Abandoned Mines

Old mines cut into the foot of hills, long abandoned… and every one of them hides a reason why.

Spot a timber entrance set into a stone face at the bottom of a hill, with a weathered sign hanging over it: ~ COPPER ~ MINE. Est. 1887. KEEP OUT. Of course you're going in.

🪨 Every Mine Was Dug For Something

Each mine was worked for one ore, and the seams still show in the walls:

• ⚫ Coal
• 🟠 Copper
• 🔴 Redstone
• 🔵 Lapis
• 🟡 Gold (more common in the Badlands)
• ⚪ Iron (rarer)
• 💎 Diamond (very rare - you'll know it when you find one!)

The sign over the entrance tells you what kind of mine it is, and the ore carts and sorting heaps inside are full of it.

🏔️ The Way In

Mines only appear where level ground meets a steep hill, so the entrance sits neatly at the foot of the slope and the workings stay buried inside. Out front you'll find:

• A stone face and timber entrance, half boarded up or behind a bent iron gate
• A spoil heap of waste rock
• A derailed ore cart with its load spilled across the ground
• A chest and barrels left against the wall
• A DANGER - KEEP OUT sign

The stonework matches the land around it: plain stone, desert sandstone, badlands red sandstone, snowy or overgrown and mossy.

🕯️ Going Down

• 🛤️ An incline with steps and a rail track down to the first level
• 🪓 An ore-sorting room with hoppers, bins and heaps of ore
• 🛏️ The miners' bunk room… where some of them never left
• ⛓️ A broken lift shaft with a snapped chain and a ladder missing rungs
• 📜 The foreman's office, with his log still on the lectern
• 💣 The powder store (no naked flames!)
• 🌊 A flooded bottom level

No two mines are the same.

☠️ Why Did Everyone Leave?

Every mine ends with one of four discoveries. The foreman's log will give you a hint… if you dare read it first:

• 💜 Dug Too Deep - they broke into something beautiful
• 🕷️ Infestation - something moved into the rock
• 🪨 Collapse - the roof came down, and the pay chest is still behind it
• 🧱 Walled Up - a bricked-up doorway with a sign: DO NOT OPEN

The best loot in the mine waits at the end.

⚠️ Hazards

• 🧟 Lost Miners - miners who never came back up. Hard hats with glowing lamps, pickaxes in hand. They don't burn in daylight, and they drop the ore they were carrying.
• 🪵 Rotten Planks - old floorboards over the drops. Walk carefully and they hold.
• 🪨 Cave-ins - drives blocked by fallen rock. Get digging.

🎁 Lootr Compatible

Every chest, barrel and ore cart uses standard loot tables, so with Lootr installed each player gets their own loot.

Available for Forge 1.20.1, NeoForge 1.21.1 and NeoForge 26.3.

Made by AndyMFA - (C) Many Fun Adventures