Nightmare Stalker

Nightmare Stalker
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	70 ♥×35
Attack damage	7
Armor	4
Speed	0.28
Follow range	80
Knockback resist.	0.8
Size	0.7 × 1.8 blocks
XP dropped	40
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:nightmare_stalker

Nightmare Stalker is a hostile mob added by Born in Chaos. It is one of the mod's bosses: a 70-health melee monster that appears in darkness once a world is a few in-game days old, and that grows more dangerous as the world's time passes. Killing it awards the Fighting Nightmares advancement ("Kill the Nightmare Stalker"). Its drops include the Nightmare Claw, an ingredient for several of the mod's melee weapons.

In Fear Nightfall it fits the pack's night-time horror: it spawns in the dark, daylight removes it, and its behaviour changes with the world clock.

Spawning

The Stalker is a natural spawn only. The mod adds no summon item or structure for it. Its spawn conditions, as written in the mod's code, are:

• The overworld only, in overworld biomes (the minecraft:is_overworld biome tag, plus Terralith biomes). Deep Dark and Mushroom Fields are excluded.
• A world time of at least 61,000 ticks. This is a threshold rather than a night window, so once the world passes that point the Stalker can spawn in any dark place that meets the light requirement below, including by day.
• A light level of 4 or less under open sky, or 0 or less where the spawn position has no sky access.
• The Nightmare Stalker spawn gamerule, which is on by default.

Spawns come in groups of one. The table below lists the biomes it can spawn in, with their weights.

Behavior

The Stalker is a melee-only monster. Its base stats are 70 health (35 hearts), 4 armour, 7 attack damage, 1.7 attack knockback, 0.28 movement speed, an 80-block follow range and 0.8 knockback resistance.

• Melee. It chases its target at 1.2 times its base speed and attacks when a target is within about 1.4 blocks and in line of sight.
• Targets. It targets the nearest player, and it attacks sheep it can see. It retaliates against any entity that damages it.
• Doors. It breaks down any door in its way.
• Sunlight. Its sun-avoidance goal is active only while it is raining.
• Daylight removal. When the Disappearance of Spirits Under the Sun gamerule is on (the default), the Stalker is removed if it is in daylight under open sky, with no rain or thunder. The removal leaves a particle burst.
• Immunities. Arrows, fall damage, drowning, tridents and wither damage do not hurt it. Any other damage source does.

World-time buffs

The Stalker's strength rises with the world's time in ticks. These thresholds apply to the world clock and not to the in-game day count.

Rage

From a world time of 600,000 ticks onward, each hit the Stalker takes adds one point to a hidden rage counter, up to 7. Once the counter reaches 7, if the Stalker is at or below half health and has more than 10 health left, it gains Terrifying Presence for 2,000 ticks and Slowness VII for 40 ticks. A distant roar plays when this happens.

Water and ice

From a world time of 360,000 ticks, if the Stalker stands in air above a water, kelp or seagrass block, it converts that block into Dark Ice.

Death

When the Stalker dies, a player who killed it receives the Fighting Nightmares advancement, if they do not have it already. During February 13 to 19 on the server's system calendar, it also drops one to two Chocolate Hearts.

Drops

The Stalker's loot table is the main source of its crafting materials. Looting increases the Nightmare Claw, the Dark Metal pieces and the skull. The other drops are not affected by Looting.

Item	Amount	Conditions
Nightmare Claw	x1.0-1.0 +looting bonus
Monster Skin	x2.0-3.0
Piece of Dark Metal	x4.0-7.0 +looting bonus
Nightmare Stalker Skull	x1.0-1.0 +looting bonus
Monster Flesh	x4.0-6.0

Related items

• Nightmare Claw. Stackable to 64. It is an ingredient in the Dark Ritual Dagger, the Soul Saber (two recipes) and the Nightmare Scythe, all of which are Born in Chaos Melee Weapons. It also appears in chest loot in Dark Tower structures in forest, plains and taiga biomes, at 10.3% per chest on the level 3 chest table and 5.7% on the level 2 table.
• Nightmare Stalker Skull. A placeable head block with floor, wall and ceiling placement and four facing directions. It is hard to break, with a hardness of 1.1 and a blast resistance of 10. It is an ingredient in the Nightmare Mask recipe, and crafting it yields 10 bone meal.
• Nightmare Stalker Spawn Egg. Spawns one Stalker.

Item	Hardness
Nightmare Claw
Nightmare Stalker Skull	1.1
Nightmare Stalker Spawn Egg

Tips

• Daylight removes the Stalker when it stands under open sky with no rain. If you want to avoid it, stay indoors or underground during the day.
• Arrows do nothing to it. Use melee weapons or another damage type.
• Do not attack it while you are underwater. A player who hits it underwater loses all air, unless the player has Gaze of Terror.
• Once the world passes 600,000 ticks, its rage state triggers after seven hits. When it gains Terrifying Presence and Slowness VII, back off until the effect wears off.