Simply Caterpillar

By
The_Fireplace

Adds a caterpillar drill to Minecraft.

The caterpillar drill in action, making a mineshaft.

It has 18 slots of storage built in, and a fuel slot. Power can be toggled in the GUI.

Set anything you don't want to keep to be incinerated here.

Edit the blocks used to reinforce the walls here and what gets replaced, so you can keep water, lava, sand, gravel, etc out of your mineshaft.

This is where you edit the decorations to be placed. By default, it places them similarly to the vanilla mineshafts.

Takes the gathered inventory items and puts them inside the minecart with chest, and releases it when it is full.

Transfer patterns between decoration blocks.

Description

Source code | Issue tracker

Simply Caterpillar adds a drill that makes 3x3 mineshafts for you.

Features

You can add or not add any part to customize your drill.

⚠️ Longer the drill is more fuel it will consume.

Basic Drill Segment

This is the drill base, it's used for all parts.

Recipe

Basic Drill Segment Recipe

Drill Head

This is the main part of the drill, it's used to drill and has the inventory for the drill.

Screen

It has 18 slots of storage built in, and a fuel slot. Power can be toggled in the gui, and fuel consumption will pause when the caterpillar is turned off.

Drill Head Screen

Recipe

Drill Seat

This is the part that allows you to ride the drill.

Recipe

Drill Seat's Recipe

Item Collector

Collects fallen items as it moves, and puts them in the caterpillar's inventory. Pretty useful if you don't want to manually pick up all blocks the drill breaks.

Recipe

Item Collector Recipe

Decoration Placer

Builds the inside of the mineshaft.

Screen

This is where you edit the decorations to be placed. By default, it places them similarly to the vanilla mineshafts.

Decoration placer Screen

Recipe

Decoration Placer Recipe

Reinforcement Builder

Replaces gravel/sand, lava, water, and air in the square surrounding the mineshaft with the block of your choice.

Screen

Reinforcement Builder Screen

Recipe

Reinforcement Builder Recipe

Incinerator

This allows you to destroy anything the caterpillar mines that you don't want, and save inventory space for what matters.

Screen

Set anything you don't want to keep to be incinerated here.

Recipe

Incinerator Recipe

Drill Storage

Adds 18 more slots to the drill head's inventory.

Recipe

Drill Storage Recipe

Transporter

Takes the gathered inventory items and puts them inside the minecart with chest, and releases it when it is full.

Screen

Put any item inside the minecart with chest.

Recipe

Transporter Recipe

Pattern Book

Transfer patterns between decoration blocks.

Screen

Preview pattern and give it a name.

Recipe

Pattern Book Recipe

Credits

Daniel-Mendes currently maintains the mod.
The_Fireplace (Twitter | Discord | CurseForge) previously maintained the mod.
Caterpillar mod by freethemice for the original idea.
Patchouli mod by Vazkii for the book texture.
Reijvi (Twitter | CurseForge) for the incinerator texture commissioned by Daniel-Mendes.