On The Lookout

Chasers vs Runners for PEAK. Every leg, a few scouts become chasers and hunt everyone else up the mountain. Runners have to make it from campfire to campfire, and finally to the peak, without getting caught. A runner's best defence is to turn around and look at a chaser to freeze them in place.

New in 1.8.4: a chaser has to look at the runner (the centre dot on them) to capture, from up to 1.75 m; chasers frozen in mid-air don't regain stamina; a glowing yellow wall shows every campfire's safe zone for the whole run; the head start is 23 s; the host menu has a SETTINGS page for the editable settings; and restarting at the airport starts everything over as if the game had just been launched. Luggage no longer holds flares, compasses, pirate's compasses or warp compasses, and runner luggage can hold faerie lanterns and anti-rope cannons and spools (runner-only items). 1.8.3: mandrakes come every 45 seconds, vanish after 10 s, only drop in the first two biomes, never make runners drowsy and make chasers 10% less drowsy than vanilla; the explosion sounds are off for now; everyone's petrification is cleared after each leg; the blowgun no longer marks runners with smoke but makes them 20% drowsy, takes 1.65× as long to fire and has a 72 s cooldown; each capture makes that chaser's gem boost 1.7% stronger for the rest of the leg, and the capture rush no longer adds up; the chaser gem costs 5% petrification and reveals runners for 3 s; the runner dash goes 7 m, lifts you up (half of Scout's Initiative's jump), cancels 80% of a fast fall and reveals chasers for 5 s. 1.8.2: mandrakes start dropping 1 minute after the head start and come every 20 seconds, each with a dynamite boom at the runner; using the chaser gem makes every runner give off flare smoke for 5 s, and a runner dash makes every chaser smoke for 3 s. 1.8.1: every ability cooldown is refreshed at the start of each leg; hunger grows 30% slower, and not at all for runners in a safe zone; the runner dash gives 1 s without fall damage, starting 0.5 s after the dash; energy drinks last as long as in vanilla again (still 1.5× sleepier afterwards); chasers can never get energy drinks or lollipops (not even from clown luggage); a runner's snowball reliably pushes 10% harder and blinds a chaser for 3 s; the head-start countdown is in PEAK yellow; and the host hint is smaller. 1.8.0: the fog, lava and gloom are back to vanilla (PEAK's own timing and speed); captures can't be blocked by a runner's backpack, thorns or arrows and keep going while the runner moves; chasers can only capture runners (no carrying, no opening their packs); each capture gives the chaser an energy drink + lollipop rush (4 s, +3 s per further capture); gem cooldowns 20 s (chaser) and 32 s (runner dash) for 3% petrification; freezes last 8 s; the chasers' red glow now shows like milk's glow; and everyone is checked to be at the campfire before each leg starts. 1.7.2: gems put themselves away after use, and runners can interact as soon as their head start begins. 1.7.1: the runner dash goes 4.3 m for 5% petrification, the head-start boost lasts 4 s, and the mandrake timings are fixed. 1.7.0: runners get a dash gem (Scout's Ambition: 3.2 m dash, mid-air float, 70 s cooldown), captures need the chaser practically touching the runner (0.45 s hold, works from any side), the gems never use their original powers, and only 11 settings can be changed; every update resets the config to the new defaults. 1.6.0: chasers carry Scout's Initiative (a scout gem) instead of the napberry for their boost, captures take 0.75 s and the runner sees the capture bar, milk-protected runners can't be captured, regular luggage holds more runner items (milk, snowballs, brown berrynanas, energy drinks), snowballs push harder and are runner-only, role choices are re-sent so none get lost, and the host sees a hint for the host menu (+). 1.5.1: mandrakes scream 0.75 s after appearing. 1.5.0: a new role every leg (volunteer as chaser in the - menu at the campfire), captures by holding interact on a runner, the campfire lights itself after a 10-second role window, scout statues are off, chasers carry a reusable napberry boost, snowballs blind chasers, mandrakes start dropping at runners late in a leg, and plenty of balance changes. See the changelog.

Everyone in the lobby needs this mod (same version). The host runs the game: roles, freezes, captures and rewards are all decided by the host and synced to everyone.

How a game works

1. In the airport, press - to choose RUNNER (pre-selected) or CHASER for the first leg. Chasers are drawn at random from the players who chose CHASER.
2. Wake up on the shore. Nobody can move or interact until everyone has woken up and loaded in, and interacting stays locked through the role reveal (no grabbing items before the roles are out). Runners can interact the moment their head start begins.
3. Roles are drawn and revealed. Each player sees CHASER (red) or RUNNER (yellow) in the middle of the screen. Everyone is frozen during the reveal. Chasers are picked at random from the airport volunteers, one chaser for every 4 runners at most; if nobody volunteered, one random player is the chaser.
4. Head start. Runners are released and get a 23-second head start with a big countdown, and a 4-second speed boost at the end of it. Chasers stay frozen and blind the whole time; their screen fades back in near the end.
5. The chase. Chasers hunt the runners up the current biome.
   • A chaser captures a runner by looking at them and holding interact for 0.45 seconds, the same way a hungry scout eats another one. The chaser has to be close to the runner (1.75 m) and looking at them, with the centre dot on the runner (anywhere on them, whichever way they face); without the dot on them there's no capture, however close they are. Their backpack, fanny pack or stuck thorns, arrows and cactus balls never get in the way. Once started, the hold keeps going while the runner moves, unless they get clearly out of reach, drink fortified milk or reach a safe zone. Chasers can't do anything else to a runner: no carrying them, no opening their backpack or fanny pack, no pulling thorns or arrows out of them. The runner sees the same progress bar under their crosshair, so they know how close it is. A runner under fortified milk can't be captured at all. The runner dies with a bang.
   • A runner freezes a chaser by looking at them within 26 m, from outside a safe zone. The chaser can't move, act or fall and is blinded for 8 seconds, then is immune to freezing for 8 seconds.
   • The fog, the rising lava in the Caldera and the rising gloom work as in vanilla (PEAK's own start timing and speed). The fog never hurts chasers.
   • From 1 minute after the head start, a mandrake is dropped at every runner outside a safe zone every 45 seconds, in the first two biomes only. Mandrakes disappear 10 s after they appear, never make runners drowsy, and make chasers only 90% as drowsy as in vanilla.
   • If no chaser is alive (all dead, or none at all, e.g. a host playing solo), mushroom zombies hunt the runners from 5 minutes after the head start (one wave at a time, 2 minutes each, 2-minute cooldown between waves).
6. The leg is won.
   • Runners win the leg when every living runner is in the next campfire's safe zone (15 m around it: no captures there, and runners inside can't freeze chasers).
   • A glowing yellow wall marks the edge of every campfire's safe zone, the whole run long.
   • Chasers win the leg when every runner is dead (passing out doesn't count).
7. Role window. Everyone, the dead included, is brought next to the campfire (within 5 m; anyone who didn't make it is brought there once more before roles are drawn) and frozen for 10 seconds. Press - to choose RUNNER (the default) or CHASER for the next leg. Food is laid out so everyone gets something to eat.
8. Next leg. The campfire lights itself, clearing everyone's negative statuses, and new roles are drawn: chasers are picked at random from the players who chose CHASER, one chaser for every 4 runners at most. If nobody volunteered, one random player is the chaser. Then the reveal and head start start again.
9. Win the game.
   • Runners win when every living runner reaches the peak. The chasers are brought up there and die.
   • Chasers win when every runner is dead on the last stretch, with no campfire left to go to.

Roles and choices

• Your choice in the - menu is private: only the host's game receives it. It stays until you change it, and resets to RUNNER when a run ends and everyone is back in the airport. There are no odds: the chasers are a random pick from the volunteers.
• The menu opens in the airport (for the first leg) and during the role window at the campfire (for every leg after that).
• Switching roles: a runner who becomes a chaser drops every item and their backpack, then gets the blowgun and the chasers' scout gem. A chaser who becomes a runner drops the blowgun and gem, gets the runners' dash gem, gets a backpack if they have none, and gets the leg's runner item (and biome item) if they haven't had them yet.
• A chaser carries one blowgun and one scout gem at most; a second can't be picked up. The cooldowns belong to the chaser, not the item.
• Scout statues are switched off: no revives and no items. The dead come back at the campfire after each leg instead.
• Back in the airport the round and roles are cleared, so the airport plays like vanilla PEAK (only the role menu and its hint are there).

Chasers

Perks

• 15% faster than runners, and 6% faster climbing (walls, ropes, vines).
• Blowgun with unlimited darts (72 s cooldown, counted down above its hotbar slot). It can't be dropped or thrown, and takes 1.65× as long to fire as in vanilla. A dart doesn't knock the runner out: it adds 20% drowsiness. Darts don't affect other chasers.
• Scout gem boost: chasers carry Scout's Initiative (a scout gem) whose own power is never used. Using it gives, 1 second later, a 2.25-second energy-drink speed boost plus unlimited stamina (the rainbow stamina bar; no drowsiness), and the gem goes back to its slot so your hands are free. It then has a 20-second cooldown, starting when the effects wear off (counted down above its hotbar slot). Each use adds 5% petrification; each capture takes 5% away again, and makes the gem's speed boost 1.7% stronger (not longer) for the rest of the leg. Using it makes every runner give off flare smoke in their own colour for 3 s.
• Capture rush: each capture gives the chaser an energy drink + lollipop at once for 4 seconds (speed boost and unlimited stamina, no drowsiness afterwards); a further capture while it runs starts the 4 seconds over (it doesn't add up).
• Tough: only half of every negative status (injury, cold, poison, drowsiness, …), only 1/3 fall damage (still scaled by the ascent; a big fall still knocks them down), immune to fog, ignored by mushroom zombies. Hunger works the same as for everyone.
• Clown luggage is theirs: only chasers can open it, and it's full of food and healing items.
• Their body glows red for everyone, so they're easy to tell apart (PEAK's own status glow, like milk's yellow invincibility glow).

Drawbacks

• Can only pick up and use food and healing items (plus their blowgun), dynamite, mandrakes and cactus balls, and never energy drinks, lollipops, shroomberries or the Roots fungi (Bounce, Cloud, Shelf, Warp; the healing Remedy Fungus is allowed).
• Can only open clown luggage.
• Can't see ghosts, since a ghost floats around the runner it spectates.
• Can't see runners' name tags.
• Frozen and blind during every head start.
• Can be frozen by any runner who looks at them: they pulse icy blue so everyone can tell, and they're blinded (PEAK's blue-flower blindness) for as long as the freeze lasts. Frozen in mid-air, they don't regain stamina.
• A snowball thrown by a runner blinds a chaser for 3 seconds (and pushes them 10% harder).
• Can't use snowballs.

Runners

Perks

• Freeze chasers by looking at them (26 m, 8 s; no stacking, 8 s immunity afterwards), but not from inside a safe zone.
• Head start at every leg, with a 4-second speed boost at its end.
• Safe zones (15 m) around every campfire.
• 18.5% faster stamina regeneration.
• A backpack at the start of the round, one random item at the start of every leg (a snowball, a brown berrynana or a fortified milk), plus a biome item: a heat pack in the Alpine, a sports drink in the Caldera, an early worm in the Gloom, aloe vera in the Mesa.
• Dash gem: runners carry Scout's Ambition (a scout gem) in their hotbar, whose own power is never used. Using it dashes you 7 m horizontally where you look (walls stop it; not while climbing) and lifts you up a little (half the height of Scout's Initiative's jump), and the gem goes back to its slot so your hands are free; dashing in mid-air also lets you float for 0.65 s. 32-second cooldown, counted down above its slot, and 3% petrification per dash. Dashing while falling fast cancels 80% of the fall, and from 0.5 s after a dash you take no fall damage for 1 s. Each dash makes every chaser give off flare smoke in their own colour for 5 s, so you can see where they are.
• Snowballs blind chasers they hit, and every thrown snowball pushes 10% harder.
• Runners can't use the blowgun or the chasers' scout gem (chaser items), and chasers can't use the runners' dash gem.
• Regular luggage can also hold fortified milk, snowballs, brown berrynanas and energy drinks, and a little less often a faerie lantern, anti-rope cannon or anti-rope spool, every leg; only runners can pick these up or use them. Flares, compasses, pirate's compasses and warp compasses never come out of any luggage.
• Fortified milk protects you from being captured while it's active (milk is twice as heavy and its invincibility is 65% shorter than vanilla).
• First runner into each campfire's safe zone gets a fortified milk (not when the chasers won the leg).
• Leg and biome items are dropped at your feet and picked up for you, straight into your hands; if your slots are full they stay on the ground.
• A runner with a chaser closing in hears PEAK's own Scoutmaster chase music.

Drawbacks

• Fog, lava and gloom rise as in vanilla; the fog only hurts runners.
• Energy drinks last as long as in vanilla but make you 1.5× sleepier when they wear off.
• A blowgun dart makes you 20% drowsy.
• Mandrakes start dropping at your feet a minute into the chase, every 45 seconds (only in the first two biomes). They vanish after 10 s and never make you drowsy.
• When a chaser uses their gem, every runner gives off flare smoke in their own colour for 3 s.

Rules for everyone

• Removed from the game: amulets (incl. Scout's Honor), gems, rescue claws, jetpacks/rocket packs, gliders, the golden Bing Bong, world blowguns and hidden test items that never appear in normal PEAK.
• Dynamite and mandrakes can be used by everyone.
• Shroomberries can be eaten (not by chasers), but their effects only last 1 second; the hunger they cure is the same as vanilla.
• No Scoutmaster. He would hunt the runner who's furthest from the group.
• No revival curse. Revived players don't get the curse or extra hunger.
• Hunger grows 30% slower than in vanilla (still scaled by the ascent). Runners in a safe zone don't get hungrier at all.
• Cooldowns refresh every leg: the blowgun, the chaser gem and the dash gem are ready again when a leg starts.
• Petrification is cleared for everyone after each leg.

HUD

• Role reveal and head-start countdown in the middle of the screen (translucent, in PEAK yellow, for runners).
• Leg result and the role window countdown (with the - hint) at the campfire.
• Chaser list in the top right, under the ascent label. Frozen chasers show in ice blue with their remaining time; dead chasers are crossed out.
• Blowgun, chaser gem and dash gem cooldowns in seconds above their hotbar slots.
• A capture bar for a runner who is being captured.
• For the host: PRESS HOTKEY (+) FOR HOST CONTROLS above their stamina bar.
• Short notices for captures and rewards.

Host controls

• + (the =/+ key, or numpad +): host menu. A PEAK-style menu with:

  • Restart at the airport: everyone goes back to the airport, where PEAK plays like vanilla, and the mode starts over completely (roles, role choices, cooldowns, captures, rewards, timers), exactly as if the game had just been launched.
  • Restart at previous campfire: everyone back to the last lit campfire (or the start), the dead revived, statuses cleared, and a fresh leg begins. Roles are kept.
  • Teleport everyone to next campfire: moves every living player to the next unlit campfire.
  • Settings: change the editable settings below with - and + (saved, and sent to everyone at once; they apply from the next leg). Reset to defaults puts them back.
  • Debug hotkeys: on/off (see below).

  The two restarts and the settings reset ask you to click again to confirm. Press = or Esc to close.

• F10: the same "restart at previous campfire" as a direct key.

• Debug/testing keys (F6 swap own role, F7 start/restart round with new roles, F8 freeze yourself, F9 freeze the player you look at) are off by default. Turn them on in the host menu.

Installation

1. Install with a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager). BepInExPack_PEAK is installed automatically.
2. Every player installs the same version.
3. Host a lobby and start a run. The round starts by itself once everyone has woken up on the shore.

More players: works with lobby-size mods such as PEAK Unlimited (not tested together yet). Chaser count scales with RunnersPerChaser.

Configuration

The host changes these in the host menu's SETTINGS page (during the game), or in BepInEx/config/codesycamore.OnTheLookout.cfg / the mod manager's Config editor with the game closed.

• Only these settings can be changed. Everything else in this README is built into the mod, so every host and player runs exactly the same rules for a given version.
• Only the host's values matter; they're sent to everyone when they join.
• Every update starts fresh: when a new version of the mod first runs, the config file is reset to that version's defaults (your old values are not kept).

Notes

• Built for PEAK v2.6.b (build 25739797). A PEAK update can break mods; if a part of this mod can't hook into the game after an update, only that part switches off and the log says which ([OTL] lines).
• Bug reports: please include your BepInEx/LogOutput.log.

Credits

Made by codesycamore. Inspired by the hide-and-seek idea of Hide and PEAK by glarmer (no code reused). Built on BepInEx and HarmonyX with the PEAK modding community's project template.

Changelog

1.8.5

• No more capture rush: a capture no longer gives the chaser an energy drink + lollipop boost. Instead they get the Scoutmaster's bugle morale boost: the MORALE BOOST text and the bugle's extra stamina, for the capturing chaser only (CaptureMoraleBoost; replaces CaptureBoostSeconds).
• Captures make the gem last longer: each capture adds 0.25 s to that chaser's gem effects for the rest of the leg (2.25 s → 2.5 s → 2.75 s …), reset every leg (GemCaptureExtraSeconds). This stacks with the +1.7% stronger speed boost per capture (GemCaptureBonus).

1.8.4

• Captures need the cursor on the runner: the chaser has to look at the runner with the centre dot on them (body, pack or anything stuck on them). The fallback that picked any capturable runner close by (up close in any direction) is gone. A capture already being held still follows the runner as before.
• Capture range 1.75 m (was 1.4; CaptureRange).
• No stamina regeneration while frozen in mid-air: the mid-air hold kept PEAK's "grounded" timer at zero (so the chaser takes no fall damage), which also let stamina refill; it no longer does.
• Safe zone wall: a glowing yellow wall with a bright rim at the ground marks the edge of every campfire's safe zone (where the 15 m sphere meets the ground), seen by everyone for the whole round. Visual only; it blocks nothing.
• Host menu SETTINGS page: the six editable settings (head start, head-start boost, runners per chaser, zombie start delay, wave cooldown, lifetime) can be changed with - and +, or reset to the defaults. Changes are saved to the config file and synced to everyone at once.
• Fresh start at the airport: going back to the airport (host menu, game over or the end of a run) now clears every part of the mode on every player's game: roles, role choices, freezes, rewards, cooldowns, captures, loadout records, mandrake and zombie timers, the last campfire. The next run starts exactly like the first one after launching.
• Luggage: flares, compasses, pirate's compasses and warp compasses never come out of any luggage during a round; each is rerolled from that luggage's own loot pool (LuggageExcludedItems). Regular (runner) luggage can now also hold a faerie lantern, anti-rope cannon or anti-rope spool, each at 0.75× the chance of a snowball (about 7.2% per item slot each, vs 9.6%; LuggageRareExtraItems, LuggageRareExtraWeight). These three are runner items: chasers can't pick them up or use them during a round.
• Head start 23 s by default (was 20; HeadStartSeconds).
• The Thunderstore page now links to the GitHub repository. Its description no longer mentions a tracking blowgun (darts make runners drowsy since 1.8.3).

1.8.3

• Mandrakes: waves come every 45 seconds (was 20); each dropped mandrake is removed 10 s after it appears if it is still lying on the ground (MandrakeLifetimeSeconds).
• Mandrakes no longer make runners drowsy (MandrakeNoRunnerSleep), and chasers get 90% of their vanilla drowsiness (MandrakeChaserSleepMultiplier).
• Mandrakes only in the first two biomes (MandrakeLastSegment).
• Explosion sounds are now on their own timer (every 2 minutes at each runner outside a safe zone, in every leg) and switched off for now (a code switch, not a setting). MandrakeExplosionSound is removed.
• Petrification is cleared for every player when a leg ends (and again when the next starts; ClearPetrifyEachLeg). Replaces the 3% safe-zone relief (SafeZonePetrifyRelief removed).
• Blowgun: a dart no longer marks the runner with flare smoke (TrackingSmokeSeconds removed); it adds 20% drowsiness (was 18%). Firing takes 1.65× as long as in vanilla (BlowgunUseTimeMultiplier), and the cooldown is 72 s (was 30).
• Capture rush no longer adds up: a capture while it runs starts its 4 s over (CaptureBoostExtendSeconds removed).
• Chaser gem grows with captures: each capture makes that chaser's gem speed boost 1.7% stronger for the rest of the leg (its length stays the same; GemCaptureBonus); reset every leg.
• Chaser gem: 5% petrification per use (was 3%); the runners' flare smoke lasts 3 s (was 5).
• Runner dash: goes 7 m (was 4.3) and lifts the runner up, like Scout's Initiative's double jump at half the height (DashLiftFactor). Dashing while falling fast (8 m/s or more) cancels 80% of the fall speed and fall time (DashFallMomentumCancel). The mid-air float no longer stops the lift. The chasers' flare smoke lasts 5 s (was 3).

1.8.2

• Mandrakes sooner and more often: they start dropping 1 minute after the head start (was 3) and come every 20 seconds (was 60).
• Mandrake boom: each mandrake drop comes with the dynamite's explosion sound at that runner, heard by everyone (sound only: no damage, no knockback; MandrakeExplosionSound).
• Chaser gem reveals runners: using the chaser gem makes every living runner give off flare smoke in their own colour for 5 s (GemRevealSeconds).
• Runner dash reveals chasers: each dash makes every living chaser give off flare smoke in their own colour for 3 s (DashRevealSeconds).

1.8.1

• Cooldowns refresh every leg: when a leg starts, the blowgun, chaser gem and dash gem cooldowns are reset for everyone (freeze immunity was already reset).
• Hunger: grows at 0.7× the vanilla rate during a round (still scaled by the ascent, HungerRateMultiplier), and not at all for a runner in a safe zone.
• Dash fall protection: from 0.5 s after a dash, the runner takes no fall damage (and isn't knocked down by a fall) for 1 s (DashFallProtectDelay, DashFallProtectSeconds).
• Energy drinks last their vanilla time again (EnergyDrinkDurationMultiplier removed); the drowsiness when they wear off stays at 1.5×.
• No energy drinks or lollipops for chasers: besides the name list, any item that gives the energy-drink speed boost or unlimited stamina is now refused to chasers and kept out of clown luggage. The host log lists what each clown luggage was filled with.
• Snowballs: the hit is now detected on the thrower's client (which simulates the snowball) and sent to the scout it hit, who gets the extra 10% push and, if a runner's snowball hit a chaser, 3 s of blindness (was 2.5 s).
• The runners' head-start countdown is in PEAK yellow (same style and transparency).
• The host-controls hint uses a smaller font.

1.8.0

• Fog, lava and gloom back to vanilla: they start rising on PEAK's own timer and at PEAK's own speed (no more 5-minute start and 2.5x speed). FogStartDelaySeconds and FogSpeedMultiplier are removed; 6 settings remain configurable. The fog still never hurts chasers.
• Captures fixed: a runner's backpack or fanny pack, thorns, arrows and stuck items can no longer take over a chaser's interaction (the backpack menu could open in place of the capture when the chaser was just outside capture range). A capture starts with the cursor anywhere on the runner, from any side, and once started keeps going while the runner moves; it only breaks if they get clearly out of reach (1 m beyond CaptureRange), drink fortified milk or reach a safe zone.
• Chasers can only capture runners: no carrying a passed-out runner, no using items on them, no opening their backpack or fanny pack, no pulling thorns, arrows or stuck items off them.
• Capture rush: each capture now gives the chaser an energy drink + lollipop for 4 s (speed boost and unlimited stamina, no drowsiness; CaptureBoostSeconds), and each further capture while it runs adds 3 s (CaptureBoostExtendSeconds). Replaces the small speed boost and the morale boost.
• Chaser gem cooldown 20 s (was 60) and 3% petrification (was 8%).
• Runner dash cooldown 32 s (was 70) and 3% petrification (was 5%).
• Freezes last 8 s (was 10).
• Red glow on chasers fixed: it is now kept up every frame at full strength, exactly like fortified milk's glow, instead of fading between refreshes and losing to PEAK's other status pulses.
• Gathering at the campfire: after a leg everyone is placed within about 4 m of the campfire. When the role window closes, anyone more than 5 m away (or still dead) gets everyone brought there once more, and roles and timers start 1.5 s later. A chaser frozen in mid-air when the leg ends is no longer pulled back to where they froze.

1.7.2

• Gems put themselves away: after a gem's ability fires (the chaser boost or the runner dash), the gem goes back to its hotbar slot so the hands are free; it isn't dropped.
• Fix: on the shore, runners couldn't interact with anything for the first ~3 seconds of their head start. The start-of-run interaction lock now ends exactly when the role reveal ends (SpawnInteractLockSeconds removed).

1.7.1

• Runner dash 4.3 m (was 3.2) and 5% petrification per dash (was 6%).
• Runners' head-start speed boost lasts 4 s (was 3, HeadStartBoostSeconds).
• New Thunderstore summary (no more fireworks; mentions the chaser and runner abilities).
• The mandrake settings (MandrakeStartSeconds, MandrakeIntervalSeconds, MandrakeFirstScreamSeconds) can no longer be changed; 8 settings remain configurable.

1.7.0

• Fewer settings, always current: only 11 settings can still be changed (HeadStartSeconds, HeadStartBoostSeconds, RunnersPerChaser, FogStartDelaySeconds, FogSpeedMultiplier, ZombieStartDelaySeconds, ZombieWaveDelaySeconds, ZombieLifetimeSeconds, MandrakeStartSeconds, MandrakeIntervalSeconds, MandrakeFirstScreamSeconds). Everything else is built in, so every host runs the same rules. The config file now remembers which version wrote it; when a different version starts, the file is reset to that version's defaults, so old values never carry over.

• Capture hold 0.45 s (was 0.4, CaptureHoldSeconds).

• Runner dash: runners carry Scout's Ambition (RunnerGemItem) in their hotbar; using it dashes them 3.2 m horizontally where they look (DashDistance; walls stop it, not while climbing), and a dash in mid-air floats them for 0.65 s (DashAirFloatSeconds), with a 70 s cooldown shown above its slot (DashCooldownSeconds) and 6% petrification per dash (DashPetrify). Its own power is never used and chasers can't use it. Given at every leg start and to chasers who become runners; runners who become chasers drop it with everything else.

• Gems only do the mod's abilities: during a round, Scout's Ambition (runners) and Scout's Initiative (chasers) never switch on their original scout-gem power, so no stamina aura, double jump or their petrification; only the dash and the chaser boost.

• Safe at the campfire: when the runners win a leg, every runner in the safe zone loses 3% petrification (SafeZonePetrifyRelief).

• Captures up close: a chaser has to be practically touching a runner (CaptureRange, 1.4 m) to start or keep a capture. Up close the capture always wins over anything else in view, whichever way the runner faces: their backpack or fanny pack, and stuck thorns, arrows or cactus balls, no longer get in the way.

• Chaser list: a chaser's freeze countdown can never show more than the freeze length; if the game ever reports more, it is logged.

1.6.1

• Capture hold 0.4 s (was 0.75, CaptureHoldSeconds). The runner's capture bar follows it.

1.6.0

Roles

• Role choice can't get lost: while the role menu is available (airport or role window) every player's game re-sends its choice to the host every 2 seconds. The draw stays: chasers come only from players who chose CHASER; only if nobody did is a random player picked.
• Role swaps are checked leg to leg: the host saves everyone's role when a leg ends (before the role window) and compares it with the new roles when the next leg starts. Changed players drop or get their role items. Every runner's own game also drops any chaser item it still carries shortly after each leg starts.

Capture

• Capture hold 0.75 s (was 1.5, CaptureHoldSeconds).
• The runner sees the capture progress too: a red bar under their crosshair ("X IS CAPTURING YOU!").
• A runner under fortified milk can't even be targeted for a capture.

Chasers

• The chaser ability item is now Scout's Initiative (a scout gem, ChaserGemItem) instead of the napberry: same 1 s delay, 2.25 s speed boost + unlimited stamina, 60 s cooldown and 8% petrify. Its own power is never used. Settings renamed Napberry* → Gem* (ChaserGem, GemBoostSeconds, …). Napberries are normal food again, for everyone.
• Chasers can't use snowballs (ChaserForbiddenItems).
• No more Scoutmaster sounds on chasers: the old random Scoutmaster sound effect (ScoutmasterSounds) is removed; it could still be switched on by an older saved config and caused audio glitches. Runners still hear the Scoutmaster chase music.

Items

• Regular luggage can also hold fortified milk, snowballs, brown berrynanas and energy drinks during a round, every leg: each item it spawns has a 38.3% chance to be one of them, about 9.6% for each (LuggageExtraItems, LuggageExtraChance).
• Snowballs push 10% harder when they hit someone (SnowballKnockbackBonus).

HUD

• The host sees PRESS HOTKEY (+) FOR HOST CONTROLS just above their stamina bar. The host menu also opens with numpad +.

1.5.1

• Dropped mandrakes scream right away: their first scream comes 0.75 s after they appear (MandrakeFirstScreamSeconds). Later screams keep PEAK's timing.

1.5.0

Roles and legs

• New roles every leg. When a leg ends, everyone (the dead revived) is brought next to the campfire and frozen for a 10-second role window (RoleWindowSeconds): press - to choose RUNNER (the default) or CHASER. Then the campfire lights itself and new roles are drawn at random from the volunteers, one chaser per 4 runners at most (RunnersPerChaser); if nobody volunteered, one random player is the chaser. Replaces the airport chaser odds and ChasersByPlayerCount.
• Every leg has a winner: the runners win it when every living runner reaches the next safe zone, the chasers when every runner is dead. A notification shows who won and the time left to choose.
• Role swaps: a runner who becomes a chaser drops every item and their backpack, then gets the blowgun and napberry; a chaser who becomes a runner drops the blowgun and napberry and gets a backpack if they have none, plus this leg's runner items if they haven't had them. Runners can't use napberries any more (or blowguns). A chaser can carry only one blowgun and one napberry; a second can't be picked up (the cooldowns belong to the player, not the item).
• Airport: the - menu is in the airport too, for the first leg's draw: RUNNER is pre-selected, CHASER puts you in the pool. Chasers are a random pick from the pool (no odds); nobody in it = one random chaser.
• Scout statues are off during a round (DisableScoutStatues): no revives, no items. Statue conversions are gone.
• Campfires can't be lit by hand during a round.
• Back in the airport (game over or the host menu) the mod resets the round, roles and choices, so the airport plays like vanilla PEAK.

Chase

• Captures need a hold: a chaser looks at a runner and holds interact for 1.5 s (CaptureHoldSeconds), like eating a scout, with the same hold ring. Running into a runner no longer captures.
• Freeze lasts 10 s (FreezeDuration).
• Fog, rising lava and rising gloom start 5 minutes after the head start every leg (FogStartDelaySeconds), instead of PEAK's own timing, and rise 2.5× faster (FogSpeedMultiplier, was 1.5×).
• Mandrakes are dropped at every runner outside a safe zone every minute, from 3 minutes after the head start (MandrakeStartSeconds, MandrakeIntervalSeconds).
• Safe zone radius 20 m → 15 m.
• Fireworks removed: no more bursts above players during the chase (FireworkIntervalSeconds and FireworkHeight are gone).

Runners

• A 3-second energy-drink boost (no drowsiness) at the end of every head start (HeadStartBoostSeconds).
• Snowballs thrown by runners blind the chaser they hit for 2.5 s (SnowballBlindSeconds).
• Stamina regeneration +18.5% (was +12%).

Chasers

• Napberry boost (ChaserNapberry): chasers carry a napberry that is never eaten. Using it gives, 1 s later (NapberryDelaySeconds), a 2.25 s energy-drink speed boost plus unlimited stamina (rainbow bar, NapberryInfiniteStamina), then a 1-minute cooldown that starts when the effects wear off, with a cooldown number above its slot, and adds 8% petrification; each capture removes 5% (NapberryBoostSeconds, NapberryCooldownSeconds, NapberryPetrify, CapturePetrifyRelief).
• The blowgun can't be dropped or thrown, and players who stop being chasers lose it. Every chaser, including a runner who just became one, is kept supplied with the blowgun and napberry: the host checks every half second and hands out whatever is missing (making room if their slots are full).
• Take half of vanilla negative statuses (was 1/3, ChaserStatusMultiplier).
• Blowgun tracking smoke lasts 7 s (was 5).
• Chasers glow red for everyone: PEAK's own status glow on their body, like the yellow glow of milk's invincibility (ChaserRedOutline, ChaserGlowIntensity).
• Can use dynamite and mandrakes (ChaserAllowedItems).

Items

• The golden Bing Bong is removed and its invincibility shield is switched off (BanGoldenBingBong).

1.4.0

Round flow

• Lighting a campfire freezes everyone and starts the next leg right away: role reveal → runners' head start. The biome title no longer matters (BiomeTitleSeconds and NoTitleFallbackSeconds are gone).
• Shore start: nobody can move until every player has woken up and loaded in; then the role reveal and timers start.
• Peak: the runners win once every living runner is at the peak (was: the first one). The chasers are then brought up there and die (PeakChasersDie).
• After every runner was caught and the chasers were sent ahead, the next campfire gives no first-runner reward.

Runners

• The first-runner reward is now a fortified milk (RewardItems).
• Leg, biome and reward items no longer get "stuck" in a hotbar slot. They are dropped at the runner's feet and their own game picks them up the vanilla way (into a free slot and into their hands). With every slot full, the item stays on the ground in front of them.
• Blowgun darts add 18% drowsiness (was 10%, BlowdartDrowsy).
• Chase music: a runner with a chaser closing in hears PEAK's own Scoutmaster chase music, fading in under 50 m and louder under 25 m (ScoutmasterChaseMusic). The old random Scoutmaster sounds at chasers kept cutting out and are now off by default (ScoutmasterSounds).

Chasers

• Take 1/3 of vanilla fall damage (was 1/4, ChaserFallDamageMultiplier); a big fall still knocks them down.
• Cactus balls can be picked up by chasers (and by everyone: they were wrongly treated as a hidden item). Added to ChaserAllowedItems and AllowedHiddenItems.
• Can't see runners' name tags (ChasersSeeRunnerNames).
• Blinded while frozen: a runner's freeze also gives the chaser PEAK's blue-flower blindness until it ends (FreezeBlindsChasers).

1.3.2

• Everyone stays frozen only 3 s after a runner sees the next biome title, instead of 7.5 s (BiomeTitleSeconds).
• The role reveal now reads YOU ARE A... RUNNER / CHASER, and the runners' countdown reads YOU HAVE A HEADSTART... RUN!

1.3.1

Round flow

• Lighting a campfire no longer freezes everyone right away. The chase ends and everyone can move until a runner walks far enough to see the next biome's title. Then everyone freezes while it plays, and the next leg starts: role reveal → runners' head start. If the title was already seen (or there is none), everyone freezes at lighting and the leg starts NoTitleFallbackSeconds (now 5 s) later.

Balance

• Safe zone radius 30 m → 20 m (CampfireSafeRadius).

Items

• Energy drink speed boost lasts 65% less (EnergyDrinkDurationMultiplier = 0.35).

HUD

• The airport chaser-odds hint is readable again: yellow text on a dark plate instead of a thick outline that turned it black.

1.3.0

Runners

• Biome items: at the start of each leg every runner also gets an item for the biome ahead: a heat pack in the Alpine, a sports drink in the Caldera, an early worm in the Gloom and aloe vera in the Mesa (RunnerBiomeItems). These items are never treated as hidden.

Airport

• Chaser odds: in the airport every player can press - to pick I want to be a chaser / no preference / I'd rather be a runner. The choice goes privately to the host's game only and is never shown to anyone, weights the initial role draw (ChaserOddsWantChaser 3, ChaserOddsNoPreference 1, ChaserOddsRatherRun 0.25) and is cleared after every draw. Statue conversions stay fully random. The host can switch it off with ChaserPreferenceEnabled.

Balance

• Safe zone radius 30 m → 20 m (CampfireSafeRadius).

Items

• Fortified milk is twice as heavy (FortifiedMilkWeightMultiplier) and its invincibility (and so its capture protection) lasts 65% less (FortifiedMilkInvincibilityMultiplier = 0.35).

1.2.0

Round flow

• Lighting a campfire freezes everyone and shows the next biome's title right away (it used to need someone to walk past the biome's progress point). Once the title has played, the next leg starts: role reveal (everyone frozen) → runners released for their head start → chasers frozen and blind until it ends.
• Every runner dead (passing out doesn't count): instead of ending the round, the chasers are sent to the next campfire. The scout statue there revives everyone and turns one extra revived runner into a chaser (WipeExtraConversions). The chasers only win this way when there's no campfire left to go to.
• No chaser alive (all dead, or none - e.g. a host playing solo is a runner): mushroom zombies hunt runners outside the safe zones. Each wave sends ZombiesByPlayerCount zombies (1, then 2 from 6 players, 3 from 10), each after one random runner; each lasts 2 minutes; after a wave is gone (killed or expired) there is a 2-minute cooldown (ZombieWaveDelaySeconds) before the next, until the runners reach the campfire or a chaser is back. Each spawn is announced to everyone in the middle of the screen ("A ZOMBIE IS ON THE HUNT") with PEAK's lava-rises alarm and a screen shake (ZombiesWhenChasersDead, ZombieLifetimeSeconds, ZombieSpawnDistance). All zombies are removed the moment the leg ends: every runner safe at the campfire, or every runner caught and the chasers sent ahead. Zombies only start 5 minutes after the head start ends (ZombieStartDelaySeconds).

Balance

• Safe zone radius 50 m → 30 m, and runners inside a safe zone can no longer freeze chasers.
• Runner stamina regeneration back to +12% (from +18%).

Balance

• Safe zone radius 30 m → 20 m (CampfireSafeRadius).

Items

• Shroomberries can be eaten again (runners), but every effect they cause lasts only 1 second (ShroomberryEffectSeconds): timed effects end, knock-downs are cut short and negative statuses are taken back. The hunger they cure is unchanged.

Host menu

• New host menu on the = key (KeyHostMenu), built from PEAK's own menu buttons and fonts: restart at the airport, restart at the previous campfire, teleport everyone to the next campfire, and debug hotkeys on/off.

Fixes

• Zombies were spawned asleep and hidden (how PEAK spawns its own), so the alert showed but no zombie came, and PEAK culled the sleeping ones. They are now woken up and pointed at their runner once they have faded in, and the alert is only sent when that has happened.
• Zombie cooldown was skipped when a zombie expired, so a new zombie (and its announcement) came the moment the old one ran out. A wave now only ends once all its zombies are gone (expired, or killed and their body cleaned up 5 s later), and the 2-minute cooldown always starts then.
• Items given at the start of a leg could land in the selected empty-hand slot without showing in the player's hands, making the slot look blocked. The player now holds the new item if their hands were empty.
• Shroomberries, Napberries, Kingberries, Clusterberries and other naturally placed items could not be picked up by anyone. Napberry, Kingberry, Clusterberry and Shroomberry are now always allowed (AllowedHiddenItems, any colour); Weird Shroom stays removed (BannedItems). The hidden-item check only knew spawn pools and spawners; it now scans everything in the level that places or references an item (scenery items included), so only real test/unused items are removed.

1.1.0

Roles

• Roles now last for the whole run. PEAK re-triggers its run start during a run (scene loads, quicksave resume), which could re-roll roles mid-run and turn dead or converted chasers back into runners. A chaser who dies stays a chaser when revived, and so does anyone who became a chaser. Roles are only re-rolled when a new run starts from the airport.
• Chasers revived by a scout statue get their blowgun back right away.

Chasers

• Fall damage is back at 1/4 of vanilla (still scaled by the ascent) instead of none. ChaserFallDamageMultiplier (0.25) replaces ChaserNoFallDamage.
• 6% faster climbing on walls, ropes and vines (ChaserClimbSpeedMultiplier).
• Can no longer use energy drinks, lollipops, shroomberries or the Roots fungi (Bounce, Cloud, Shelf, Warp), which counted as food (ChaserForbiddenItems). They are also kept out of clown luggage. The healing Remedy Fungus stays allowed (ChaserAllowedItems).

Runners

• Stamina regeneration raised from +12% to +18% (RunnerStaminaRegenMultiplier).

HUD

• Blowgun cooldown is now a seconds countdown above the blowgun's hotbar slot, in the head-start countdown's font, replacing the ring that wasn't showing.

1.0.0

First release of the Chasers vs Runners game mode.

• Random chasers per lobby size; role reveal, head start with frozen and blind chasers.
• Runners freeze chasers by looking at them (range, cooldown/immunity, mid-air and climbing freezes, icy pulses).
• Captures by collision, host-validated; campfire safe zones; campfire-to-campfire legs that restart after each biome title.
• Chaser kit: unlimited blowgun with tracking smoke, speed and capture boosts, reduced statuses (not hunger), no fall damage, fog and zombie immunity, clown-luggage access.
• Runner kit: backpack, per-leg random item, faster stamina regeneration, fortified-milk protection, energy-drink reward.
• Scout statues convert a ghost into a chaser; campfire food for everyone; fireworks and Scoutmaster sounds for chasers.
• Removed items: amulets, gems, rescue claws, jetpacks, gliders, world blowguns, hidden test items.
• Host quick restart (F10), host-synced config, version check for players without the mod.