Solmannen

Solmannen adds one hostile-leaning horror mob to the game, a tall, gaunt being whose head is a sun. It is animated with GeckoLib and carries custom sounds, and its idle behavior is built to avoid repeating. Approaching it makes him freeze, study the player's head with tracking movement, and then lose interest and wander off. He never strikes first, but hitting him changes how he behaves, and staring at his face for too long makes something stare back. Villagers are safe near him, though his strikes stay hard to predict.

Its behavior follows a day and night cycle. By day he turns his face toward the real position of the sun and raises his arms in worship. At night he bows in mourning while light bleeds out of his chest, under the ribs. He bends the ground to devour what he has taken, which makes him stronger, and he eats the mobs that serve him. A golden helmet or a carved pumpkin worn on the head hides the player from his gaze.

The ritual side of the mod uses a composter topped with a lightning rod as an altar. Placing living things within six blocks and sacrificing them by hand, or killing packs of mobs near it, calls a bolt down the rod, after which the altar burns brighter and thrums louder. He spawns on his own only when the light is artificial, and he is spawned directly through a spawn egg in creative mode. Solmannen requires Fabric API and Geckolib. The environment is client and server, the mod is published for Fabric under the MIT License as open source, and files cover 1.20.1 – 1.20.6.