Deprived
Deprived is a Fabric analog-horror mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 in which going without sleep gradually changes what the player sees and hears.
What it does
Deprived reads Minecraft's persistent time-since-rest statistic and moves through six stages over about seven sleepless in-game days by default. Early stages bring ambiguous sounds and small inconsistencies in the environment, while later stages add movement at the edge of vision, false entities, visual degradation and pressure on gameplay. Some effects are handled on the client and others on the server, and each player receives a stable symptom profile that weights auditory, visual, paranoid and physical effects differently.
Sleeping resets the deprivation counter and clears active hallucinations, so the world settles again. Stage thresholds, pacing and the progression events are set in the Control Room screen, opened with F6 from the Mod Menu entry for Deprived. Changes to server and gameplay options can only be made by an operator, and they take effect once Apply Server Settings is pressed, whereas visual options update the moment they are changed. Installation requires Fabric API on both the server and the clients, and the author recommends pairing the mod with Hysteria shaders.
Key features
Staged sleep deprivation
Symptoms build across six stages as the time since the last sleep grows, arriving at irregular intervals.
Anchored footsteps and knocking
Footsteps seem to come from fixed points in the world instead of following the player, and knocks or scratches sound at empty doors.
Hallucinations that fade on sleep
Sleeping clears the active hallucinations and resets the deprivation level, so the symptoms can be reset.
Adjustable Control Room
Stage thresholds, progression events, audio and the balance of symptoms can be changed in the Control Room screen.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Horror playthroughs
Players who want a slow, unsettling survival run can keep the sleep counter going and watch the world drift from normal.
Multiplayer with shared events
Server owners can choose the progression events, and the server decides which events happen, while each client shows its own visual hallucinations.
Who it’s for: Players who enjoy analog horror and server owners who want a configurable sleep-deprivation mechanic. The mod is built around pacing that the server or the player can change in the Control Room.
Questions
Does Deprived need Fabric API?
Do players need the mod on a server?
How are the stage thresholds changed?
In the catalog
Deprived is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Deprived is an analog-horror sleep-deprivation mod for Minecraft. The longer you avoid sleep, the more the world begins to feel unreliable: distant footsteps circle beyond the light, something knocks from places that should be empty, figures occupy the edge of your vision, and the image itself slowly starts to lose…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/deprived
- Owner
- jacobthomasjohnson
- Published
- 2026-07-17
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
