Epic Dungeons: A Roguelike Minecraft

This mod supports and is currently maintained for versions 1.19 to 1.21 for Forge and Fabric as mods, and as Datapacks for any other loader or base game. Pick the correct version of the mod for it to be functional.

🛏️ Summary!

Massive, pretty epic dungeons with more layout, room, loot and content variations than you could count in your lifetime. You will sooner see the same stronghold twice! (Never.)

• Crystal Castle. (Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders) (500+ pieces)
• Forgotten Sewers. (Spiders) (1000+ pieces)
• Molten Asylum. (Skeletons, Phantoms, Magma Cubes, Blazes, Wither Skeletons) (200+ pieces)

More added regularly! Check out the Discord and Patreon for announcements, earlier updates, influence in the production, work in progress info, and updates on the upcoming submod for Epic Villages & custom models for dungeon mobs, to forever expand your Minecraft survival exploration journey!

⛏️ What is Epic Dungeons?

An ever-expanding mod packed with complex, detailed dungeons with more possible playable variations than atoms in the universe! I found Minecraft's dungeons underwhelming; plain, and nothing I stumbled upon had that unique feel where every time I discovered it I was encountering a completely new dungeon.

This exists to ensure no two dungeons you encounter are ever the same - with the aesthetic beauty to match!

🔥 What makes this a 'Roguelike' mod?

Variation, loot, challenge, and bosses!

A 'Roguelike' is a game where every new experience will be different than the last, starting from scratch, typically with a perma-death mechanic and individualistic worlds unique to your playthrough. 'Procedural generation' is a mix of precisely designed bits and pieces, coded like a jigsaw where 4 pieces could connect in over 20 different ways. The pieces multiply!

We all know it: Minecraft is a procedurally generating game where you gather resources, advance and explore. Epic Dungeons expands upon that with procedural dungeons you can uncover and risk your journey in, fighting enhanced monsters, surviving traps and collapsed floors, and lining your pockets with loot and lore you won't find anywhere else!

These structures are designed in such a way every single room will always feel fresh, let alone every _dungeon_. Structure mods normally add awesome standalone structures; you see it once, you've seen it, and that's that. Epic Dungeons is closer to Strongholds, Mineshafts and Villages, except bigger, detailed, and complete with boss rooms!

It's all about playstyle. For me? It's a roguelike Minecraft addition sprinkling extra joy in my ever dangerous worlds - otherwise, this still works as a pack of epic dungeons adding to underground spectacles you will run into through your adventures.

Dungeons:

🏰💎 The Crystal Castle

A Buried Kingdom

The very first step into a journey through the buried castles of a long forgotten kingdom. Buried and overgrown, infested with crystals consuming the very blocks themselves… Spooky. The dungeon combines all the usual suspects in Minecraft mobs. Redesigning that little boxy cube into something immense and deadly. Skeletons, zombies and spiders roam the halls of this sunken castle, left to ruination and infestation.

Are you ready to fight for a kingdom's recovery? Or will you stumble upon some unexpected letters in your search…? Is there something bigger going on within the castle? What led it to sink deep down? Or rather… Who? Enjoy the treasure hunt!

This dungeon comes with over 500 unique pieces, set up to combine with one another for varied rooms, connections and origin points in trillions of different ways. Guaranteeing no two times will ever have the same layout – unless you’re an immortal vampire with centuries to spare, or the unluckiest soul in the galaxy.

All the loot tables are customised to suit the chest’s locations. This means some may not be worth your time, while others are more desirable than you can imagine. This ups the challenge of typical Minecraft. Complete with tougher enemies, the occasional miniboss, and a dangerous foe at the end of it. Are you ready to fight?

Your struggles will be more than well-rewarded, with the greatest treasure waiting eager for the plunder near the boss… Take a risk, walk away rich. The castle depends on you!

🕸️🕷️ Forgotten Sewers