
Features
Core Sanity System
- Sanity Bar: Visual HUD overlay showing current sanity level (0-100%)
- Persistent Data: Player sanity is tracked and saved between sessions
- Dynamic Updates: Sanity changes based on multiple environmental factors
Sanity Factors
Light Level:
- Darkness (< 7 light level): Decreases sanity
- Bright light (>= 12 light level): Slowly recovers sanity
Hunger:
- Low hunger (≤ 6 food level): Decreases sanity faster
Sleep:
- Sleeping in a bed restores 50 sanity points
- Only applies when completing a full sleep cycle (not interrupted)
Thirst Integration (ThirstWasTaken mod):
- Ready for integration when ThirstWasTaken mod is present
- Will affect sanity when thirst is low
Temperature Integration (Cold Sweat mod):
- Ready for integration when Cold Sweat mod is present
- Extreme temperatures will affect sanity
Hallucinations & Visual Effects (Liminal Spaces Theme)
Visual Impairments (Sanity < 80%)
- Vignette Effect: Screen edges darken progressively
- Screen Distortion: Wavy lines and artifacts appear
- Color Shift: Desaturated/reddish color overlay
- Random Flashes (epilepsy warning): Quick white/red screen flashes
Hallucinations (Sanity < 30%)
Visual Hallucinations:
- Shadowy shapes appearing in corners
- Unsettling text messages ("You are not alone", "Behind you", etc.)
- Screen shake indicators
Entity Hallucinations (Sanity < 30%):
- Temporary phantom entities that appear and fade
- Completely harmless - cannot attack or damage player
- Include zombies, skeletons, endermen, creepers, phantoms
- Entities are ethereal (no AI, silent, invulnerable, no gravity)
- Auto-despawn after a few seconds
Sound Hallucinations (Sanity < 50%):
- Random eerie sounds from around the player
- Cave ambience, enderman sounds, ghast cries, warden ambience, etc.
Sanity Effects
Based on sanity level, players experience increasing debuffs:
- 20% or below: Nausea II, Darkness, Weakness
- 20-40%: Nausea I, Darkness
- 40-60%: Darkness
- 60-80%: Minor visual effects only
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3
- 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 Modrinth — 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 sanity-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 20 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.