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Burrowers

by jocosero · for Minecraft

Try to find these misterious lurking creatures and their villages underground!

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About Burrowers

From Modrinth

Try to find these misterious lurking creatures and their villages underground!

Participant MCreator x CurseForge ModJam 2024

Main logo for the mod

Villagers, Illagers, and now introducing: ¡Burrowers!

‎ ‎ A burrower inspecting an item

_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?_ ‎

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Blocks & Items

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Touh root item icon 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 item icon Cave Fern

A new vegetation block that can be potted and serves as decoration.

Lichen Lantern item icon 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 item icon Cave Stew

A nutritious meal made with a tough root, silver dweller meat, and any mushroom.

Haste potion item icon 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.

New pottery patterns gif 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.

New music disc icon Music Disc

A new track called "Placebo", by my friend elgavira

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Entities

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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 silver dweller in its idle animation

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 item icon Silver Dweller Meat

Dropped by silver dwellers. A viable food source.

Dweller dung item icon 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.

A gif showcasing the murky ores Murky Ore Variants

They have the same functionality as regular ores and deepslate ores. They only generate when you use the dweller dung.

Burrowers

A burrower in its idle animation

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

A chief burrower in its idle animation

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

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Highlights

From source data

Game 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

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Forge1.20 to 1.20.4 (5 versions)1.20.4

From 3 recorded builds of Burrowers.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.3-1.202024-06-291.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions)Forge
1.2-1.202024-06-171.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions)Forge
1.1-1.202024-06-031.20 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 catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Creatures & NPCs

Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth 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

Burrowers, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Burrowers?

Modrinth lists Burrowers as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Forge.

Is it free?

Yes. Burrowers is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LGPL-2.1-or-later.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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Run Burrowers on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add Burrowers in one click.