We monoliths as intimidating tall stacked doms for BlueSomething.

I too am a Smol subby gal panicking at the monoliths that are most doms

tall *creatures

Dang I'm surprised there not a lot of recent videos for this mod.... I really like the idea when I search on KZfaq of this mod, it keep showing the minecraft Easter egg dimension portals.

wtf

For sure, there's a lot scarier but like you said, there's the legitimate fear of being locked down in there. Most modpacks I played have it toggled so digging straight down just throws you back up to the top of the world again, so Limbo really does a good job at making you feel like there is no escape.

I don't think I ever messed around enough with Dimensional Doors myself, so the only time I saw limbo was in old mod showcases. I assume I felt something similar to how this one Backrooms mod makes you feel. If you get unlucky when throwing an ender pearl, or suffocating in a wall, there is a chance that you get sent into, well, the Backrooms. The only mobs I think exist there are ones that would logically end up there, so endermen, vexes, and silverfish. You can also tear apart the scenery for materials such as wood from walls in Level 0, stone from the floor in Level 2, and iron from pipes in Level 3. You can also get blaze powder by destroying ceiling lights which, if you have Optifine, can help with you seeing in the dark. Point is, living down here isn't very viable or fun, ESPECIALLY if you have some actual equipment on you from a serious playthrough, so if you don't get out through these portals you find by wandering around and getting lucky with it sending you back to the Overworld, you are done for.

I know that feeling because I had the same thing happen to me. If I remember correctly, I was trying to escape a dimension by digging out of it (me and my terrible sense of direction lost the exit) and I ended up in limbo, confused and with my head suddenly on a swivel.

aye its one of my favorite mods its so fun

@@BlueSomething My initial appeal for dimensional doors was the prospect of endlessly random generating unique dungeons. That's so amazing in my mind that I just got the mod no questions asked. The other major appeal to me was the prospect of feeling like a god by having an entire pocket dimension to build whatever insane machines or projects without any mobs interrupting at all. Then that's when I fell into limbo and learned that this mod teaches you the harsh lesson about messing with the fabric of reality. Luckily making a wooden dimensional door to patch up the rift isn't too difficult if you know what you're doing. But those who don't. Damn was it a surprise.

yeah. and to be honest, it is kinda representative of the entirety of older minecraft in a way. you can do whatever you want, however the setting is just a bit ominous.

This is the kind of thing that old Thaumcraft was great at, too. Warp and flux are dangerous and harmful mechanics and can actually straight up fuck your world up in a very, very hard to control way, but there are also things that just... do stuff to be weird. Like sinister nodes making the eerie biome which is really quite harmless but is indeed quite eerie, especially if you don't understand anything at all about the mod. Or how they often are surrounded by ominous platforms and obelisks and generate in weird places often surrounded by actual spooky cultists. And let's not forget that you can be strolling about when all of a sudden YOINK HI I'M A BLACK HOLE. It even had its own terrifying nowhere-hallways section if you decided to become insane enough to *open* a sinister node. God I miss old thaumcraft...

@@Starfloofle which version was that?

​@@esoopthederp7672 those things are all from Thaumcraft 4, back in 1.7.10

​@@esoopthederp7672Thaumcraft 4 had the taint, and 6 had the warp iirc.

Sounds incredible haha, I would love to try that. Reminds me of the old 404 seed challenge.

How did the rift go that bad? Couldn't you just get closer and remove it?

Despite everything, that sounds like it would be a really fun time!

that sounds like a fun memory

@@amalgama-dette1430 we hade absolutely zero idea how the rift works, and didn't notice it for a while and by the time we found out HOW to remove it it was basicly everywhere popping up faster than we could remove it.

Appreciate you leaving a comment here, I think I remember reading you did some textures for CQ haha. I think your comparison to the Backrooms is well founded, I suppose this more dabbles into the more later backroom varieties with things lurking in the shadows without your knowledge.

@@BlueSomething I did some textures and models for CQR, but I was mainly referring to the Ocean content! The backported ocean and additional beach stuff were all done in my mod Oceanic Expanse. Super nice video, I'm glad the art of older Minecraft mods is getting attention!

@@sirsquidly3537 Oh that's absolutely wonderful, I never realized. I can't understate how impressive that is, when I was playing the modpack I kinda took that stuff for granted after a while. I mean that as a compliment, that's how natural your port felt in 1.12 lol. But yeah, glad that I ended up shining a bit of a light on these old projects. I've had the chance to speak with a lot of great people because of it. :-)

Doctor4t's liminal pool mod is also pretty good in that regard

@@SarzaelX Honestly, anything Liminal and Backrooms related that doesn't focus on the Knockoff SCP aspect tends to work really well since Minecraft already has a somewhat uneasy silence atmosphere to it that's especially present in older versions of the game.

@@SarzaelX He didn't reference it by name I don't think but I refuse to believe the rat wasn't inspired by some degree by this mod, specifically the distressing amount of effort it takes to escape it and all the terrifying nonsense contained within

@@Starfloofle It's very possible, he did say he checked out other liminal space type mods, though being difficult to escape and nonsensical is also a common feature among those kind of creepy stories.

Fair point. I definitely do think the older version clashes with what people tend to want from Minecraft: going into new areas and harvesting resources. Doubling down on that beginner's learning curve I think worked great back in the day. However, I think it now sticks out like a sore thumb compared to everything else surrounding it.

ironically, this is much closer to the actual vibes of SCP

I've never been able to imagine myself in a comment more lmao.

Probably should play that game lmao.

The world looks white The world looks red

THE WORLD IS YOUR CANVAS SO TAKE UP YOUR BRUSH AND PAINT THE WORLD *R E D .*

That's an interesting concept, not sure how tough it would be to keep track of like 5 or 6 different layers of limbo all with different properties to it. I think you could hit a little uncanny vibe there tho.

i think thatd be cool as maybe an even lower layer of limbo that can be escaped from, or make it so you have to find like, the farlands and find a way out through the weird worldgen or something. but making it so that interacting with one of the 2 big facets of the mod has the chance to just essentially wipe your world feels like itd be a nightmare to handle balancing with. like, some kid downloads this because of the cool portal doors, and after getting stuck a bunch of times in limbo suddenly their minecraft world they spent a bunch of time on is essentially stuck in pre-alpha. that feels bad.

seeing them through walls was gut wrenching as a kid so fuckin scary

The square look is a reference to 2001, so they look like genuine monoliths to me

Two things: One, I love the idea. It's just so fascinating and subtley terrifying seeing chunks of world just floating in a void, like some eldritch being came along and tore it out, and the doors are a result of the world trying to reattach them to reality, with Limbo being a "higher level" of reality or something, and the second layer being a torn up, fabric riddled version of the overworld is a *fantastic* idea. However... I don't thing being stuck permanently if you let it tick down too far would be a good idea. I can definitely see you being required to go through a longer process to get out, like crafting a special item to open a rift back to the first layer of Limbo... Or being able to open one to a DEEPER layer. >:D Let's take a look at MC. Nether portals. Now, Crying obsidian has a couple uses, but I think it could be useful to access Limbo Nether. Limbo Nether would be even more chaotic, borked up, and even harder to escape, but the rewards could very very well be worth it. I'm thinking there could be fabric of reality infused mob drops and ores you could get ahold of in both deeper levels. Either way, they should DEFINITELY be harder to escape, nut not inescapable.

Yea something along those lines lol. I suspect this would be *really* difficult to implement but say having multiple different versions of Limbo and having each layer would not only be fun, but also give the player another reason to engage with the mod.

me: Falls off "/gamemode creative"

I didn't really talk about it since it's not really part of the mod, but haivng a radar mod like most modpacks have and seeing a black box with an unkillable amount of health show up in the HUD gotta be one of the most humbling things you can possibly experience.

I don't know if monolith-kun can read but I'll be sure to tell him he's loved when I get the chance.

Sounds absolutely dreadful, good job there lmao.

@@BlueSomething It was a very dreadful modpack, I think only 4 mods would be able to fuck you up from Day 1. I.e, Epic SIege, Scape and Run: Parasites, Dimensional Doors, Weeping Angels.

​@@theonlyethanhiroshikiThis sounds very similar to a mid pack used by a KZfaqr called AlfaOxtrot. Is there any relation between that KZfaqr and the mod pack you made?

@@cakecheese2895 Yeah.

Ooh good point haha, I never thought to mention the process of climbing out of the pocket dungeons. Stuff gets tough when there may or may have not been an active explosion going on in the previous room you escaped from. 👀

@@BlueSomething >previous room explodes >manage to rush to next door >room with absolutely no way out other than the way you came

like the nether roof Imagine how terrifying it would be to use the nether roof to get places quicker, then you look up and there's an eye staring at you

oh hey nvm this actually got covered in the video! 🤝 A Shame They're Less Creepy Now

In the original draft, I had a whole paragraph or two going over the "chonk" versions lmao. I think adding the detail of the monoliths snapping toward your position and visibly becoming more agitated makes it seem like these things are more than just some sort of abstract demon. Is it a person? Is it an animal? Who knows?

@BlueSomething it's A Block That Can Hate and i miss it every day! (another thing lost is how it was theoretically possible to just _barely_ detect a monolith around a corner if you paid really close attention to block edges. now, not so much...)

its unsure what they may be, but for sure they are guardians, or servants, of the riftgeons[invented that word just to short saying 'dimensional/rift and dungeons']@@BlueSomething

I personally thought they were always meant to be just floating eyes, and that's how they looked when encountered in the pocket dungeons too, since the background there is black. I thought maybe the mod developers simply didn't know how to make them transparent back then, but hey, what do I know?

I would pay good money to witness a monolith interrogation.

Understood. That was just an assumption on my part, looks like I just narrowly missed that new update before I started finalizing this project. Hope I didn’t sound too ignorant there, those are just my thoughts and due to that style generation being around since the move to the newer version, I just assumed that was a conscious decision. Appreciate you leaving a comment here tho. I have an immense amount of respect for both you and the rest of the people working on this project.

@@BlueSomething Its not in yet but we have plans for new stuff that might tickle your fancy. If limbo can over time unravel blocks into more unraveled, how does it unravel entities?

@@waterpicker Sounds facisnating haha, I'll be sure to keep an eye out. Wish you the best.

@@BlueSomething Whelp I get a feel you are gonna like 5.3.3.

Appreciate the kind words!

Deception 100%

Ooh, that sounds good lol. Challenging the gatekeeper.

I would love that as a toggle lol, tho might lead to situations with people being trapped in dimensions with no ways of getting out.

limbo specifically. awful memory

Deeply appreciate that haha. Almost got rid of the golem joke really glad that landed.

Heh, top “notch”

You're the second person that has mentioned Ultrakill so far, I should probably play that lol.

real also it's nice to know someone else shared my experience in this mod lmao those things gave me PTSD I swear to god

Yea my b there lol. Consider it a byproduct of dedicated field research.

Between the shadow realm, backrooms, sunken place and the yukari doors, I can’t tell which deprivation dimension has had the greatest effect on people haha. I’ll thrown bracken pack on the list, looks like something I would play when I was younger. :-)

I'm still impressed by Chocolate Quest to this day. All of the structures are incredible though a little bit difficult lmao.