About YUNG's Better Caves
From ModrinthOverhauled cave generation, underground lakes and rivers, lava oceans, and more!
YUNG's Better Caves completely overhauls Minecraft's cave systems. Caves are small and unassuming at the surface, but the deeper you go, the crazier things get. You'll find lava caverns, underground lakes and rivers, flooded caverns, and more!
Better Caves is a powerful and customizable Minecraft cave mod, with dozens of options and support for dimension-specific configurability. For information on how to use the extensive configuration, see the wiki!
If you're looking for older versions of Better Caves (pre-1.20.1), check out the Forge and Fabric pages on CurseForge.
YUNG's Better Caves is intended to be fully compatible with as many worldgen mods as possible. The following are known compatibility issues:
- Set [threadedWorldGen].enabled to "false". Otherwise, you may have issues with pockets of lava spawning within water regions. Note that this applies to C2ME on 1.20.1 ONLY - it is not necessary to make this change on 1.21.1.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 5 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
YUNG's Better Caves 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
- Fabric, Forge, NeoForge
- 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
- 1.21.1-Fabric-3.1.6, released 2026-09-04
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 26.1.2 (5 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| NeoForge | 1.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | 1.21.1 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of YUNG's Better Caves.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.21.1-Fabric-3.1.6 | 2026-09-04 | 1.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | Fabric |
| 1.21.1-NeoForge-3.1.6 | 2026-09-04 | 1.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | NeoForge |
| 26.1.2-Fabric-4.1.2 | 2026-09-04 | 26.1.1 to 26.1.2 (2 versions) | Fabric |
| 1.20.1-Fabric-2.0.7 | 2026-09-04 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 1.20.1-Forge-2.0.7 | 2026-09-04 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
Run YUNG's Better Caves 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 catalogWorld generation
Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists YUNG's Better Caves as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 4 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorYUNGNICKYOUNG, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-onlyFree
