How do I install CopperLungs?

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. Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

What Minecraft version does CopperLungs work with?

The listing gives Minecraft 1.20.1. This is the version stated by the author or source site, not something we verified ourselves.

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CopperLungs

by KosherKale · on CurseForge

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The author built this one for Minecraft 1.20.1 on Forge. On other versions it may install and then do nothing.

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This is a port of Copper Lungs under the MIT license designed to support Create 0.5.1f

Create: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create

Thin Air: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/new-thin-air

This mod activates the Diving Helmet/Copper Backtank when in "red/yellow" air quality zones to use the air supply instead of drowning. This gives you Water Breathing ("Free Breathing") and uses time/air from the tank as usual. Air is used at the same rate in either zone.

Quick facts

Edition: Minecraft Java
File type: .jar
Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
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 CurseForge — 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.

Verified by MCModsHub

Ships as copperlungs-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
Download size: 5 KB
Download link checked 28 Sept 2026 — working

These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.

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