Grim Shadow

Beware of shadows.

Grim Shadow is a dark-fantasy combat and ecology mod centered around scythes, creature shadows, and a final confrontation with PLAYER - a boss shaped by the way you played.

Reap and wield shadows

Finish creatures with a Grim Shadow weapon to separate their shadows. Each special shadow provides an active ability:

• Creeper Shadow - a telegraphed explosion that does not damage blocks.
• Spider Shadow - a web tether that pulls enemies or launches you toward terrain.
• Enderman Shadow - a safe short-range teleport.
• Iron Golem Shadow - a powerful ground slam with knockback.
• Warden Shadow - a piercing sonic line capable of striking several targets.

Shadows contain multiple charges and can be placed into weapon sockets. Cooldowns belong to the player, so swapping weapons cannot reset them.

Three distinct weapons

• Scythe - slow and heavy, with wide attacks, powerful harvesting and two shadow sockets.
• Shadow Scythe - a balanced weapon with extended reach and three shadow sockets.
• Reaper Sickle - fast and mobile, built for single-target combat with one shadow socket.

Scythes can also harvest crops in an arc and automatically replant supported plants. Custom enchantments further specialize each weapon.

Face PLAYER

Discover all five special shadows and craft the Grim Sigil to begin the final encounter.

Your body is taken from you, turning the player into a living shadow. PLAYER appears wearing your skin, armor, weapon and offhand equipment. It studies your combat habits and learns from the shadow abilities you used most often.

Defeat it to reclaim your body and obtain the PLAYER Shadow, which grants the powerful Umbral Phase ability.

The duel is persistent: leaving the world or restarting a server does not count as a defeat.

A living twilight ecosystem

Grim Shadow also introduces a small ecosystem that interacts with the vanilla world:

• Three climate-based giant caterpillar variants.
• Taming, feeding and metamorphosis.
• Cocoons that develop over time and hatch into moths.
• Silk Moths, Shadow Moths and Dark Moths.
• Moths seeking shelter from rain, gathering near soul lanterns and visiting Shrape bushes.
• Natural predators that hunt caterpillars, cocoons and moths.
• Shrape plants, food, syrup and new alchemy recipes.

Creature rarity and metamorphosis times can be adjusted in the mod configuration.

More content

• Custom scythe enchantments.
• Shadow Blocks with connected textures.
• Functional wall-mounted Scythe Holders.
• New potions and brewing recipes with JEI integration.
• The music disc Star Dustus - Enemy in Shadow.
• A guided combat and ecology advancement tree.
• English and Russian localization.
• Configurable shadow drops, creature spawning, abilities and shadow omens.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.4.10 or newer 47.x
• Java 17
• GeckoLib 4.8.4+ - required on client and server
• Player Animator 1.0.2-rc1+ - required on clients only

JEI is optional but recommended for viewing recipes and potion brewing.

Multiplayer

Grim Shadow supports both integrated and dedicated servers. Combat, abilities, drops and boss encounters are validated by the server.

Server owners can configure gameplay through:

config/grimshadow-common.toml

Singleplayer users can open:

Mods → Grim Shadow → Config