Descend In The Madness
Modpackby Jesussccc
A psychological horror survival modpack inspired by Trevor Henderson’s Siren Head, featuring brutal survival mechanics, dangerous exploration, and a world designed to break your sanity.
Description

Descend In The Madness
Descend In The Madness throws you into a brutal and hostile world where survival is never guaranteed.
This is not a normal Minecraft experience. The world has been reshaped with massive terrain generation, dangerous landscapes, and immersive environments powered by mods like Terralith and Tectonic. Every journey outside your shelter can become a fight for your life.
But the world itself is not your only enemy.
Terrifying entities stalk the darkness, psychological horror surrounds you, and every sound may be a warning. You will need to manage your thirst, body temperature, injuries, and resources while trying to stay alive in a world that constantly wants to break you.
You are not completely defenseless. Thanks to SuperbWarfare & Timeless and Classics Zero, you will have access to modern firearms and military equipment.
But remember:
A weapon does not make you safe.
Every bullet matters.
Every mistake has consequences.
Features
- A darker and more hostile survival experience.
- Terrifying entities and psychological horror.
- Realistic terrain generation with Terralith and Tectonic.
- Modern firearms and military equipment from SuperbWarfare.
- Body part damage system.
- Temperature and thirst mechanics.
- Parkour movement to escape, climb, and survive dangerous encounters.
- Immersive atmosphere designed for shaders.
- Hardcore exploration where preparation matters.
Recommended Experience
For the best experience, use the shaders included in the modpack, are highly recommended.
They greatly improve the atmosphere, lighting, darkness, and horror feeling of the modpack.
Headphones are also recommended.
Will you survive?
Will you stay sane long enough to uncover the truth...
or will the darkness claim you?
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Sr. Shadow: If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, please leave them in the comments. I’ll reply as soon as I can.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
AffiliateHardware and extras that pair well with this modpack.
LEGO Minecraft Set
Official sets that translate the building side of the game off-screen.
Minecraft Enderman Character Plush
Enderman plush toys, and a reliable gift for a younger player.
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Contained Mods (217)
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
InsaneLib
A set of common classes and utilities used by Insane's mods
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
CreativeCore
a core mod
FancyMenu
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Carry On
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
Enhanced AI
Creepers Breaching, Zombies mining and Skeletons sniping. Customize their AI as you like!
AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)
This mod fixes memory leaks of some mods, Neoforge and Minecraft until they implement their fixes.
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns
The most Immersive and Customizable modern FPS experience in Minecraft - A complete Remaster of the TaC gun mod by the o...
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
CoroUtil
Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc
Traveler's Backpack
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Curios API integration and more!
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
M.R.U
A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
Fresh Animations
Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
From The Fog
Enter a world of fear and mystery with From The Fog, a Minecraft mod that brings the legendary Herobrine to life in a sp...
Data Anchor
Simple library mod with helpful data attaching and networking utilities including attaching data to entities, chunks, pl...
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
ForgeEndertech
Core library powering Endertech mods
EnhancedVisuals
Feel the pain!
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Dynamic Lights
portable and moving lightsources
ItemPhysic Full
#enhancedphysics
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
Immersive Aircraft [Fabric/Forge]
A set of vanilla style, customizable and upgradable aircraft, from biplanes to airships
Tough As Nails
A difficult, survival-based mod that adds body temperature and thirst!
Subtle Effects
Adding many new subtle details through particles and a few sounds
Placebo
A library mod
Voiceless Survival
Be careful, the mobs can hear you🤫
Security Craft
Adds plenty of blocks and items to defend and secure your base with.
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Inventory Sorter
Simple inventory sorting tweaks
Large Ore Deposits
Adds exceedingly rare, supermassive ore deposits that make mining worthwhile
CorgiLib
A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.
Butchery
Realistically butcher everything in Minecraft!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Create: Enchantment Industry
Automatic Enchanting, with Create.
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Spice of Life Onion
A mod designed to encourage dietary variety!
Guard Villagers
Guards that help with village pest control
Sounds
Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Food Extended
This mod adds over 400+ new foods to Minecraft (REQUIRES PHC2 - CROPS and TREES mods)
Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Trees
Part Two of the new HarvestCraft - Adds 49 new Fruit-bearing Trees to Minecraft
Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Crops
Adds 96 new crops, planted from their food items that drop from garden bushes which spawn across the world in various bi...
Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Food Core
Adds 180ish new foods based on vanilla Minecraft ingredients (all new textures for everything to feel better with Vanill...
Create Crafts & Additions
Electrifying the Create mod!
GraveStone Mod
Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die
EntityJS
This mod uses KubeJS to dynamically register entities with full AI/Animation/Spawn Control support!
Presence Footsteps (Forge)
An unofficial port of Presence Footsteps from Fabric to Forge
[SBW] Superb Warfare
A warfare mod centered around guns, cannons and vehicles.
Durability Tooltip
Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
Terralith
A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!
Create Ore Excavation
Extract resources using machines powered by Rotational Force
Structory: Towers
Adds immersive, biome-themed towers to the world, for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.
Structory
An atmospheric structure mod for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Serene Seasons
Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Create Slice & Dice
Making automation for Farmers Delight more sensible
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
Drippy Loading Screen
Addon for FancyMenu to customize the loading screen.
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
EpheroLib
Fabric/Forge library mod to make it a bit easier to develop mods for both platforms
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Cold Sweat
Adds a survival-focused temperature system to Minecraft, with lots of customization!
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Ambient Environment
Adds more ambiance to a Minecraft world
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
The Hordes
Horde Invasions and Zombie Infection
Paragliders
BotW style Paraglider
PandaLib
A Library mod used by The Panda Oliver
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
End's Delight
An addon mod for Farmer's Delight based around adding culinary content to the end!
HT's TreeChop
Fell trees chop-by-chop instead of block-by-block.
Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons
A mod adding new Lunar Events like blood moons and harvest moons!
Ender's Delight
🍇A Farmer's Delight which add ender themed food
CodeChicken Lib 1.8.+
Contains various tools to make modding easier.
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
Hearth and Harvest
Hearth and Harvest is an addon for the popular food mod, Farmer's Delight
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
Project: Vibrant Journeys
A mod that aims to spice up vanilla survival
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]
Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps.
ProbeJS
Greatly enhances your KubeJS scripting experience by adding VSCode support.
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
Simple Snowy Fix (Forge / Fabric)
Fixes incorrect snow generation on tree leaves MC-119599
Farmer's Respite
Tea addon for Farmer's Delight
Corn Delight[Forge]
A Corn Addon for Farmer's Delight, Forge Version
Atlas Lib
A serialzation and math libary for minecraft mods.
Storms of the Wild
Get so conductive even lightning can’t resist! A mildly detailed system of sparks, conduction, and storms.
Fishing Real
Fish up real entities instead of the items! Configurable with Datapacks!
Miner's Delight +
Farmer's Delight add-on for miners
Peaceful Hunger | UPDATED
Play Peaceful with hunger; allows you to starve in Peaceful!
Rain should extinguish campfires
Rain extinguish campfires if outside.
Thief
Stealing from villages has consequences
SpiffyHUD
Addon for FancyMenu to customize the in-game HUD.
Death Finder
Deaths happen. Finding your items should not be the hard part.
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
Ocean's Delight
Ocean's Delight is an addon mod for Farmer's Delight based around adding culinary content to the ocean!
Mekanism Tools
Powerful tools and armor for Mekanism.
Mekanism Generators
Advanced energy generation for Mekanism.
Mekanism
High-tech machinery, powerful energy generation, fancy gadgets and more. Now on Curse!
Void Fog
Brings back the void fog that was removed in Minecraft 1.8
Mysterious Mountain Lib
a library for MMF-Group's mod
Panda's Falling Trees
Make trees fall when cut down
Lios Overhauled Villages
A complete Overhaul to Vanilla Villages making them modernized.
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Open Loader
An open source resource and data loader for Minecraft.
Alex's Delight
Adds compatibility between Alex's Mobs and Farmer's Delight
Who's There?: Ghost Players (Horror)
Adds entities with random names that spawn in caves and walk to spook the player
Mobtimizations - Entity Performance Fixes
Optimizes a lot of tasks that Entity AI wastefully performs, minimal effect on gameplay.
Simple Shops
Adds simple and easy player shops and creative shops!
Copper Equipment
Copper Tools, Sword, Armor, and Horse Armor!
Realistic Nametag
Makes name tags behave realistically, hiding them behind blocks and objects.
Create: Simple Ore Doubling
Increase your ore yield with Create. Up to 3x return.
Veggies Delight (A Farmer's Delight Add-on)
An addon mod for Farmer's Delight that expand it with a variety of new vegetables, food and structures.
playerAnimator
player animation library
Gliders
Gliders: essential for traversing terrain and preventing falls
TCT Core
This mod allows you to centralize all the other mods in order to be able to access the information or settings directly...
No Baby Zombies
Prevent baby zombies and other baby hostiles from spawning in your world
Thirst Was Taken
Modern take on thirst, compatible with Create, Farmer's Delight & more
Spartan Weaponry
Weapons Galore! A whole new arsenal of weaponry made for Minecraft!
Responsive Shields
Remove that delay when blocking
Simple Drills
Adds Simple Tier Based Drills
Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium/Embeddium settings support
Sodium/Embeddium Options API
Config API for adding Sodium/Embeddium options with a better categories menu
Keerdm's Binoculars
A mod that adds a realistic binoculars item.
Faster Ladder Climbing
Quickly climb up or down ladders by looking in the direction you want to go.
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Immersive Weathering [FORGE]
An abundance of new natural systems to make your world feel more alive than ever.
Oculus
Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML
Serious Player Animations
A client side mod that adds cool animations to the player.
Necronomicon API
A personal utility library, making development in both platforms easier.
Zombie Awareness
- Smarter more aware zombies (and skeletons), they track you down via blood scent, sound, and light source awareness
Alex's Mobs
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
Realistic Torches
Makes torches burn out after a configurable amount of time.
First Aid
A minecraft mod that extends the minecraft health system
Spartan Shields
Needing more Shields in Minecraft? You've come to the right place!
🎃 Insanity Shader
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
True Herobrine
Adds Herobrine, but in a non-destructive way.
CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)
Gives you a 9% fps improvement for leaves rendering
Starlight (Forge)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
Cave Dweller Reimagined
Ever felt like the regular Cave Dweller was too plain and not scary? This mod should improve the fear factor a lot.
Tissou's Zombie Pack
This turns all undead to deadly horrifying walker-like creatures.
Nether's Delight
Nether addon for Farmer's Delight
Sanity: Descent Into Madness
Brings the sanity mechanic from Don't Starve into Minecraft
No Tree Punching
A small mod to make the first day or two of play more believable. Adds a few new tools and early game resource gathering...
[LEGACY] Drip Sounds (Forge)
Forge mod that adds sounds for drip particles landing
Item Scrapper
Adds a scrapping workbench (Fully configureble with JSON data)
Reset Controls Confirmation
Adds a confirmation screen when resetting all key binds to default
Farmer's Delight Cutting Compat
Adds compatibility between Farmer's Delight and many other mods through cutting board recipes!
HORROR - Psychological Horror Messages (no dweller)
Every 10-15 minutes, a random horror message will be sent to the chat. Perfect if you are looking for a psychologically...
Compass Coords
A simple mod that let you see coordinates when a compass is hold, both main and off hand
Mekanism: Weapons
Weapons for Mekanism
Performance Tweaks
Several optimizations and bugfixes. Entity Collision FPS fix, Let-Me-Despawn, railway optimization and alternate current...
More Delight (Forge & Neoforge)
Extra meals, knives, and ingredients for Farmer's Delight that improve your culinary experience.
Abandoned urban
Abandoned buildings with a modern feel.
Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)
A Farmer's Delight addon that adds new and creative recipes to the game.
SCP-280, Eyes in the Dark
Beware of glowing eyes in the dark before it's too late.
SCP-173, The Sculpture
Don't break eye-contact, or SCP 173 will snap your neck
More Mekanism Processing
Add mekanism's ore processing to other mod's ores
Medical Remedies (Formerly Marbled's First Aid)
A mod that adds all sorts of medical remedy items such as pills, medicines, syringes, and first aid supplies.
CrescentLib
Library For My Mods.
Extra Zombie Drops
This mod adds more different drops for zombies, a useful addition in zombie apocalypse modpacks.
Serene Seasons - Pam's HarvestCraft 2: Crops Compat
Grow your crops in their respective seasons!
Zombie Infection Vaccine
Adds a more realistic item (vaccine) that cures the Hordes' mod zombie infection
Simply Traps
Lightweight, vanilla-style mod with 7 unique traps
Create: Timeless and Classics Zero [TaCZ]
Detailed automation of Timeless and Classics Zero with Create!
We Got Runners!
Adds more zombie AI variety
Immersive Cooking
An expansion to Farmer's Delight, adding tonnes of new, immersive ways to cook.
Potassium 'n' Sulfur's Gunpowder (PSG)
vanilla friendly Crafting and new uses for Gunpowder. and more.
Siren Head: The Arrival
Adds a faithful rendition of Trevor Henderson's iconic monster to the game.
Create: Fuel & Water Information
An addon mod for Create Stuff & Additions & Create to display the player's fuel and water levels.
Dense Ores - Abundant!
Ores that drop more materials!
Dense Mekanism
Dense ores for Mekanism ores!
HRB's Drills
A vehicle to make mining a better experience.
Serene Seasons - Pam's HarvestCraft 2: Trees Compat
Grow your fruits in their respective seasons!
Craftable Campfire
(Re)Adds the minecraft campfire recipe. Meant to be used in cases where the recipe is removed (such as with No Tree Punc...
Dweller Ores
Minecraft horror mod that adds creatures that mimic vanilla ores!
Another Flashlight Mod
Add flashlights !
Elytra Durability Indicator
Stylishly render your elytra durability under your crosshair!
Create Mekanism Ore Excavation
A small compatability mod to add Mekanism ores to Create Ore Excavation
SCP-3000, Anatashesha
A huge anomalous eel-like monster that roams in the deep ocean
SCP-999, Tickle Monster
A friendly entity which heals and protect the player
The Cryptid
This mod adds a horror entity to Minecraft named the Cryptid.
Horror Ambience Music: Echoes
Replaces all of minecraft's music with Dark atmospheric soundscapes
Weather Refined
Replaces vanilla rain & snow with improved, more polished particles. Less visual clutter, more atmosphere.
onewholibs
A library for json data files, and obj model entities.
SCP-131, The Eye Pods
Cute little eye pods that will stare at you
Realistic Torches From Campfires
Campfire Addon for Realistic Torches
MekanismDelight
MekanismDelight is a small mod that adds integration features between Farmer’s Delight and Mekanism.
Fix Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Trees Compat (for new versions of Serene Seasons)
This mod is a fork of the Serene Seasons - Pam's HarvestCraft 2: Trees Compat mod. The goal of this fork is to fix the c...
Hippo's Health Crystal
Boost health, with Heart Crystal
CampfireOverhaul+
update version of the campfire overhaul mod by ZanderMeister
More Mob Mimicry
The mod adds mimics to the game that mimic other mobs, but if you get too close they attack.
xRandom Respawn
Respawn in a Random Location each time you Die! Don't forget to set your spawn point at your house!