About Backwoods
From ModrinthA liminal horror adventure mod with interconnected dimensions, sanity pressure, and relentless woodbound entities.
Backwoods is a liminal-horror adventure mod for NeoForge and Forge. Enter a decayed wooden world and navigate a network of connected dimensions: Backwoods, The Grain, The Still, The Familiar, Rotting, and Loss.
Face Woodbound entities like Splinters and their variants, stalking, pathing, and hunting through terrain. Use progression items such as fragments, draughts, geodes, and effigies to survive escalating routes and recover control.
Not one of those ARG slop, alpha version slop, jumpscare slop mods that spams your chat with obfuscated text and keeps teleporting you to 420 sahurillion dimensions within 6 or 9 seconds and has .jar in the name.
Inspired by the Woodlands
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 3 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.8.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Backwoods as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.8 and 2 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authorhoneypie_3301, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
