Take Back the Night
by Unknowneth
Take Back the Night adds a Herobrine boss fight that a player summons from a built altar, with a set of attacks that change as its health drops.
What it does
The boss is summoned by building a Herobrine altar from netherrack, a torch, a beacon block and a base, then activating it. Herobrine teleports, claps to create a sonic boom, flies upward to call larger ghast fireballs, stomps to raise evoker fangs and levitates to launch shulker bullets. Below 50 percent health he gains a new attack, and below 25 percent several of his attacks are replaced with stronger versions, including a sweeping guardian beam and a creeper-style charged explosion.
Each hit taken can answer with a lightning strike, and Herobrine can make three quick riptide dashes after jumping back. Defeating him grants the Take Back Night advancement and 650 experience on the first kill and 500 on later kills. Only one Herobrine can be summoned at a time, and the full fight is described in the mod's own notes rather than by the catalog. Installation needs Fabric API 0.15.11 or newer on Fabric, and a newer NeoForge build on NeoForge 1.21.1.
Key features
Altar summoning
The boss appears only after a player builds the stereotypical Herobrine altar and activates it, so it is not present in the world by default.
Phase-based attacks
Herobrine changes his attack set at 50 percent and 25 percent health, replacing earlier attacks with fireballs, beams and shockwaves.
Lightning retaliation
Each time Herobrine is hit, a lightning strike answers the attack, adding a second threat to close fights.
Riptide dashes
After jumping back, Herobrine performs three back-to-back riptide dashes that the player has to dodge.
Advancement and experience
The first kill grants the Take Back Night advancement and 650 experience, and every later kill grants 500.
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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.
How it compares
I'm Herobrine is a Fabric, Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.6, licensed as All rights reserved and not open source. Him - Herobrine covers 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 on the same three loaders and is also not open source. Cyrsed Mod: Herobrine is a Forge-only mod for 1.20.1 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. All these alternatives run on both client and server, as this mod does.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take Back the Night | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-11 |
| I'm Herobrine | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.6 | Client and server | 2026-08-23 |
| Him - Herobrine | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-06-20 |
| Cyrsed Mod: Herobrine | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-03-02 |
Questions
Which loaders does Take Back the Night support?
Does the server need the mod installed?
Can more than one Herobrine be summoned at once?
In the catalog
Take Back the Night is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This mod adds a Herobrine boss that is very inspired by the Mutant from Fargo's Souls If you don't know, the Mutant is a modded Terraria boss that uses the attacks of all vanilla bosses.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/take-back-the-night
- Owner
- Unknowneth
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15