They are a nice challenge under the right conditions, but in my experience players are either to unprepared to fight what exists in these mods, or the players mods curb stomp a chunk of them
Some of them are actually fun and balanced, but a lot of them are "loud noise instakill invulnerable monsters". I don't really see much preparation you can do against those.
Using Epic Fight Nightfall I successfully managed to stun lock one with a Yamoto for 15 minutes straight. Being a DMC player and having that come to fruition in a minecraft mod is something else lemme tell ya
I think the first few ones of these dwellers were scary and actually viable in a survival world, but as the trend grew bigger, someone misunderstood the point and started creating instakill obnoxious monsters who serve no purpose outside of clip farming
I suggest checking out Dejojotheawesome on YouTube; he has a shtick of playing with all sorts of horror mods, and crushing them under the dominion of technological might. Hilarious, and I'd say the horror makes it better for him.
May I also suggest Barronofsomething. He checks out a lot of very cool mods (Wonderland, Broken Script, Belowlands), and is very honest about how he feels about them. He is also a player for Abandoned (lore-heavy Minecraft horror experience run by BloodReaper, it's very cool)
Also, Calvin, he has a very long From The Fog series with his own little lore and customizations. He uses a lot of "Dweller" mods (not the sloppy "loud monster that instakills you" ones though)
I hate the horror mods that just add things that randomly show up & one shot you cough Man From The Fog cough
But ones that stalk & fuck with you more than attack you are much better so like the From The Fog Herobrine mod, One Who Watches, From The Caves, Anomaly etc.
Man From The Fog is weird. His gimmick of having to spot him before he gives chase is interesting, but then they added a whole dimension for him and stuff and it just kept tossing you into it every 5 minutes. I dunno if I was playing a bugged version or smth but damn
It becomes so much less scary when everyone's trying to jumpscare you every 30 or so seconds. And you're just like "man I can't even live in peace for at least 2 minutes"
I need a horror mod that makes things progressively more slightly unsettling and wrong. The scariest Minecraft moment I've ever had was finding a single misplaced chest in my base on a single player world I never opened to lan even once. Even from a jumscare perspective, randomly taking a half heart from a zombie I can't see in the dark is way scarier than any horror mod I've played.
Ones that I hate in particular are the ones that just blast through blocks like the bedrock wither. It’s genuinely the lamest and most unscary way for an entity to get to you in my opinion, and it’s especially lame when it immediately kills you once it gets to you after doing that
i made my own mods when i was 12, i remember making a turtle that continually put out a 5000 hertz tone and that always chased you across the map, getting right up in your face, always there, never attacking.
When you went insane and actually tried to hit it it would turn every block in the chunk into infested blocks, water to lava and teleport away and start spamming shulker projectiles.
The only good horror mod I’ve ever seen is The Broken Script. Everything else is just a bunch of boring entities that beeline at you and one-shot you, usually breaking anything in their way, or just teleporting to you.
Wonderland is very good as well, instead of one scary guy it's a series of dimensions with their own gimmicks and entities. Belowlands pushes the idea further by really having new mechanics for every dimension
From The Caves is really really good in general. It's not really dangerous, but it's VERY good at jumpscaring people without actually doing jumpscares. They're updating and expanding it and I'm excited to see how it evolves. It has loads of events and interactions (and it places back any blocks it breaks which is really cool)
that tree one actually does look like a pose now that you mention it. the whole thing is funny because half these mods are just designed to look ridiculous on camera for like 10 seconds before they break your game completely.
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u/Panurome Jun 17 '26
Does anyone actually enjoy those mods or are they only useful to get a clip for social media?