Lightless Dreams

Lightless Dreams

Step into a dream. Discover what waits in the dark.

Lightless Dreams is a Minecraft horror mod set in two unsettling dream worlds: a manor hidden in a snowy forest and a network of abandoned underground mines.

Craft an entry item, meet the mysterious night, and explore at your own pace.

Entering a dream

Both entry items use shapeless crafting recipes:

Use the item in the Overworld. You can enter during the day or at night; an accepted entry request consumes one item. No commands or shaders are needed.

You can play alone or with friends. Eligible players within 64 blocks may enter with you, so gather your group before using the item.

Meeting night for the first time

night appears naturally in the Overworld. To look for him, try getting into bed, or explore an unlit underground area below Y=20. Leave a safe standing space around your bed.

If he appears while you are falling asleep, get out of bed to meet him rather than sleeping through to morning. Right-click him to talk and continue the introduction.

You do not have to find night before crafting an entry item.

Installation

• Minecraft Java Edition: 1.21.1
• Mod loader: NeoForge; tested baseline 21.1.219
• Java: 21
• Languages: English and Simplified Chinese; missing translations in other languages fall back to English.

Place the mod's .jar file in your mods folder. For multiplayer, install it on both the server and every client. Remove older copies before updating.

No shader pack or additional rendering mod is required. Back up your world before updating.

Shader compatibility

The tested combination is Iris 1.8.14-beta.1, Sodium 0.8.13, and Complementary Reimagined r5.9.3. Testing covers night's rendering and the mod's Iris held-light controls, rather than every visual effect or shader pack.

Iris hand-held lighting is disabled inside the dream dimensions and restored outside them. Placed torches and other placed light sources still work. Separate dynamic-light mods are not covered by this integration. If something looks incorrect, try playing with shaders disabled.

Before you play

This mod includes jump scares, sudden loud sounds, darkness effects, camera shake, and disturbing creature designs.

The normal progression in this release takes place in the Snowbound Manor and Abandoned Mines. Older experimental content accessible through debug commands is outside this introduction.

Inventory and multiplayer notes

Your pre-entry inventory is stored when you enter a dream dungeon and restored on normal exit or after death and respawn. Dungeon supplies are temporary; only designated completion rewards are carried home.

Logging out and reconnecting inside a special dimension clears your currently carried dungeon items. Your stored pre-entry inventory is preserved. This also applies to shared supplies you were carrying, so reconnecting is not a way to pause a round.

In multiplayer, participants share the starting supplies and completion reward; supplies do not scale with player count.

Future updates

Future updates are planned to introduce more dream dimensions with different ways to play, each offering its own rules, challenges, and places to explore.

night's story will continue as well. Later updates will develop his storyline and add more dialogue and interactions, letting you gradually get to know him through your encounters.

Feedback

Please report issues in the CurseForge comments with your Minecraft and NeoForge versions, mod version, singleplayer or multiplayer setup, shader/mod list, and steps to reproduce the issue. Include a relevant log or crash report when available, removing any private information before sharing it.

Credits

• Sound assets from Vita-chi, used under the author's terms.
• ObsydianX — Horror SFX Volume 1 – Free Pack, under CC BY 4.0. Some sounds have been converted or otherwise processed; individual modification details are included with the mod.
• YourPalRob — horror sound effects.
• AlanCat — rockfall2a.wav, under CC0.
• BOOM Library — Cinematic Horror sound assets.

Detailed source and license notices are included in the JAR's META-INF/licenses directory. Third-party assets remain subject to their respective terms. The mod's own work is distributed under All Rights Reserved.

The promotional cover is a staged Blender render, bringing creatures from different dungeons together in one composition. It is not an in-game screenshot. The separate gameplay gallery contains unedited game captures, some arranged using debug tools for framing.