Pitch Dark
by Trikzon
Pitch Dark limits hostile mobs spawning to places with complete darkness, so monsters appear only where light level 0 is reached.
What it does
Pitch Dark changes the rule that decides where hostile mobs may spawn. Under the default game rules, monsters can appear wherever the light level is low enough. With this mod, a hostile mob spawns only in a spot where the light level is exactly 0, meaning no light reaches the position at all. Lit caves, dim corridors and shaded surface areas stay free of new monsters until the darkness is complete.
The mod reproduces that darkness-only spawning rule through a single mixin, so the spawning logic is altered in one place. It applies on the Fabric and Forge loaders across the six release versions 1.16.2 – 1.17.1, and it is listed for the client and server environment.
The mod is released under the MIT License and is open source, with source code and an issue tracker linked from its public pages. Its first and last update both date to 2021-07-14. No required dependency is listed for Fabric and Forge.
Key features
Light level zero spawning
Hostile mobs spawn only where the light level is 0, which removes spawns from every lit or partly lit position.
Darkness-only spawn rule
The darkness requirement replaces the default light-based spawn check for hostile mobs only.
Single mixin change
The whole change is made through one mixin, so the spawning logic is altered in one place.
Backported spawn behavior
The rule is brought back to the earlier versions, so the darkness-only spawning applies across the supported range.
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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.
Questions
Does Pitch Dark need Fabric API?
Which loaders does Pitch Dark support?
Does Pitch Dark have to be installed on both sides?
In the catalog
Pitch Dark is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 4,181 mods support Minecraft 1.17.1.
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What the author says
Backports the 1.18 experimental snapshot feature that only allows mobs to spawn in a light level of 0. It does this through a single mixin and should function identically to 1.18.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/pitch-dark
- Owner
- Trikzon
- Published
- 2021-07-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2021-07-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15