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The Creaking Revamp

Reworking the Creaking into a World-Wide Stalker Mechanic The Creaking is currently too isolated to its biome. Let's make it a true psychological horror stalker mob with high-stakes mechanics: * The Trigger & Chat Warning: Walking past a Pale Garden bonds a dormant Creaking to you. When night hits, it activates, triggering a custom system chat message using your username (e.g., “@Player forgot to check their back”). This bypasses wiki guides and creates genuine panic. * The Chase: It stalks the player across the world. Every few ticks it gets slightly faster, eventually capping out just above a sprinting player's speed so you can't just casually outrun it. * The Cursed Cure: To get rid of it, you must return to the original Pale Garden (which generates much larger by default) to destroy its heart. Doing so requires an expensive craftable tool (Diamonds/Gold/Emeralds) enchanted with Curse of Vanishing, making the journey high-risk. * Item Consumption on Death: If it kills you, instead of dropping your items, it permanently consumes up to 5 of your most valuable items (prioritizing things like diamond stacks over trash), giving late-game players an actual consequence to fear. This is my original concept I’ve come up with and made a little tweaks, but this would make The creaking be more of an active thing to watch out for then just a super specific event that you can just get rid of by sleeping. in this case, sleeping doesn’t get rid of him, next might brings him again.
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    Also, there can be two mechanics, either if you sleep, it comes back the next night until you get rid of him, or the night extends until you actually get rid of him, giving eerie messages when trying to sleep. Any form or tele-transportation such as enderpearls, or things such as elytra’s are disabled during this period. Making the journey have to be on foot (or boat if you went that far).