Don't Try to Sleep

Every bed is a door. Most of them lead somewhere you do not want to be.

Don't Try to Sleep is a story-driven horror mod for Minecraft 1.20.1. It turns the most ordinary action in the game - going to bed - into the start of a nightmare. You will wake up unable to move while something stands over you. You will walk in your sleep. You will fall into dream worlds that do not follow the rules of the game you know, and somewhere inside them are the memories you need to wake up for good.

Trailer https://youtu.be/DJz0VAvYn1w?si=2RgEb-qQJ3ghRa83.

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How it works

Sleep the way you always do. Most nights you will not simply skip to morning.

• Dreams. Lying down can pull you into one of ten dream worlds. Each has its own rules, its own threat and its own way out.
• Sleep paralysis. You open your eyes in your own room and cannot move. Something is in there with you. Each paralysis plays out differently, and it never repeats the same one twice in a row.
• Sleepwalking. Sometimes you wake up somewhere you did not go to sleep.
• Long nights. A single night can hold up to three nightmares, sometimes four. Morning comes only when they are over.

Every dream has two kinds of exits. A white door wakes you up. A black door drops you into another dream. Finding them is the hard part.

Ten dream worlds

World	What waits there
Dream Village	Quiet at first. Stay too long and they come for you.
Flesh Corridor	Run. Something with very long arms is right behind you.
The Backrooms	Endless yellow rooms. The lights go out in waves, and a phone is ringing somewhere.
White Ward	Hundreds of hospital beds. Only one of them is yours.
Black Void	Darkness, a ring of eyes, and an alarm clock you can hear but cannot see.
Glitch	A broken copy of your world. Your double is getting closer.
Watching Flesh	Walls that look back. Feed the guardians, find a heart, stab it three times.
Chess Hall	An endless board. The pieces step towards you, faster every minute.
Hallucination	Bright colours, music and dancing friends. Then the colour drains away.
Paradise	Too good to leave. Someone there has been waiting for you.

Each world is built around you when you arrive, so no two visits are the same.

The things that come at night

Eleven creatures, each with its own behaviour: the Keyhole that watches you while you cannot move, Long Arms in the corridor, the Spider Tower, Stilts and Shaggy on the chessboard, the Leaner in the dark of the Backrooms, the Wishbone that reaches for your throat, the Dripper by the hospital beds, the Crawling Eye, the Winged Eye and the Floating Eye.

They are not mobs you can farm. They belong to the nightmare and they follow its rules.

A story to uncover

Torn notes are hidden throughout the dreams. Together they tell the story of who slept in your bed before you. Seven Memory Fragments are scattered across the worlds. Collect them, learn how to build the Memory Nightlight, and you may finally be able to wake up.

There are two endings. One of them lets you wake up. The other lets you stay.

What keeps you awake

Sixteen new items to survive the night and find your way out:

• Pills, Bottle of Pills, Valerian Tea, Sedative Syrup - control what the night brings: no paralysis, a calmer dream, no dreams at all, or sleep right where you stand.
• Smelling Salts, Clothespin, Coffee - try to wake yourself up, or keep yourself awake.
• Alarm Clock, Dream Catcher - protect your bed.
• Flashlight, Dream Compass, Chalk - see in the dark, find the way out, draw a circle the monsters will not cross.
• Dream Shard, Memory Fragment, Black Book, Memory Nightlight - the keys to the story.

Most of them can be crafted. Memory Fragments can only be found in dreams.

More

• A main menu that remembers. Animated backgrounds unlock as you earn the mod's advancements, from a crowd of shapes in the fog to eyes that follow your cursor.
• Eleven advancements, including two hidden ones for the endings.
• Shader friendly. If you use Iris, shaders are switched off automatically inside dreams and restored when you wake up.
• English and Russian, switchable from the mod's own button in the main menu.
• Made for recording. Short, intense sessions that are easy to capture and fun to watch.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Fabric Loader 0.15 or newer
• Fabric API

Install the mod on both the client and the server.

For server owners and creators

Operators can use the /sleep command to trigger specific events for testing or for videos:

• /sleep dream - fall into a dream
• /sleep world tp <1-10> - go to a specific dream world
• /sleep paralysis - start a sleep paralysis
• /sleep sleepwalk - start sleepwalking
• /sleep wake - wake up
• /sleep reset - start the story over

Credits

Music: "Epic Boss Battle" by SubspaceAudio, "Spooky Waltz" by Aureolus_Omicron, "Heavenly Loop" by isaiah658 - all CC0, via OpenGameArt.

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Sleep well.