Minecraft Horror Mods: You’re Doing it Wrong

Minecraft is not necessarily a game known for being scary well at least if you don’t count Bedrock edition’s predatory monetization methods but that doesn’t mean it can’t be unsettling at times I don’t know why am you got your obvious answers as to why your cave sounds the deep dark and Warden Peak

Music and the reason why I believe these tactics work is through their subtlety Minecraft is a Sandbox game it’s meant to be played in any way you want it to these more unnerving aspects of the game can genuinely be completely ignored if you really want to but they are there

For you to sulk in and immerse yourself in the sometimes dreary atmosphere at the Overworld if you ever choose to so just like for many other things in the game Minecraft’s potential horror or just unsettling elements are already laid out for the player to exploit if they

Wish so what if we just said the hell of that and threw a lanky pale dude with a loud MP3 file so as of late I continue to see this trend around Minecraft continue to build around one core goal how do we make Minecraft more scary in this challenge several people had

Started to attempt to create new creatures and entities to add into the Minecraft world of course the idea of haunted entities hunting you down in your Minecraft world isn’t new if anything it’s existed in the Ze guys since the game’s infancy but as of late this concept has seemed to burst with a

New nightstalker or Goatman being created every freaking weak so I guess my question in all of this is why why did this suddenly become such a lucrative Niche and most importantly why does it not work well I can’t think of anywhere more appropriate to start than with the mod I believe created this

Entire Trend but first this video is sponsored by me I have a second Channel now where I’ve been uploading more unscripted commentary Style videos adjacent to the topics I cover on here I won’t be promoting it too heavily but if you want some background noise this is definitely

The channel for you I’ll leave a link in the pin comments and the description if you want to check it out so be sure to if you’re curious all right anyways as stated previously Minecraft certainly does have unsettling attributes to its world and environment but most commonly agreed to be the most

Offputting and startling are the cave noises if you’ve played Minecraft for even a semblance a time it’s not unlikely you have stumbled into one of these sounds in your hours of playing the game but a good question about these ambient tracks is why are they here

Exactly they don’t seem to have a source usually and typically exist just as a way to startle the player while they are immersing themselves in their Minecraft world but what if there was a source to these noises that was a question asked by fellow content creator Garian and he

Went on to create what he believes could be the source for these unsettling noises naming the creature cave dweller he got to work modeling and coding a new entity into the game with the purpose of giving new meaning to those unsettling sounds now the cave dweller on the

Surface sounds Advanced but he is pretty simple the intricacies on how he works are more properly laid out in garan’s original video and I’ll have a link to that for you to check out after this in that video he explains how the cave dweller works on three separate engines

And will stalk the player and go aggro on the player when spotted with direct sight on the surface this sounds like a very striking and imposing force on your Minecraft world like imagine if you had a young relative over and he asked to play Minecraft which in turn you agree

To and while they go into a cave looking for diamonds they see This I’d say they’d probably be scared but in all honesty they’re likely to forget about it immediately after they find out skib toilet part 96 came out or something I don’t know so the only way I believe I’d be able to judge the impactfulness of this mod was to

Play it myself no extra additions added to the game just me vanilla Minecraft and the cave [Applause] dweller floating in I spawned into a tundra biome and wandered around for a little bit I did all the basics harvesting trees craft a wood pickaxe even found an igloo which was pretty

Interesting after taking its bed and furnace I quickly took the loot out of this ruined portal then ventured further north where I found a pl’s biome this was good as it allowed me to stock up on more materials and get stone tools as well as harvest some animals before I

Decided to make my descent into the caves after Meandering around and stumbling across entrances that look like caves but only lead to dead ends like seriously is anyone else annoyed by the generation change introduced by the cave update anyways I eventually did find a promising cave and I descended

Down things were pretty okay to start I was just doing the usual Minecraft things like collecting iron or fighting creepers but while mining iron I heard a sound I wasn’t so privy to now if you’ve played play Minecraft for a very long time you’ve probably memorized all the cave noises there’s

Not many of them and if you’re seasoned in the game you’ve likely grown used to them but this sound this is something I have never heard Before and honestly it was kind of unsettling I had no prior knowledge at the cave dweller other than the development video prior to playing with it so I was under the impression that the noises it would make would have just been one out of the 19 cave sounds found

In base Minecraft so hearing this when exploring the cave really caught me off guard I felt paranoid for the remainder of the time I was exploring the cave more sounds that I did not recognize from vanilla Minecraft kept echoing through the crevices under all the pressure I ended up stumbling across the

M shaft and with all the reluctance in the world in my body I ultimately decided to step foot in things felt like they were getting more relaxed at this point I even started mapping out a little shelter in the walls for me to retreat to if I needed but while in the

Process of doing that I heard a very strange sound one that almost sounded like footsteps before I could process anything more of what was going on this happened Now admittedly I made some mistakes here the cave dweller is meant to trigger your fight ORF flight response but it is really hoping you choose flight to get the most out of its AI the mob even has the chance to despawn Mid Chase or even run away from you if certain ticks are

Triggered that being said I believe the payoff of the cave dweller itself is without a question the weakest part of the mob’s presence it’s goofy model heavily contrasting with the rest of the Minecraft world around it along with its cartoon run animations made the payoff feel more like a FNAF security breach

Jump scare than a PT set piece but understandably I don’t expect that from a Minecraft mod this was a little experiment made by just one guy to see if you could bring an extra layer of Terror into the core Minecraft formula and if that was their intention I

Believe they did a lot better than I believe what many people could achieve in Minecraft the suspense of hearing an alien noise in one of the most vulnerable settings found in the game for them to only get louder and more abundant to then hearing sounds of footsteps of a being you don’t recognize

Slowly get closer to you is something really effective for a game like Minecraft and genuinely made me feel my own heart rate at moments this is what I see as the inherent fear the cave dweller brings you the fear of the unknown the idea of something greater than even the Minecraft world itself

Could be standing right behind you and although I believe the payoff isn’t the best executed the foundations of making a truly great Minecraft horror mod were there and as such more people sought to capitalize on that despite this being people’s introduction and usually their drop off point for the cave dweller if

You actually went to go play this mod yourself this version is likely not the version of The Entity you are used to seeing despite having an outrageous 4 million views the downloads for the original version of the cave dweller only sit at around a 100,000 well another cave dweller mod sits at almost

Triple that I wasn’t the only one who thought the offerings of the cave dweller weren’t reaching their full potential and that’s when I stumbled across a video titled what the cave dweller could have been in the short video The Creator compiles three different mods to create a more imposing

Threat that is said to capture the same fear and tenseness as encountering the cave dweller for the very first time they even took the liberty of uploading the compilation as its own mod so without further Ado let’s see if these improvements help make the cave dweller more intimidating I even added a bleak

Shader this time around for more effect spooky loading in our spawn is very generous with us being located right in the middle of a Plains it wasn’t hard to locate stone wood and food needed before entering the depths of the caves and it didn’t take long for me to find a cave

Either stumbling Upon A Ravine almost immediately something that certainly does add to the Fear Factor the Shader pack I’m using but Al definitely brings a set of its own problems is the immense fog down here so making torches was a necessity for the first two minutes of

Being in the cave I heard nothing no cave dweller no Hostile Mobs barely anything but the sounds of my own footsteps I had to check if I was playing on Peaceful for a minute because the silence was that Eerie though eventually I did hear the groan of a

Zombie in the distance so that strangely put some of my worries to rest I ended up stumbling across another abandoned M shaft and actually got to building my base this time around it was also around this time that I started hearing strange noises but not nearly as frequently as

Before it was actually kind of a challenge to find the cave dweller this time around I don’t know if this remake turned down his spawn rate but I was running around this cave for a while trying to look for the guy eventually though I started to hear footsteps and

My fighter flight started to activate this time trying to run away but I got freaking caught by the webs in my attempt to get back to the base the cave dweller has bested me again I searched around for a little longer waiting for it to respawn but

This time I wanted to actually take the thing on AG gr it and then running back to this little base I built I had to hatch a plan hitting it through the door wasn’t going to work it would just kill me again like last time the cave dweller

Has the ability to climb through tight spaces in order to get you so I used that to my advantage locking it in my base I took one block out of my wall and as it started to crawl towards me I DST it in lava getting my awaited revenge on the Thing so did this remaster make the cave dweller any better honestly I thought it did it a little worse the cave dweller being less likely to spawn makes the occasion feel a little more special but there was something about heading into the first cave I found in the last World

And immediately being met with alien sounds I had no prior knowledge of even expecting that I would encounter it at one point I still wasn’t fully prepared for what may have been waiting for me with this although the sounds taking longer to play made the occasion feel a

Lot more sudden and unnerving once you know what you’re up against just a new code of paint isn’t going to Captivate the same level of paranoia I had when I initially came into contact with the cave dweller and this problem is only going to get more severe as we continue

So look at this anything ey catching about this screenshot anything at all yeah if it isn’t obvious by now the cave dweller got immensely freaking popular like absurdly huge and I can’t lie the original concept of the cave dweller definitely deserved it Garian is pretty good at coding quick and simple monsters

In the games set somewhat evolve on the initial concept he did it for Gmod during the nextbot craze and he was able to do it here again but unlike nextbots the cave dweller kind of took a mind of its own and it wasn’t long until we started seeing copycats more cave

Dweller tweaks the man from the fog the midnight lurker the one who watches the starved stalker the corpse stalker the Demonic Watcher if you get the damn points any two unsettling adjectives you can start with the wordthe essentially turned into one of these mods this trend

Got so big that it revived one of the oldest Minecraft horror mods the John mod do you remember the John mod Jesus Christ that took me back so I guess the only rational thing to do now is find every single one of these dweller like

Mods I can find put them all into one little mod pack and see if I can not only survive but also get spooked the same way I did when I first encountered the cave dweller loading in and we uh oh okay so which other mod is causing this waste no

Time introducing itself to you you’re not only met with Extremely Loud whispering right away but also a loud noise of a PNG attacking your screen it’s not even been a whole minute I think the mod that’s doing this is the one who watches which in concept has a

Pretty cool looking monster but doesn’t really capitalize on it and rather throws everything it has at you way too early we hear the whispering of this thing for the first good 10 minutes of it being in your world which doesn’t build any suspense and feels like it serves more as YouTuber reaction bait

Eventually The Whispers did stop and I focused on Gathering resources to build up some sort of shelter nighttime was fast approaching which I figured was not great especially given how dark the nights are with the Shader on another thing to point out is that it is constantly thundering like throughout my

Entire time playing this mod pack I heard and witnessed over 10 lightning strikes per minute minimum at first I honestly thought it was kind of cool and a bit Eerie especially since the lightning sound had the chance of being something different but after a while it kind of became a nuisance Forest around

Me would start burning down leaving a bunch of ugly floating blocks in my world it was a miracle that my house didn’t catch on fire speaking of which it was getting dark and I desperately needed shelter I was hastily building the found foundations to my house and

Built a makeshift roof and floor and good thing I did when I did because this happened while I was digging out the [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] floor this is honestly really funny to me because I was completely ignoring the sounds this was making prior to this entity showing up so it spawning completely out of nowhere almost felt like it got insecure and needed to do something to Spook me after enough

Waiting he just exploded and I needed to go outside to put out his fire the lightning at the end makes me almost believe that he may be the one causing the abundance of lightning strikes throughout the day but I’m not sure I’m sorry but I am not the biggest fan of

This guy I think his noises can be creepy in the right context but it doesn’t try to be subtle at all and I don’t like the fact that he seems unavoidable unlike the cave dweller I think a big part of what made the initial Mob More creepy is that it could

Be completely avoidable if you just ignore it but its presence will always work to put you more on edge when near this one the man from the fog I believe is cool in concept attempting to be an above ground cave dweller but es a lot of the charm the initial cave dweller

Had in the beginning I believe he needs to be much more subtle in order to Be an Effective threat as the constant alerting of his presence and inevitable attack when you don’t even get to interact with him are not that scary and become very formulaic and predictable as

Time goes on I also encountered the starved stalker for the first time on my second night he’s certainly the easiest one to deal with out of all the ones I went up against literally just showing up outside of my window and then leaving but he did have kind of a surprisingly

Banger theme which was not expected I think this guy is more cool than scary the night was not through with me yet though as the one who watches just popped up outside of my window to which I gave no reaction to I think this made

Him kind of sad because he just ran away and I hadn’t seen him again throughout my next hour of playing but the night still wasn’t through with me as the man from the fog spotted me again this time actually breaking one of my windows and making his way inside my base he killed

Me and flashed a spooky PNG over my head so that was fun at this point I was getting kind of tired of the same predictable things happening to me on the Overworld so after finally finishing my house that looks like it just crawled out of 2012 I gathered up some resources

And decided to descend to potentially meet an old friend after gearing up a bit more I stumbled across an abandoned M shaft heard some familiar noises and eventually came face to face with it once more this time I just killed it off pretty easily yes something they don’t

Really tell you about the cave dweller is that he’s really only an imposing threat early game even very early Game Gear like full iron is enough to take it down if you play your cards right making this creature not feel nearly as imposing once you’ve done some basic progression throughout the game I

Understand the purpose of the cave dweller is meant to be a balance threat but it honestly would be cool if his stats change depending on if you’ve done certain achievements throughout the game maybe once you’ve collected diamonds or headed to the nether for the first time it triggers a tick that increases the

Strength and health of it or something like that just anything to make the creatures still feel threatening no matter what stage of the game you’re at anyways I headed back up to my base and did something I should have done a long while ago I went to sleep like I think I

Damn earned it in conclusion it’s hard to make Minecraft scary throwing a bunch of entities Des set the wall and seeing what sticks is not what I believe to be the thing most mod developers should be doing in an attempt to make this game more frightening the most unsettling

Part about any of these mods were just the audio files that would play before encountering any sort of Beast or creature much like the cave noises already present in the game funny how that works I think if you’re a developer out there looking to make the next dweller mod I’d highly suggest toying

With the subtlety a bit more build up the introduction to your creature instead of throwing everything at you at once so the YouTuber making a 100 days video on your mod can scream 72 times maybe take some notes from old Herobrine Legends add little details that gradually happen in your world to

Indicate to the player that something’s wrong play unfamiliar audio cues every once in a while to catch a player off guard just like the base game does maybe even be a bit deceitful about the features of your mod on the page to not spoil the surprise if you have to just

Something that’s a bit more creative than doing what has already been done countless of times before you I think Minecraft does have the potential to create some pretty spooky scenarios but one of the only times I was genuinely startled while playing with any of these

Mods was when a creeper fell on me in a cave I think these types of entities can work for this game and genuinely be scary but we just need to iron out everything a bit more maybe then we can make something as spooky as Bedrock

Edition before I sign off I want to give a big thank you and I guess a shout out to friend A’s video that inspired this one it’s mostly a gameplay Montage but the core topic and idea is what inspired me to make this I’ll leave a link down

To it below if you want to check it out I honestly think it makes a pretty good complimentary piece to this one but for now that is all I had to say about this subject so I have been dags and until next time see you