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Don't Follow The Map

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Don't Follow The Map

By nicochart

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Herobrine is watching. He's getting closer. Don't follow his map.

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
26.3
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Description

Don't Follow the Map

Something is haunting your world.

At first, it's nothing. A figure on a distant hill, gone before you can reach it.. Footsteps behind you.. A torch that wasn't red this morning…

Then it comes closer. To your bed, to your home.. To you.

And one day, it leaves you a map.

Don't follow it.

What is it?

Don't Follow the Map is a horror mod that takes its time. Nothing happens on your first day. After that, Herobrine starts showing up, a bit closer each time: at first he just watches you, then he starts messing with your world, and after a few days he actually comes after you.

Things you might notice

I don't want to spoil too much, but here's a taste:

  • someone standing far away, who really doesn't like being stared at
  • footsteps and noises behind you (only you can hear them)
  • your torches acting weird when you're not looking
  • signs and small builds showing up around your house
  • animals that keep staring at you
  • a "player" walking around your base… who isn't a player
  • something following you while you mine
  • tunnels that aren't as empty as they should be
  • waking up somewhere you definitely didn't fall asleep

Once he starts hunting you, hiding won't get you very far. I spent a lot of time trying to cheese him with walls, pillars, shields and water. It doesn't work anymore.

The map

At some point, he leaves you a map.. If you follow it, it will lead you to what keeps him locked away. Break it and you get a real boss fight, with its own music. Win, and everyone on the server gets some peace for a while.

Atmosphere

  • Original ambience, appearance sound and fight music, made for this mod
  • When he's watching you, your get a visual screen effect.
  • The fog gets thicker when he's around
  • And yes, he messes with your F3 screen and debug hitboxes too

Good to know

  • works in multiplayer, each player gets their own haunting
  • almost everything can be turned off or tuned in config/dontfollowthemap.json
  • ops can check, trigger or reset a haunting with /dontfollowthemap
  • needs Fabric API and Minecraft 26.3, installed on both client and server
  • available in English and French
  • feel free to put it in your modpacks

Best played alone, at night, with the sound on. Have fun (or not).