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Modrinth · Minecraft mod

Mooseman

A relentless forest horror that freezes when watched, then hunts you through the forest.

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Quick answer

Which Mooseman release should I use?

Updated 3 months ago
Latest stable file 1.0.0+1.20.6
Game version 1.20.6
Loader Forge

Mooseman 1.0.0+1.20.6 targets 1.20.6 with Forge. Installation on the client is optional. Installation on the dedicated server is optional. No extra mods listed for this file.

Where it goes

Is Mooseman required on the client, server, or both?

Installation on the client is optional. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.

Client Optional
Dedicated server Optional
Loader for this release Forge
Required install it here Optional supported, not mandatory Not supported do not install here Source doesn’t say do not assume

The source marks this as usable on both the client and server.

What else does Mooseman 1.0.0+1.20.6 need?

1.0.0+1.20.6. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

No extra mods listed for this file

This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.

This file does not list any required or optional mods.

Before you install it

Add Mooseman without breaking your instance.

Built for Mooseman 1.0.0+1.20.6. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

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    Stick to this file

    Use 1.0.0+1.20.6. It targets 1.20.6 with Forge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.

  2. 02

    Bring the mods it needs

    This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.

  3. 03

    Put it on the correct side

    Installation on the client is optional. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.

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    Pick the file you checked

    Use the “Get this file” button beside 1.0.0+1.20.6. It opens that exact file at the source.

About this project

What does Mooseman add?

🫎 MOOSEMAN

Entity lurks in the dark forest

Something in the forest is watching. It has been for a while now.

Summary: A relentless forest horror that freezes when you look at it, then teleports, breaks through doors, and hunts you through walls until one of you is dead. One mob, endless dread.


You are not alone in the woods anymore.

Mooseman adds one relentless apex predator to your world — a towering, gaunt horror with an elongated skull, branching antlers, and a broken chain dragging behind it. This is not a background mob. It stalks, it stares, it vanishes, and it hunts you across the map until one of you is dead.

You will hear its ragged breathing and deep, wrong roars long before you see it. And the moment you do see it — the moment your crosshair lands on it — it will already be too late.


🌲💀 THE ENCOUNTER

Spawns rarely and naturally in forest and taiga biomes. Then it finds you.

👁️ First Sighting

Look directly at it — a true line-of-sight check, up to 100 blocks away — and it freezes and stares back for about three seconds. A stinger plays inside your head, not out at the monster, while a rising heartbeat swells. Then it commits: it either blinks out of view and reappears behind you, or explodes into a full sprint. This nightmare "show" plays once per hunt. After that, it drops the theatrics and just comes.

🩸The Hunt

Once it has your scent, breaking away is nearly impossible:

  • 🧱 Hunts you through walls - it tracks by smell and hearing. Line of sight means nothing.
  • 🚪 Opens and walks through doors - a locked house is not a safe house.
  • 🌲 Carves a tunnel through the canopy as it charges, so the forest never slows it down (respects the mobGriefing gamerule).
  • 🧭 Smart pathfinding routes it around cliffs, buildings, and terrain instead of giving up.
  • ✨ Teleports past anything it truly can't path around — and blinks in behind you during the opening scare.
  • 🏃 Only loses your trail once you're roughly 120 blocks away. If you can get that far.

Survival tip: Don't try to snipe it from a rooftop — it barely feels arrows and it will reach you. Bring melee, bring armor, bring friends, and think hard before starting a fight you can't outrun.


_ You can run. You can hide behind walls. You can shoot it from across the valley.
None of it matters. It knows where you are — and it is patient._

Project description from Modrinth.

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