Zombie Awareness Mod FAQ

Zombies will start moving toward you from much farther away than vanilla, often in a straight line even when they can't see you. If you notice zombies pathing to your location through walls or from outside your render distance, the mod is active.

Zombies in this mod track by scent and sound, not just sight, so torches, furnaces, mob activity, and your own movement generate signals they follow. Reduce light sources near your walls, avoid running or mining loudly near your base, and put distance between your bed and your crafting area.

Break line of sight before entering your base, avoid carrying smelly items like raw meat, and don't lead a train of zombies to your door. If they're already locked on, circle away from your base until they lose the trail, then approach from a different direction.

Sound from mining, walking, and combat, plus light sources and player scent all draw zombies toward you. Blood and certain items may also increase their interest, so keep your inventory clean when traveling.

Dig into a hillside or build a small sealed shelter before dark rather than relying on a lit surface base. Keep torches inside, stay quiet, and don't open the door until morning.

Funnel them into a chokepoint like a doorway or tunnel so you fight one or two at a time, and use a shield plus a sword or axe. Don't get surrounded in the open — retreat to high ground or a walled position.

Zombies can path toward you and may attack doors, but they don't freely tunnel through solid stone by default. Reinforce entrances with iron doors or double-layer walls if you're being sieged.

Yes, the mod includes config options for senses, tracking range, and horde behavior. Check the config file to lower tracking distance or disable specific mechanics if the difficulty is too high.

It generally works alongside most mob and AI mods, but mods that also overhaul zombie behavior may conflict or stack effects. Test in a fresh world before adding it to an existing modpack.

Tracking and horde logic add some CPU load, especially with many zombies loaded at once. Lowering the tracking range in config or reducing mob caps helps on weaker hardware or busy servers.

It makes zombies, skeletons, and other hostile monsters smarter by letting them track you through blood scent, sound, and light source awareness. They can also spawn in larger night groups and gather into wandering hordes.

By default it enhances minecraft:zombie, minecraft:husk, minecraft:creeper, minecraft:skeleton, minecraft:stray, minecraft:witch, and minecraft:zombie_villager. You can choose which monsters are enhanced in the config, and modded mobs may work after checking MobLists.toml.

The Modrinth project page lists 1.16.5, 1.18.1, 1.19.2, 1.20.1, 1.21, and 1.21.1. The wiki summary lists Minecraft 1.21 – 1.22.

The Modrinth project page lists Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge. The wiki summary lists NeoForge.

Yes, it requires CoroUtil.

When you get hurt you spill blood on the ground, and hostile monsters can smell it and track you down. If you are below 60% health, or under 6 hearts, you bleed every 30 seconds and leave a fresh scent.

Almost anything that makes a sound, such as mining, placing blocks, explosions, bows, eating, doors, chests, and other zombies, can alert a hostile monster within about 16 blocks. Frequent or louder sounds are heard from farther away.

Hostile monsters can see exposed light sources from a great distance and will come to investigate if they have line of sight. They will also put out placed torches if they can.

No, the facts describe it as a gameplay mod that expands zombie behavior, with no new items or blocks listed.

Yes, the mod author states you can use it in any modpack you want.