ModsJava
Dusk
Make Minecraft nights more dangerous or interesting with configurable sleep rules, monster spawns, spawn light levels, mob caps, and hostile mob awareness.
I don't know my version or loader
Open the Minecraft launcher and look at the profile you play on — it names both, like fabric-loader-1.21.4. The version also shows in the bottom-right corner of the game's main menu.
No loader in the profile name? Then it's plain Minecraft, and these mods won't run — you need Fabric or NeoForge installed first.
Dusk gives you full control over how dangerous Minecraft nights become.
Version 4.1+ is a major rework that expands Dusk with several new night difficulty features:
- Control when players are allowed to sleep and skip the night
- Optionally disable sleeping entirely
- Increase monster spawns at night, gradually ramping up until midnight
- Set the global monster cap, increasing the total amount of hostile mobs in the world
- New in 4.1+: Adjust hostile mob spawn light requirements during the night
- New in 4.1+: Make hostile mobs detect players from farther away at night
- New in 4.1+: Give hostile mobs configurable potion blessings during the night
All these features are fully configurable, you find the config in the config/dusk.json file.
Requires Cuboard dependency to be installed in newer versions
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as dusk-1.20.1-4.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 17 KB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.