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‼️ Version 1.3 is here ‼️

You are never alone in the dark.
Inside the Darkness is a survival horror modpack built around paranoia, exploration and an unsettling atmosphere. Build a shelter, gather supplies and stay alert: strange sightings can turn into dangerous encounters, and the quietest moments may be the ones you fear most.
- Unpredictable encounters: Herobrine, Slenderman, Cave Dweller and other entities with different ways of stalking and threatening you.
- An immersive world: ambient sounds, echoing caves, detailed footsteps, seasons and wind-driven rain and snow.
- Survival and exploration: refreshed vanilla biomes, varied terrain and selected underground structures, with tools for cooking and protecting your shelter.
- Optional shaders: choose a darker horror atmosphere or a more natural visual style.
- A customized presentation: a themed main menu, loading screen and a simple pause menu.
- Solo or multiplayer: survive alone or face the darkness together with proximity voice chat.
- Performance improvements: rendering and memory optimizations, with moderate weather particles to limit their added workload.
⚠️ Optional visuals — Patrix 32x ⚠️
Patrix 32x offers more realistic textures and is optional. Do not use it with Insanity Shader in this modpack; use BSL, Complementary Reimagined or Solas instead, with the appropriate PBR settings. Despite its 32x resolution, it is demanding and can significantly reduce FPS when combined with shaders. A capable graphics card with sufficient VRAM is recommended; leave Patrix disabled if performance drops.
Credits
Mods, resource packs, shaders & music
Thank you to all the creators whose work brings Inside the Darkness to life. These credits cover the 1.1.3 version, older releases may include different content.
Mods & libraries (149)
- 3D Skin Layers — tr7zw
- (Sodium) Chloride — SrRapero720
- AmbientSounds — CreativeMD
- Amendments — MehVahdJukaar
- Animated Doors — Miraculixx
- AnimaticaReforged — TeamPotato
- Anvil Repairing — Darkhax
- AppleSkin — squeek
- Architectury API — shedaniel
- AttributeFix — Darkhax
- BadOptimizations — Thosea
- Balm — BlayTheNinth
- Better Advancements — way2muchnoise
- Better Animations Collection — KodaichiZero, Fuzs
- Better Cave Dweller — 8bitmika; based on work by Cadentem, Schpalrbo, SiverDX and Scorchy
- Better Third Person — Socolio
- BetterF3 — TreyRuffy and cominixo
- Biomas Vanilla Renovados | Renovated Vanilla Biomes — Cangrejoide
- Bookshelf — Darkhax
- Boss Music Mod/Datapack — TheExiledFellow
- Camera Overhaul — Mirsario
- Catalogue — MrCrayfish
- Cave Dust — LizIsTired
- Chat Heads — dzwdz, Fourmisain
- Chat Impressive Animation — Wulian233, TexTrue
- Citadel — Alexthe666
- Cloth Config API — shedaniel
- Clumps — Jaredlll08
- Collective — Serilum
- Continuity — PepperCode1
- Cooking for Blockheads — BlayTheNinth
- CraftPresence — CDAGaming
- CreativeCore — CreativeMD
- Cull Leaves — Motschen, TeamMidnightDust
- Curios API — C4
- Curious Lanterns — Psilocke
- Darkness Tweaks — Inside the Darkness
- Decorative Blocks — Lilypuree, Stohun
- Drip Sounds — PieKing1215
- Drippy Loading Screen — Keksuccino
- Durability Tooltip — SuperMartijn642
- Dynamic FPS — juliand665 & LostLuma
- Eating Animations — Matyrobbrt
- Embeddium — embeddedt
- Enchantment Descriptions — Darkhax
- Enhanced Boss Bars — Nakuring
- EnlightenedBlockEntities — Mr.Toad
- Exposure — mortuusars
- Exposure Catalog — Mortuusars
- ExtraSounds Next — Arborsm, stashymane
- FancyMenu — Keksuccino
- Farmer's Delight — vectorwing
- FerriteCore — malte0811
- Fog — IMB11
- Fog Looks Modern Now — shizotoaster
- Forgified Fabric API — FabricMC, Sinytra
- From The Fog — Bret06
- Fusion (Connected Textures) — SuperMartijn642
- Fzzy Config — fzzyhmstrs
- Geckolib — Gecko, Eliot, AzureDoom, DerToaster, Tslat, Witixin
- GlitchCore — Adubbz
- GPUBooster — mr_toad
- GraveStone Mod — Max Henkel
- GroovyModLoader (GML) — GroovyMC
- Guard Villagers — TallestEgg, HadeZ/SadNya69 for the textures.
- Handcrafted — Alex Nijjar, Kekie6
- Iceberg — Grend
- Icterine — Mephodio
- ImmediatelyFast — RK_01
- Iron Chests — cpw, alexbegt, progwml6
- Item Borders — Grend
- Item Highlighter — Grend
- Jade — Snownee
- Just Enough Items (JEI) — mezz
- Konkrete — Keksuccino
- Kotlin for Forge — thedarkcolour
- Legendary Tooltips — Grend
- Lithostitched — Apollo
- Make Bubbles Pop — Tschipcraft
- Melody — Keksuccino
- Memory Leak Fix — FX - PR0CESS
- MidnightLib — TeamMidnightDust, Motschen
- Model Gap Fix — MehVahdJukaar
- ModernFix — embeddedt
- Moonlight Lib — MehVahdJukaar
- Mouse Tweaks — Ivan Molodetskikh (YaLTeR)
- MRU — IMB11, Cassian
- Neruina — Bawnorton
- Nether Chested — Fuzs
- NetherPortalFix — BlayTheNinth
- No Chat Reports — Aizistral
- Noisium — Steveplays28
- Not Enough Animations — tr7zw
- Not Enough Crashes — Fudge
- Oculus — NanoLive, dima_dencep, coderbot, IMS212, Justsnoopy30, FoundationGames
- Particle Core — fzzyhmstrs
- Particle Rain — PigCart
- playerAnimator — KosmX
- Potacore — TeamPotato
- Presence Footsteps (Forge) — Hurricaaane, Sollace, Paint_Ninja
- Prism — Grend
- Puzzles Lib — Fuzs
- Quality Sounds — RKeblawi, Sydokiddo (base code from Auditory Mod)
- Radiant Gear — Illusive Soulworks
- Realm RPG: Fallen Adventurers — NoCube
- Resourceful Config — epic_oreo, ThatGravyBoat
- Resourceful Lib — ThatGravyBoat, Epic_Oreo
- Saturn — AbdElAziz
- SecurityCraft — Geforce, bl4ckscor3, Redstone_Dubstep, and ChainmailPickaxe
- Serene Seasons — Adubbz, Forstride
- Simple Voice Chat — Max Henkel
- Sinytra Connector — Sinytra
- Slenderman: The Revival — Hqrvester
- Smarter Farmers (farmers replant) — MehVahdJukaar
- Smooth Boot (Reloaded) — AbdElAziz
- Sodium Dynamic Lights — toni, LambdAurora
- Sound Physics Remastered — Sonic Ether, vlad2305m, Max Henkel, Saint
- spark — lucko
- SuperMartijn642's Config Lib — SuperMartijn642
- SuperMartijn642's Core Lib — SuperMartijn642
- Supplementaries — MehVahdJukaar, Plantkillable
- Supplementaries Squared — MehVahdJukaar, Plantkillable
- Tectonic — Apollo
- Tense Ambience — Cyberking42
- The Anomaly Rephased — clorobored (Clorofite)
- The Knocker — Ma_Do
- The Man From The Fog — Ma_Do / M Productions
- The Midnight Lurker — Voxla
- The One Who Watches — Pixel Coder
- The Pale Hound — TheSpukuz, Llamii_Llama.
- ToadLib — Mr.Toad
- Toni's Immersive Lanterns — Toni
- Tool Stats — Darkhax
- Tool Trims — JoeFly
- True Ending - Ender Dragon Overhaul — limesplatus
- Twigs — Ninni
- TxniLib — Toni
- UniLib — CDAGaming
- WI Zoom — Alexander01998
- YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) — isXander
- YUNG's API — YUNGNICKYOUNG
- YUNG's Better Dungeons — YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YUNG's Better Mineshafts — YUNGNICKYOUNG
- YUNG's Better Strongholds — YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
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- YUNG’s Better Caves — YUNGNICKYOUNG
- Panda’s Falling Trees — The Panda Oliver
- PandaLib — The Panda Oliver
- First-person Model — tr7zw
- Entity Model Features (EMF) — Traben
- Entity Texture Features (ETF) — Traben
- Eyes in the Darkness — gigaherz
- Enhanced Celestials 2: Default Lunar Events — Corgi Taco
- Enhanced Celestials 2: Core — Corgi Taco
- CorgiLib — Corgi Taco
- Data Anchor — Corgi Taco
- Nyf’s Spiders — Nyfaria; based on Spiders 2.0 by TheCyberBrick.
- Distant Friends — Mrbysco & ShyNieke.
- Spawn Animations — Tschipcraft
Resource packs (10)
- SE Vanilla Consistency — Infernal Studios
- Motschen's Better Leaves — Motschen
- Even Better Enchants — mythitorium
- Fast Better Grass — robotkoer
- More Cave Sounds — MCS
- New Hearts — Momiji_Hozuki
- No More Clouds! — gitq
- Zero's Dot Crosshair — Aytug / Makber
- Inside the Darkness Compatibility Fixes — internal resource pack for texture and sound fixes.
- Patrix 32x — Patrix / patrix1221
Shaders (4)
- BSL Shaders — CaptTatsu
- Complementary Shaders - Reimagined — EminGT
- Insanity Shader — ElocinDev
- Solas Shader — Septonious
Music
Menu music
The Distant Sun by Scott Buckley — released under CC BY 4.0. Converted from the official MP3 to OGG Vorbis for the menu.
In-game music
Minecraft’s vanilla background music is replaced with eight dark ambient tracks. Original gameplay sounds remain unchanged.
- Horror Atmosphere — Juhani Junkala / SubspaceAudio — CC0.
- Ancient Caverns — congusbongus — CC0.
- EmptyCity — yd — CC0.
- Factory ambiance — yd — CC0.
- Searching — yd — CC0.
- Dark Ambient Drone — Tsorthan Grove — CC BY 4.0.
- Dark Ambient Loop 13 — Lucas Calvo / MundoSound, mundosound.com — CC BY 3.0.
- Dark ambiance — Philippe Groarke / Socapex — CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dark Ambient Drone and Dark Ambient Loop 13 were converted from FLAC and WAV respectively to OGG Vorbis. The other recordings remain unchanged; some use reduced playback volume. Each track retains its own license.
Previous content & additional credits
Inside the Darkness evolves between releases. We also thank the creators of content used in previous versions or removed from the current rework.
Previously used mods and libraries
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Advancement Plaques — Grend
Other earlier mod credit
- The Hybrid — credited in a previous README; not included in the current development profile.
Previous shader credits
Earlier releases may contain different mods, resource packs and shaders.


