Echoes in the Dark
⚠️ BETA VERSION — WE APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK! ⚠️
The modification is in the public testing stage. All core features are implemented, but bugs, performance issues, or gameplay imbalances may occur.
Your feedback will help improve the mod! Report bugs and share suggestions in the comments or through the project's issue tracking system. Thank you for helping with testing!
This is not a typical horror mod. There are no loud jump scares or constant monster attacks.
Echoes in the Dark is a psychological horror that builds a growing sense of anxiety over time. At first, the world appears completely normal, creating a false sense of security. But with each day, reality begins to crumble. Barely noticeable changes, phantom sounds, and unexplainable events will make you doubt your senses, your surroundings, and your own sanity.
With each day, the darkness in your world grows stronger...
Key Features
Gradual Progression
Horror unfolds slowly through four distinct phases. The mod tracks the number of in-game days survived, gradually increasing intensity.
Phase 0 (Days 0-3): A completely normal Minecraft world. Build, explore, and enjoy the peace while it lasts.
Phase 1 (Days 3-7): The first signs appear. Faint whispers at the edge of hearing, blocks that change when you're not looking. You might dismiss it as imagination.
Phase 2 (Days 7-14): The world becomes unstable. Phantom walls and structures appear and vanish. Disturbing messages manifest. The feeling of being watched intensifies.
Phase 3 (Days 14+): Reality breaks down. Full-scale horror with terrifying entities, copies of your base, and severe sanity effects.
Sanity and Darkness
Your mind is fragile. Staying in darkness drains sanity, causing progressive visual and auditory distortions. Stay near light sources to feel safe and restore mental state, but remember—low sanity effects are persistent and disorienting.
Environmental Manipulation
The world itself becomes your enemy.
Block Shifting: Look away from a wall and look back. Was that cracked tile there before? The mod subtly changes blocks, making you doubt your memory. (It's smart enough to never touch blocks you placed yourself!)
Phantom Structures: Temporary walls, pillars, and corridors that appear and disappear to confuse and trap you.
Mirror Rooms: Your own base, meticulously recreated in a remote dark location, but with disturbing alterations. What you find inside may haunt you.
Audio Warfare
You can't always trust what you hear.
Phantom Sounds: The sound of a chest opening, a door creaking, glass breaking... but you're completely alone.
Echoed Footsteps: Hear your own movements mimicked with a slight delay, as if something is following you just out of sight.
Hallucinations: In multiplayer, some sounds play only for you. Are you sure that creeper hiss was real?
Spectral Entities
You are not alone.
Shadow People: Elusive transparent figures that watch from the darkness and vanish when you approach.
Echo Entities: An invisible presence that perfectly mimics your actions—opening doors, breaking blocks—with a delay.
The Watcher: A rare persistent entity that stalks you from a great distance, always present, always watching.
Full Customizability
Almost every feature can be tailored to your preferences! Use the config/echoesinthedark-common.toml file to change phase timing, sanity drain rates, and event frequency. Create the perfect horror experience.
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⚠️ Content Warning
This mod creates an intense psychological horror experience and includes:
Disorienting audio and visual effects.
Themes of paranoia, stalking, and reality distortion.
Entities that create a persistent sense of being watched.
Player discretion advised. Not recommended for those sensitive to horror or under 13 years of age.
Install the Echoes in the Dark beta and help us shape the horror! We look forward to your feedback as you discover what awaits when the world begins to forget itself.
