Mushrooms and Caverns
Minecraft 1.21.11 (Fabric) mod focused on fungi-themed exploration, custom biomes, progression gear, and underground structures.
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Overview
Mushrooms and Caverns adds a new ecosystem to Minecraft with a custom surface and underground biome. The core of this mod is exploration and progression through new terrain, gathering unique materials, and crafting gear from newly introduced resources.
Development Status
- This mod is currently in active development and marked as beta.
- Some listed features are upcoming and may not be present in every released build. I have tried to label them the best I could.
- In-game content may include additions not yet fully documented, and some features may be subject to change.
- The mod is being developed on Minecraft 1.21.11 with the Fabric API.
Feature Summary
- Two registered custom biomes with replacement mapping through TerraBlender (swamp and lush caves replacement paths).
- Glowing sapphire ore generation in glowing mushroom biome underground layers.
- Full glowing sapphire tool and armor progression plus fungi starter tools.
- Fungi and glowing mushroom vegetation systems with trees, huge trees, vines, grass, and berry bushes.
- Custom food loop with status effects (poison, night vision, glowing).
- Jigsaw structure registration for glowing mushroom house generation.
Biomes
- Fungi Forest (Surface): Registered as mushncav:fungi_forest with fungi trees, huge fungi trees, fungi mushrooms, and custom purple-toned terrain rules.
- Glowing Mushrooms (Underground): Registered as mushncav:glowing_mushrooms with glowing vegetation, vines, blueberry bushes, and glowing sapphire ore generation.
- Amethyst Mushrooms: Planned/in-development biome.
Blocks and Ores
- Fungi Terrain Set: Fungi grass block, fungi dirt, and fungi block terrain assets.
- Fungi Wood Set: Logs, stripped logs, woods, stripped woods, planks, slab, stairs, fence, gate, door, trapdoor, button, signs, and hanging signs.
- Fungi Flora: Fungi tree saplings, fungi mushrooms, mushroom stems, and mushroom blocks.
- Glowing Flora: Glowing mushroom stem/block, glowing mushroom grass block, glowing mushroom vines, glowing blueberry bushes, and glowing short/tall grass.
- Sapphire: Glowing sapphire ore, deepslate glowing sapphire ore, and glowing sapphire block/resource chain.
Items and Equipment
- Fungi Stick: Flexible fungal material used in crafting trees.
- Glowing Sapphire Stone: Core material used across sapphire gear crafting.
- Glowing Sapphire Shard: Intermediate conversion material for sapphire progression.
- Glowing Sapphire Sword: Sapphire weapon line with fungi stick + sapphire stone crafting.
- Glowing Sapphire Pickaxe: Sapphire mining tool in the full tool set.
- Glowing Sapphire Axe: Sapphire woodcutting tool variant.
- Glowing Sapphire Shovel: Sapphire digging tool variant.
- Glowing Sapphire Hoe: Sapphire farming tool variant.
- Glowing Sapphire Armor: Helmet, chestplate, leggings, and boots are all registered.
- Fungi: Collectible mushroom resource found on fungi trees.
- Fungi Axe: Early-game fungi woodcutting tool.
- Fungi Apple: Fungal fruit food item with poison chance on use.
- Fungi Sign and Fungi Hanging Sign: Registered sign items for fungi wood set builds.
- Magic Stone: Special item with glint effect and evolving use cases.
- Glowing Grapes: Glowing biome food harvested from vines, grants night vision.
- Glowing Blueberry: Bush-grown snack with glowing effect.
Tools and Armor
- Fungi Axe: Uses custom fungi wood tool material and supports strippable fungi logs/woods.
- Glowing Sapphire Tools: Registered set includes sword, pickaxe, shovel, axe, and hoe (tool material durability 600, mining speed 7.0, enchantability 20).
- Glowing Sapphire Armor: Registered armor set includes helmet, chestplate, leggings, and boots (armor durability multiplier 33, enchantability 25, toughness 2.0, knockback resistance 0.1).
Crafting and Smelting
Recipes are now embedded directly in item pages. Each item page includes exact JSON-backed crafting and smelting data from data/mushncav/recipe in the source repository.
Entities and Structures
- Entities: Additional custom entities are still planned; README keeps this section marked as coming soon.
- Structures: A jigsaw-based mushncav:glowing_mushroom_house structure and structure set are registered for glowing mushroom biome generation.
- Roadmap Direction: Further expansion across entities, structures, and biome systems is still planned.