Spelunkery FAQ

Just go mining — Spelunkery generates stone-type ore variants like Andesite Coal Ore and Calcite Redstone Ore alongside vanilla ores, so you'll run into them naturally. Pick up pebbles as you explore caves, since they point you toward nearby ore veins.

Pebbles like Basalt Pebble and Blackstone Pebble spawn on cave floors near their corresponding ore veins. Breaking them gives you a hint about what's buried nearby, so follow clusters of the same pebble to zero in on a vein instead of digging blindly.

Glowsticks come in colors like Black, Blue, and Brown Glowstick, and they're throwable light sources you can stick to cave walls and ceilings. They're great for lighting up large caverns without placing torches block by block.

Cinnabar drops as Cinnabar Shard and can be crafted into Cinnabar or a Block of Cinnabar. Processing it (see the Cinnabar and Magnetite guide) turns it into useful materials, and Rough Cinnabar blocks also exist as a raw form.

Magnetite drops as Block of Raw Magnetite when mined, which you then process into usable magnetite materials. Check the Processing Cinnabar and Magnetite guide for the exact chain, since the raw block isn't the final product.

Dust Bunny is a mob that spawns underground and can be a nuisance while mining. They're tied to Tangle Roots (Bramble of Tangle Roots), so clearing those and watching your step in caves keeps them manageable.

It's a machine block for automated mining — you set it up and it handles digging for you. See the Compression Blast Miner guide for placement and power/setup details, since it needs proper configuration to run.

These are raw, unrefined block forms of gems that Spelunkery adds, similar to how raw ore blocks work for metals. You'll need to process them to get the actual gem items rather than using them directly.

Spelunkery is designed to slot into vanilla-style worlds by adding ore variants and underground content, so it generally plays well alongside other mining and worldgen mods. Performance impact is modest since it mainly adds blocks and a single mob, but heavy worldgen mods stacked together can still add up.

These nuggets are small material drops you collect while mining and can use for crafting or as a sign you're near a relevant ore vein. They're a lighter-weight resource than full ingots, useful for early-game crafting and trading.

Spelunkery is a cave overhaul mod with new cave variations, tool progression, and mining strategies. It aims to tweak material progression, populate the underground with new landmarks and ore generation variations, and add new tools for mining and exploring.

Spelunkery supports Minecraft 1.19.2, 1.20.1, and 1.21.1.

Spelunkery is available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.

Yes, Spelunkery requires Moonlight.

Spelunkery adds one mob: the Dust Bunny, which also has a spawn egg.

Vanilla gemstone ores drop Rough versions of their gems, similar to Raw metal ores. Rough Diamonds, Emeralds, Lazurite, and Cinnabar can be polished on a grindstone into their refined states.

Glowsticks are crafted using Phosphor Fungi, which grows on walls and ground in caves below y=0 as an alternative to glow ink sacs. Glowsticks come in multiple colors.

Spelunkery adds Large Lapis Veins in deserts, Large Emerald Veins in mountains, Large Cinnabar Veins at the bottom of the world, Large Coal Veins in swamps, and Large Gold Veins throughout the Nether.

Rock Salt generates underground in stripes and can be crafted into building blocks like Polished, Brick, and slab and stair variants. It can also make a Salt Lamp, and using a Rock Salt crystal on a Grindstone creates Salt Powder for Salt Circles that block Undead creatures.

Spelunkery adds Conk Fungus, Inkcap Mushrooms, Phosphor Fungi, Portabellas, Criminis, Button Mushrooms, and Milly Bubcaps. Several of these can spread over time like red and brown mushrooms, and some have huge variants.