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**IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!**<\/font><\/p>\n

**Cavernous is being discontinued in favor of Cavernous LITE<\/u>. This means past 1.21.10 this version of Cavernous will not be officially supported. Please find Cavernous LITE here.**
\n***<\/p>\n

Cavernous is a vanilla-like datapack that adds 14+ new cave biomes, New structures, features and advancements and much more. From variants of the default caves, to biomes unlike any you’ve seen before, you’ll never run out of things to explore in Cavernous’ new underground.<\/font><\/p>\n

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## BIOMES: <\/p>\n

Volcanic Caves – Lava filled caves that house some great rewards but far greater risk. Also contains a new custom block called the geyser block, which launches you high in the air.<\/p>\n

Splattered Caves – Standard caves with much more frequent placement of andesite, diorite, and granite.<\/p>\n

Marshy Caves – Found under swamp biomes, these caves provide muddy terrain and giant sprawling roots hanging from the ceiling from the trees in the biomes above<\/p>\n

Marble Caves – Like the standard caves except with walls of diorite and calcite.<\/p>\n

Lush Dripstone Cave – A mix of the two vanilla cave biomes<\/p>\n

Tropical Caves – Under the jungle biome a new cave generates that houses ancient temples and lush forests. Be weary as it houses some poisonous secrets.<\/p>\n

Icy Caves – Found under mountains and cold biomes, these caves prove treacherous, from the slippery floors to the ever-present danger of powder snow. Extra ores and cave systems can be revealed by looking through layers of ice. It also spawns strays.<\/p>\n

Fungal Caves – A packed lush environment that features giant mushrooms and other ancient plants. Explore these caves guided by the light of shroomlights and navigate through this dense undergound jungle.<\/p>\n

Glowshroom Caves – Another mushroom filled biome with a little more bioluminescence.<\/p>\n

Crystal Caves – Find huge sprawling geodes in these underground complexes that light up the walls with all sorts of amethyst crystals.<\/p>\n

Arid & Desert Caves – Add a sandy underground that generate under dry biomes like badlands, deserts, and savannahs. Find huge dead bushes and cacti, and multiple new structures. Husks will spawn there and even drop sand.<\/p>\n

Painted Caves – A rare variant of the desert caves that provide extra color to the underground<\/p>\n

Caldera Caves – A scalding hot biome that generates with pools of water and the new custom geyser blocks.<\/p>\n

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## STRUCTURES:<\/p>\n

Dungeons – The vanilla dungeons have been replaced by a new complex that can come in many different variants.<\/p>\n

Cave Villages – New village variant that spawns in any of the stone caves<\/p>\n

Lush Cave Villages – Another variant of the cave villages that spawns in any heavily vegetated caves<\/p>\n

Husk Spawner – New variant of the dungeons that spawns in any of the desert cave biomes<\/p>\n

Overgrown Temple – An ancient temple found in the tropical caves, contains valuable loot and holds many secrets to be uncovered<\/p>\n

Sandstone Temple – A dangerous trap-filled temple found in any of the desert cave biomes<\/p>\n

Abandoned Thermal Plant – Found deep in the volcanic caves, solve puzzles and cool down the thermal reactor to gain access to new treasure<\/p>\n

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## MISC FEATURES:<\/p>\n

Geyser Block – Custom block that launches you high in the air when stepped on. Place any ice under it to stop it from activating by stepping on it or randomly. When powered with redstone it will burst, leading to many unique integrations.<\/p>\n

New items – Will be added with the 1.0 release on July 14th.<\/p>\n

New mob variants – Will be added with the 1.0 release on July 14th.<\/p>\n

Creepers – Now do slightly less environmental damage but leave behind a lingering cloud of poison<\/p>\n

Advancements – Adds custom advancements related to cavernous and caves in general<\/p>\n

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## GEYSER DISCLAIMER
\nIf you are using Cavernous on a server, you must have command blocks enabled. This is only
\nso the geysers can generate and does not give anyone access to command blocks. You can do
\nthis by going to the server.properties file and setting “enable-command-block” to true.<\/p>\n

You also cannot use other datapacks that unlock all recipes since it breaks certain features.
\nAn alternative datapack can be found here: https:\/\/wasdbuildteam.website\/data-packs\/unlock-all-recipes\/<\/p>\n

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## UPDATING FROM OLD CAVERNOUS VERSION<\/p>\n

In order to update from a version released before Minecraft 1.20, you must delete the old
\nCavernous datapack in your world’s datapack folder and then put in the new datapack (the
\none this read me belongs to) and drag the “CavernousCompatibility.zip” from the same folder
\ninto the datapack folder as well. You only have to do this once, every other time you upgrade
\nto a new version the compatibility pack will still work.<\/p>\n

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