A Minecraft player adds the Backrooms to the game and brings the experience of one of the most famous urban legends to Mojang’s title.
A Minecraft player has added Backrooms to the game, turning Mojang’s title into a spooky experience. Minecraft players make very creative use of game resources, often resulting in creations that make Minecraft look like a different game.
Minecraft is a game that presents a colorful world based on LEGO-like blocks. Although the essence of the game is not horror-based, it is not uncommon for Minecraft players to create scary experiences. A good example is the Minecraft mod that creates an unsettling horror experience inspired by games like Scanner Sombre. Other mods have made famous urban legends like Slenderman, Momo, and Granny playable. Many mods also added Herobrine to Minecraft, a popular creepypasta of the game. This time a player has decided to add another equally popular and scary urban legend to Minecraft.
Reddit user YYoos added the Backrooms to Minecraft via a data pack that generates infinite rooms randomly. The video released by the player shows the latest update to the project, the highlight of which is the addition of dead ends to make the data pack more maze-like. In addition to the dead ends, the update made other adjustments like adding more room variants, ambient sound, and improvements to Sculk’s room generation. This room draws players’ attention because it uses a Sculk sensor, one of Minecraft‘s Sculk blocks that can trigger a Warden appearance.
Infinite randomly generating backrooms update #2: Added dead ends and more! (Check comment)
by u/YYoos in Minecraft
The Backrooms is an urban legend about rooms that are the backstage of reality, a sort of underworld that prepares and creates everything that happens in real life. The Backrooms has become a very popular creepypasta on the internet, gaining game versions, and a Backrooms movie in development by the producers of films such as Midsommar, and M3GAN. The data pack created by YYoos got positive feedback from other Minecraft players, who also gave them additional ideas. One comment suggested adding very rare and special rooms to pique curiosity, and another player suggested lowering the ceiling to make it seem more claustrophobic. A third comment suggested adding a Warden variant that spawns in the Sculk room to chase the player.
As it’s an ongoing project, the data pack that adds the Backrooms to Minecraft doesn’t yet have a release date. Even so, it’s an impressive project, as it uses a game famous for its random map generation to tackle the concept of infinite rooms of the Backrooms creepypasta. While the Backrooms data pack is not released, players can get to know the existing horror elements in Minecraft, added with the idea of creating a slightly scarier experience.
Minecraft is available on Android, iOS, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and most legacy platforms.
