Copper and Caverns
by dairycultist
Copper and Caverns changes early progression by adding copper tools that replace stone and slow the path from wood to iron, and it reshapes the underground.
What it does
Copper tools take the place of stone tools, so a player moves through the early game more slowly and cannot jump straight from wood to iron. The underground changes as well: beneath the surface crust, vanilla coal and copper ore generate, and beneath a large cavern, iron, diamonds and other valuables appear, making deep mining more dangerous. Cherry trees spawn in forest biomes. The mod requires StationAPI and is published for Fabric on b1.7.3 only, with snapshot builds available. Client and server both need it.
Key features
Copper replaces early tools
The copper tools that take the place of the early tier slow the start of the game and delay access to iron.
Reworked underground
A thin crust sits above the vanilla layers, and a large dangerous cavern below holds iron, diamonds and other valuables.
Cherry trees in forests
Cherry trees generate in forest biomes as an added tree type.
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Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Questions
Does Copper and Caverns need StationAPI?
In the catalog
Copper and Caverns is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 567 mods support Minecraft b1.7.3.
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What the author says
I made this mod because 1) I don't like stripmining and 2) I don't like how in the first 5 minutes of the game, you can immediately jump right from wood to stone to iron tools without even going underground.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/copper-and-caverns
- Owner
- dairycultist
- Published
- 2025-06-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-06-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15