oddly difficult nothingburger

the only reason you should fear the nightfall in this modpack is because night-time means you sit inside your house for twenty minutes doing nothing or go outside and die instantly.

gameplay was mildly spooky for about three hours before i realized that the exact same 'scary' noises play everyday at the same time in the same orders. i don't have much to say about that because i think you, the reader, can employ your brain to deduce that's stupid and ruins any tension that was had.

there's also some hyper-OP status effect(?) mobs can get that lets them break blocks and one tore through my house just to kill me while i was sitting around doing nothing. and creepers can explode through walls. so you have to make your walls extra thick or construct a lava moat else you'll get to experience all the fun of tinnitus streamed directly into your ears via mp3 file.

the sanity system is the bane of my existance. why does getting wet make your sanity go down? it's rain it's not going to kill you. sorry to anybody who's afraid of water but i am not. i'd die without water. haha funny joke. being in the dark also makes your sanity go down, which is more understandable, but this doesn't seem to account for handheld light sources (or maybe i set it up wrong?) so if you're strip-mining while holding a lantern your player character will start freaking out even though you can see everything perfectly.

speaking of darkness, if you want to play this you better have a HDR OLED display, because it's impossible to see anything on a regular SDR LCD monitor because of how dark everything is. or just turn off the shader. but that'll make the game even less scary so you might as well just go play a different modpack. i think the average "dweller" or "man from the scary hell biome" mods are actually scarier than this.

if you want to be scared while playing minecraft, add one of those "1/1000 chance for fnaf jumpscare" mods to your game. way scarier than this.