You know the path home.
You just cannot see it anymore.
Hollow Night makes unlit caves and nights dark enough to change how you explore. Walls disappear beyond your torchlight. Trees become shapes against the sky. A light left by the door starts to feel like a good idea.
The cave ends where your light does
Without a light source, unlit surfaces lose their visible detail. In the vanilla renderer, the default darkness floor is pure black. Bring enough light to see where the next step lands.
A skyline without the details
The night sky can remain visible while the ground beneath it falls into darkness. You can make out the shape of a hill or a roof without being able to read every block on it.
Keep a light close
Placed torches still light your shelter. Handheld lights can reveal the path ahead through a supported shader or a dynamic-light mod. Hollow Night keeps those lights useful instead of covering the screen with a black filter.
Darkness with your shaders
Hysteria is the main shader target, with additional lighting profiles for Complementary Reimagined, Complementary Unbound, and BSL. These reduce ambient illumination while keeping real light sources visible.
Daylight still belongs outside
Sunlight still lights the surface during the day. Hollow Night changes lighting; it does not force permanent night, prevent sleep, add creatures, or alter your world.
Choose how dark it gets
Control dark nights, Nether and End ambient darkness, and whether night vision can help. With shaders off, you can also adjust the darkness floor and light falloff. Restart after changing the config.
Start with the right setup
Use Minecraft 1.20.1, Java 17, and Forge 47.4.20 or later in the 47.x series. Install Hollow Night on the client. A server does not need it installed.
Playing without shaders
Placed lights work on their own. For a torch in your hand to illuminate the world, add a dynamic-light mod and enable its first-person lighting. Sodium Dynamic Lights was used in testing.
Playing with shaders
The tested setup uses Oculus 1.8.0 and Embeddium 0.3.31, with Hysteria Universal 1.2.2, Complementary Reimagined 5.9.3, Unbound 5.8.1, or BSL 10.1.1. Other shaders and future versions are not guaranteed. Unrecognized shader code is left unchanged.
Make room for one darkness mod
Remove Hardcore True Darkness, True Darkness, and their darkness compatibility addons before using this replacement. Hollow Night disables its hooks when known conflicting mod IDs are detected.
This is an experimental release tested in isolated scenes. Shader fog, emissive materials, and other effects may remain visible. Found a lighting problem? Share your shader version, settings, mod list, and a screenshot in the Creepy community Discord.
Created by Struppi0508
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