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[hogofwar]

Biome Caves
By Hogofwar (creator of the Fossils mod)

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What is Biome Caves?
Biome Caves is simply a mod that makes all the caves generated in a snow biome made of ice and all caves generated in desert chunks into sand/sandstone (32% chance of spawning sandstone).
This also includes a modification to ice, causing them to not turn into water when in a cold biome and adding the ability to put anything on them (so you can easily put torches down in ice caves)
Don't worry, ores won't be covered up (except for when sand falls). Also, the mod only detects caves below level 63, so there won't be any above ground ice caves.

This mod also adds ice and sand dungeons which generate within their respective biomes, but with the same loot as normal.

Screenshots?
Ice Caves






Sand Caves






Videos



Installation (the usual)
(Make sure to install Modloader before this)
1) Open up %appdata%, if you don't know how to do this, start>run, then type in %appdata%
2) Browse to .minecraft/bin
3) Open up minecraft.jar with WinRAR or 7zip.
4) Drag and drop (AKA copy) the files in the zip into the jar.
5) Delete the META-INF folder in the jar.
6) Run Minecraft and enjoy!

Video Installation/videos:

Spoiler

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Requires Modloader

Download Biome Caves for 1.7.3:

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[Blowtatoes]

I wonder what would happen if a lava spring would be generated inside one of them ice caves.
Not much I think, but it would probably look awkward.

[hogofwar]

Blowtatoes said:

I wonder what would happen if a lava spring would be generated inside one of them ice caves.
Not much I think, but it would probably look awkward.

Yeah, currently doesn't do anything abnormal, breaking an ice block next to lava spawns obsidian around where it used to be though.

[The Griingrass]

Wow, amazing, this mod has lots of potential. Ive always wanted to walk around in ice caverns

[nccn12]

But you cant place torch

[punkdude777]

I like the idea, though not as good as bonesticks

[Nekit Ken]

Wow, that`s pretty cool!

[hogofwar]

nccn12 said:

But you cant place torch

Um.. I modified Ice so you CAN place torches on ice.

[Unit7]

This would actually give me a reason to explore the snow area in my map. Have only been there for a short while and didn't see a need to go there really.

Wait.Will this change already generated snow biomes?

If not I suppose I could just delete the chunks and regenerate them.

[Nekoyasha]

This looks awesome! Though, doesn't torches melt ice?

[Gnomeknows]

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Um.. I modified Ice so you CAN place torches on ice.

This looks awesome! Though, doesn't torches melt ice?

Darn and I was just about to go make a mod to create torches with ice handles too.

[hogofwar]

Nekoyasha said:

This looks awesome! Though, doesn't torches melt ice?

Torches won't melt ice in a cold biome (which ice caves are in)

[Rojman]

This mod is great!
Too bad am only getting like these Peninsula worlds and no Snow ones any more.
But The Mod is Great!
Keep it Up!

[iPixeli]

What happens when a ice block melts because of a torch D:
Lol...
Don't get me wrong-Good idea!

[hogofwar]

Added Desert Caves (back to how it was back in 1.2!)!

[LavaBird]

Very awesome!

[Cyrilshark]

Any idea what other kind of caves you'll add? (:

[TMN]

This would be a great addition to the biome terrain idea.

[hoboofcourse]

Gonna give it a shot. If i find any bugs or such, i'll report them here.

[hogofwar]

hoboofcourse said:

Gonna give it a shot. If i find any bugs or such, i'll report them here.

Thanks!