No_exit_cave.exe (In The Caves) is a survival horror modpack built around one idea: the world is a cave, and it never ends. There is no sky, no surface to climb back to — everything you need to survive has to be found, built, and defended underground.
Concept
The entire game takes place inside a single, infinite cave system. Survival elements (food, resources, building, mining) all exist as normal, but the setting itself is the threat — tight tunnels, no escape route, and things that hunt in the dark. This is a horror-first pack: exploration is deliberately tense, not comfortable.
Custom mods
The core of the pack is built on two custom mods made specifically for it:
- In The Caves — replaces the standard world generation with an endless cave dimension. No overworld, no surface, ever.
- Cave Structures — populates that dimension with cave-adapted settlements, dense underground forests, and other structures to explore.
Getting into the cave
If you spawn on bedrock / in the void instead of inside the dimension, open chat and run:
/inthecaves
This teleports you into the cave world properly.
Horror & atmosphere
Stacked on top of the world-gen mods are a set of horror and creepy-encounter mods that populate the dark: Smoreh's Assimilated Dweller, Better Cave Dweller, Beware The Rain, The God, The Man From The Fog, SCP-087 The Stairwell, The Anomaly, The Knocker, DISTURBED, The Midnight Lurker, Click., and Corpse — creating layered ambient dread and unexpected threats as you dig deeper.
Survival & exploration
Rounded out with mods that support long-term cave survival: Spelunkery (mining/caving mechanics), Starter Kit, Carry On, AppleSkin, No Nether Portal (keeps you locked into the cave setting), and From The Caves for extra structures, plus TaCZ for combat options against what you'll meet down there.
Performance & QoL
Includes Embeddium, Oculus, ModernFix, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, Dynamic FPS and Not Enough Crashes for stability and performance, along with Xaero's Minimap/World Map, ImmediatelyFast, InvMove and Not Enough Animations for quality of life.
Requirements
- Minecraft Forge 1.20.1
support for me Boosty

