Exploring BetterEnd Cave Systems
Exploring BetterEnd cave systems allows you to discover unique resources within the End's varied islands. BetterEnd introduces a custom End world generator that creates islands with diverse shapes, terrain, and elevations. Within these islands, you can find various cave types, each offering its own atmosphere and potential discoveries. All caves listed maintain a temperate climate with no rainfall.
Empty Aurora Cave
The Empty Aurora Cave is a temperate cave system with a temperature of 0.5. It does not experience rain.
Empty End Cave
The Empty End Cave is a temperate cave system with a temperature of 0.5. It does not experience rain.
Empty Smaragdant Cave
The Empty Smaragdant Cave is a temperate cave system with a temperature of 0.5. It does not experience rain.
Jade Cave
The Jade Cave is a temperate cave system with a temperature of 0.5. It does not experience rain.
Lush Aurora Cave
The Lush Aurora Cave is a temperate cave system with a temperature of 0.5. It does not experience rain.
Lush Smaragdant Cave
The Lush Smaragdant Cave is a temperate cave system with a temperature of 0.5. It does not experience rain.
The scale of the mod you are exploring
BetterEnd is 791 pages built on 604 blocks and 187 items — one of the largest block sets on this wiki. Exploration here is primarily about material, and the numbers back that up: 576 crafting recipes and 97 stonecutting recipes exist to turn what you find into building sets.
The structures and how common each is
Eight structures generate, and their spacing values separate the scenery from the destinations:
- Mountain and Painted Mountain — spacing 3, generated in raw generation. These are terrain, not finds.
- Megalake and Megalake Small — spacing 4, placed as lakes
- Giant Ice Star and Giant Mossy Glowshroom — spacing 16, surface structures
- End Village — spacing 34, separation 8
- Eternal Portal — spacing 40, separation 12, and the rarest of the eight
The two rituals
BetterEnd adds two ritual systems, and its own guide describes them plainly: the Infusion Ritual infuses items with the power of the elements and carries 46 recipes, while the Eternal Ritual is the way back to the Overworld.
Alloying (8 recipes) and smithing (21, plus 29 smithing transforms) round out the crafting side.
Version note
Smelting differs slightly — 25 recipes on 1.21.1 against 29 on 1.20.1 — and crafting by one. Everything else matches.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Empty Aurora Cave Empty End Cave Empty Smaragdant Cave Jade Cave Lush Aurora Cave Lush Smaragdant Cave