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theforgotten.jar

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theforgotten.jar

By TasuposedOwner

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A horror mod that slowly builds tension through sounds, figures, and things appearing in your world.

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Description

The Forgotten

Back in development. A Minecraft horror mod built on environmental changes, unsettling sounds, and things watching you from a distance. The longer you play, the worse it gets.

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Not an Empty World

Tension

Every player has a hidden Tension level that rises with their surroundings.

Tension rises when you:

  • Stay underground
  • Stay in the dark
  • Play alone, away from other players

At high Tension, expect:

  • Footsteps and block-breaking sounds that aren't yours
  • Chat messages from players who didn't send them
  • More frequent sightings

Entities

  • Apparitions — Silent watchers at the edge of your vision. Look at them and they're gone.
  • The Tormentor — Invisible, deep in the caves, and digging toward you.
  • The Observer — Waits inside the Trial.
  • The Hunter — Hunts you inside the Trial. If it catches you with Safe Mode off, your world save is deleted.

Talking to Them

Place a sign and write a question. Sometimes the text changes into an answer.

The Trial

The only way to make it stop.

  1. The Compass — Apparitions may drop a ######## Compass.
  2. The Entrance — Follow the compass to an entrance deep underground.
  3. The Dimensions — Survive the Corridors, the Library, and the Mineshaft.

Complete the Trial and the mod's effects end for you — permanently.

Reawakening

Place a sign, write /summon reawake, and right-click it. Everything comes back, more often and more aggressive than before.

Configuration

Adjust everything in the config files or through Cloth Config:

  • Feature toggles — Turn entities, sounds, structures, and dimensions on or off
  • Tension tuning — How fast Tension builds in different conditions (solitude, storms, underground)
  • Event scheduling — How often entities and sounds appear
  • Audience radius — Pause events when players are close together
  • Safe Mode — Keeps your worlds from being deleted. On by default — only turn it off if you know what you're doing.

Good to Know

  • Multiplayer: Supported.
  • Modpacks: You're free to include The Forgotten in modpacks and derivative works.

Discord

Found a bug, have an idea, or just want to chat with the community? Join the Discord. I try to read everything in #feedback, and new versions are announced there first.

The Forgotten

The Forgotten is a horror mod that focuses on subtlety instead of jumpscares. It uses small environmental changes, distant sounds, and figures you'll see standing in the distance watching you. The horror builds slowly over time.

The mod tracks tension for each player based on where you are and if you're alone. Being underground, in the dark, or isolated increases your tension. Higher tension means events happen more often. You'll hear footsteps behind you, blocks breaking nearby, or get chat messages from players who didn't actually type anything. Sometimes you'll see something standing far away.

There's an optional way out. Apparitions sometimes drop notes with coordinates that point to hidden pits. These pits teleport you to the Corridor Dimension, which is just endless cobblestone hallways with almost zero visibility. You need to find and press 3 trial buttons scattered throughout the corridors while dealing with aggressive apparitions. If you complete the trial, you're permanently free from all the mod's effects.

Everything is configurable. You can turn off any feature or change how often things happen. The mod is harder on solo players in caves and easier on groups or people on the surface.

Features

Apparitions Humanoid figures that spawn far away from you (sometimes nearby), sometimes copying other players' skins. They disappear if you stare at them. In caves or the corridor dimension, some will charge at you and deal damage if you look at them too long.

Ambient Sounds Positional audio that plays around you in caves. Stone breaking in the distance, footsteps, surface animal sounds heard from deep underground. The sounds are distorted and layered to sound wrong.

Micro Structures Small, temporary world changes that appear when your tension is high. Examples include a torch, a crafting table, a chest with notes, or stone brick patterns. Some are simple anomalies: a vertical air seam along a chunk line, an offset ground patch, a straight ground crack, or short bedrock pillars. They roll back after a few minutes.

Tension Tracked per player. Goes up when you're underground, in darkness, or alone. Goes down in safe lit areas or villages. Higher tension means more frequent events.

The Tormentor Rare invisible entity that spawns in caves and slowly digs through natural stone as it moves toward you. You hear the blocks breaking, getting closer. When it reaches you, it delivers a scare and disappears.

Creepy Chat Fake chat messages that look like they came from other players or yourself. Uses your actual name. Things like "don't look", "behind you", "it knows your bed, [your name]".

The Corridor Trial Optional challenge dimension. Generated pits (marked by signs and notes) teleport you to endless cobblestone corridors. Find 3 trial buttons while dealing with aggressive apparitions. Complete it and you're permanently free from the mod.

Grace Period New worlds start silent for a random amount of time (half day or full day) so you can get settled before events start.

Configuration

Everything is configurable through config files. You can toggle any feature and change all the timing and probability values.

Feature Toggles

  • Enable/disable apparitions, ambient sounds, small structures, trial dimension, world silence, cave charges, behind-turn jumpscares, creepy chat, and the tormentor

Tension Tuning

  • Adjust tension gain rates (underground, solitude, storms/night)
  • Adjust tension decay rates (safe areas, baseline)
  • Set minimum tension thresholds for structure placement

Event Scheduling

  • How often the mod checks for events
  • Probabilities for apparitions, ambient sounds, charges, jumpscares
  • Cooldowns between events

Trial Settings

  • Number of buttons required (default is 3)
  • Button spawn chance per chunk
  • Enable/disable the trial

Other Settings

  • Audience radius (events cancel when other players are within range)
  • Light level requirements for cave charges
  • Underground requirements for mechanics

All config values have comments explaining what they do.

Other Notes

Multiplayer

The mod works flawlessly in singleplayer, while multiplayer is supported but may still have occasional issues.

Derivative Works

You are free to include The Forgotten in your modpacks without almost any restrictions.

If you make a video about The Forgotten, it would be greatly appreciated and help more players discover the mod.