YUNG's Better Caves

NOTICE - Better Caves digs out a lot of blocks and can slow things down. It is recommended to download OptiFine if you have performance issues.

Underground Lakes, Oceans, and Rivers out now!

Explore caves in Minecraft like never before. 

What is this?

YUNG's Better Caves is a mod that completely overhauls vanilla Minecraft's cave generation. Better Caves adds never-before-seen types of caves and caverns for you to explore.

Experience winding, turbulent caves and vast, lava-filled caverns!

Extreme Flexibility

Better Caves includes an extensive user configuration, allowing players to cater cave generation to their liking. You can easily change the size, shape, and frequency of different cave and cavern types.

These settings can be found in the Mods option in Minecraft's main menu screen.

Features

• Overhauls cave generation with multiple types of winding caves and large caverns
• Full user customizability for all types of caves and caverns, including size and frequency
• Includes options for "bedrock flattening" in both the overworld and the nether, getting rid of annoying scattered bedrock and replacing it with a flat layer of the user's preferred width
• Supports integration with Minecraft's vanilla caves, if enabled
• Control cave biomes' sizes with the click of a button

Vast floored caverns as far as the eye can see.

A juncture of caves from every direction.

Better Caves with Quark, Botania, and Thaumcraft.

An underground river, dimly lit by a lava fall in the distance.

A visualization of Type 1 Caves, created using the Debug Visualizer.

See the gallery for more cool pictures!

FAQ

Does this work with other mods?

Check the list of known supported mods below.

For mods not listed down below - I don't know, but probably. I can't imagine Better Caves causes many problems, since it overrides vanilla caves in a very straightforward manner.

Help! I'm lagging!

Expect some lag for the first few minutes of worldgen as all the chunks are loading. If it continues to lag after that, get OptiFine. And if it STILL lags...don't worry, I'm constantly releasing performance enhancements. Let me know in the comments if you're experiencing any troubles.

What's the difference between this and Worley's Caves?

Worley's Caves offers a lot of interconnectivity (probably more than Better Caves), which certainly makes for endless caving fun, but that also makes its cave structure highly repetitive. It only has that same type of cave everywhere.

Better Caves has multiple types of caves sectioned off into regions to reduce repetition and keep things exciting, while still maintaining high interconnectivity. It also has multiple types of large open caverns spread throughout, something Worley's lacks entirely. Better Caves also offers bedrock flattening, vanilla terrain generation controls, debug tools to view your caves' structure, and many more user config options.

Do I need to make a new world?

Nope! Once you've installed Better Caves, any new chunks loaded for the first time will use Better Caves. 

Known Supported Mods

This is a list of known mods that work with Better Caves. if a mod isn't on the list, it doesn't necessarily mean it's unsupported. Try it yourself, or ask in the comments and I can take a look!

• Quark
• Thaumcraft
• Botania
• Streams
• BiomesOPlenty
• Some Like It Dry
• Underground Biomes
• Cave Generator

Mods to be supported

These are mods that are known to not work with Better Caves that I am currently trying to fix.

• OpenTerrainGenerator - waiting on a response from them

Please let me know if you try it with other mods!

Coming soon

• Fixes to surface caves so that tall mountains don't get sliced up too much
• Better surface openings in general with more user config
• 1.14.4 Version

Backlog

• Water caverns
• Underground rivers
• Make compatible with cubic chunks

Watch me develop the mod on Twitch!