Last update: 25.10.24.
Reason: Update mod to version: 30.04.24
Say hello to the new and improved Biomes! Caverns! With a full host of new content and improvements over the old one, you'll have plenty to sink your mod-loving teeth into. This mod adds 4 unique underground biomes with more to come, each with their own life forms and features both extremely useful, and horribly horribly hazardous for your pawn's continued existence!
The following infographics will give you a taste of the features present in each biome. You will discover more features as you explore them in-game!
Vanilla Fishing Expanded - Unique fish when fishing in any underground biome
Royalty DLC - Custom anima tree texture
Ideology DLC - Custom gauranlen tree texture
Biotech DLC - Custom Polux tree texture
Requires:
28.11.23 (1.4)
03.11.23 (1.4)
21.08.23 (1.4)
Changes:
Skulltop no longer pollutes and can be replanted
Mycelium has been added to CC
Grey lady visual tweaks
Aaroxis is now faster
Renamed Moonless Silk to Moonless Leather
Chemsnails now spawn rarely in CC
Glitter is now less addictive
Chemsnails are now slighlty less wild
Dulcis is no longer as OP as a cave crop
Chitin armor now requires different research
Crimson silk and bat wool are now worth more and are slighlty better to use overall
RR now spawns rarely in ED and CC
Jellypots are now less OP for jelly production
Additions:
Added two new biomes: Glacial Hollows and Desert Shallows!
Added Brightcap and Gloomcap fungi (Living lamps)
Added a recipe for Go-Juice from Glittercaps
Added a recipe for 4x medicine from fungal medicine
Added power gen fungi
Added Spore Cloud event
Added crystal torches and lamp
Added Glowgoo torches
Added Crystal Incubator
Added Chitinphract power armor
Added Fungal Mantis
Added mantis claws and weapons
Added Drillpod gizmo on drop pod launchers
Added Hungering Hydra and its event
Support for UI Not Included
Fixes:
Spider silk is now the appropriate color when being made into stuff
Fixed pack position on Bovine B and Giant snail
Fixed Woolly Bat body size
Fixed RR beetle leather amount
Jade glints no longer cause overdoses
Purple Lung is now less deadly
Fixed Bovine B price
Gastropods now give meat properly
Tweaked HP values on many cave animals
Fixed metallosnail eggs
Lowered ED disease rate
Foundry beetle eggs now hatches foundry beetles
Fixed pupae DPS
All Crystal Crab meats have been merged
Giant snail packs now display properly when the animal is asleep!
Caveworld Flora shrooms will no longer spawn in non surface biomes!
17.06.23 (1.4)
20.05.23 (1.4)
Changes:
Biomes! Caverns will now tell you that it should be loaded AFTER VE fishing
Fungal logs now give a mood debuff when eaten
All pupae now have toxic resistance (Mostly to prevent them needing to puke)
Crystals and stalagmites no longer get insta-deconstructed
Marked impassable map maker incompatible
Magma ash is now a PNG file instead of JPG
Moonless Silk carpet is now considered a "Fine" floor for royals
Crystal floors should now have 100% walk speed
15.05.23 (1.4)
Additions:
Added wooly bat
Added moth body type
Added advanced fungiponics!
Added caverns only fish to VE fishing compat!
Added dependency version check
Changes:
Tweaked kessinger yield
Heatsink fungus can now be grown in other biomes, but only in fungiponics!
Darklight buildings can now use fungal logs as fuel
Ship beacons now work under cavern roofs
Nearly all caverns creatures now have a set filth rate (much lower for a lot of them)
Larvae and pupae now have gender
Boosted Aaroxis silk production
Larvae and pupae now require penning
Almost all caverns creatures now have a set revenge chance
Cave spiders now should spawn a lot less often and be much less safe to tame
Pillbugs and jewelbugs should now eat filth whenever they can, not just when hungry!
Removed trade tags from larvae and pupae (it should prevent them from spawning in caravans and causing issues)
Larvae now all move faster
Bovine beetles now drop chitin periodically
Fixes:
Fixed fungal log description typo
Fibershrooms now grow in darkness properly
Ground penetrating scanners now work properly under cavern roofs
Drill pods no longer damage things when depositing goods!
Royal shuttles fixed in caverns
Drill pods now have a better sound effect volume
Trophy items are no longer considered raw resources
Raw fungus dug up by truffle moles are now auto-forbidden
12.05.23 (1.4)
01.05.23 (1.4)
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