WARNING: This mod contains spoilers for Stranger Things. Please support the official show on Netflix!
Welcome to Prim's Stranger Things Mod!
The Upside Down
"A realm unspoiled by mankind." -Henry Creel
A dark reflection of our world, the Upside Down is always there, you just can't see it. It's dark, covered in tendrils, filled with spores and choked with an omnipresent fog. It looks just like the home you're familiar with, but no human traces can be found. Except... traces of light from the other side may bleed through, allowing contact with home...
Getting to the Upside Down.
Reaching the Upside Down requires a gate between dimensions. These can be hard to find normally, however. A gate would require so much energy, it may disrupt the magnetic field! Grab yourself a compass and, once it begins to glow, follow it to the nearest gate! Beware, it may be 1 block underground.
Once you find a gate, you have to crawl inside. Once you do the Upside Down will beging to intialize. This will be explained below.
Welcome to other side...
The Upside Down is a rather eerie place. No one is here, no mobs, no animals, no people (besides you). You are free to explore as you please. Please keep in mind, this mod is in Alpha, more features (such as Demogorgons, Demodogs, The Mind Flayer and Demobats) are planned, but for now, it's a rather empty place, except for...
The Redstone System
If you've seen Stranger Things, you may recall Will Byers (and later Nancy Wheeler, Eddie Mudson, Robin Buckley and Steve Harrington) communicating with our world through the lights. This feature is present here! Whereever you place redstone wire or redstone lamps, a spot of blue particles will appear in the same place in The Upside Down. If you touch these particles, redstone signal will be sent to the other side. Allowing communication with your friends!
The World Mirroring System:
The Upside Down is a mirror of the overworld, as such. It will copy all of your builds and the like over. When you first enter the Upside Down, the game will load your world's region data into the Upside Down's region data, effectively mirroring your world. Keep in mind, the Upside Down is programmed to generate as a perfect copy of your world's seed, so if you leave the area you built in, you should still see new chunks being generated that fit the world.
Consider:
The Upside Down requires the player to reconnect to their world/restart their server to mirror properly. The game will kick you out automatically the first time you enter. But if you are on a server, you will have to manually restart it. This is required as the game must initialize the region data. If you do not do this, the Upside Down will look like a mirror of your world seed with no builds.
The Upside Down only initializes once, when you first enter. So any new builds you make in the Overworld or Upside Down will not reflect. Unless you type the command: /initializeUpsideDown. This command will re-initialize the Upside Down, but requires another restart.
Future Plans:
This mod is far from done! I have many plans to further enhance it in the future. Plans (so far) are:
-Demogorgons that hunt the player in both worlds.
-Bleeding effect that lures the Demogorgon to you.
-Demodogs that hunt players who harm the Upside Down's hivemind.
-The Mind Flayer appearing sometimes in the clouds to scare you.
-Infested status that causes the player to cough up a slug!
-Flayed status where you are effected by any damage to the hivemind, as well are able to call Demodogs to you if you are harmed.
-Eleven's telekinetic abilities. Including the ability to open the Mothergate that begins to infect your world.
-Flayed Mobs that will act in large hordes and hunt you down.
-A global system that keeps track of how many Demodogs and Demogorgons are alive.
-Christmas light blocks that can be triggered from the Upside Down.
-Water not spawning in the Upside Down.
-Demobats that bite at and swarm the player.
Things that will NOT be in the mod, (probably):
-Vecna, he's too personal of an antagonist to properly put in Minecraft. Plus, this mod is intended to focus more on the Upside Down's ecosystem and hivemind over random Telekinetic kid drama.
-Vecna's curse and the "four chimes" gates opening: Too big of a feature and doesn't fit the vibe of the mod.
-008/Kali's powers: Did anybody really want this?
-Any of the Stranger Things characters as NPCs. Not the type of mod I'm going for.
KNOWN ISSUES:
-The gates spawn one block underground.
-Performance isn't great in the Upside Down.
-Redstone strips don't activate when powered from the Upside Down, but anything they are connected to does.
-The Upside Down is NOT compatible with any world generation mod that alters the world height, removes features, adds features or adds modded blocks. While it can mirror chunks you've loaded, it cannot generate it's own chunks in certain modded areas. This MAY be fixable with a compatability patch.
-The Upside Down isn't compatible with shaders, they ruin the effect.
-The Upside Down doesn't work well with Distant Horizons due to DH removing the fog that makes the Upside Down so creepy.
COMPATABILITIES:
-The Upside Down does work with Immersive Portals, though the mod has no built in support for it. You CAN use an immersive portal to cross the dimensions if you want to though.
-The Gate Block's textures should be compatible with most resource packs. Be careful that your resource pack isn't too old though, as it can effect the floating spores in the Upside Down.
-Any Minecraft map compatible with 1.20.1 will be properly mirrored and shown in the Upside Down.
CREDITS AND SPECIAL THANKS:
Upside Down tentril textures were done by my friend Unvalid.
Inspiration came from Beardielover's "Stranger Things Experience Mod".
Sounds created with Krotos Studio.
Special thanks to Netflix, Stranger Things and the Duffer Bros for creating an amazing show and inspiring this project. It wouldn't be possible without them!
And you, for considering playing my silly little project.