This mod adds a few features to help with cave exploration! features will be listed below
- Throwable torches
- Lava Lantern (when held places a light block of 12 at your player's location)
- Bat-Pack (when clicked on lets you store 6 stacks of items in it)
- Ancient Spike vines & Ancient Thorns (Ancient thorns are a projectile that when thrown gives the target poisen)
- Raw Ore Blocks are smeltable now
- 2 new achievments
- 1 new structure This does not change the generation of caves (other then spawning ancient spike vines) and is ment to be a smaller mod.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
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- Ships as bettercaveexploration-1.0.0-neoforge-1.21.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 89 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.