Simple Speleothems improves on Minecraft's caves by adding stalagmites and stalactites to caves to increase that semi-realistic moody factor. They come in large and small sizes and both stone and deepslate variants. They can be found scattered across the floors and ceilings of naturally generated caves, including the caves of many modded dimensions (if they use vanilla stone and deepslate), such as those in the Twilight Forest.
The speleothems are craftable using a stonecutter for adding a little detail to any player-made cave builds in survival. Note that stalactites will need a block above and stalagmites a block below or else they will break.
If water is located vertically within three blocks of a stalactite, the stalactite will drip water.
The speleothems all use the vanilla stone and deepslate textures, so they should be compatible with any resource pack that changes those textures.
Future plans:
Adding speleothems for more vanilla stone types, possibly including granite, diorite, tuff, and netherrack
Porting to Neoforge 1.20.6 and 1.21.1 (possibly other recent versions as I see fit)
Possible overhaul, parity with existing vanilla dripstone, including blockstates, break mechanics, falling projectile and conditional damage, player fall damage, periodic growth, water interaction, and recipes
Possible extra large speleothems variants
Possible config for increasing or decreasing the frequency of speleothem generation
Possibly moving 3D-style to an optional resource pack (including model update for existing large speleothems, giving them three segments instead of five), or making a dripstone style its own resource pack instead
Known issues:
Rarely stalagmites will generate in view of the sky even though that isn't very realistic.
Note:
1.20.1 is the current supported version. A NeoForge 1.21.1 port is planned, but the 1.19.2 version is only a proof-of-concept demo and will not receive any further support (and does not include recipes for survival or dripping water and will retain vanilla textures when loading custom resource packs).
You are welcome to include this mod in any modpack
