Apparitions
Humanoid figures that spawn far away from you (sometimes nearby), sometimes copying other players' skins. They disappear if you stare at them. In caves or the corridor dimension, some will charge at you and deal damage if you look at them too long.

Ambient Sounds
Positional audio that plays around you in caves. Stone breaking in the distance, footsteps, surface animal sounds heard from deep underground. The sounds are distorted and layered to sound wrong.

Micro Structures
Small, temporary world changes that appear when your tension is high. Examples include a torch, a crafting table, a chest with notes, or stone brick patterns. Some are simple anomalies: a vertical air seam along a chunk line, an offset ground patch, a straight ground crack, or short bedrock pillars. They roll back after a few minutes.

Tension
Tracked per player. Goes up when you're underground, in darkness, or alone. Goes down in safe lit areas or villages. Higher tension means more frequent events.

The Tormentor
Rare invisible entity that spawns in caves and slowly digs through natural stone as it moves toward you. You hear the blocks breaking, getting closer. When it reaches you, it delivers a scare and disappears.

Creepy Chat
Fake chat messages that look like they came from other players or yourself. Uses your actual name. Things like "don't look", "behind you", "it knows your bed, [your name]".

The Corridor Trial
Optional challenge dimension. Generated pits (marked by signs and notes) teleport you to endless cobblestone corridors. Find 3 trial buttons while dealing with aggressive apparitions. Complete it and you're permanently free from the mod.

Grace Period
New worlds start silent for a random amount of time (half day or full day) so you can get settled before events start.

Everything is configurable through config files. You can toggle any feature and change all the timing and probability values.

Feature Toggles

• Enable/disable apparitions, ambient sounds, small structures, trial dimension, world silence, cave charges, behind-turn jumpscares, creepy chat, and the tormentor

Tension Tuning

• Adjust tension gain rates (underground, solitude, storms/night)
• Adjust tension decay rates (safe areas, baseline)
• Set minimum tension thresholds for structure placement

Event Scheduling

• How often the mod checks for events
• Probabilities for apparitions, ambient sounds, charges, jumpscares
• Cooldowns between events

Trial Settings

• Number of buttons required (default is 3)
• Button spawn chance per chunk
• Enable/disable the trial

Other Settings

• Audience radius (events cancel when other players are within range)
• Light level requirements for cave charges
• Underground requirements for mechanics

All config values have comments explaining what they do.

Multiplayer

The mod works flawlessly in singleplayer, while multiplayer is supported but may still have occasional issues.

Derivative Works

You are free to include The Forgotten in your modpacks without almost any restrictions.