
Cave Dweller Overhaul
Overhauls the Cave Dweller with improved AI, features adapted from the original and Bedrock versions, plus some new additions
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Overhauls the original Cave Dweller with improved AI, a new appearance, variants, mechanics, and some features from the Java and Bedrock versions.
LIST OF FEATURES:
SpoilerBEHAVIOR
On each encounter it selects one of the new and previous reactions:
- Stroll: wanders around and can now open doors
- Chase: moves toward the targetted player to attack
- Stare: stops and looks at the player. Now turns into chase or flee within the amount of time preventing it from becoming stagnant
- Flee: triggered by low health, catching fire, prolonged chase or randomly during a stare
- Active Stalk: moves slowly toward the player and escalates into chase or flee within the amount of time
- Leap: lunges at you within distance and can stick to walls while doing so
- Camouflage: becomes transparent depending on the interaction or environment
- Sticks on Ceilings: sticks to a ceiling and stays there until the player gets too close or looks at it
- Peeking: clings to walls and peek around edges to stalk you
- Appears at Rainy nights: spawns on the surface at night during rain and flees at dawn
VARIANTS
Added new variants that spawns depending on how deep you are in caves or in specific areas:
- Cave Dweller: average health and damage, camouflages when around nearby mobs
- Deep Cave Dweller: high health and damage, breaks doors rather than just opening them and disables shields. Becomes more common the deeper you are in caves or in deepslate areas
- Ancient Cave Dweller: higher health, damage, and camouflages often. Becomes more common the deeper you are in caves or in Ancient Cities
ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
Added more interactions to blocks and items:
- Armor Piercing: can sometimes ignore player armor
- Doors, trapdoors, fence gates: can now open or break them while wandering or stalking. While chasing, tougher variants break through instead of opening
- Fire: catching fire causes it to go into panic mode for a set duration before going back to chasing a player
- Shields: can put shields on cooldown or instantly break them
- Torches: torches starts flickering and unlit nearby Cave Dwellers
ON DEATH
Rewards players who are lucky enough or die trying:
- A player-death animation, similar to Bedrock, triggers under certain conditions
- Death animation on death
- Drops a Cave Dweller Skull. Wearing it changes how each variants react to you
- Drops a fair amount of XP on each variants
ADVANCEMENTS
Added 4 new in-game advancements to challenge your survival skills:
- Lived to Tell the Tale
- Head of the Table
- Let them Fight
- Apex Predator
MISC
Some of the stuff that were added, changed, fixed, etc:
- Added dynamic animations
- Added sounds closer to bedrock
- Added ambient and stalk sounds closer to the Original mod's last update
- Added distance-based heartbeat sound during a stalk or chase closer to Bedrock
- Added new multiple sound variations for chase, being spotted, and death
- Added unreadable text effect similar to Bedrock
- Added reaction to projectile during stalk phase
- Added Carnage nametag easter egg
- Added various configs
- Added Russian translation
- Added Filipino translation
- Changed appearance closer to Bedrock
- Changed animations closer to Bedrock
- Changed sounds closer to Bedrock
- Changed climbing speed
- Changed climbing pathfinding
- Changed swimming pathfinding
- Changed to global config
- Changed and reorganized config
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Configured
Credits:
ORIGINAL MOD:
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1
- 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.
- Ships as cave_dweller_overhaul-1.21.1-1.2.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 2.2 MB
- Download link checked 15 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.