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Cave Horror Project 1

Modpack

Forge 1.20.1 | All quests got a rework! | Best horror modpack with quests and story! PLAY NOW!

Downloads

776,606

Type

Modpack

Last Updated

Apr 8, 2026

Description

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Welcome to Cave Horror Project 1 - 1.20.1 Edition!

If you need any help or have any suggestions for future updates, please join our Discord!

✨ Also try out our new mods - Cozy Café alongside Cozy Ingredients!

We've recently released 2 new mods that are supposed to be used together, please try them out!

Cozy Café - A brand new food mod

Cozy Ingredients - A core library mod needed for Cozy Café

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 & Story

  • Over 160+ quests across multiple chapters, each revealing pieces of the dark narrative.
  • Chapters 1–5 now fully available, including multiple secret quests and a mysterious hidden chapter.
  • Quests are difficulty-coded for better progression.

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.

Creepy Decorations

🎮 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.

Main menu

🗣 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.

Walkie-talkie

⚔ New Encounters & Boss Fights

  • Apollion 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.

TORMENTOR

🔧 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.

New backpack crafting recipe

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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Mod links for copyright reasons (with mod permissions):

Born In Chaos mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/born-in-chaos

Deep Dark: Regrowth mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/deep-dark-regrowth

Apollyon mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/apollyon

Mod links for attribution requirements:

Better Title Screen mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-title-screen

Camera Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/camera-mod

GraveStone Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/gravestone-mod

Simple Voice Chat mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/simple-voice-chat

THE UNDEAD REVAMPED mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/theundead

Fresh Animations resource pack: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/fresh-animations

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.20.1

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Mod 42,980,237
[EMF] Entity Model Features

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Mod 64,519,161
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Cloth Config API

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Mod 111,070,842
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Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 82,447,429
Xaero's Minimap

Xaero's Minimap

Displays a map of the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoi...

Mod 72,912,051
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 70,774,764
[ETF] Entity Texture Features

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Mod 68,381,542
Xaero's World Map

Xaero's World Map

Adds a full screen world map which shows you what you have explored in the world. Works great together with Xaero's Mini...

Mod 64,736,127
AppleSkin

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Food/hunger-related HUD improvements

Mod 60,415,996
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/Waila fork for Minecraft 1.16+)

Mod 47,104,069
Collective

Collective

🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.

Mod 45,624,395
FancyMenu

FancyMenu

Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!

Mod 42,399,525
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Mod 38,403,284
Ping Wheel

Ping Wheel

Allows players to temporarily mark locations and entities

Mod 8,359,405
Chat Heads

Chat Heads

See who you're chatting with!

Mod 33,345,690
Complementary Shaders - Unbound

Complementary Shaders - Unbound

Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 28,767,519
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.

Resource Pack 30,329,267
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 44,880,777
CreativeCore

CreativeCore

A core mod

Mod 34,181,216
Necronomicon API

Necronomicon API

A personal utility library for my mods.

Mod 8,827,410
Simple Rich Discord Presence

Simple Rich Discord Presence

Simple Discord Rich Presence

Mod 4,460,587
Euphoria Patches

Euphoria Patches

Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.

Mod 16,908,072
Default Options

Default Options

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Mod 12,381,647
Polymorph

Polymorph

No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.

Mod 18,511,685
Rhino

Rhino

A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods

Mod 14,833,058
Almanac

Almanac

Almanac is a library used by my mods with mostly loader independent shared code between multiple mods to avoid duplicati...

Mod 12,349,228
Enchantment Descriptions

Enchantment Descriptions

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Mod 27,056,500
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu

BisectHosting Server Integration Menu

BisectHosting Server Ordering Menu

Mod 9,806,469
You Shall Not Spawn!

You Shall Not Spawn!

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Mod 4,701,984
#CarrasconLib

#CarrasconLib

A library for ECarrascon Mods

Mod 1,725,668
Chunky

Chunky

Pre-generates chunks, quickly and efficiently

Mod 11,357,514
Comforts

Comforts

Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...

Mod 15,458,164
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib

SuperMartijn642's Core Lib

SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft ve...

Mod 11,595,667
Carry On

Carry On

Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!

Mod 17,739,851
Melody

Melody

OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.

Mod 35,118,358
Double Doors

Double Doors

🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.

Mod 6,154,892
KubeJS

KubeJS

Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!

Mod 13,831,363
Bookshelf

Bookshelf

An open source library for other mods!

Mod 33,378,033
Open Parties and Claims

Open Parties and Claims

Adds the ability to claim chunks and make player parties, integrates with Xaero's Minimap and World Map

Mod 14,807,983
Farmer's Delight

Farmer's Delight

A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!

Mod 14,371,565
Oculus

Oculus

Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML

Mod 24,506,358
Born in Chaos

Born in Chaos

Adds a lot of aggressive mobs, with their unique properties that can diversify and complicate your survival. Also adds n...

Mod 309,132
Radium

Radium

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Mod 4,479,141
Alex's Mobs

Alex's Mobs

85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.

Mod 9,666,529
Citadel

Citadel

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Mod 10,763,159
Curios API

Curios API

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.

Mod 22,080,989
Nether's Delight

Nether's Delight

A spicy expansion bringing the nether to Farmer's Delight!

Mod 2,096,652
Hysteria Shaders

Hysteria Shaders

Atmospheric, highly customizable horror shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.

Shader 2,223,158
Embeddium

Embeddium

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Mod 24,180,341
Structure Gel API

Structure Gel API

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Mod 3,741,632
Nyf's Spiders

Nyf's Spiders

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Mod 5,290,783
Macaw's Doors

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Adds vanilla doors with every wood color and new unique doors! Such as western, garage, shoji and more...!

Mod 5,336,132
Fusion (Connected Textures)

Fusion (Connected Textures)

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Mod 9,216,013
Exposure

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Mod 9,828,545
Macaw's Windows

Macaw's Windows

Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more...!

Mod 7,632,028
Macaw's Bridges

Macaw's Bridges

A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!

Mod 6,600,530
Lexiconfig

Lexiconfig

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Mod 923,239
Macaw's Fences and Walls

Macaw's Fences and Walls

Adds new vanilla styled fences, walls and gates!

Mod 7,769,995
Crash Assistant

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Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.

Mod 7,373,180
Macaw's Trapdoors

Macaw's Trapdoors

Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!

Mod 2,736,931
Macaw's Biomes O' Plenty

Macaw's Biomes O' Plenty

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Mod 861,220
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Mellow

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Resource Pack 752,053
Tree Harvester

Tree Harvester

🌲 Harvest full trees and huge mushrooms instantly with an axe. Includes fast leaf decay and sapling placement.

Mod 4,593,188
Decorative Blocks

Decorative Blocks

Some new blocks to build with

Mod 4,187,059
Chloride (Embeddium++/Sodium++)

Chloride (Embeddium++/Sodium++)

Gives Embeddium/Sodium additional Performance and Quality features for a tasteful experience

Mod 12,147,223
Spooklementary

Spooklementary

A Spooky, very moody and atmospheric Complementary Shaders Edit

Shader 1,828,186
Fresh Animations: Extensions

Fresh Animations: Extensions

A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations

Resource Pack 6,963,825
CrashExploitFixer

CrashExploitFixer

A port of Papers Improve-tag-parser-handling patch, to fix a server crash exploit.

Mod 1,227,118
Geophilic Reforged

Geophilic Reforged

A subtle overhaul of vanilla and mod Overworld biomes

Mod 1,494,029
LootJS: KubeJS Addon

LootJS: KubeJS Addon

A Minecraft mod for packdevs to easily modify the loot system with KubeJS.

Mod 8,053,561
Insanity Shader

Insanity Shader

A stylized, horror themed Iris shaderpack with high customizability and performance.

Shader 4,656,304
Cave Dust

Cave Dust

Dust is a Minecraft mod that adds the white ash particle from the Basalt Deltas biome to the underground to simulate dus...

Mod 6,159,306
Spooky Trees

Spooky Trees

Adds spooky trees to forest biomes

Mod 289,031
Cave Horror Sounds

Cave Horror Sounds

With this mod, exploring caves becomes much scarier, as they will have creepy atmospheric sounds. These vary depending o...

Mod 80,599
The Anomaly

The Anomaly

A strange anomaly in the files of minecraft has come to life, hide from it. (Horror) (Red's Anomaly on curseforge)

Mod 552,840
CHP: Core

CHP: Core

A simple core mod for Cave Horror Project.

Mod 13,918
Variant Tools and Weaponry - More Weapons

Variant Tools and Weaponry - More Weapons

This mod gives 10 extra weapons to craft and fight with.

Mod 408,614
Spooky Foods

Spooky Foods

Adds spooky snacks with creepy effects

Mod 249,447
Nemo's Inventory Sorting

Nemo's Inventory Sorting

Automatically sort your inventory with just a button!

Mod 625,038
More Cave Sounds

More Cave Sounds

Diversifies the already existing cave sounds by adding even more cave sounds

Resource Pack 408,861
Void Fog

Void Fog

Brings back the void fog that was removed in Minecraft 1.8

Mod 322,620
Creepy Decorations

Creepy Decorations

Add a chilling atmosphere to your world with a mod designed to bring horror-themed decorative blocks to Minecraft!

Mod 245,222
Better Title Screen

Better Title Screen

Better Title Screen is a client-side mod that provides options to customize Minecraft's title screen.

Mod 139,632
Nightmare Obsessed

Nightmare Obsessed

Reskins The Obsessed into a consistently creepy design, including adjusted animations and forms

Resource Pack 41,582
Boss Refreshed

Boss Refreshed

Minecraft's Bosses with a Refreshed Take!

Resource Pack 531,868
Doctor Who: Weeping Angels

Doctor Who: Weeping Angels

Don't Blink!

Mod 797,505
Cassette Music Disc

Cassette Music Disc

turns the music discs into little cassettes tapes

Resource Pack 549,605
Dungeons Enhanced

Dungeons Enhanced

Spice up your game with new dungeons and structures.

Mod 1,035,144
SecurityCraft

SecurityCraft

Adds plenty of blocks and items to defend and secure your base with.

Mod 3,076,473
Better Zoom

Better Zoom

Smoothly zoom with wheel as much as you want, in a simple way with customizations

Mod 209,787
The Man From The Fog

The Man From The Fog

A horror mod that adds a creature stalking you

Mod 3,083,757
Tax' Creepy Artist

Tax' Creepy Artist

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Resource Pack 323,566
The End of Herobrine

The End of Herobrine

Herobrine is slowly corrupting your world... defeat him before It's too late!

Mod 1,248,930
Connected Glass

Connected Glass

Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!

Mod 2,233,146
Keerdm's Binoculars

Keerdm's Binoculars

A mod that adds a realistic binoculars item.

Mod 304,405
Arthropod Phobia Expansions + Horror Bosses / Arachnophobia

Arthropod Phobia Expansions + Horror Bosses / Arachnophobia

ArPhEx horror mod - realistic, intricate, phobia-inducing entities and supernatural bosses

Mod 719,215
The Knocker

The Knocker

This mod adds an unpredictable human like stalker which follows every of your steps and may visit you while sleeping...

Mod 1,295,297
The Obsessed - Advanced Psychological Horror, Arachnid Stalker

The Obsessed - Advanced Psychological Horror, Arachnid Stalker

It stalks you with deranged fascination, each encounter driving its nightmarish obsession further…

Mod 319,147
My Server Is Compatible

My Server Is Compatible

Client-side mod to disable Forge's "Incompatible FML Modded Server" message.

Mod 1,388,718
Redden's Stone Lanterns

Redden's Stone Lanterns

Another decoration mod

Mod 370,656
Exposure Catalog

Exposure Catalog

Creative-mode tool to view and manage exposures

Mod 704,572
Drop the Meat

Drop the Meat

Adds meat for neutral and passive mobs

Mod 274,042
Simple Radio

Simple Radio

This mod adds a simple radio you can use to communicate with your friends while far away!

Mod 945,352

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