BottomlessThought's Survival Horror

By
BottomlessThought

Survive in a realistic world where everything is hostile. No villages will spawn, nor villagers. You will have to work harder than ever to reach the End. And you might not be alone here...

This modpack aims to create an atmospheric Survival Horror experience that will keep you on edge through basically all of the content that Minecraft has to experience. I've included a handy Patchouli guide that will cover all of the basics to get you started.

The core changes to the gameplay itself come mostly from Tough as Nails. But, the most important mod here, imo, is Open Your Eye. It makes crafting Eyes of Ender MUCH more difficult. Now you'll have to face the Wither and the Warden before you can open a portal to reach the End.

Along your way something you will notice very quickly, is the complete lack of villages... Or villagers. Neither will spawn naturally, though the Wandering Trader is still around, and you can still get villagers by other means...

Reinforced Chests will help stop your food from Spoiling. Also, through a combination of Totally Lit, Torch Hit, and Firestarter, I've completely revamped how starting fires and lighting your home works. Keep those fires lit, only lanterns stay lit permanently.

This modpack builds on my Realism modpack, which itself built on my Tweaks modpack. See those pages for more details about the other aspects of this pack, including Vanilla+ mods from Tweaks, and Vanilla++ mods from Realism.

Getting the most out of this modpack:

Minecraft Setup:
Make sure you have Java set up properly for Minecraft in the CurseForge launcher. Give it as much RAM as you can spare, and under additional arguments, you should have:
-Xms16G -Xmx16G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:-ZUncommit -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled

Recommended:
I do NOT recommend playing this in Hardcore mode.

I do recommend going here to download the Patrix Add-On, and here to download the Patrix Models. (DO NOT use the install button, download the files and place them in the resourcepacks folder. Installing will override the Patrix basic pack and your game textures will be broken.) I'm not currently using them myself, so you will have to load them in Resource Packs in-game.

You should also go to the Haubna Patreon page for Physics Mod Pro. Unfortunately, the Hysteria shader isn't compatible with Water Physics, so I've disabled that. Drop the mod into your mods folder, and make sure to remove the other physics mod file!

Extras:
For extra realism, try setting your character's height to match your real-world height!

Use "/attribute @s generic.scale base set " followed by a scaling value that is your Height in Meters divided by two. I'm 5'8", so my scaling value was ~0.8785.

Check out my Nexus Collections here:
Skyrim AE
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Cyberpunk 2077
The Witcher 3
Bioshock
Jedi: Fallen Order
Jedi: Survivor
Knights of the Old Republic 2
Minecraft

Dev Log:

List of non-CurseForge mods not mentioned above included in this modpack (please go support these creators!):
Cliffs and Coves
Navigable Rivers
Boids
Birds: Boids Add-on
Blooming Biosphere
Disable Portal Checks
Immersive Thunder
Lithium Fabric API
Step Up Again
Thread Tweak
MobXP

Future Updates:

Currently playtesting, updates coming pretty frequently due to that. Any suggestions are very much welcome, though may be ignored if they don't fit what I'm trying to do. ;)

Project State:

Likely Unsolvable Issues:

Basically anything added to the game stands out as being very low quality, visually speaking, compared to the incredible Patrix textures.
Some trees spawned by Terralith use Wood instead of Logs, meaning that Round Trees will not make them round.

Probably Solvable Issues:

When it's raining really heavily, sometimes the puddles like to kind of... pile up? lol (Probably an incompatibility issue somewhere, might be fixed by messing with Physics Mod or simply removing Motchen's Puddles).