Skinwalkers: Borrowed Skin

Skinwalkers: Borrowed Skin

Something in the woods is learning.

You stop walking. One more footstep lands behind you.
An animal waits at the edge of the trees. Its head turns before its body.
By the third night, you know it was never just an animal.

Borrowed Skin is a single-player survival horror mod for Minecraft Java Edition on Fabric.
Create a normal world and play. No custom map is required.

Three nights of growing dread

• First night: distant cries, small disturbances and an occasional watcher.
• Second night: closer disguises, strange sounds and the first glimpse beneath the skin.
• Third night onward: stalking can become a real, lethal hunt after a warning sequence.

Events have pauses and cooldowns. The world remembers what you have experienced.
Contextual English chat, spatial audio and subtle visual effects support the encounters
rather than filling every moment with noise.

The creature

The skinwalker wears sheep, wolf and wanderer disguises. Its revealed form has an
original 30-bone, 93-cuboid model with a moving jaw, long fingers, ribs and layered hide.
Ten animation clips cover idle behavior, animal movement, stalking, revealing,
searching, low galloping, attacking and retreating.

During a hunt it follows sight, movement noise and nearby interactions. It can hurt
and kill you. Losing sight forces it to search the last known position. Closed
shelters and the equipment you prepare can save your life.

Things that only watch

Some nights bring something quieter. A tall shape with too many eyes studies you from
the treeline and freezes when you look back. Another figure may wear your own silhouette
and simply stand there until it breaks apart. These encounters do not chase. They wait,
and they are remembered.

Places that remember

Explore eight major landmark types: Watching Stones, Hollow Well, Nameless Graves,
Silent Chapel, Survey Tower, Ashen Camp, Observer’s House and Shed-Skin Den.
Four smaller wilderness traces hide further supplies and clues.

Recover twelve English witness records, inspect hidden caches and listen for each
location’s night scene. A well can answer. An empty tower can sound occupied.
A deserted house can knock from within.

Major landmarks are spaced far apart. Terrain can reject placement, so discovery is
not guaranteed beside spawn.

Prepare, escape, return

• Ashen Lantern: hold its beam on the creature to reveal and repel it. A compact fuel
  readout helps you prepare; refuel it with coal or charcoal.
• Signal Flare: an emergency burst that drives back a visible pursuer.
• Echo Lure: a false footstep to distract the hunt.
• Threshold Ward: a rechargeable defense for your shelter.
• Mask Carver: a close-range tool that forces retreat.
• Banishment Ash: expose and weaken the creature, then earn three quiet nights.
• Field Journal: illustrated notes that unlock as you learn.
• Surveyor’s Compass: find witness stones in nearby loaded terrain.
• Bone Chime: an early-warning block that tolls when something approaches.
• Heavy Bear Trap: a hidden steel jaw for the paths around your base.
• Stalker’s Pelt: a stealth garment that muffles footsteps and hides you from watchers.
• Silver Mirror: forces nearby disguises to show their real faces.

All equipment uses ordinary crafting-table recipes. A dedicated Creative tab includes the
items, records, spawn eggs and a scene-preview Director’s Totem.

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for the Minecraft Java version you play.
2. Install Fabric API and GeckoLib for that same Minecraft version.
3. Put the mod jar for your game version into the mods folder.
4. Create a Survival world on Easy, Normal or Hard. The director starts automatically.

All mod text is English.

Versions and compatibility

The mod is published for several Minecraft versions. Each release has its own jar, and
the matching game version is listed on the file itself. Use the file that matches your
installed Minecraft version and loader. Requirements such as the correct Fabric API and
GeckoLib builds are stated on each file entry.

This release targets single-player. Dedicated-server multiplayer is not supported.
Creative previews do not harm the player.

Mods such as Sodium and Iris are commonly used alongside it; other shader packs and
arbitrary modpacks have not been verified. No external shader pack is required.

Updating an existing world

Replace the old mod jar with the build for your Minecraft version. New landmarks appear
only in newly generated chunks, so explore fresh terrain to see the sparser layout.

Original models, texture art and synthesized audio. MIT licensed.