Sounds of the Forest
Sounds of the Forest is a Forge mod that adds ambient forest sounds at night, a psychological horror layer that works without any new monsters or entities.
What it does
Instead of spawning creatures, the mod plays a set of unsettling sounds that are heard in forests at night, with the exception of jungles. Because nothing appears in view, the effect relies on the player hearing something they cannot place, which is meant to catch players off guard.
Repetition is the main problem the author set out to solve: a single sound grows dull once it is heard again and again, so the mod uses a wider pool of rarely heard sounds. Its cooldown between sounds can be adjusted in the SOTF.toml file in the Minecraft config directory. The mod works with biome mods, since it checks whether a biome is tagged minecraft:is_forest.
Files are published for Forge only, for 1.19.2 and 1.20.1, and the environment is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Changing the cooldown on a world that already exists requires the time to pass before the new value takes effect. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.
Key features
Night forest sounds
Unsettling sounds play only during the night in forest biomes, so daytime exploration stays unchanged.
No new monsters
The horror comes from audio alone, so no entities are added to the world for the player to fight or avoid.
Rare sound variety
A broader set of sounds, several of them rarely heard, reduces the repetition that makes single sounds dull.
Adjustable cooldown
The time between sounds can be changed in SOTF.toml, found in the Minecraft config directory.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want atmosphere rather than monsters, and server owners who want a light horror layer that adds no entities to the world.
How it compares
Horror sounds is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that shares the client and server environment with Sounds of the Forest, but it is under the MIT License and is not open source. Creepy Horror Sounds is client-side only, so servers run without it, and it is under the MIT License for 1.19.2 – 1.20.3. Vetala Dweller is a Forge mod for 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 with the same client and server environment, under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sounds of the Forest | Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-10 |
| Horror sounds | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-17 |
| Creepy Horror Sounds | Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.3 | Client-side only | 2026-08-08 |
| Vetala Dweller | Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-06-17 |
Questions
Does Sounds of the Forest need Forge?
Does the server need Sounds of the Forest?
Which game versions does Sounds of the Forest support?
Why does the cooldown not change in an existing world?
In the catalog
Sounds of the Forest is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,426 Cursed mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
You may or may not have seen those horror mods with all those dwellers and what not. They all of something in common. They all add a monster, at first they might be scary and what not, but after a while of seeing them over and over again they repetitive. So to change things up I made this mod. It doesn’t any monsters…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/sounds-of-the-forest
- Owner
- Hauntedblocks
- Published
- 2025-04-10
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-04-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15