🩸 HOLLOW DWELLER 🩸

The horror mob you survive with your friends — and laugh about afterwards

👁️ Something tall and pale is watching you from the dark.

It hears your voice. It copies your friends. It puts your torches out. And when it finally grabs you, it carries you so far away that your friends have to go and find you… bleeding.

🔥 Forge 1.20.1 · 👥 Made for multiplayer · 🎙️ Optional Simple Voice Chat support · 📦 No required dependencies · 🌍 English + Español

⚡ In 10 seconds

👂 It listens

Everything you do makes noise — and it hears it.

🤫 Sneak and keep quiet and it will only stare at you. Make noise and it shrieks, drops to all fours and charges.

🎭 It lures you — the Mimic

Lurking in the dark, it plays back what it has heard to bring you to it:

• 🗣️ A friend's voice — short clips of what your friends said on Simple Voice Chat, played back from the dark. It prefers somebody far from you, so it sounds like they are out there… (clips live in memory only and are forgotten after a few minutes; turn off with [mimic] voice = false)
• 👣 Real footsteps and 🚪 real doors and chests that other players made, with their real rhythm
• 💬 (optional) the last thing a friend typed in chat

Whoever goes to look walks straight into its ambush. 😈

👁️ It watches you

• 🪟 A face at the window — a tall figure stares in from the night. Look away and back… it's gone. Or closer.
• 🚪 Three knocks on your door. Open it: nobody.
• 🪨 Scratching on the glass and the wood, 👣 heavy iron footsteps circling your house
• 🌫️ False alarms — some of them only watch: a figure far off in the open, or in a dark cave. It fades away if you come near, stare, or look away and back. It never attacks. You never know which kind it is.
• 🤫 When it is close it whispers your name…

🔎 It was here before you

Before it shows up in the cave you're in, it leaves signs:

• 🐾 Claw slashes and long-fingered hand prints in dried blood on the walls
• 👁️ Its sigil — an eye over three scratches — proof it was here
• 🩸 Dried blood on the floor, and footprints (three long clawed toes and one behind)

A minute later, it arrives.

🕯️ The lights go out

Plain vanilla torches, lanterns, campfires and candles 🔥 flicker and die when it is near, and come back when it leaves. Nothing is destroyed or dropped (and a crash can't leave the world dark). 🎵 The music and ambience of the world stop dead — and the silence is the worst part.

🫂 When it grabs you

💀 A jump scare the instant it has you: a pixel-art face, a screech, red static. (Flash-free option included.)

Then you see it happen — no blindfold. The camera travels with the creature, shakes with every stride, and your heartbeat gets faster and faster 💓. One of four ways:

It runs 130+ blocks — far enough that nobody sees where you went. You scream so your friends can follow. Mash Sneak to wriggle free, left-click to kick 🦵, or let your friends hit it until it drops you. In low tunnels it drags you instead of crushing you.

🩸 What it leaves of you

It lays you down and feeds. Then (all odds configurable):

• ☠️ You die — and leave a headless corpse wearing your skin
• 💪 You lose an arm — gone from your model
• 🦿 You lose a leg — you can only crawl, leaving a trail of blood
• 🤕 You are mauled — alive, barely

…and you're bleeding: no regeneration, blood on the floor wherever you go.

⛓️ The rarest ending — left hanging

Very rarely (6 % by default) it doesn't eat you. It carries you to a branch or a cave ceiling and hangs you up, missing limbs — sometimes all four — dripping blood:

• 🪝 A metal hook through your back
• 🪢 A noose — you slowly suffocate and the screen very slowly fades to black
• ⛓️ Chained by the wrists
• 🙃 Upside down by the ankles — the whole world inverted

Bodies are limp: they sway, arms and legs dangle. Alone you can mash Sneak to slip free (slow, with chains rattling); a friend gets you down in a handful of right-clicks. Press H to call for help 📢 — everyone within 400 blocks is told roughly where you are… and the Dweller may hear too.

🆘 Search. Rescue. Survive.

• ⏱️ Hide and seek — when somebody is taken, everyone else gets a boss bar countdown and an arrow ➜ with the distance to catch up. The victim sees their own countdown and how far they've wriggled free.
• 🩹 Bandage — closes the bleeding and heals · 🦾 Prosthetic Arm · 🦿 Prosthetic Leg — fit one limb at a time, on yourself or a friend
• 🔪 The right tool cuts faster — ✂️ shears or ⚔️ sword for a rope, ⛏️ pickaxe or 🪓 axe for chains and hooks
• 👶 Carry your friend — crouch + right-click someone who can't walk. Press G to switch between in your arms and across your shoulders. Both your hands are busy, they hang limp, you're slowed. Crouch a second to put them down.
• 🤒 Alone? Crouch still for a very slow self-treatment… but you whimper, and it can hear you.

🧰 Fight back

All craftable — see the recipe book.

🔊 Fear you can feel

🔔 The shriek before the charge · 🌑 darkness pulses and tunnel vision · 💓 a heartbeat as it closes in · 🔇 world sounds that stop dead · 🩸 real blood: spray, falling drops and stains that stay on the floor, then dry up

🎨 The details

• 🧬 ~65 model parts, 256×256 texture: breathing ribs, spine spikes, horns, fangs, clawed two-segment fingers, scars, exposed bone
• 👀 Detailed eyes with slit pupils — two distinct points of light in the dark, never a pair of headlights
• 🎬 Procedural animation for everything it does
• 🎧 80 custom synthesised sounds: iron footsteps, breathing, roars, chewing, dragging, screams, knocks, whispers, chains, ropes…
• 🌐 English and Spanish · 🥚 spawn egg for creative

🖥️ For servers and modpacks

• ⌨️ /dweller — status, stats [player], top for everybody; enable, disable, spawn, clear, preset, reload for operators
• 📊 Stats per player, saved with the world: taken, escaped, killed, rescues…
• 🎚️ Difficulty presets — AUTO follows the world difficulty, or EASY · NORMAL · HARD · NIGHTMARE · CUSTOM, all tunable in config/hollowdweller-difficulty.json
• 🔌 Compatibility — disabled dimensions, doors it must never open, lights it must never touch

⚙️ Configuration

Everything is in config/hollowdweller-common.toml, fully commented. Handy tweaks:

• 😌 First night with friends? weightKill = 0
• 🙅 Don't want the voice imitation? [mimic] voice = false
• ⛓️ Hangings too rare / too common? [hanging] chance
• 💥 Don't like flashes? [fear] screamerFlash = false (or grabScreamer = false)
• 🏠 Don't want it at your house? [haunts] enabled = false
• 🎙️ Voice chat too sensitive? Raise quietDb / lower maxRange in [voicechat]

❓ FAQ

Does it need Simple Voice Chat? No. Without it the Dweller hears chat and game noise (and imitates footsteps and doors); with it on the server it also hears — and imitates — the microphone.

Servers? Yes. Install on the server and on every client.

Compatible with other mods? No mixins, nothing replaces vanilla behaviour. It adds one mob, a few decal and gear blocks, limb/bleeding effects, items and projectiles. Mod lights and doors can be protected in the config.

Modpacks? Yes, you are welcome to. Please link back to this page.

Can I change the sounds / textures? Yes — ordinary .ogg and .png resources.

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge 47.x · Made by tolivator 🩸