Burrowers
by jocosero
Burrowers adds Forge underground villages inhabited by molemen, a hidden society of creatures that dig tunnels, hoard resources and build homes below the surface.
What it does
Burrowers generates underground villages where the molemen live, distant relatives of the villagers who adapted to a lack of light and turned to tunneling. Most of them seem friendly enough, but they keep to themselves and rarely show what they are hiding. Roots growing from the village's upper surfaces are their chief food, and breaking one yields a handful of the material.
The mod also brings a rootwood type with its own wood blocks, a potted vegetation block for decoration, and lanterns made from glowing lichen and glass that give off a dimmer light than regular lanterns. Dweller meat and mushrooms feed into a nutritious meal, and haste potions use dweller dung in brewing. Burrowers is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later and is not open source. It runs on client and server and is published for Forge across 5 release versions, 1.20 – 1.20.4.
Key features
Underground villages
Molemen villages generate below ground, with three entity types that carry custom sounds and animations.
Rootwood and decoration blocks
A new rootwood type, a potted vegetation block and glass lichen lanterns add building and decoration options.
Food and potions
A nutritious meal uses root and mushroom ingredients, and haste potions can be brewed with dweller dung or meat.
Pottery sherds
A blank pottery sherd can be cut with a stonecutter from other sherds, and new Wail Memory sherds are added.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Exploring underground
Players searching caves can find the villages, learn the molemen's behavior and collect roots for food.
Taming silverfish
Bigger domesticated silverfish can be bred with live silverfish and used to help build villages and serve as a food source.
Who it’s for: Players who want more underground content in survival worlds, and server owners who add creatures and village structures to a world generation setup.
Questions
Does Burrowers need to be installed on the server?
Which game versions does Burrowers support?
Can the molemen be bred or tamed?
In the catalog
Burrowers is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,058 World generation mods for Forge. 13,907 mods support Minecraft 1.20.4.
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What the author says
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? The underground's main source of food. Break the roots…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/burrowers
- Owner
- jocosero
- Published
- 2024-06-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-06-29
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15