Alone v0.4.0

Alone v0.4.0 — the world around the survivor comes alive: real water, real weather, real game to hunt, and a full primitive-tech ladder from a sharpened stick to forged steel. Install the .mrpack with Prism/Modrinth (Minecraft 26.2 / Fabric).

Water is a real system (§1.2/§2)

• Tuned in real litres — you carry, drink, and sweat actual volumes, and you'll die of thirst in ~3 days without water, like real life.
• Two-stage hydration: a drink fills your gut first and absorbs over ~a minute, so you can't chug back to full mid-sprint.
• Get water for real — set a clay (or placeable iron) pot out to catch clean rain; rig a tarp funnel above it to fill far faster, and several pots under one tarp split its catch. Leaves are partial shelter now: rain drips through a canopy (≈half at 3 leaf layers, exponential falloff), so a pot under trees still slowly catches.
• Purify by boiling (or hot-rock boiling in a skin that can't go on the flame); raw-water risk depends on the source (cold clear stream vs foul swamp); boil seawater to salt; eat snow in an emergency (but it chills you).

Hunting & wildlife (§7)

• Deer are proper wild game: they flee hard in a straight line, smell you on the wind, see a crouched stalker only up close, swim fast to escape — and you run them down by persistence hunting, a real multi-minute endurance grind, not a sprint.
• Dangerous megafauna — wild boar and bison join the brown bear; a shield is no turtle against something that big.
• Livestock live at villages, not the wild (they're farmed, not game); squirrels are climbing small game; overhunting thins a patch you strip bare, and animals don't breed in deep winter.
• Predators scent blood and fresh meat, raid your kill and bolt, and follow blood trails you can also track.

The trapping ladder & tanning (§7.2/§7.3)

• Snare → deadfall → fish trap (plus a portable gill net) — passive food while you work.
• Leather is earned: hide comes only from blade-butchering, then brain-tans on a drying rack into leather. Butchering also yields bone, sinew, and fat.
• Bone tools (scraper, marrow, fish hook) and a woven pack basket (needs a bone awl) — the pre-leather carry aid.

Farming, seasons & weather (§4.1/§10)

• 28-day seasons. Crops grow over a whole season, need tending, and suffer drought and blight; soil fertility wears out without rotation. Farm from the stone age with a flint hoe.
• The sky warns you — telegraphed storms, deadly blizzards in the open, and insect pressure (with wetland fever) near standing water.

Fire, metal & the tech ladder (§3/§8)

• Make fire with a bow drill (needs tinder) or a rain-tolerant ferro rod; carry an ember between camps.
• Real metallurgy: fire pottery in a kiln, smelt iron in a bloomery, and climb flint → copper → iron → steel. Metal comes from the forge, not corpses — and the iron golem can't be cheesed (it smashes cover and digs out your snipe tower).
• Spears are the weapon line: a sharpened wooden spear day one, up through flint/copper/iron/steel.

The body & skills (§1/§8.4)

• You die from a system failing — bleeding out, dysentery, scurvy, infection, a cold-and-wet chill — each shown on the HUD paper-doll. A night's rest mends illness.
• Sleep isn't free: you wake having burned the night's food and water.
• Skill by doing — six crafts (mining, smithing, firecraft, tracking, pottery, and more) improve with practice, no XP pool.

Movement, carry & shelter (§5/§6)

• Human pace — a sustainable jog, with a real stamina-limited sprint; carry is hands + pockets as separate budgets, and hauling uphill under load is exhausting.
• Haulers: drag a travois sled or wear a backpack; rope to descend; a climbing overhaul for cliffs.
• Shelter that matters: thatch (day-one roof, no crafting table), a packable fireproof tarp, a warm sleeping bag vs a roasting bedroll, rammed earth walls, and ice houses / cold storage to keep food.

The start (§ loadout)

• An Alone-style pick-2 loadout read against your spawn biome — a click-to-pick menu, carried correctly across respawn.

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