📖 About :

Grim & Bleak is an ambience focused semi-horror mod, that mixes horror mechanics with modded gameplay, with interesting features. It mainly adds one new dimension : Limbo, a completely dark and seemingly empty place at first glance, although you will quickly realize that you are not alone.

While having a whole horror aspect, the mod features a variety of cool items, biomes and mobs, mostly contained in Limbo, but your actions in Limbo can have consequences in the Overworld.

⚠️Quick warning⚠️

Some of the sounds used in this mod may be considered disturbing by the most sensitive users

 Requires geckolib API to work 

💡TRUE DARKNESS MOD RECOMMENDED 

(even more if you use shaders)

 🧭 Mod Guide

To access the Limbo dimension, you'll have to craft a compass of pains and to light a portal made out of Chiseled Deepslate

The main ore  you will find and use in Limbo is Darksteel. It is an equivalent to iron, but a little better

You can use Darksteel to craft light or heavy darksteel armors. 

Heavy darksteel armor costs more and will make you heavy, slowing you down, but has a lot more protection. 

It is even slightly better than netherite in terms of protection.

Light darksteel armor costs darksteel and ripped cloth (obtained from mobs) it exists in red and black variants. 

It will make you lighter, reducing your fall damage, making you jump  higher and speeding you up.

Darksteel also has its own building blocks.

The Carbon Blood tool set

The end game set of the mod is called Carbon Blood. It includes every piece of armor and tool of a material set.

You first need to make Carbon ingots, which are made from 1 Darksteel Plate, 4 Coal, and 4 Whithered Apples.

Then, you need Dried Blood. for that, just put blood bottles in a furnace.

Finally, with 3 carbon ingots and 6 dried blood, you can make 4 Blood Infused Steel Ingots

For the tools, you'll also need a darksteel handle made from Withered Sticks and Darksteel Ingots.

As said previously, Just enough items  is STRONGLY recommended, in order to know all the recipes, which are complicated and not fully detailed here.

With this, you can craft a quite powerful set of tools. It is less durable than Netherite but more than Diamond, more efficient than Nethetite, can be repaired with Blood Bottles in an Anvil, and give a brief Haste effect when right clicking.

Although the tools are quite powerful, the most interesting stuff that you can make are the armor and the sword.

The Carbon Blood armor set

Each piece individually protect you from the wither effect, and extinguish you instantaneously when on fire.

When fully worn, the Carbon Steel set gives the Wither effect to attackers.

Alone, this set is a quite good set, with more protection and toughness than Netherite in exchange for durability.

Its real power is put to work when drinking a Blood Bottle.

Alone, Blood Bottles give a slight regeneration boost in exchange for a slight hunger effect., for a small period of time.

With the Carbon Blood set fully worn, Blood Bottles give Strength II, Speed II, Saturation, and Bloodlust. They also repair your armor by a great amount.

The Bloodlust effect is an effect that gives you instanely quick regeneration

The Carbon Blood Sword

The Carbon Blood Sword is a  very powerful sword. It deals 10 attack damage, and is slightly faster than a Netherite Sword. It has a 1 in 5 chance of doing a Critical Hit, which gives you a brief Bloodlust effect.

With the Bloodlust effect , you can use the sword's Blood Dash ability, by shift and left clicking on or around an entity (with a 20 blocks max distance), which will teleport you to it and deal a crazy amount of damage, whilst giving them the Wither effect

Creatures

In this dimension, you will encounter various monsters. 

They are the tortured souls who roam endlessly in this place, with no purpose. 

Some will only scare you, while some will chase you and kill you. Others might message you and stalk you.

Damnation

Beware

because if you die there, there is no way back. exept...

There are two ways to get back to the overworld.

The first way to get back to the overworld is to trade somebody else's soul against yours. 

If you kill a living being from the overworld, be it an animal or a player that isn't stuck in the dimension, you will get your freedom back, and get teleported back to the overworld through a painful process. 

The other way out is by killing the gate guardian, the final boss of the mod.

You first have to find his arena, the Dimensional gate. Then, to awaken him, right click with a flesh key on the keylock. When dying, he drops the dimensional key, the key that will get you back to the overworld.

The Gate Guardian is a god, so to kill him, you have to become a god. For that, you have to craft the thunder sword, the only weapon that works against him.

Dimentional Breaching

Killing the Gate Guardiand and escaping the dimension using the dimensional key will shatter the boundaries between Limbo and the Overworld, which might lead to the release of creatures that aren't supposed to exist.

💡 If you have any ideas, bug reports, or feedback to make, I invite you to do it in the mod comments, in the youtube videos' comments, or by Mail. This really helps !

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Mod showcase of Grim & Bleak by Smercallberg :

(take note that it was made on an earlier version of the mod, and therefore it doesn't showcase all the new features of the mod)