Invasion of The Shadows

The mod is semi-horror and built around player-versus-environment fights. Its enemies belong to the Darkborn Confederation, which begins trying to infect the world and turn it into a secondary home. Players can discover the lore behind the conflict and look for ways to stop the invasion. Over 90 entities with unique features are sorted into separate groups, including Darkborns, Shadows, Cosmic Shadows, Anomalies, Abyssborns and Shadow Spectres, alongside light-side Souls and a Celestial Machine Crew. Players should watch for corruption, and certain defeated Shadows may change into a different kind of foe.

The content covers more than 20 dimensions with boss fights, including the Shadow Domain, and a number of planets reached through the Innerlands and Outerlands, plus Abstract Worlds. Over 30 biomes carry many structures for entities to spawn on. Some decorations and functional blocks are included, and a good amount of the content is lore about past servers and the Darkborns. Geckolib is mandatory for the mod to work. The mechanics include a Raid Party, where players prepare a wide flat area to repel attacks from the Civil Federation. Cores can also be obtained through alternative ways.

The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is published for Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1, and its latest Forge file is 1.6.1 for 1.20.1, released 2026-07-11. The code is under All rights reserved and is not open source.