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Nico's More Mineshaft

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Discover a new underground frontier with Nico's More Mineshaft, an ambitious structure addon that enriches Minecraft's cave systems with three distinct types of naturally generating mineshaft variants...

By NicoTheKid
4/7/2024
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About Nico's More Mineshaft

Discover a new underground frontier with Nico's More Mineshaft, an ambitious structure addon that enriches Minecraft's cave systems with three distinct types of naturally generating mineshaft variants, each offering unique exploration experiences and valuable rewards. This carefully crafted modification introduces oak wood mineshafts that spawn in temperate biomes with traditional mining equipment and coal-era artifacts, spruce wood mineshafts found in colder regions featuring ice-preserved loot and frozen passages, and the mysterious ancient mineshafts built from dark oak with enchanted tools and forgotten treasures. Each structure type generates with randomized layouts including main corridors, branching tunnels, vertical shafts with ladder systems, and collapsed sections hiding the best loot. The addon seamlessly integrates with vanilla world generation without using player.json, ensuring compatibility with other mods while adding hundreds of new exploration opportunities. Beyond simple corridor variations, these mineshafts include themed rooms like abandoned barracks with armor stands, flooded chambers requiring underwater exploration, and crystal caverns with naturally spawning ores, creating diverse dungeon-crawling experiences that reward thorough exploration.

Key Features

  • Three unique mineshaft types: oak, spruce, and ancient dark oak variants
  • Randomized generation with different layouts, lengths, and room configurations
  • Themed loot tables specific to each mineshaft type with rare rewards
  • Special rooms including barracks, storage areas, and crystal chambers
  • Seamless world generation without player.json for maximum compatibility
  • Vertical shaft systems with ladder networks connecting multiple levels

What Makes This Special

Nico's More Mineshaft elevates the concept of generated structures through its attention to environmental storytelling and archaeological authenticity. Each mineshaft type tells a different story - oak represents recent mining operations with fresh supplies and modern tools, spruce shows abandoned cold-climate excavations with preserved but frozen equipment, while ancient mineshafts hint at a lost civilization with enchanted items and mysterious artifacts. The randomization system ensures no two mineshafts feel identical, with branching paths, cave-ins, and hidden chambers creating genuine exploration excitement. The integration with existing cave generation means mineshafts can intersect with ravines, dungeons, and strongholds, creating complex underground networks.

Pro Tips

  • Explore thoroughly as the best loot often hides in collapsed sections
  • Bring water breathing potions for flooded ancient mineshaft chambers
  • Look for wooden support beams indicating hidden passages behind walls
  • Mine exposed ore veins in crystal chambers for easy resource gathering

Installation Guide

1

Download more_mineshaft.mcaddon to your device

2

Open Minecraft Bedrock and navigate to Settings

3

Select Storage > Resource Packs and click Import

4

Choose the downloaded addon file to import

5

Create a new world or add to existing via behavior packs

6

Enable the addon and generate new chunks to find mineshafts

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Quick Info

Type:Addon
Category:structures
Version:1.20
Author:NicoTheKid
Experimental:Yes

This addon requires experimental features to be enabled in your world settings.

Technical Specifications

File Size:8.3 MB
File Format:.mcaddon
Structure Files:Yes
Performance Impact:Very Low - optimized structure generation
Chunk Loading Impact:Low
Generation Frequency:Moderate - similar to vanilla mineshafts
Behavior Pack Included:Yes

Compatibility

Known Conflicts:

Major world generation overhauls
Realm Compatible: Yes
Multiplayer Compatible: Yes

Experimental Features Required:

None - uses vanilla generation

Platforms:

Windows 10/11
Xbox
PlayStation
Nintendo Switch
iOS
Android
Minecraft Versions: 1.20.80, 1.20.70, 1.20.50, 1.20.0

Tags

#structures