https://ift.tt/3ktHD6v Another Minecraft spotlight! I had a ton of fun with the first, and reaction overall was pretty good, so it was time ...
Another Minecraft spotlight! I had a ton of fun with the first, and reaction overall was pretty good, so it was time to pick up a new mod to dissect. This time, I decided to forgo cosmic horrors and cover something a bit closer to home… and maybe standing menacingly at the foot of my bed. The Obsessed Minecraft mod was the next on my list, and it’s been quite the experience.
Minecraft Mod Spotlight: The Obsessed
What Is The Obsessed?
The Obsessed is a Minecraft horror mod that adds one entity to your world. This isn’t your average screaming dweller though. The Obsessed is a spider-like humanoid who doesn’t want to tear you to pieces. In fact, it absolutely adores you! Maybe a little too much. We try to avoid spoilers in this section of the spotlight, but suffice to say, being the object of this creature’s affections might not necessarily be a good thing. Now, there is a bit of a content warning necessary with this horror mod. The Obsessed is designed to resemble a stalker. While there’s nothing explicitly romantic about its fixation with a player, I could see why is might be upsetting for some, so proceed with caution if that’s a sensitive topic for you.
My Experience With The Obsessed
Content Warning: Stalking, Spiders
Unlike some previous spotlights, I decided to avoid using a pre-compiled modpack this time around, and instead put together my own, imaginatively titled ‘Obsessed :(‘. It was just the The Obsessed Minecraft mod itself, and a few QoL features like Just Enough Items, AppleSkin, Corpse etc. I wanted to get the full experience with nothing else potentially coloring it.
Early Days
After a false start in an icy wasteland, my second generated world seemed a lot more promising. I tend to like to set up near villager to steal their stu- I mean, enjoy their company. I spawned seemingly far from any built up areas, and it took me a while of boating along the coast until I finally got a glimpse of some torches through the trees. Eager, I hopped onto the shore and took a sprint through the nighttime woods. As I did, my screen went momentarily black and some ominous red text popped up about finding me.
Well, guess The Obsessed had arrived. This would be confirmed when I entered said village, found a vacant bed and fell asleep in it. Just as my player character was drifting off, I was greeted with the very unsettling site of a dark figure looming over the bed. By the time I woke up, it was gone.
Slow Escalation
After the initial weird event, things were pretty quite for a few days. I set about building myself a small house on the edge of the village. I mined a cave near the house and got a decent number of diamonds. A villager kept insisting that this was hid house and I kept having to kick him out of my bed. Normal things.
It was quiet to the point that I was genuinely starting to wonder if the mod was even working.
Then, I began to notice small things. I kept finding my back door open when I returned to my house. First, I just assumed I’d left it open when I went to attend to the berry bushes in the garden, but sometimes even when I’d had no business being out there, the door was still open. A wither rose appeared, planted a little way away from my house, accompanied by some random block placements. I… guess that was a gift, of sorts.
I’d also get much more obvious, but fleeting signs of the entity. A strange puff of black smoke, or something a glimpse of the thing itself. It popped out of the ground at one point while I was working on my floor. Just for a second, but enough to nearly give me a heart attack. Very little direct intervention though.
That would change.
Gifts
It was a few more days before my mysterious new friend made themselves known to me. I strolled out of my house in the morning, ready to work through my to-do list, when I saw a gangly humanoid creeping up towards me, through the village. When I looked at it, it dropped into a crouch and started scratching at the ground, throwing up unsettlingly red particle effects. When I approached, it ran away.
What was left was some grim, grisly-looking little present made from rotten claws. I took it anyway, because it seemed polite.
I received quite a few gifts from The Obsessed. Most were pretty nasty. Spider eggs (which hatched into a cave spider when places), clumps of rotten meat and hair, strange fungi. Some of these things were edible… if you liked status effects. My favourite gift was a scribbly little drawing that I could only assume was a self-portrait. Naturally, I framed it in my house, lacking a fridge to stick it on.
Taking the gifts, and sometimes eating them, would apparently raised The Obsessed’s mood, according to the description of the items.
It was through this that I discovered that The Obsessed was, in fact, upset with me. This apparently made its actions more aggressive, something that I guess I learned the hard way when the villager who’d been hanging around my house mysteriously disappeared, along with the foxes I’d been feeding.
Angry Spider
The days passed, and while I accepted gifts whenever I saw them, The Obsessed seemed to still be permanently angry with me. Now, this didn’t really harm me, but it did cause some minor annoyances. Often I’d be going about my business and I’d suddenly be scooped up by spiderguy and dragged off into the woods some way, wherein it would disappear.
Fires also started mysteriously happening around the village. I can’t be 100% sure this was the fault of The Obsessed, as I never actually saw what started them. I’d just find a villager looking sadly at his now immolated cottage. This seemed to happen with alarming regularity, though.
I also started to find The Obsessed’s nests. These looked like regular blocks from a distance. Closer inspection would show they were full of tiny holes, and peeking through said holes would show a web-filled pit below. Falling into one was a drawn-out, and rather unpleasant experience.
It’s active, angry, and I’m still running about trying to figure out if it’s leaving things that I’m missing. I do have the nice drawing though, so that’s something.
Is It Scary?
This is kind of a complicated question, as everyone’s mileage will vary. Previously, for this feature series I’ve played wonderland.jar, and nomoon.jar, and I’d say The Obsessed was the one I felt the least on edge playing. This might be because the entity is troublesome, but not hostile towards me. The creature is definitely unsettling, and can make your Minecraft experience a lot more unpredictable, but I rarely ended up trying to avoid it. In fact, I have to admit that despite it engaging in some very antisocial behaviour, I did start to find the creature sort of endearing, between the child-like drawings and the horrible gifts it felt more like something that was trying very hard to make a friend, but didn’t really understand how that worked.
So I gracefully ate all the bits of rotten meat and clumps of animal hair it gifted me. It’s the thought that counts, probably.
Is It A Good Mod?
While I don’t find The Obsessed Minecraft mod keeping me up at night, I do admire the work that’s gone into it. Most entity-based horror mods suffer from being very predictable, once you’ve seen their schtick once or twice, you know exactly what to expect. The Obsessed did continue to surprise me with new behaviour, animations, or events. While not necessarily frightened of the creature, I did find it interesting to see what it would do next. Its erratic nature meant I could never quite get too comfortable stuck in a world with the mod. For that reason alone, if you like creepy mods, and if the themes the mod raises don’t make it a no-go for you, then you should give it a try. It definitely adds an air of chaos that stops things getting too stale.
If you’d like to try the mod out for yourself, you can find it on Modrinth and CurseForge, for both Forge and NeoForge. If you haven’t seen my similar spotlight on wonderland.jar, I’d love for you to give it a look too. There are more of these spotlights in the works as we speak, so make sure to check back on Gamezebo’s feature page regularly for them… I love making these so it’s been great to find people actually read them.
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