How to Install Verity Mod

Verity is a horror mod based on ThatMob's Something video series, in which a yellow floating orb appears after you open a package in-game and behaves as a helpful companion before turning hostile over several in-game days.

The distinguishing feature, and the reason installation is unusual, is that Verity talks. Rather than scripted dialogue, the Java version routes your chat messages to a large language model and speaks its responses back, which is why it needs an API key that no other Minecraft mod asks for.

There are separate adaptations for Java and Bedrock. This guide covers the Java version, which is the one with the AI setup. The Bedrock add-on installs like any other add-on and needs none of this.

Verity JE targets specific Minecraft versions and loaders, and getting this wrong is the usual first failure.

The commonly recommended setup is Minecraft 1.20.1 with Forge, which is the most stable combination. There is a 1.21.1 NeoForge branch, but it has historically been buggier and several guides recommend avoiding it.

Check the mod's own files page before downloading anything. The supported versions change as the mod is updated, and any figure printed in a guide — including this one — is a snapshot rather than a guarantee.

Install the matching loader first — Forge for 1.20.1, or NeoForge if you are on the newer branch. Run the installer and let it create a profile.

Launch that profile once to generate the mods folder, then quit.

Download Verity JE from its CurseForge or Modrinth page, choosing the file that matches your Minecraft version and loader. Drop the .jar into the mods folder.

Install nothing else on the first attempt. Verity is a large mod that hooks into a lot of the game, and adding twenty other mods at the same time makes any conflict impossible to attribute. Get it working alone, then add your usual mods one batch at a time.

This is the part that surprises people who have modded before. Verity's conversation is generated by a language model, and language models run either on somebody's servers or on your own hardware.

The mod does not ship a model, because models are far too large to bundle and running one costs real compute. Instead it expects you to supply access to one, and it offers two routes.

Groq is a hosted service with a free tier, and it is the easier option. You create an account, generate an API key, paste it into Verity's settings, and the mod sends chat through Groq's servers.

Ollama runs a model on your own machine. It is free, private and works offline, but it needs a reasonably capable computer and a few gigabytes of disk space for the model.

Go to groq.com and create an account. It is free, and at the time of writing it does not require payment details for the free tier.

In the console, find the API keys section and create a new key. Copy it immediately — most services show a key once and never again.

Launch Minecraft with Verity installed, open its configuration screen, and paste the key into the API key field. Depending on the version, this is either in the mod's in-game settings or in a config file in the config folder.

Test it by starting a new world and speaking to Verity in chat. A reply within a couple of seconds means it is working.

Ollama runs a model locally, which means no account, no key and no data leaving your machine.

Install it from ollama.com, then pull a model from a terminal — a small one is fine for this, and smaller models respond faster, which matters more than raw quality for short in-game exchanges.

Ollama then serves an API on your own machine, by default at localhost on port 11434. Point Verity's configuration at that address instead of the Groq endpoint.

The trade-off is hardware. Running a model alongside Minecraft is demanding, and on a machine that is already struggling with a modded Minecraft you will notice. If you have 16GB of RAM and a modern CPU, it is comfortable; on 8GB it competes directly with the game.

Groq is the right default for most people. It is faster to set up, it does not compete with Minecraft for resources, and the free tier is generous enough for casual play.

Ollama is better if you care about privacy, want it to work without an internet connection, or have hit rate limits on a free hosted tier. It is also the only option if you would rather not create an account.

Neither is more correct. If you are unsure, start with Groq because it takes five minutes, and switch to Ollama later if the trade-offs bother you.

The mod loading correctly and the AI not responding are separate failures, and the second is by far the more common.

Check the key first. A key pasted with a trailing space, or truncated during copying, fails silently in most configurations. Regenerate and paste again carefully.

Check the endpoint. If you switched between Groq and Ollama, the address may still point at the previous one.

Check rate limits. Free tiers cap requests, and hitting the cap usually produces silence rather than an error message in-game. Waiting a few minutes distinguishes this from a configuration problem.

Check the log. Verity reports API errors to latest.log even when the in-game symptom is simply no reply, and the message there is usually explicit.

Verity is a heavy mod. Allocate at least 4GB, and 6GB if you intend to run it alongside a normal mod list.

If you use Ollama, budget for the model as well. A small model wants a couple of gigabytes of its own, and it will be competing with Minecraft for both memory and CPU.

Response latency is normal and varies with the route you chose. Hosted APIs answer in a second or two; a local model on modest hardware can take noticeably longer, which changes the feel of the mod considerably.

Verity grew out of a video series that concluded in mid-2026, and mods built on a finished story tend to stop being updated once the attention moves on.

That matters practically rather than emotionally: a mod that stops being maintained will not follow Minecraft to newer versions, and at some point playing it means keeping an older profile around specifically for it.

That is a perfectly reasonable thing to do — a great deal of the best modded content lives on versions the game has moved past. It is just worth knowing before you build a long-running world on it.

Verity is demanding enough that combining it with a large mod list needs a little thought.

Add it to a working setup rather than building a setup around it. Get Verity running alone first, confirm the AI responds, and only then reintroduce your usual mods a few at a time.

Performance mods are the safest companions and genuinely help here, since Verity's atmosphere depends on a stable frame rate. Sodium and its equivalents cost nothing in compatibility terms.

Be more careful with mods that alter world generation or mob behaviour, since Verity relies on spawning its own entities and structures at particular moments and can interact badly with anything competing for that.