The Anderluster

Anderluster

A creature that won’t let you alone.

Anderluster is a horror mod for 1.20.1 Forge. It doesn’t add new blocks or biomes. It just makes the night a lot less safe. Two creatures spawn on their own after sunset, and once they show up you can’t really ignore them.

The Anderluster

A tall creature (3.4 blocks) that floats, goes through stuff and can’t be pushed around. It spawns near you at night and starts hunting you.

It has 7 phases and its look changes in each one. It breathes, knocks and screams, and there are a lot of sound cues around you, so play with headphones if you can. It also breaks doors, so a closed door won’t save you.

When it starts, you get a warning on screen: “SHOOT IT FAST! Before it transforms”. If you’re too slow, it transforms into something worse. In some phases it knocks and a 3, 2, 1 countdown starts. Sneak and right-click a bed, stay still, and it leaves. If you don’t, it kills you.

Picture this: you’re building at night and everything goes quiet. You hear breathing right behind you, the warning pops up, and you have to choose between grabbing the shotgun and running to your bed.

The Knocker

It shows up outside your glass windows and knocks on them. It needs glass near you to appear, and only one can be active at a time. It looks at you through the window, knocks, cracks the glass and then breaks it. If your house has glass walls, good luck sleeping.

The shotgun

You need something to fight back, so I added a craftable shotgun:

I I I
P F _
P _ _

(I = iron ingot, P = planks, F = flint and steel)

Damage is meant to feel like a real shotgun: around 30 up close (enough to kill a player), dropping to 6 at 24+ blocks. Range is 26 blocks and a shot can hit up to 4 targets. There’s a short delay between shots and durability is limited, so don’t waste them. It has its own first-person animation and shot sound.

What changes in your game

• Night stops being safe. Both creatures spawn by themselves: the Anderluster about once per in-game day, the Knocker more often.
• Beds and glass houses start to matter. One saves you and the other is a weakness.
• You have to listen and react fast.

Spawning and commands

Both have spawn eggs in the Anderluster creative tab, or use:

/summon anderluster:anderluster
/summon anderluster:knocker
/give @s anderluster:shotgun

Requirements

Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47+ and GeckoLib 4.4.9+.