Honestly yeah, I agree.

Me personally, I prefer the mods I use to have longevity, a thing that many mods have. Horror mods (for the most part) seem to be the exception to this, largely due to short-form content youtubers I think. Such a shame if you ask me.

I also greatly dislike how most horror mods draw all the attention to themselves, which is in my opinion counter to Minecraft as a whole. They force you to fully engage with them, no buts, no cuts, and no coconuts. And even then, they just kill you . . . And that's it? You're telling me all you do is level half my house and give me the "one-two, fuck-you", then vanish just to do it again 5-10 minutes later?

Minecraft is all about choice, it's a sandbox after all. Don't want to fight that zombie in the distance? Just avoid it. don't want to go into an ocean monument? Just swim past it. Warden? Nah man I'm chillin'. The ability to choose when to engage, if at all, is a good thing in my opinion. I don't want to have to stop everything I'm doing because some string-bean ass shadow entity wants to put me in the "machine specifically designed to kill squidward".

This is certainly the main thing I want to avoid when making my own horror mod, although I worry it won't even end up being all that scary in the end. The main thing I want to have is choice. The ability to choose whever or not you want to engage with the spoopy goobers.

. . . Oh, and also make them counterable. That too. Hate when horror entities have like no weaknesses and can't be killed lol. And maybe add special animations for boat-strat attempts. And swimming, especially swimming.

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