Phantom curse is a datapack for Minecraft 1.20 and up which aims to rework how phantoms spawn and interact with the player.<\/p>\n
I’ve done away with the required sleeping every 3 days and introduced a new way to spawn them in. When fighting a witch mob, there’s a chance you’ll get hit with a Curse of Insomnia. This curse does not wear off over time and, unlike regular status effects, can’t be cured with milk.<\/p>\n
You’ll need to follow a clue in the new advancement this pack adds and experiment a bit to find a cure (Floor crafting in a cauldron is required). Just be careful you don’t ignore the curse for too long…<\/p>\n
Cursed players will be unable to sleep. You can still set your spawn in a bed, but you won’t be able to skip the night. Each night, phantoms will manifest in different ways, getting worse as time goes on.<\/p>\n
Night 1: You will be unable to sleep. Nothing much will change about your situation other than the strange sounds you hear from the night sky.<\/p>\n
Nights 2-4: Regular phantoms will spawn in small groups of 3. These are your standard vanilla phantoms, but they drop a new item called Ectoplasm.<\/p>\n
Nights 5+: Phantoms will now spawn in larger groups of 4, and each phantom has a 50% chance of spawning in as a Big Phantom. Big phantoms deal more damage, have more HP, and have a chance at picking up the player and dropping them to deal damage. When killed, they can drop a Phantom Eye.<\/p>\n
Phantom Eyes are a new consumable item. When eaten, the player can pull out a random treasure item from their dreams after going to bed, but only if they sleep through the night.<\/p>\n
NOTE: Big Phantoms have an optional custom texture, but it’s only visible with either Optifine, Entity Texture Features, or any other mod that enabled Optifine’s random entity texture features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Datapack that reworks how phantoms spawn and the loot they give you. (No more required sleeping every 3 days!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":120821,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"phantom-curse","_minecraft_project_id":"REispCev","_minecraft_author":"sixfootblue","_minecraft_license":"LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved","_minecraft_downloads":663,"_minecraft_follows":24,"_minecraft_client_side":"optional","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"phantom-curse.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":59454,"_minecraft_version_count":2,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T06:39:27.779792Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2023-06-24T20:12:36.069222Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2023-06-22T16:28:06.230418Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/phantom-curse","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":120821,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-07T02:35:52+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"de4069a77412f9cb14b359da9072aee6","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[87,84,89,137],"mod_loader":[86],"minecraft_version":[59,36],"class_list":["post-120820","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-adventure","mod_category-datapack","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-mobs","mod_loader-datapack","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1"],"yoast_head":"\n