About Burrowers
From ModrinthTry to find these misterious lurking creatures and their villages underground!
Participant MCreator x CurseForge ModJam 2024
Villagers, Illagers, and now introducing: ¡Burrowers!

_A hidden society of distant relatives of the villager has adapted to the lack of light underground by turning into molemen, hoarding any resources they find while tunneling and building their homes. They seem friendly enough, but... What could they be hiding?_
Blocks & Items
Spoiler
Tough Roots & Rootwood
The underground's main source of food. Break the roots that hang from the village ceiling to get a handful of them. While not having much nutritional value, you can find them really useful to build all the blocks and items you would expect from a new wood type, the rootwood
Cave Fern
A new vegetation block that can be potted and serves as decoration.
Lichen Lantern
Burrowers don't really care for lights as glowing lichen grow rampant in their homes. But when they feel fancy, they hang a lichen lantern, made from glass, iron, and said lichen. These emit a dimmer light than the regular lanterns, but the glass exterior looks really good!
Cave Stew
A nutritious meal made with a tough root, silver dweller meat, and any mushroom.
Haste Potion
Haste potions can now be crafted by using either a dweller dung or its meat in an awkward potion over the brewing stand. There are also splash, lingering, and arrow variants.
Pottery Patterns
Try to find new Wail and Memory pottery sherds! They seem designed by the burrowers, so what could these patterns mean for them? It also introduces a blank pottery sherd, which you can get by using the stonecutter with any other sherd.
Music Disc
A new track called "Placebo", by my friend elgavira
Entities
Spoiler
The mod includes three different entities, all featuring custom sounds and animations! A lot of care went into these to make them feel as alive as possible given the limited time frame and my coding knowledge. The new creatures are the following:
Silver Dwellers
A bigger and domesticated silverfish. They are bred to help the burrowers build their villages and serve as a food source. They feed on different types of stone, and if they notice a stone block on the ground, they'll rush to eat it and will spit it out turned into its smooth variant. While doing this, they have a chance to drop a dung item. These creatures are neutral but will attack back any attacker, alerting other dwellers. They can be bred with live silverfish.
Silver Dweller Meat
Dropped by silver dwellers. A viable food source.
Dweller Dung
Functions like bone meal but for ore veins. Use it on an ore block to generate another one beside it. It generates murky ore blocks, which cannot be duplicated. It also has a chance to convert the original block into a murky one, but this won't affect its drop rates.
Murky Ore Variants
They have the same functionality as regular ores and deepslate ores. They only generate when you use the dweller dung.
Burrowers
The protagonists of this mod, featuring seven different variants! These creatures lurk underground in their own cities, mainly around their giant root trees. They may flee from you at first, but will stop running if you bring any fruit item in your hand. If you drop them any kind of fruit, they'll stop to inspect it and barter with you, playing a cute custom animation. The barter loot table is the following, ordered by rarity:
- Memory Pottery Sherd, Dweller Dung, Invisibility Potion, Invisibility Splash Potion, Emeralds, Shears, Murky Deepslate Redstone Ores, Silver Dweller Meat, Raw Iron, Rootwood Planks, Glow Lichen, Cave Fern, Raw Copper, Tough Root, Infested Deepslate Blocks, Clay Balls, Mud Blocks, Cobbled Deepslate
Chief Burrower
Meet the chief! In Burrower society, the wealthiest individual becomes the chief in charge of the town. You can find one per village, and they'll spend their time in the town market, where they store their goods. Unlike the regular burrowers, these won't chase any fruit themselves, but you can trade with them in a custom menu, featuring exclusive items and very useful trades. Here are the possible trades:
- Ender Eyes, Sculk Veins, Echo Shards, Lava Buckets, Silver Dweller Meat, Budding Amethysts, Glow Lichens, Placebo Music Disc, Cave Stews, Murky Deepslate Redstone Ores, Tough Roots, Deepslate Blocks, Wail Pottery Sherd, Infested Cracked Stone Bricks, Raw Gold, Sculk
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 5 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.4.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Burrowers on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.3-1.20, released 2024-06-29
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20 to 1.20.4 (5 versions) | 1.20.4 |
From 3 recorded builds of Burrowers.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3-1.20 | 2024-06-29 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
| 1.2-1.20 | 2024-06-17 | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | Forge |
| 1.1-1.20 | 2024-06-03 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
Run Burrowers on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Burrowers as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Forge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.4 and 4 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authorjocosero, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-2.1-or-laterFree












