About Alex's Caves: Enriched
From ModrinthAn addon for Alex's Caves that changes how you obtain and craft nuclear bombs, as well as improving the effects of nukes on the environment.
An addon for Alex's Caves that changes how you obtain and craft nuclear bombs, as well as improving the effects of nukes on the environment.
> WARNING: It is recommended to turn OFF item drops from the nuke in Alex's Caves configs! Also setting the nuke radius in Alex's Caves to 6 or higher is recommended—the explosions have been optimized for larger radii.
Dependencies: Citadel, Patchouli, Cloth Config, Kotlin For Forge, and Alex's Caves (of course)
To get started, craft a guidebook using a book and alexscaves:uranium (Requires Patchouli). There is also EMI support for the new recipes and in-world block transmutations.
This mod adds:
Spoiler
- Enriched uranium, rod, block
- Overhauled nuclear explosion
- Uranium enrichment process
- Rocket launcher and rocket types
- Uranium arrow
- Uranium candy
- New types of nukes (Mini-nuke, Neutron bomb, Black hole bomb)
- Nuka Cola
- Raygun MkII (And gamma variant)
- Flamethrower
- Railgun
How to enrich uranium: Spoiler
Smelt uranium blocks in an Alex's Caves nuclear furnace to get a Block of Salted Uranium. Then put that block in a Centrifuge and wait (will take a while).
Smelting uranium will leak radiation in the surrounding area so get your hazmat suit on to make sure the nuclear furnace doesnt overheat!
Server side performance settings: Spoiler
Note explosions have been optimized compared to Alex's Caves. For weaker hardware, you can try the following settings, in order of greatest to least impact:
- Turn off "Create glowing irradiated air" in nuclear explosion config (glowing air may cause light updates and significantly increased memory usage)
- Reduce explosion radii for neutron bomb, black hole bomb, mini-nuke (nuke follows Alex's Caves)
- Set effect cloud duration to 0 in nuclear explosion config
You may use this in modpacks!
Credits:
- Bowserinator: code and some programmer art
- Xenonomous: art and models
- Auri: code
- AlexModGuy: original Alex's Caves mod
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Minecraft 1.20.1.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
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 Alex's Caves: Enriched 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
- 1.20.1
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorXenonomous, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-onlyFree
