Vanilla Caves

A datapack that removes noise caves from the Caves & Cliffs Update and brings back the old vanilla carver caves.

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Vanilla Caves

Vanilla caves

Vanilla Caves is a datapack that disables the noise-based cave generation introduced in the Caves & Cliffs update.

With this datapack, only the classic carver-based cave system remains, restoring the simpler and more structured cave networks from pre-1.18 Minecraft. It is ideal for players who prefer the old-school cave layout.

Features

- Disables all noise-based caves (spaghetti caves, cheese caves, etc.) - Restores classic carver-based cave generation only - Carver caves have been slightly enlarged - Increased frequency of underground caves - Only affects newly generated chunks

Installation

- Download the datapack - Move the datapack inside ``.minecraft/saves/<world>/datapacks`` (How to find .minecraft?) - Reload the world or run ``/reload``

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