GeoCaves

Сompletely overhauls underground ore distribution, adds unique cave vegetation, new geodes, decorative stone types, and, of course, dynamite! Made by DIV

GeoCaves

Полностью перерабатывает подземную генерацию руд, добавляет уникальную пещерную растительность, новые жеоды, декоративные породы и, разумеется, динамит! Сделано DIV

Regional Ore Distribution & Cave Ecosystems

GeoCaves is a vanilla Minecraft datapack that completely rewrites underground ore generation, adds biome‑specific cave vegetation, decorative stone layers, custom geodes, and TNT veins. Now every biome group has its own set of ores, cave plants, and hidden surprises – making mining a regional adventure.

Regional Ores

All vanilla ore entries are removed. Each biome group receives a fixed set of ores at specific heights (upper layer: y ≤ 32, lower layer: y ≤ -32). The table below shows the ores for each region and the list of biomes they cover.

All regions and ores

Screenshots	Region	Ores	Biomes
	Mountains	Iron, Emerald, Diamond	Frozen Peaks, Jagged Peaks, Stony Peaks, Grove, Snowy Slopes, Windswept Hills, Windswept Gravelly Hills, Cherry Grove
	Calm	Coal, Copper, Emerald	Plains, Sunflower Plains, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest, Meadow, Forest, Windswept Forest, Dark Forest
	Arid	Gold, Redstone, Coal	Desert, Badlands, Eroded Badlands, Wooded Badlands, Savanna, Savanna Plateau, Windswept Savanna
	Aquatic	Lapis, Copper, Gold	Ocean, Deep Ocean, Warm Ocean, Lukewarm Ocean, Cold Ocean, Frozen Ocean, Deep Lukewarm Ocean, Deep Cold Ocean, Deep Frozen Ocean
	Tropical	Gold, Coal, Emerald	Jungle, Bamboo Jungle, Sparse Jungle, Swamp, Mangrove Swamp
	Snowy	Iron, Redstone, Diamond	Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, Snowy Taiga, Taiga, Old Growth Pine Taiga, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Snowy Beach
	Magical	Lapis, Diamond	Mushroom Fields, Flower Forest

Special Biomes

Some biomes have their own unique ore sets:

Icon	Biome	Ores
	Deep Dark	Redstone, Iron, Diamond (all depths)
	Dripstone Caves	Iron, Copper
	Lush Caves	Gold, Emerald
	Sulfur Caves	Redstone, Coal (only in 26.2+)

Cave Ecosystems

Each of the 7 regions has its own unique cave vegetation – on floors and ceilings – so you can instantly recognise where you are, even deep underground.

Compass – Always Know What to Mine

When holding a compass in either hand, an actionbar message appears showing the ores available in your current region. It updates once per second (20 ticks) to reduce performance impact.

There is also a convenient advancement system that tells you which ores belong to which region. To unlock an entry, simply visit the region and go underground.

New Geodes!

Amethyst geodes are now exclusive to the Magical region. In their place, we’ve added several new geodes with unique contents – and they appear not only in the Overworld, but also in the Nether and the End!

⚠️ Compatibility & Limitations

❌ Incompatibility with some other datapacks

GeoCaves completely overrides every vanilla overworld biome, as well as basalt deltas, nether wastes, and small end islands. This means it is incompatible with any other datapack that modifies biome JSON files (e.g., global ore rebalancing, world generation overhauls, etc.). Only one such datapack can be active at a time.

❌ Modded biomes

GeoCaves does not affect biomes added by mods or other datapacks. Those biomes will retain vanilla ore distribution, which breaks the regional balance.

Roadmap

• English translation
• NeoForge and Fabric versions with more compatibility
• Backport to Minecraft 1.21.5