Accessibility

Accessibility and Comfort

Every screen effect of Matriochka can be softened or turned off. Open the Artisan's Journal and press Comfort at the foot of the left page, or, with Mod Menu, use Matriochka's configure button and press Comfort (it works from the title screen too). The options are saved at once, per player, in config/matriochka-client.json; hover a line to read what it does.

Screen

Option	Default	What it changes
Screen shake	100%	How much heavy boss blows, phase breaks, World 9 quakes, a moved World Block and a trembling World Block nearby shake the camera. 0% turns every shake off.
Flashes	On	The white flash of a boss phase break and the red glow at the screen's edge before a signature attack. Off, a soft darkening of the edges stands in for both.
Soft effects	Off	You never get Nausea or Darkness, whatever gives them (World 5's pulses, World 9's moving ground, creature and boss attacks, vanilla sources too). A gentle tint shows how long they would have lasted: a slow green and violet haze for Nausea, a steady dimming without pulses for Darkness. The option is sent to the server when you join and when you change it. Blindness and the other effects are unchanged.
Cinematics	On	Boss introductions, the title card of a world entered for the first time, and the phase freeze-frame.
Attack subtitles	On	While a boss winds up an attack, its name in large letters on a lacquer cartouche, red for a signature attack, with a gilt line that shrinks until it lands.
Fewer particles	Off	Two particles out of three sent by the server are skipped inside the worlds and during boss fights. The game's own Particles setting still applies on top.
Gauge patterns	Off	The world's gauge on the HUD also carries a pattern: diagonal stripes past half, crosshatching in danger, so it reads without the colours; the boss bars show the boss's health in figures.

HUD and music

Option	Default	What it changes
Plaque size	x1	The HUD plaque (world gauge, Doll of Life, souls) from x0.5 to x2, in steps of a quarter.
Plaque corner	Top left	Top left, top right, bottom left (above the chat) or bottom right.
World themes	100%	The world themes while exploring.
Danger	100%	The tense theme that takes over while creatures hunt you.
Boss fights	100%	The boss themes.
Heartbeat	100%	The heartbeat that rises with low health or low breath.
Stings	100%	The short phrases for a place found, a Journal page or a quest done.

Every music volume is a share of the game's own Music slider. The music itself is described on Sounds and music.

Cinematics

• Boss introduction. When a boss wakes, bars slide in at the top and bottom, the camera turns toward the boss and pushes in slowly, and a framed title card names it: the world's enamel plate, the boss's name in gold and its title beneath. About four seconds; the fight does not wait for it.
• World title card. The first time you enter each world: its rule medallion turns in above a card with the world's name and a line about its law.
• Phase break. When a boss breaks into its next shell: a freeze-frame flash, a short punch of the camera and the shell's number.
• Endings. The Scroll's crawl is framed by letterbox bars and darkened edges.

Turning Cinematics off keeps the subtitles, the shakes (as set) and the flashes (as set).

The file

{
  "shake": 100,
  "flashes": true,
  "softEffects": false,
  "cinematics": true,
  "subtitles": true,
  "reducedParticles": false,
  "patterns": false,
  "hudScale": 1.0,
  "hudCorner": "top_left",
  "musicExplore": 100,
  "musicDanger": 100,
  "musicBoss": 100,
  "musicLayers": 100,
  "musicStings": 100
}

Values out of range are brought back in range when the file is read.