Cave Horror Project 1
Modpackby JustErikSK
Forge 1.20.1 | Chapter 6 is now out! | Best horror modpack with quests! PLAY NOW!
Description
Welcome to Cave Horror Project 1.20.1 Edition!
✨ Also try out our new modpack Cozy Wildlife Journal!
Cozy Wildlife Journal is a relaxing exploration and wildlife-focused modpack built around discovery, adventure, and documenting the natural world (in some cases even the unnatural).
Download it now and try it out! Available for Fabric 1.20.1
Step back into the darkness of Cave Horror Project, the ultimate horror survival modpack where every step into the shadows could be your last. Since version 2.0, the experience has been completely transformed with new quests, storylines, bosses, decorations, and terrifying encounters.
📖 Full Questline
- Over 240 quests across 6 chapters, now with a proper progression path alongside some optional quests.

🪓 Horror-Themed Additions & Custom Mods
- Creepy Decorations Mod – Add unsettling props like Haunted Pumpkins, Broken Dolls, and more to intensify the atmosphere.
- Many horror mods such as The Anomaly, Cave Dweller or Doctor Who: Weeping Angels.
- Enhanced Herobrine events with legacy structures.

🎮 Immersive Experience & Menus
- Completely redesigned main menus for singleplayer and multiplayer.
- Added special resource packs (Enhanced Audio, Creepy Speaker, Cave Packer, and more) for deeper immersion.
- Shader and lighting improvements for eerie, cinematic visuals.

🗣 Multiplayer Horror Experience
- Simple Voice Chat combined with Simple Void Radio Mod – craft walkie-talkies and communicate in-game even at a distance.
- Multiplayer-friendly quest and event system.

⚔ New Encounters & Boss Fights
- Apollyon and Red’s Anomaly spawn rates adjusted for balanced horror encounters.
- Herobrine’s abilities improved, but villagers are now safe from possession.
- Many difficult bosses from the ArPhEx Mod.

🔧 Quality of Life & Performance
- Backpack crafting rebalanced (Backpacked and Sophisticated Backpacks mods).
- Updated mods and Forge versions for stability.
- Streamlined quest crafting recipes for horror-themed items.

This is the Cave Horror Project, combining chilling atmosphere, deep story, and heart-pounding survival gameplay. Whether solo or with friends, the horrors that await will test your courage to the limit.
✨ Discover more of our projects on our website!
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LEGO Minecraft Set
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Minecraft Enderman Character Plush
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Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
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Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Xaero's World Map
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
FancyMenu
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
CreativeCore
a core mod
Comforts
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Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
FTB Library (NeoForge)
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Carry On
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Sophisticated Core
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Citadel
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FTB Quests (NeoForge)
Questing Mod by FTB
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
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Searchables
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Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Melody
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Sound Physics Remastered
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Simple Voice Chat
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Rhino
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Default Options
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Toast Control
Control toasts, those popups in the corner!
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
FastWorkbench
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Alex's Mobs
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Macaw's Bridges
A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
FastFurnace
A performance upgrade for the furnace.
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
In Control!
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Corpse
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Macaw's Doors
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FTB XMod Compat
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Macaw's Windows
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Configured
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Explorer's Compass
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Macaw's Roofs
Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!
Security Craft
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Macaw's Trapdoors
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Structure Essentials
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Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
FastSuite
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Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades
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Simple Discord Rich Presence
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Spooky Campsite
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Red's Anomaly
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Tax' Creepy Totem
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