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Cave Dweller Delight: Depths & Delicacies

I didn't feel that The Cave Dweller added enough and most Dweller mods felt incomplete. So I made my own! I added my own fully realised Dweller with mob drops compatible with Farmer's Delight and most of the more popular Dweller Mods!
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Cave Dweller Delight Overhaul + Config

File namecave_dweller_delight-2.0.1.jar
Uploader
RedCarlieRedCarlie
Uploaded
Sep 12, 2026
Downloads
202
Size
1.1 MB
Mod Loaders
Forge
File ID
8863649
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 1.20.1

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Forge

implementation fg.deobf("curse.maven:cave-dweller-delight-better-1574691:8863649")

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What's new

Dweller Delight 2.0.1 — The Dweller Overhaul + Config

 

Added the Cave Dweller

  • Added a fully custom Cave Dweller mob with its own model, texture, animations, sounds and behaviour.

  • Stalks, watches and eventually chases nearby players.

  • Crawls through one-block-high spaces and climbs walls, pillars and ladders.

  • Breaks doors and selected obstacles while pursuing prey.

  • Uses path-checked spawning to create more convincing encounters.

  • Features increased health and damage, making it a rare threat intended for well-equipped players.

  • Can be staggered by landing three critical hits within a short period.

  • Hunts various creatures with different targeting chances.

  • Does not target players in Creative Mode.

  • Includes custom spawn, stalking, spotted, chase, attack, stagger, hurt, death and movement sounds.

  • Important sounds can be heard by nearby players during multiplayer encounters.

  • Natural spawning is suppressed when a registered replacement Dweller mod is installed, preventing multiple versions of the same monster from appearing together.

  • Compatible replacement mobs can be edited through the configuration.

Added Three Underground Structures

  • Cave Tunnel

  • Dweller Nest

  • Dweller Nest 1

Structures will appear in newly generated chunks.

Added the Cave-Diver Villager Profession

  • Added a custom Cave-Diver villager profession and texture.

  • Cave-Divers use the new Surveying Table as their workstation.

  • Trades cave resources, Dweller-related items and The Feast painting.

  • Provides alternative access to important items in Peaceful Mode and without Farmer’s Delight.

  • Master-level rewards use weighted selection, with the Monstrous Concoction remaining exceptionally rare.

Added the Surveying Table

  • New craftable workstation for the Cave-Diver.

  • Processes supported ore blocks into their normal mining drops.

  • Features a timed progress system and animated interface.

  • Items remain stored inside when the interface is closed.

  • Supports hopper input and output for automation.

  • Supports compatible modded ores where applicable.

Added “The Feast” Painting

  • Added a new 2×3 painting variant.

  • Can appear naturally when placing a Painting on a suitable wall.

  • Can also be purchased from a Cave-Diver.

  • Features glowing eyes when viewed in darkness.

Recipe and Compatibility Improvements

  • Added a standard crafting recipe for Dweller Head Stew.

  • Retained the optional Farmer’s Delight cooking recipe.

  • Farmer’s Delight recipes now load only when Farmer’s Delight is installed.

  • The Monstrous Concoction recipe now loads only when Man from the Fog is installed.

  • Farmer’s Delight, Man from the Fog and other Cave Dweller mods remain optional.

  • Existing Dweller items are now integrated into the new mob, villager and progression systems.

Visual and Audio Polish

  • Added emissive eyes to the Cave Dweller and its spawn egg.

  • Added glowing details to the Cave Dweller Head item, The Feast painting and the Cave-Diver’s profession texture.

  • Added a complete set of custom Cave Dweller sound effects.

  • Added new animated Surveying Table interface textures.

Behaviour and Bug Fixes

  • Improved door-breaking reliability.

  • Improved pursuit navigation and obstacle handling.

  • Fixed climbing and pillar-chasing behaviour.

  • Fixed crawling transitions and brief suffocation when leaving tunnels.

  • Fixed occasional animation resets during attacks.

  • Improved stagger behaviour and sound playback.

  • Improved death-state handling.

  • Dweller encounters now face the intended trigger location when activated.

  • Added numerous smaller AI, animation, targeting and structure fixes.

Config file

  • Added config file for Dweller Prey, Registering Dwellers
  • Toggles for Dweller fast-spawns, natural spawning, co-existing with other Registered Dwellers.