Rolling Giant: Oldest View

Once a player enters the abandoned mall, the Rolling Giant begins to spawn outside and hunts the player wherever they go. The creature waits motionless and watches while it is unseen, and it appears to know where the player is. Looking away from it at the wrong moment is the mistake the mod punishes. The mod is built as an analog horror series, aimed at players who want a tense, unsettling experience.

The mall structure generates mostly in forests and plains and is rare, since its only visible sign at the surface is a single block on the ground. Players can find it with the locate command. The Rolling Giant can be made harmless with a game rule: setting mobGriefing to false stops it from breaking blocks, and setting rollingGiantSpawning to 2 makes it spawn at once. The creature only moves when no player is looking at it, and it stops when a player stands roughly 100 blocks away, where the raycasting check no longer works.

The mod requires Geckolib, which must be installed alongside it. Files are published for Forge only, for 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 across three release versions: 1.19.2, 1.19.4 and 1.20.1. The author recommends the newest version, 1.20.1, because 1.19.2 lacks some structure generation and custom villager features. It is licensed as All rights reserved, so it is not open source, and it runs on client and server.