Minecraft Midnight Mod Overview

Midnight is a Minecraft mod by Cryptic Mushroom which adds an entirely new dimension to the game for you to explore. The mod includes new blocks, items, mobs, biomes, and structures, all with a distinctly nocturnal theme.

The Midnight dimension is a dark and mysterious place, with danger lurking behind every corner. Your only source of light is a crystal scattered throughout the land and bioluminescent monstrosities stalking from the dark.

To explore and conquer these night-bound lands, you have to navigate dead forests and fungus-infested landscapes, craft weapons and armor from Nightstone and Rockshroom and fight Rifters and other dimensional horrors.

Here are all the things you’ll encounter once you step through the Midnight rift.

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Mod Installation

Before installing the Midnight mod, you need the Minecraft Forge modding API version 1.15.2. Get the installer from the official Minecraft Forge website.

To install the mod:

1. Download the latest version of the mod from CurseForge.
2. Place the downloaded .jar file in the Mods directory in your Minecraft installation directory.
3. From the Minecraft Launcher, select Minecraft Forge 1.15.2 as your installation and start the game.
4. Select Mods in the main menu.
5. Confirm that the Midnight Mod is on the list.

Mod Overview

To enter the Midnight, you must first find a Midnight rift in the Overworld. The rift is a structure that looks like a pulsating mass of red flesh. During the day, the rift is inactive. During the night the rift activates, allowing passage to the Midnight. Before you step in, make sure you’re prepared – this is not a place for newcomers.

Here is a comprehensive list of every block, item, mob, biome, and structure you can find in the Midnight.

Blocks

The Midnight mod adds many new blocks to the game. Thematically, the blocks fit within the horror, sci-fi, and dark fantasy traditions.

You have a selection of shadowy wood, water, fungus, moss, mud, dirt, rock, and crystal, all with a variety of sub-types, which makes for a diverse environment. There are also new ores such as Ebonite and Tenebrum, which you can craft into powerful weapons and armor.

Here is the full list of new blocks:

• Plantoids: Shadowroot, Dark Willow, Dead Wood, Deceitful Moss, Bogweed, Ghost Plant, Unstable Fruit Bush, Midnight Grass, Crystal Flower, Lumen Bud, Violeaf, Runebush, Deceitful Algae, Tendrilweed, Fingered Grass, Dragon’s Nest, Suavis.
• Fungoids: Nightshroom, Viridshroom, Dewshroom, Bogshroom, Bladeshroom, Rockshroom, Mistshroom.
• Soils: Midnight Grass Block, Midnight Dirt, Midnight Coarse Dirt, Midnight Mycelium, Deceitful Peat, Deceitful Mud.
• Stones and Minerals: Nightstone, Trenchstone, Miasma Surface, Bloomcrystal Rock, Bloomcrystal, Rouxe Rock.
• Ores: Dark Pearl Ore, Archaic Ore, Ebonite Ore, Nagrilite Ore, Tenebrum Ore.
• Liquids: Dark Water, Miasma.
• Manufactured: Archaic Glass, Archaic Glass Pane, Dark Pearl Block, Ebonite Block, Nagrilite Block, Tenebrum Block, Shadowroot Planks, Shadowroot Bookshelf, Dark Willow Planks, Dark Willow Bookshelf, Dead Wood Planks, Nightshroom Planks, Viridshroom Planks, Dewshroom Planks, Bogshroom Planks, Glob Fungus Thatch, Nightstone Bricks, Trenchstone Bricks, Rockshroom Bricks, Nightstone Lever.
  • Doors: Shadowroot Door, Dark Willow Door, Dead Wood Door, Nightshroom Door, Viridshroom Door, Dewshroom Door, Bogshroom Door, Tenebrum Door.
  • Trapdoors: Shadowroot Trapdoor, Dark Willow Trapdoor, Dead Wood Trapdoor, Nightshroom Trapdoor, Viridshroom Trapdoor, Dewshroom Trapdoor, Bogshroom Trapdoor, Tenebrum Trapdoor.
  • Buttons: Nightstone Button, Trenchstone Button, Rockshroom Brick Button, Shadowroot Button, Dark Willow Button, Dead Wood Button, Nightshroom Button, Viridshroom Button, Dewshroom Button, Bogshroom Button.
• Utility: Shadowroot Crafting Table, Dark Willow Crafting Table, Dead Wood Crafting Table, Nightshroom Crafting Table, Viridshroom Crafting Table, Dewshroom Crafting Table, Bogshroom Crafting Table, Nightstone Furnace, Dark Willow Chest, Dead Wood Chest, Nightshroom Chest, Viridshroom Chest, Dewshroom Chest, Bogshroom Chest.

Items

The Midnight mod also introduces a host of new items to the game. You can craft some using the new resources added by the mod, and loot others from enemies and the environment.

The most important new item added to the game is the dark pearl. Their primary role is to create rifts for traveling back and forth between the Midnight and the regular world. You can acquire dark pearls by throwing a geode item into a hard surface so it breaks.

Dark pearls are used as fuel in nightstone crafting furnaces, making them an essential component of Midnight’s resource economy. You can also combine dark pearls with powder from a mushroom (nightshroom, viridshroom, dewshroom, or bogshroom) to create spore bombs, a potent throwing weapon.

There are five new weapon and tool tiers, each corresponding to a new ore added by the mod. These include shadowroot, nightstone, ebonite, nagrilite, and tenebrum. There are also two new armor tiers, rockshroom and tenebrum.

Here is the full list of new items:

• Materials: Minerals, Geode, Dark Pearl, Archaic Shard, Ebonite, Nagrilite Ingot, Nagrilite nugget, Tenebrum ingot, Tenebrum nugget
• Plants/Fungi: Dark Stick, Rockshroom Clump, Nightshroom Powder, Viridshroom Powder, Dewshroom Powder, Bogshroom Powder, Bladeshroom Spores, Unstable Seeds.
• Consumables: Raw and Cooked Suavis, Deceitful Snapper, Hunter Wing, Cooked Hunter Wing, Raw and Cooked Nightstag Flank, Stinger Egg, Cooked Stinger Egg, Lime Unstable Fruit, Light Blue and Green Unstable Fruit, Glob Fungus Hand.
• Tools and Weapons: Shadowroot, Nightstone, Ebonite, Nagrilite and Tenebrum sword, pickaxe, axe, showel, and hoes.
  • Armor: Rockshroom and Tenebrum helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots.
  • Spore Bombs: Nightshroom, Viridshroom, Dewshroom, Bogshroom spore bombs

Mobs

The Midnight is a hostile environment with its own share of creatures and mobs. They can be passive, neutral, or hostile, same as in the base version of Minecraft.

The Midnight mod adds the following mobs to the game:

Passive Mobs

• Chrystal lotus are small glowing bugs found in the crystal spires. They are very hard to hit because of their small hitbox.

Neutral Mobs

• Nightstags are elk-like animals found in many places across the Midnight. They spawn in groups of two or three, and won’t attack unless provoked. Nightstags will follow players carrying unstable fruit, which they require in order to breed.
• Skulks spawn in vigilant forests, fungi forests, and runebrush groves. Tamed skulks at full health can be bred using any kind of fungi.

Hostile Mobs

• Rifters are tall decaying plant monsters found everywhere across the Midnight. They are the only mob in the Midnight that use rifts for travel. Sometimes they capture other animals to take them into rifts.
• Hunters are flying mobs that spawn at high altitudes. When they spot a player or other creatures, they use a dive attack to strike their prey with their poisonous stinger.
• Stingers are a black or green scorpion mob that spawns in underground caverns. They make loud hissing noises, which makes them easy to locate in the environment. Stingers drop eggs when killed, which you can either cook or place down to hatch more stingers.
• Deceitful snappers are a lilac-colored fish mob that spawns in the shallow waters of the deceitful bog. They jump out of water and bite players with leech-like teeth when provoked.

Biomes

The Midnight landscape contains several different biomes. Some are nocturnal versions of the biomes you find in regular Minecraft such as mountains, hills, and plains. Others like fungal forests and crystal spires are unique to the mod. Some biomes spawn as sub-types, adding even more variety.

The Midnight mod adds the following biomes to the game:

Surface Biomes

• Night plains is a desolate biome covered with ghostly grass and dead trees.
  • Subtype: Spiked night plains
• Vigilant forest is a dark, misty biome covered with trees like shadowroot and dark willow.
  • Subtype: Hilly vigilant forest
  • Subtype: Runebrush grove
• Fungi forest is a biome rife with glowing mushrooms of all sizes, including nightshrooms, viridshrooms, and dewshrooms.
  • Subtype: Hilly Fungi Forest
• Deceitful bog is a swampy biome with unique flora and fauna, including bogweed, bogshroom, and glowing orange fungus.
• Warped fields is biome featuring mountainous terrain, rock formations, and water pools.
• Obscured peaks is another mountainous biome composed mostly out of nightstone and trenchstone.
  • Subtype: Obscured Plateau
• Crystal spires is a biome whose defining feature is a pink-colored sky and glowing bloomcrystal formations.
• Black ridge is a biome defined by isolated hill-like ridges made of nightstone. No grass or trees grow here, but you can find mushrooms and other plants.
• Phantasmal valley is a lowland biome that contains river-like pools of water. It is often found between other biomes.

Underground Biomes

• Grand cavern is an underground biome with large nightstone stalagmites and stalactites. Instead of lava it contains miasma pools.
  • Subtype: Rouxe Cavern
• Fungal cavern is an underground biome defined by narrow ravines, glowing mushroom globs.

Structures

The Midnight mod adds a couple of new structures to the game. They make it easier for players to orient themselves while exploring the Midnight.

The Midnight mod adds the following structures to the game:

• Wells are a structure that are made out of shadowroot wood. They can spawn in every Midnight biome.
• Shadowroot guard towers typically spawn in vigilant forests and are made out of shadowroot planks.
• Molten craters are large surface holes filled with miasma.
• Rifts are structures in the Overworld used for entering the Midnight dimension.

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Midnight Mod Showcase

Before you install the mod and step through the Midnight portal, it might be useful to check out this showcase by TheMinecraftOverlord. It will give you a first-hand impression of all the features included in the mod.

Conclusion

The Midnight mod feels less like a fan-made addition to the game, and more like an official expansion pack. It’s amazing what the folks at Cryptic Mushroom have managed to create (and release to the public for free) in their spare time.

Definitely check out the Midnight mod, especially if you’re into dungeon crawling. And if you are interested in hosting your own modded server, check out our guide How to Make a Modded Minecraft Server.