Why Can’t I Sleep?

By
ixDarkLorD

Find out what's keeping you awake at night, hide from what's hunting you, and make every night count.

The monsters that blocked your sleep glow through the walls, rings and arrows point to the hidden ones, and a card says what's wrong.

Sneak and use a bed with empty hands to crawl under it. Your eyes narrow, and something's out there.

Curl up in a double chest and watch through the crack under the lid.

The moon by your player in the inventory shows how you've been sleeping and how last night went.

Description

Fabric NeoForge Forge

✨ About

Why Can't I Sleep? tells you exactly what's keeping you awake at night, and then makes the night itself worth playing. Your bed says no? You'll know why, see where the culprits are, and get a hint to fix it. And when the monsters come for you, crawl under the bed and don't make a sound.

👁️ Monster highlights that show exactly which mobs blocked your sleep
🧭 Arrows and rings that point to the ones you can't see
💬 An explanation for every failed sleep, with a hint on what to do
🫣 Hiding under beds and tables, in chests and closets
🌙 Sleep quality: every night is scored, and how you sleep matters
😱 Night terrors for those who stay up too long
👥 A bedtime panel for servers: who's still awake, and why

An in-game guide book, the Insomniac's Handbook, is given to you on your first join and covers it all.

👁️ Monster highlights

When monsters stop you from sleeping, the exact mobs responsible glow for a few seconds.

Only the real culprits: just the mobs inside the game's own check range, so it helps without being a wallhack.
Colored by threat: tell a creeper from a spider at a glance. The most dangerous one throbs brighter.
Arrows and rings: arrows around your crosshair point to blockers outside your view, and a pulsing ring marks one that's in view but behind blocks.
Trails: faint footprints show where the blockers walked.
The room is safe: deal with every blocker in time and you're told so; stand by the bed and you lie straight down.

💬 Every reason, explained

Vanilla gives you one vague line. This mod replaces it with a card that says what went wrong and what to do: monsters nearby (3 monsters nearby, closest: Zombie, 6 blocks below), the wrong time, too far from the bed, a blocked or occupied bed, and how many more players need to sleep. Using a bed where beds explode (the Nether, the End) warns you first; use it again to go ahead.

🫣 Hiding

Sneak and use a hiding spot with empty hands to hide in it, where nothing can see you. Stay hidden long enough and the monsters after you give up and vanish.

Hiding spots: under a bed, under a table (two top slabs or upside-down stairs with carpet on top), inside a double chest, or in a closet (a door with a nook behind it). Data packs can add more.
Stay still: moving or looking about wildly makes noise. Make too much with monsters near and you're found.
Heartbeat: hide while something is chasing you and you'll have to keep your heart calm, clicking on the beat.
Squinting: your view narrows between eyelids while you hide, and the world outside sounds muffled through whatever you're hiding in.
The details: walls around your spot make it safer, a monster may come to search it, now and then a silverfish is already in there, and after coming out you need a moment before you can hide again.

Bosses (the Wither, the Ender Dragon, the Warden, Elder Guardians) aren't fooled.

🌙 Sleep quality

Every night is scored from 0 to 100, and the morning tells you how you slept and why.

What counts: a closed room, the light, monsters prowling nearby, music from a jukebox (calm discs help, creepy and loud ones don't), the flowers, candles or skulls around your bed, and how long you've gone without sleep.
Well rested: a closed, well-lit room and a full night leave you with a little regeneration.
Sleep effects: wake up with a dream: positive ones after good nights, negative ones after bad ones, from common to legendary.
Sleep debt: a moon fills up for each day you go without sleep, and your inventory has a button showing how you've been sleeping.

😱 Night terrors

Stay up too long and lying down may bring sleep paralysis. You can't move, your eyes are stuck half open, the room fills with a red-black fog, and something wells up at the foot of your bed while shadow hands reach for you. The longer you stayed awake, the worse it is, and you wake up shaken. Stay up three days and it hurts.

👥 Sleeping together

On servers, nights only skip when enough players sleep.

Bedtime panel: while you're in bed, see how many are asleep and who is still up and why: in another dimension, mining, fighting, or away.
Nudges: give a friendly poke to whoever is keeping everyone up.
Sleep vote: when only a player or two are still up, those in bed can vote to skip the night. Those still up are asked first.

⚙️ Configuration

Open the settings from the Mods menu (Mod Menu on Fabric). Client settings change what you see and hear; server settings decide what everyone on the server gets, and a feature the server turns off stays off for everyone.

🖥️ Client settings

Option	Default	What it does
Highlight monsters	✅	Makes the monsters that blocked your sleep glow.
Threat colors	✅	Colors each highlight by the kind of threat. Off, every highlight uses the highlight color.
Highlight color	Red	The highlight color when threat colors are off.
Blocker trails	✅	Leaves faint footprints where the blocking monsters walked.
Off-screen arrows	✅	Arrows around the crosshair pointing to blocking monsters off-screen or behind walls.
Arrow size	Medium	How large the arrows are.
Eyelid style	Retro	How the eyelids look while you hide: soft, banded, grainy or retro pixel art.
Sleep debt moon	✅	A moon that fills up with each day you go without sleep.
Sleep debt moon position	Top left	Where the moon sits. It moves out of the way of other mods' HUD elements.
Sleep debt moon offsets	0, 0	Nudge the moon this many pixels across and down.
Morning card	✅	Tells you in the morning how well you slept, and what woke you.
Sleep status button	✅	A moon button on your player in the inventory, showing how you've been sleeping.
Action bar info	✅	How many monsters are nearby and where the closest one is.
Muffle sounds while hiding and asleep	✅	Muffles the world while you hide, as much as your spot shuts it out, and while you sleep.
Sleep explanations	✅	Explains every failed sleep with its reason and a hint.
Dimension warning	✅	Warns before you use a bed where beds explode.
Bedtime panel	✅	While you're in bed, shows who is still awake and why.

🌐 Server settings

Option	Default	What it does
Allow highlights	✅	Whether players may see the monsters that blocked their sleep glow.
Highlight duration	3 s	How long the blockers glow (1 to 10 s).
Allow arrows	✅	Whether players may see arrows to blockers they can't see.
Show to everyone	❌	Shows highlights to players without the mod too, using the vanilla glowing effect.
Room clearing	✅	Tells a player the room is safe when they deal with every blocker in time.
Clearing time	10 s	How long they have (3 to 60 s).
Auto sleep	✅	A player who cleared the room by the bed lies straight down.
Bedtime panel	✅	Shows players in bed who is still awake, and why.
Allow nudges	✅	Lets a player in bed nudge an awake player.
Nudge cooldown	30 s	Time between nudges.
Sleep vote	✅	Lets the players in bed vote to skip the night while one or two are still up.
Most players up for a vote	1	The most players that may still be up for a vote (1 to 10).
Vote answer time	30 s	How long those still up have to answer; with no answer the night is skipped.
Allow hiding	✅	Whether players may hide at all.
Hide under beds / tables, in chests / closets	✅	Each kind of hiding spot on its own.
Hide time	15 s	How long a player must stay hidden before the monsters give up (3 to 120 s).
Hide cooldown	10 s	How long to wait after coming out before hiding again (0 for none).
Hiding clears monsters	✅	Once the hide time is up, the monsters after a hider vanish (when every other player near is hiding too).
Cover	✅	Walls around a hiding spot shorten the hide time.
Critter chance	5%	Chance a silverfish or cave spider is already in a hiding spot.
Noise gives away	✅	A hider who makes too much noise with monsters near is found.
Heartbeat minigame	✅	A player hiding from a chase must keep their heart slow.
Monsters search	✅	A monster that chased a player into hiding comes to search the spot.
Search chance	25%	Chance a searching monster finds them, on normal difficulty (half on easy, more on hard, none on peaceful).
Shared bed tolerance	2	How many monsters a bed lets by when another player sleeps in a bed beside it.
Sleep quality	✅	Scores each night's sleep and tells the player in the morning.
Night terrors	✅	Restless players can have a night terror when they lie down.
Terror chance	30%	Chance of a night terror when restless; twice that when sleepless.
Harsh night terrors	✅	Terrors grow worse the longer a player stayed awake, and hurt after three days without sleep (never below half a heart).
Sleep effects	✅	Waking in the morning can leave a sleep effect.
Sleep effect chance	50%	Chance of a sleep effect on waking.
Well rested	✅	A full night in a closed, lit room leaves the player well rested.
Give the guide book	✅	Gives each player the guide book on their first join.

🧩 Compatibility

Minecraft	Fabric	NeoForge	Forge
26.1 – 26.1.2, 26.2, 26.3	✅	✅	—
1.21.1	✅	✅	✅
1.20.1	✅	—	✅

Requires CoolCatLib and Folios, and Fabric API on Fabric.
Install it on both the client and the server. On a server without it you still get the highlights, arrows and explanations; hiding, sleep quality, night terrors and the bedtime panel need it on the server.

❓ FAQ

Is this a cheat? No. It only highlights mobs that are already blocking your sleep, only for a few seconds, and server owners can limit or turn it off.

Can I turn off the scary parts? Yes. Night terrors, the heartbeat minigame and every other part have their own setting.

Does it work with other sleep mods? It should work alongside most of them. If you find a conflict, please tell us on Discord.

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