The Quiet Maw
by troganquack
The Quiet Maw is a Fabric horror mod built around an entity that slowly makes a player doubt the world they are in.
What it does
The mod adds a psychological infection to a world, driven by a creature called the Quiet Maw. Its effects are unpredictable and aim to unsettle rather than frighten with sudden scares. The author describes the design as completely psychological, and it does not try to make a world feel safe.
Progress is extremely slow. Early in a world, only subtle signs appear, and in the first ten game days nothing major is expected to happen. Over many days the Quiet Maw breaks and steals small things and leaves figures stalking the edges of view, and the world gradually feels less trustworthy.
The mod is an alpha build, which the author describes as meaning complete. It needs Fabric API and runs on client and server, so the server and every player must both have it. Files exist for 1.21.1 only, with version 1.0.0 as the latest, and it is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Psychological infection
An unpredictable infection spreads through the world and changes how it feels over time, without relying on jump scares.
Slow escalation
Effects start barely noticeable and grow worse over many game days, so a world changes gradually rather than at once.
Stalking figures
Figures appear at the edges of the player's view and follow them, building a sense of being watched.
Breaking and stealing
Small items and parts of the world are broken or taken away, which makes the player doubt what they remember.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Long survival worlds
The slow pace suits players who want a single world to shift over weeks of in-game time rather than a short session.
Who it’s for: The mod suits players who want a psychological horror experience and are willing to test it in a new world. The author recommends experimenting with it, because the effects are meant to build up later in play.
Questions
Does The Quiet Maw need Fabric API?
Does the server need The Quiet Maw too?
Which Minecraft version does The Quiet Maw support?
In the catalog
The Quiet Maw is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This horror mod is completely physcological. However, that doesn't make you safe.. This mod is in ALPHA meaning it is not fully complete.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/the-quiet-maw
- Owner
- troganquack
- Published
- 2025-07-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-07-03
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15