# The Darkness
**Try this with your current shaderpack: seal yourself in a windowless room at midnight and put your
torch away.**
You can still see, can't you. Every pack does this — they keep the darks lifted so you never lose
your stuff to a hole you couldn't see. It's the sensible choice and it means no shaderpack has ever
actually shown you the dark.
This one has no floor. Unlit is black. Properly black.
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## What you get
**Nights you need a torch for.** Not a blue filter — nothing. Step into an unlit cave without a light
and you will see literally nothing.
**Real sun shadows.** Trees, buildings and hills cast actual shadows, soft at the edges, leaf-shaped
where they should be.
**No moonlight.** Outdoors at midnight is dark. Bring a light.
**A clean film look.** Warm torchlight, cold shadows, subtle grain and vignette.
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## What you don't get
It's a small pack. No god rays, no reflections, no fancy water, no custom clouds, no settings screen.
If you want a gorgeous full-featured pack, get Complementary or Bliss — they beat this at everything
except being dark.
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## Good for
Horror worlds. Caving. Anything where the night should be a problem to solve instead of a colour
filter.
Built for the horror mod **Stalker.jar**, works fine on its own.
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## You need Oculus
This is a shaderpack, not a mod -- it does not load on its own. You need **Oculus** installed
(that is the Forge version of Iris; on Fabric, install Iris instead).
1. Install **Oculus** in your mods folder
2. Drop this zip in your `shaderpacks` folder
3. Video Settings -> Shader Packs -> The Darkness
**Minecraft 1.20.1**
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*Sealed rooms are pitch black. Unlit caves are pitch black. That's not a bug, that's the pack.*
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Downloads as The Darkness.zip
- Download size: 9 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.