Dreamshift

Not all worlds will wait to be found.

Dreamshift is an atmospheric horror mod for Minecraft that introduces Dreamspaces, unique and surreal worlds that exist beyond slippages, unstable tears in reality.

This mod does not feature one monster haunting you every night.

It explores the experience of encountering something you should not have seen, recognizing new rules, and trying to find your way back home.

What is Dreamshift?

Throughout your world, you may find some unnatural, fragile openings called slippages.

They don’t lead to the Nether. They don’t lead to the End.

They lead somewhere else.

Dreamspaces are individual dimensions, each with its own atmosphere, weather, time, events, sounds, buildings, and structure. They can be quiet, broken, abandoned, or simply waiting for you.

Dreamspaces are not regular dimensions in Minecraft. They are temporary experiences, fragments, memories, places, and mistakes.

Features

✦ Slippages

Slippages are unstable openings that can appear anywhere in the world.

Using them can take you to the Dreamspace, a surreal, atmospheric, and eerie world meant for exploration.

Some slippages are quiet.

Some are scripted.

Others should not exist at all.

✦ Dreamspaces

Dreamspaces are unique horror environments that lie outside the normal Minecraft survival experience.

These may include:

abandoned roads
impossible buildings
frozen skies
distant figures
broken interiors
strange weather
custom time rules
scripted events
return conditions
worlds that reset once left behind

Dreamspaces look like worlds that Minecraft forgot to delete.

✦ Scripted Encounters

Some Dreamspaces contain unique scripted events.

These are not random mob spawns; they are pre-built situations with specific pacing, behavior, dialogue, movement, and return mechanics.

Scripted Dreamspaces may feature a small story.

Non-scripted Dreamspaces may simply decide you have spent enough time there.

✦ Unscripted Dreamspaces

Not every Dreamspace has a story.

Some Dreamspaces are just places you find yourself in.

Unscripted Dreamspaces may return players to the Overworld using various systems, including:

random return timers
fatal fall prevention
void protection
sleep attempt returns
dimension change attempt returns
logout and login recovery

If a Dreamspace has a scripted entity or return story, random timer returns are disabled so the event can run properly.

✦ Dynamic Dimensions

Dreamshift creates individual Dreamspace dimensions instead of forcing everything into a single world.

This allows each Dreamspace to have:

its own time
weather
sky behavior
reset state
scripted logic
portal or slippage destination
world lifecycle

When Dreamspaces are empty, they can reset back to their default state.

✦ Time and Weather

Dreamspaces do not follow Overworld rules.

By default, Dreamspaces are clear and set between sunrise and sunset, with higher chances of appearing close to noon.

Some Dreamspaces change this entirely:

Dystopic Ruins – midnight
Lone Theatre – midnight, thunderstorm
Unauthorized Church – midnight, snow
Timezones – midnight

Dreamspaces

Dreamshift currently features over 20 Dreamspaces, each crafted as a unique horror world.

There are quiet Dreamspaces, scripted ones, some that are just atmospheric for now, and others are waiting for their event.

These are not regular dimensions or biome variations. Each Dreamspace is treated as a separate location with its own mood, rules, reset logic, time, weather, and possible story.

Currently available Dreamspaces include:

Angelic Station
Dystopic Ruins
Familiar Eye Exam
Floating Barn House
Frutigo Aero
Journeys Station
Level 7: Flooded
Lone Theatre
Lost Homes
Mosaic Meters
Mossy Rooms
Offices Neighborhood
Overgrowth
Pink Lone House
Retired Wish
Route 66
The Ungate
Timezones
Unauthorized Church
What’s Above Is Blue
Whirl Gap

New Dreamspaces, scripted encounters, and return events are in the works.

Horror Style

Dreamshift does not rely on cheap jump scares and monster spawns.

The horror of the mod comes from:

displacement
exploring locations that should not exist
environmental storytelling
scripted entities
isolation
unique rules
unsafe exits
worlds that feel temporary, abandoned, or self-aware

While other horror mods ask: "What hunts you?"

Dreamshift asks:

Where did you just go?

But the more important question is:

Why did it let you in?

Requirements

To use the mod, you need:

Minecraft 1.20.1
Fabric
- Forge builds are temporarily removed. They've been problematic all throughout development, which makes me fear that Forge doesn't have the same capabilities as Fabric. No known return date.
Immersive Portals

Depending on the version and loader, you may need additional dependencies.

Compatibility note:

On macOS devices, especially those with Apple Silicon, Immersive Portals may show incorrect rendering when used with Iris shader packs. This issue seems to stem from macOS OpenGL/shader restrictions and Immersive Portals shader clipping requirements. If portals become invisible, distorted, or fail to render correctly, try turning off shaders or using only the Sodium shader pack.

Notes

Dreamshift is not fully developed yet. While some Dreamspaces are scripted, others are still non-scripted atmospheric worlds and may have events added later.

The behavior of worlds, slippages, Dreamspace resetting, and scripted encounters is actively being developed.