Burrowers Mod (1.20.1) – New Village, Villagers

Burrowers Mod adds a new type of village that spawns underground in Taiga biomes. This village is home to distant relatives of villagers known as burrowers. Burrowers have their own culture, content, and structures, so make sure to download this mod to get to know them.

Features:

Blocks & Items

• Tough Roots & Rootwood: The underground’s main source of food. Break the roots that hang from the village ceiling to get a handful of them. While not having much nutritional value, you can find them really useful to build all the blocks and items you would expect from a new wood type, the rootwood
• Cave Fern: A new vegetation block that can be potted and serves as decoration.
• Lichen Lantern: Burrowers don’t really care for lights as glowing lichen grow rampant in their homes. But when they feel fancy, they hang a lichen lantern, made from glass, iron, and said lichen. These emit a dimmer light than the regular lanterns, but the glass exterior looks really good!
• Cave Stew: A nutritious meal made with a tough root, silver dweller meat, and any mushroom.
• Haste Potion: Haste potions can now be crafted by using either a dweller dung or its meat in an awkward potion over the brewing stand. There are also splash, lingering, and arrow variants.
• Pottery Patterns: Try to find new Wail and Memory pottery sherds! They seem designed by the burrowers, so what could these patterns mean for them? It also introduces a blank pottery sherd, which you can get by using the stonecutter with any other sherd.
• Music Disc

Entities

• The mod includes three different entities, all featuring custom sounds and animations! A lot of care went into these to make them feel as alive as possible given the limited time frame and my coding knowledge. The new creatures are the following:
• Silver Dwellers: A bigger and domesticated silverfish. They are bred to help the burrowers build their villages and serve as a food source. They feed on different types of stone, and if they notice a stone block on the ground, they’ll rush to eat it and will spit it out turned into its smooth variant. While doing this, they have a chance to drop a dung item. These creatures are neutral but will attack back any attacker, alerting other dwellers. They can be bred with live silverfish.
• Silver Dweller Meat: Dropped by silver dwellers. A viable food source.
• Dweller Dung: Functions like bone meal but for ore veins. Use it on an ore block to generate another one beside it. It generates murky ore blocks, which cannot be duplicated. It also has a chance to convert the original block into a murky one, but this won’t affect its drop rates.
• Murky Ore Variants: They have the same functionality as regular ores and deepslate ores. They only generate when you use the dweller dung.
• Burrowers: The protagonists of this mod, featuring seven different variants! These creatures lurk underground in their own cities, mainly around their giant root trees. They may flee from you at first, but will stop running if you bring any fruit item in your hand. If you drop them any kind of fruit, they’ll stop to inspect it and barter with you, playing a cute custom animation. The barter loot table is the following, ordered by rarity: Memory Pottery Sherd, Dweller Dung, Invisibility Potion, Invisibility Splash Potion, Emeralds, Shears, Murky Deepslate Redstone Ores, Silver Dweller Meat, Raw Iron, Rootwood Planks, Glow Lichen, Cave Fern, Raw Copper, Tough Root, Infested Deepslate Blocks, Clay Balls, Mud Blocks, Cobbled Deepslate
• Chief Burrower: Meet the chief! In Burrower society, the wealthiest individual becomes the chief in charge of the town. You can find one per village, and they’ll spend their time in the town market, where they store their goods. Unlike the regular burrowers, these won’t chase any fruit themselves, but you can trade with them in a custom menu, featuring exclusive items and very useful trades. Here are the possible trades: Ender Eyes, Sculk Veins, Echo Shards, Lava Buckets, Silver Dweller Meat, Budding Amethysts, Glow Lichens, Placebo Music Disc, Cave Stews, Murky Deepslate Redstone Ores, Tough Roots, Deepslate Blocks, Wail Pottery Sherd, Infested Cracked Stone Bricks, Raw Gold, Sculk

Burrower Village

• The main event of the mod, a custom jigsaw structure with more than 25 possible pieces! They generate in taiga biomes deep under the surface. Full of loot to find and mysteries to uncover, the burrower village makes use of all of the tools MCreator provides to bring to the game a fun structure to explore. I won’t spoil the content, so try to find all of the different rooms!

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Burrowers Mod Download Links

For Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20

Forge version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2