If you make it spawn in forests at night but only flee or stare, you'll have a truly herobrine-level threat

"Baby zombies aren't scary at all" The entire hardcore community:

"A game where horror elements don't belong" Mojang adding the sculk and the warden: "Yeah, this phrase won't last long"

- Randomly creates an amazing (and scary) mod - It blows up in popularity - Proceeds to never mention/touch it again - Refuses to elaborate further

To all the younger people, this is what the community thought Endermen were going to be before they were released... No joke.

Imagine a "remove cave noises" mod, but it actually adds THIS

10:43 I'm hitting ESC and leaving the game mate 💀

Here's a few improvements, I think, to make him even scarier: 1) Allow him to climb walls (so you can't toss him off a cliff and hope to be safe) 2) Allow him to get out of boats/carts/other mob traps 3) Allow him to manipulate blocks like the Enderman (to dig through walls 4) Allow him to cross liquids safely (lava, water) so that's no easy escape either.

The actual scariest noise is when you're playing some minecraft late at night and whilst strip mining your pickaxe breaks

A suggestion: Make it unable to move into well lit areas, but capable of breaking torches if the player isn't looking at it.

Honestly, the thing I find most terrifying about Minecraft isn't the cave noises. It's The Void. Just...knowing there's an endless void beneath my feet, waiting for me to fall in. Notch could have made the last layer of bedrock unbreakable or made the world generate infinitely...but he made the void. Freaky.

Someone mentioned in another video that a really good mechanic for the Cave Dweller would have been that caves don't randomly spawn any mobs, hostile or otherwise, leaving just the Cave Dweller to be the only thing that could spawn. Thinking about it now, I feel like that would totally fit, considering that most of the time when it does spawn you're already busy fighting off like 13 skeletons and then this guy just shows up because you accidentally looked at it while swinging around with your bow...

Things that should be added based from other comments, 1) let the cave dweller climb up toyou when towerering 2)let there be a very rare chance the cave dweller can spawn on the surface during night a distance away from you and runs away when spotted, but never attacking, just stalking you. 3) when the cave dweller is low health, let it scurry away clutching its wounds, but never really dying

The idea of the cave noises getting slowly more intense and loud to mark the arrival as it gets closer to you is just terrifying

Love how moders always make better game mechanics in less time than the devs take to introduce a new tree lol

Thought of a cool idea: The longer your in a cave, the stronger each encounter will get. This resets once you go to the surface

I have an idea to improve this mod: If you block it off completely when it's chasing you, it doesn't despawn but instead stays behind and starts making scratching noises, like it's trying to get into your hiding spot.

For me the scariest part about Minecraft is single player. The reason for me is the thought of how alone you are in the game, in top of the cave noise it amplifies it.

I think MC should be like subnautica. You have the safe, comfortable spaces, but also places where you don't feel welcome at all.

In the real life, there's a lot of scary sounds that happens when you are in a deep cave. Those are created out of movements that the earth itself does when its tectonic plates are moving and dragging each other

Not sure if you'll see this, but after watching a few videos of people playing the mod, they can escape from the monster by building up; in a future update, you could add 'spider' functionality to the mod where the Cave Dweller can climb up walls like spiders; it'd scare the hell out of people lol!

The cave sounds of Minecraft are the physical embodiment of: "The last man on earth sat alone in a room... ...there was a knock at the door."

This man is responsible for kickstarting an entire Minecraft trend. He deserves the upmost respect!

One way to solve the issue of balancing power and horror is to make it so that the monster at first doesn't try to kill the player but to wound them. Like it comes in gets few attacks of and runs away, and only goes for the kill if player is low on health. Maybe even add a special cackle like sound when it runs away after hitting the player? Same goes for killing the cave dweller. Seeing him simply die makes it a lot less scary for me, what if it run away on low health, so seeing it actually die would be super rare and difficult to achieve?

I feel like if you defeat him he shouldn't die, he will just clutch at his wounds and scurry off, just so you know that he is still out there, biding his time, recovering and waiting to strike once again.

I think that the "fleeing" part of the monster is just genius. You hear a noise, get scared, *see* the monster briefly, now you are even more scared, as you've just confirmed that there *is* a danger. And then it runs away. You've just lost it. It's there, and it can attack at any moment, you are now certain that there is something out there that probably wants to kill you, and it also knows where you are.

This video changed minecraft horror forever.

honestly i find the ocean terrifying in minecraft as well, something about it is just sort of creepy and another thing is when it's way too quiet in the game. the cave sounds are hell scary too.

I think giving it a climbing animation would make it truly horrifying. As it stands (I think) you can just stack a few blocks to be safe from it, just like any other mob. But if it could climb, just like the spiders it would be UNSTOPPABLE

This is great! Another awesome mechanic would be some kind of false fleeing mechanic. Say when the creature decides to run away, it has a chance to change it's mind after x time and pursue you with even more ferocity.

I love the idea that you made the cave dweller's spawn conditions completely ignore light level, adding to the sense of danger and the pure lack of safety whilst in a cave

Liked for the Castlevania music, stayed for the great video, and watched this mod I like seeing other's play turn out! Absolutely incredible, keep up the great work. Can't wait to see more from you in the future!

What really spices up the cave sounds in minecraft is that if you move your head, the sound seems to be coming from a specific place. It makes you really feel like if you went in that direction, you would really regret it.

i love the fact that it despawns itself because i think it just gives the player a feeling of never knowing where it's going to be next, or that it's just teleporting around the cave system

this is all your fault. You started this.

This is absolutely incredible! You have to keep doing what you’re doing, this is scary af.

I personally think the scariest part is just not knowing if there's anything there. the thought of possibly being watched but never knowing for sure if you're safe is far scarier than knowing something is looking for you, because then you already know that hiding is a viable option

The only reason it actually scares because the game is so beautiful yet empty. If you hear these sounds it makes you feel like you are alone and unsafe.

Bro this is brilliant! The last clip you showed I literally jumped from fear. I havent been that scared in a while. Woo.

so terrifying that it stopped being terrifying

Another sick addition you could add would be that once the cave dweller spawns in(or right before), the caves nearby will empty themselves out, with mobs despawning. It gives a bigger sense of eerieness, and you'll be able to know that one's nearby/about to spawn, making you freak out in fright. It isnt scary whenever you're getting chased by like 20 mobs, however only 1 that can still kill you is a lot scarier.

You know you created a masterpiece when your own creation manage to scare the $hit out of you

The part where you tested everything out and the cave dweller jump scared you, I literally jumped out of pure fright as well. This goes to show that you succeeded in making a mod that gives the player pure nightmare fuel.

loved the castlevania OST in the background

The scariest part is that there isn't a monster, the cave noises induce the feeling that there is causing you to become paranoid and on edge, but nothing else happens.

You should consider adding a climbing mechanic. I've sen some videos and most people escape the entity by building pillars. It would be a 100 times more terrifying if the dweller could suddenly start climbing towards you.

I love how you describe things that make Minecraft scary. Especially things like the lifeless animations and simple AI. I think the Warden is truly scary because its animations are far more complicated. You can see it actively looking and listening for you.

Love your background story and concept.

The reveal at the end was indeed creepy with the jump scare, but I think it went too quickly from not knowing where the mob is, to being attacked by it. Maybe it should have more of a stalking behavior, climbing above or around you while silently removing your torch trails then once you get an idea something weird is going on, you look around, see its eyes, hear the cracking noise, then it either flees or attacks. That would build intense suspense

Please make it so that the cave dweller can climb up blocks like the spiders in minecraft. I've seen some other people play it and to escape the cave dweller they usually just build up in a straight line. This would make people pee themselves.

It’s a bit scary, but there are some improvements you could make to make it even more scary. • As it is currently, you can just build up a few blocks and it can’t reach you, removing the scariness of the creatures entirely. Allowing it to climb would be the perfect way to truly scare the piss out of the player. Thinking about how mobs like Iron Golems and Ravagers, they’re supposed to be hard, but they’re a joke because you can just build up a few blocks and they can’t hurt you. Also, you’d think a creature that lives in caves would, y’know, know how to climb them? Just saying. • Going back to the Golem and Ravager comparison, what if you make it immune to projectiles, like the Enderman? Because again, Ravagers are intimidating, but you can just zone them out with arrows, and they lose all threatening presence they could’ve had. You could make that same argument for the Cave Dweller as well. Obviously he’s a lot faster than a Ravager, but when you can just build up a few blocks and he’s no longer a threat, people then killing him with arrows makes him just another Minecraft mob. Nothing special or scary about him. • With the new caves, there are massive bodies of water that the player can easily jump into and dive under to completely avoid the Cave Dweller. You’d think that a creature adapted to that environment would be able to pursue them even in these bodies of water. Yes, I am indeed suggesting that the Cave Dweller should be able to swim. In the most recent update, The Man in the Fog, or as some call it: the Night Dweller, is capable of swimming, which makes it a much more terrifying creature, since there is truly nowhere you can be safe from it. You just have to run. I think the Cave Dweller would benefit massively from the same addition. • Give it some way to counter shields. Right now, all you need is one piece of iron to completely trivialize the mob, thus removing the fear factor entirely. Either making its attacks way more frequent so that you can’t drop your shield and attack, or making it ignore shields outright (give it the crossbow piercing property, for example) would fix this problem, and make confronting the beast in a head on assault a much more challenging and dangerous endeavor. You may be thinking “hard does not mean scary. How would any of these changes help?” Well,bits pretty simple imo. If beast like this can be trivialized so easily, the fear factor is entirely removed. Why would someone be scared of a mob that they know they can easily deal with? It’s not scary at that point, it’s just annoying. A great comparison would be the Guardian Stalker from BotW. When you’re new to the game, they are the most terrifying thing you can encounter, with the music, their speed, the damage they can do, and the long distance that they can see you from, you try to avoid them at all costs. But as soon as you learn you can just go behind a tree and they lose sight of you, or that you can parry the laser, it trivializes them, and they are no longer scary, just annoying.

Something to do with deep ocean biomes would be a cool tandem project to see with this one. There are some pretty unnerving ambient sounds for the deep ocean biomes, and considering there’s nothing but drowned mobs down there, I think having something to fit the noises would be a nice addition. (Especially since deep oceans, by my experience, are pretty rare)

Do you know what scares me the most in minecraft? The quietness. Sometimes after hours you suddenly notice it and start to think "am I alone" then you hear footsteps. You turn around only to see a cow. It gets to you.

With a bit of horror genre savvy, you could turn the fear factor up pretty easy. Make another branch on the cavedweller engine that never actually spawns the dweller, but plays the sounds anyway. Maybe even plays a stare effect before ending the scene, even though there's no dweller around. It'd give the player the impression that something just happened, and they didn't even see it.

Good background music choice! One of my favorite games. Had to re-watch the beginning to make sure my ears were not playing tricks on me

You know that you've made a good mod when you are actually surprised by it! Nicely done, beautiful video!

What might be cool is if it had like, an aggression level where it wouldn't attack you the first few times you see it, just to build more paranoia before an attack, as opposed to just instantly being attacked out of nowhere

The worst part about the cave noises is that they sometimes happen when you're above ground or above water, like in a boat, and that's when they're the scariest.

This is so cool and also good music taste dude 👍

wow looks like your mod has a lot of traction on youtube :) congrats so far, this is a very nice addition to the game. I do think it would be a lot scarier if it only attacked 1 out of so many times, so it would be stalking and menacing in the background around you, running away after charging at you until it finally actually attacked

You know its scary when your expecting the jump scare and it still scares you.

Ahhh this is the first unofficial mob I'd love to make a song about

the fact that i knew this was gonna happen and it still scared me is well… terrifying

I think an even more terrifying addition would've been to give this think Inverse Kinematics. For those that don't know, Inverse Kinematics is something that games and animation software use to place limbs in specific places, in game engine's it's usually used to make legs stand on the ground instead of clipping through or floating above the floor, or to hold onto things. Just imagine something that not only doesn't behave like any Minecraft mob, but doesn't even move like any other Minecraft mob. You see it run towards you, and you think "I'll block its path with a small hole" and not only does it move all the way to the ground, allowing it to change it's height like no other mob, but it also does so just as a real creature would, not clipping it's arms into the wall or floating above awkwardly, but clambering through, it's hands on the wall and it's legs pushing it through, like a real, thinking being.

Imagine secretly installing it on a friend's computer without them knowing. It would terrify them so much due to not knowing something is different

For this mod to be Perfect, you could add two more mechanics to the Cave dweller. The first would allow the Cave dweller to climb blocks slowly, that would make the player unable to escape it by just building up 3 blocks in the air. The second mechanic would be to make the cave dweller flee whenever it reaches sunlight, that makes it seem more intelligent, and also creepy in a way. Maybe you have already thought about these mechanics for the cave dweller, but I still hope that you will consider adding them.

This is an amazing addition and I think it was done extremely well

This is a awesome mod, like it perfectly gets the essence of minecraft, unlike so many other mods with typical horror creatures that either overcomplicate the designs and make them feel out of place or makes them to simple and feel unthreatening this is the perfect mix for a slight vanilla upgrade that doesn’t feel outta left field

A suggestion would be that the dweller also has a randomized timer for when it gets trapped in boats/minecarts when where it reaches zero it jumps out of them

You should have made the other mobs scared of the cave dweller that would just add to how scary this mob is supposed to be

Homie singlehandedly revolutionized and ruined Minecraft horror at the same time and never spoke about it again. Simply amazing

Holy shit, this is too creepy. Got chills on my spine just by watching you programming it. What the hell

If other mobs are around, what if you added some kind of flee mechanic to them just before the cave dweller shows up? To give the sense of something awful about to happen

It may be even worse if it could remove your torch trail

Heard the castlevania SOTN music at the beginning and was hooked into the video far more than the thumbnail or title could do for me. Then you follow it up with silent hill music? Not even done with the video and I'm in love. Superb music choices!

You should probably make it so that the cave dweller will not go on the surface, and will retreat back into the caves when it gets to the surface, or the target goes on the surface. Edit: you should also make it so that if somehow it gets on the surface it will try to find a cave and will not attack the player. I also realized that it can get stuck in a boat so it will be best to fix this.

Nobody is commenting on how well you were able to explain the logic of the Cavedweller, the graphics used and the explanation given were excellent at helping understand how it ticks.

This is scary af!Nice video :D

I love how he used the submerged castle theme from pikmin 2 while talking about the sound effects and what not

I think the scariest part of Minecraft is how *dead* the world feels. There are no ambient sounds outside of caves and other realms. That's why downloading ambient sound mods makes the game feel less terrifying for me.

I think it would be interesting to sometimes have it hunt mobs in front of you and then just stare at you or sometimes it turns off spawns and just leaves mob loot in random places, making it seem like it hunted everything there already

the jumpscare at the end startled me so bad I dropped my toast lmao

I love the use of the "Submerged castle" OST from pikmin as it works perfectly with a mob as terrifying as the "thing" in this level.

This is actually the first TRULY scary mod of minecraft. I've tried a few ones in the past, but nothing felt like this one, great stuff man.

Not only did this man revolutionize gmod bots, with gargatron, but is now also coding a Minecraft mob that’ll hopefully do that same thing.

The first cave sound (the one that sounds like a train whistle) unironically traumatized me as a kid.

Wow, this guy evolved. A lot. Congrats on inspiring every modder ever

In my opinion the best way to scare somebody is to catch them off guard, no one would expect a cave monster to start chasing them all of the sudden, that’s why creepers are scary, if you are not paying attention then say goodbye to your items and your heart

At the end when he showcased being jumpscared by the cave dweller, I jumped. I felt it. Absolutely horrifying.

This is one the best and OG mods as this is the reason for all the cool dwellers and new horror mods now.

Amazing work, u def scared me with this one

This is the perfect mod to add to some kind of 100+ mods modpack where there's no chance somebody will actually read the list of all mods included and they'll get their ass scared when exploring a cave.

If this was added officially, within a week there would be a horrific and inhumane xp farm on this thing

I’ve seen this video in my recommended for every day without fail so why not

Must say that, me and my friends started playing this mod and some other small horror mods and it is the best horror i have seen in a while

This sort of procedural traversal is exactly what I've always wanted in a Minecraft horror mod. The monster you're running from isn't bound by normal Minecraft rules. It's uncharted territory. And on top of that, it can appear at any time.

Left 4 dead actually has unique cave-noise like cues whenever a special infected spawns, thats one of the reasons they're so scary to me.

I saw a video of someone playing with a mod of this on insta, and one of your buddies pointed you out in the comments, so now I'm here

Subscription earned! My goodness this thing is so horrifying I’m imagining pranking my mother with a secret mod installation…

With some further testing of this mod, I have realised that it has a few critical weaknesses, those being: 1) Water and Lava: Just like some other mobs, these completely stop it from being able to move fast, and it's very easy to exploit. 2) Boats: It's very funny seeing such a menacing creature fall for the oldest trick in the book. If you face a Cave Dweller, the best solution is to just place a boat between the two of you. 3) Heights: The cave dweller has a hard time navigating steep terrain, and cannot climb at all. Giving it the ability to climb would make it much scarier. I feel like these changes will take the mod to a whole new level, because as it stands, the mob is scary at first, but once you realise these weaknesses, the threat goes away.