALLY far away, like 99% of the time you'd miss him but on the chance you see him it would be a distant silhouette

yeah i experienced the stage 1, literally was like bro wtf is walking, thought it was a sheep until i was in the middle of a flower plains with no other animals around

big black oily men

I feel like if you wanted to make the one who watches really interesting, you could have the stages not be on a timer but when the player does certain actions, you could go anywhere with the idea but an idea I like would be something that responds if the player “harms” the world too much

Vibey Work Great Effort

This is the only coder i understand unlike some coders do unbelievable shit out of numbers with no explanation

His hallucinations were my only biggest gripe when 3-4 would spawn immediately. I got jumpscared as soon as the world started. Otherwise he was a welcomed addition to my modpack.

a cool little feature you could add would be that if you approached the one who watches from behind his neck would turn a 180 degrees towards you. So they player gets this unexpected jumpscared

I would love to see a version of these guys that's affected by player insomnia

You should absolutely make it to where, instead of simply disappearing, he digs into the ground, and digs back up when reappearing.

I feel like you should make it so that TOWW's stage 2 should have a huge(300% extra speed maybe) speed boost while it is invisible(shorten the time it's invisible). So that it feels like it's flash stepping incredibly fast and makes you wanna run away more before it suddenly disappears.

1:11 BRO I WILL CALL MY MOMMY CUZ YOU GAVE ME 100 TYPES OF PTSD 😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😭

1:15 Can you blow my whistle baby, whistle baby, let me know

I think you see him too soon. And not just a glimpse, he's just standing there. Minecraft is the kind of game where the unknown is most impactful, because, well, most of the "scary" 3d models just look kind of goofy once you get a good look at them.

The day when custom animations are added I know it's gonna be a whole new experience.

This gonna be perfect for my server where we end game gear lmao besides they get scared easily:)

I think it'd have been neat that when you get close to him while he is stalking, instead of becoming invisible, he becomes increasingly transparent, (never fully clear) so it seems he's consciously trying to be hard to see and sneak up on you

The lack of build up is actually the one thing I've been saying for months has held this mod back from being amazing, so I'm very glad to see that you not only agree, but also put the time and effort into delivering a much more polished version of the mod. A few changes I would make though to refine it a bit, is make it so the stalking version transparent, so he's very hard to see, or perhaps give him AI where he'll only try to appear visible when behind a block, if possible, so that it feels more like he's creeping on you and properly stalking you (typically, stalkers don't like their "prey" knowing they're being stalked). The other big change I would make is to simple make each phase longer. 20 mins or even 40 mins feels a bit too short for the average Minecraft playthrough. Perhaps 1-2 hours per phase would be a much more balanced length of time that allows for players to still fully experience the mod without it feeling like it's happening too fast. Especially since people usually throw him into mod packs with other "spooky" mods, having him be more subtle than something like the Man From The Fog and have that longer buildup will make it when he finally does start attacking you feel much more impactful. I'm very impressed with what you've done with the mod so far, and with this new update, it definitely is one of the best "dweller/entity" mods to come out since this Minecraft horror craze started. Can't wait to see those custom animations when they finally get added :D

You should make it to where he repeats the stages, or after he completes the stages the first time, have it randomize the stages, just to mix it up for older worlds

That sheep shrine tho-

Therapist: SCP 096 from walmart isn't real, he can't hurt you SCP 096 from Walmart:

It’s come a long way pixel❤

Nice work

Hey Mr pixel coder as a guy who is way to scared to play a low quality mobile version of the cave dweller I recommend you add this monster without a hit box so the only way to survive is run and if you hide he will despawn

You could make the hanging version have an animation where he screams before aggroing and chase you

Only feedback I have is: try to cut down on the number of times it despawns in your line of sight. If it's supposed to have an invisibility power, give it an animation for going invisible so it's less immersion-breaking. I think you could take a page out of the Cave Dweller's book and and run Line-of-Sight checks before spawning and despawning the creature.