Nico's Cave Expansion
This add-on enhances your underground exploration by introducing a variety of new caves. It also adds new mobs, blocks, plants, food, ores, and equipment.
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Discover more features underground! Nico's Cave Expansion is an add-on that enhances your underground exploration by introducing a variety of new caves. It also adds new mobs, blocks, plants, food, ores, and equipment.
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(v1.9.3)
NEW UPDATES:
Version: 1.9.3
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Version: 1.9.3
MOBS:
- Removed the ability for custom mobs to regenerate health while resting. Most custom mobs can already be healed through feeding, giving healing items more usefulness.
- Golden Dandelions now work on custom baby mobs, preventing them from growing up.
- Moss Mushling release effects no longer affect other Moss Mushlings.
BLOCKS:
- Added the Moss Sprouts Bale.
- Mycelium Sprouts Bales and Glowcelium Sprouts Bales can now be used as fuel with a burn time of 50 seconds, and can now also be composted with a 100% composting chance.
RECIPES:
- Added a Limestone Bricks recipe using Cracked Limestone Bricks and Clay in the Crafting Table.
- Added a Marble Bricks recipe using Cracked Marble Bricks and Clay in the Crafting Table.
- Added a Soul Stone Bricks recipe using Cracked Soul Stone Bricks and Clay in the Crafting Table.
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Version: 1.9.2
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Version: 1.9.2
NOTE:
- This version may no longer be able to update over older versions.
TECHNICAL CHANGES:
- Changed the UUID to fix importing issues on Realms. (Note: This will prevent the add-on from updating over older versions.)
- Added the PBR or Vibrant Visuals capabilities.
ITEMS:
- Increased the Moss Berry Cookies chance for effect to apply on consumption from 5% to 10%.
RECIPES:
- Fixed recipes for Mosshroom Hyphae Lantern using Mosshroom Hyphae.
- Chiseled Bookshelves can now be crafted using Mosshroom Planks and Mosshroom Slab.
- Composters can now be crafted using Mosshroom Slab.
- Daylight Detectors can now be crafted using Mosshroom Slab.
- Lecterns can now be crafted using Mosshroom Slab.
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Version: 1.9.1
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Version: 1.9.1
NOTE:
- This update only works with Minecraft version 26.0 and higher.
BLOCKS:
- Custom stairs now have the same collision box as vanilla stairs.
MOBS:
- In Creative Mode, baby mobs can now be spawned by using their Spawn Eggs.
- Updated the Wandering Trader trades.
- Crystalmite:
- Increased the melee attack damage.
- Mossy Skeleton:
- Fixed the equipment interaction bug where valid equippable items is in both player's hands.
- Increased max health from 20 to 25 for wild Mossy Skeletons, and from 30 to 40 for tamed Mossy Skeletons.
- Can now use kinetic weapons, such as spears.
- Wild Mossy Skeletons now have a higher chance to pick up and equip items.
- Wild Mossy Skeletons can now pick up spears.
- Tamed Mossy Skeletons will no longer pick up and equip items automatically; they can now be equipped only through owner interaction.
- Tamed Mossy Skeletons can now equip Bows, Crossbows, and Spears through interaction.
- Fixed a bug where tamed Mossy Skeletons could not equip leggings through interaction.
- Equipped items on tamed Mossy Skeletons can now be removed using Shears.
- Tamed Mossy Skeletons will no longer drop a Sprouted Bone on death.
- Tweaked the PBR texture.
- Myceling & Glowceling:
- Adult Myceling & Glowceling can now breed together.
- Improved Mycelium Sprout production. Tamed Mycelings now produce them faster than wild ones.
ITEMS:
- Redesigned the Glowbird Spawn Egg.
TECHNICAL CHANGES:
- Updated several files to 26.0 version.
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Version: 1.9
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Version: 1.9
TECHNICAL:
- Updated for compatibility with Minecraft version 1.21.24.
- Added PBR texture support for all the custom blocks, entities, and particles.
MOBS:
- Each custom mob Spawn Egg now has a unique visual.
- Fixed a bug where mobs would not naturally spawn on top of any custom full-cube block types.
- Glowbird:
- Can now lay eggs on top of any custom full-cube blocks.
- Crystalmite:
- Can now slowly regenerate health while sitting or sleeping.
- Mossy Skeleton:
- Tamed Mossy Skeletons can now equip all types of vanilla armor, tools, melee weapons, and off-hand items such as Shields and Totems of Undying through owner interaction.
- Myceling & Glowceling:
- Can now lay eggs on top of any custom full-cube blocks.
BLOCKS:
- Custom blocks now support precipitation behavior.
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Version: 1.8
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Version: 1.8
NOTE:
- If you’re updating from an older version, this add-on may not work properly in existing worlds.
- This update only works with Minecraft version 1.21.120 and higher.
TECHNICAL CHANGES:
- Changed all identifiers.
- Shortened several file names.
- Rewrote all Script API event code.
- Added language support for Spanish and Japanese.
RENAMED:
- "Glow Bird" → "Glowbird"
- "Glow Bird Egg" → "Glowbird Egg"
MOBS:
- Glow Bird:
- Increased natural spawn rate.
WORLD GENERATION:
- Updated several vegetation features — Bush, Leaf Litter, Pink Petals, and Wildflowers can now be replaced during world generation.
- Improved Glow Lichen generation — it can now generate attached to most full-cube block types, and its generation rate in Mushroom Caves has been reduced.
- Increased the generation rate of Mycelium Sprouts and Glowcelium Sprouts.
BLOCKS:
- Fixed the texture bug on custom potted plants.
- Adjusted the selection box, collision box, hardness, and blast resistance of most custom blocks to better match those of vanilla blocks.
- Most solid custom blocks are now redstone conductors — buttons, levers, pressure plates, and other redstone signal emitters will now work when placed on custom blocks.
- Custom blocks now behave correctly when pushed by pistons.
- Custom blocks with pillar-type rotation (such as stems, bales, and pillar blocks) now have correct texture rotation based on their placement, matching their corresponding vanilla blocks.
- Custom blocks with cross-model (such as plants and crystal clusters) now have consistent textures on all sides, similar to vanilla cross-model blocks.
- Fixed an issue where blocks couldn’t be placed on custom slabs.
- Custom plants now have slightly randomized positioning within a 1-block range when placed, similar to vanilla grasses.
- Custom sprouts can now be instantly removed when a block is placed over them.
- Custom ore drops now have the same average yield as vanilla ores when mined with or without the Fortune enchantment.
- Mycelium Sprouts & Glowcelium Sprouts:
- Reduced particle emission frequency.
- Clumps of Mosshroom Fungus:
- No longer instantly mined. They can now be efficiently mined using a hoe or shears.
- Revamped textures and added semi-emissive details.
- Moss Berry Bush:
- Tweaked the block model.
- Active Heated Netherrack:
- Will no longer be triggered by mobs with the Fire Resistance effect.
- The explosion block is now solid.
- Fixed the explosion name appearing when a player dies from the explosion.
- Rose Quartz Lamps:
- Improved texture material instances — block sides no longer appear dim.
- Mosshroom Hyphae Lamp:
- Improved texture material instances.
- Updated rendering method and added PBR texture support.
- Mosshroom Hyphae Lantern:
- Improved texture material instances.
- Updated rendering method and added PBR texture support.
- Tweaked the extension model when placed on the side face of a block.
ITEMS:
- Added “Smeltable” info to several items and blocks that can be smelted.
- Custom bone meal can now also be used as fertilizer on various fertilizable (mostly custom) blocks.
RECIPES:
- The following blocks can now be smelted in a blast furnace to obtain their cracked variants:
- Limestone Bricks
- Marble Bricks
- Soul Stone Bricks
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Version: 1.7
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Version: 1.7
NOTE:
- This update now only works with Minecraft version 1.21.80 and higher, and may no longer support updating older versions in your existing Minecraft world.
"General"
- Updated for compatibility with Minecraft version 1.21.93.
- It no longer disables achievements when used in Survival mode.
"Fixes & Changes"
MOBS:
- Glow Bird:
- Glow Birds are now less likely to fall into the void when attempting to land in the End dimension.
BLOCKS:
- Fixed the Mosshroom Stem & Rose Quartz Pillar texture rotation.
- Blocks that now instantly replaceable when placing other blocks on them:
- Moss Sprouts
- Mycelium Sprouts
- Glowcelium Sprouts
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CONTENTS:
See more information here:
ModBay - Nico's Cave Expansion
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Known Issues/Bugs
- Equipment model doesn't show glints:
- Equipment model with a glowing texture doesn't glint when it has an enchantment.
- This refers to olivine armor and magic staffs.
- The enchantments are still applied to the equipment, but it's just don't the glints in the model.
- Non-solid custom blocks:
- Vanilla fences and walls are connected to a non-solid custom block.
- Grass block will transform into dirt when non-solid custom block is placed at the top of it.
- Some of the non-solid blocks won't break when the supporting blocks are broken.
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Add-on Notes
- Add-on may only be compatible with Minecraft version 26.10 or higher.
- This add-on is NOT using a 'player.json' file.
- This add-on is mostly compatible with other add-ons.
- Add-on will work on the realm or server; just make sure you install the correct files.
- Add-on is not tested yet on the beta and preview versions of Minecraft, so expect some bugs if you are using those versions.
- Remove the old packs before installing the new version of the packs.
- If you create a review, gameplay video, or showcase of this add-on, please remember to give credit and include the original link to this webpage.
- Do not provide any other download links.
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Installation!
- Download the 'Nicos Cave Expansion (v1.9.3).mcaddon', or the seperated packs (Behavior Pack & Resource Pack).
- Import the packs into Minecraft and wait until the both behavior pack and resource pack are successfully imported.
- Make sure to install both the behavior pack and resource pack before entering you world.
- This add-on doesn't need any experimental options to toggle to on.
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