Nightmares Will Follow

🕯️ Nightmares Will Follow overhauls the sleep system in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, introducing a dynamic nightmare mechanic that turns every night into a gamble. Inspired by the Nightmare debuff from KCD1, this isn't just a return — it's a complete reimagining, rebuilt from the ground up with deeper mechanics, immersive conditions, and escalating consequences.

Your nights are no longer safe.

Several factors influence whether you’ll face a nightmare when you sleep — from where you rest, to what you carry, to how dirty, wounded, or sinful you are. For those unfamiliar with KCD1, nightmares apply real debuffs that can alter your morning gameplay. They won’t always kill you (though they can), but they will force you to adapt, plan, and survive differently.

You dream that you were slain in the battlefield as you experrience your death over and over again, falling to frightening emptiness. You wake broken, like a soldier left for carrion — blood cold, sinew slack, and soul still shackled to the field of death.From Nightmare:  Slain in a horrific and tormented way

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1. 02 Initial release

1. 03 Fixed a critical bug where Guilt-type nightmares could be selected but fail to apply because their severity was nil. This happened when indulgence was below the "moderate" threshold, but guilt was still chosen via weighted roll. The system now properly detects low-severity guilt and applies a "light" nightmare if appropriate. Added internal logging to help catch similar issues in the future.

1. 0. 4 Storm nightmares can no longer occur if there was no rain during sleep. Previously, rare cases could trigger a storm nightmare even in clear weather.

1. 0. 5 Reliable perk assignment: Perk is now assigned via STORM, ensuring it persists correctly after loading a save game or restarting the game.

1. 0. 6 Necklace-type sleep items no longer stack — only the best one applies. New sleep items added. Good Night’s Sleep now requires indoor or medium+ beds, no nightmare, and ≥7h rest. Lastly, a new rare buff — Pavlena’s Blessing — may appear when sleeping peacefully with her necklace in poor beds near nature.

1. 07 Fixes a bug where bed quality was sometimes logged as "unknown", causing Pavlena’s Blessing and other sleep-related buffs to fail silently. The system now consistently tracks bed quality, even when using fallback beds or smart objects.

In Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1, sleep was not safe. The Nightmare debuff was a small mechanic, but it had real weight. You felt it