“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.”

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"In the psychology of the modern civilized human being, it is difficult to overstate the significance of the house. Since as early as the neolithic era, humankind has defined itself by its buildings. Buildings for washing, buildings for socializing, buildings for protection, even buildings for the commemoration of the dead. But of all the structures mankind has invented for itself, there is little doubt that the house is that which it relies upon most completely for its continued survival."

-Kitty Horrorshow, Anatomy

"Eleanor shook herself, turning to see the room complete. It had an unbelievably faulty design which left it chillingly wrong in all its dimensions, so that the walls seemed always in one direction a fraction longer than the eye could endure, and in another direction a fraction less than the barest possible tolerable length; this is where they want me to sleep, Eleanor thought incredulously; what nightmares are waiting, shadowed, in those high corners—what breath of mindless fear will drift across my mouth…and shook herself again."

-Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

"And so I'm drawn ever deeper
In the Oldest House and all these empty rooms"

-Remedy Entertainment, Control

This is a heavily House of Leaves-inspired map, you start off outside a moderately sized seeming house, but exploring a bit you find within an entrance to a massive labyrinth. Will you be able to ignore it, live as normally as you can, or will you be drawn into it, plunging ever deeper into the darkness?

Notes, please read:

This is a very early stage of production for this map, think of this as more of a demo of what's to come. Mob spawning is turned off so there is a farm behind your house, it is essential that you use the animals there for breeding if you want meat because you are unlikely to find more out in the wild.

This is a 1.16.5 world please keep that in mind.

Mod notes:


All mods should be forge 1.16.5

ESSENTIAL MODS:
Immersive Portals, without this you won't be able to even enter the labyrinth www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/immersive-portals-mod

Mods that are optional but enhance the experience
Lightblock, if you don't get this your house will be dark www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/light-block-forge
Optifine, aside from making your game just run better there is an option to turn off stars, which without optifine might show up in some portions of the labyrinth optifine.net/adloadx?f=OptiFine_1.16.5_HD_U_G7.jar&x=59c3
Burning Torches, having your torches go out over time makes the experience closer to the book that inspired this curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/burning-torches