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Utility Armors & Tools: Deep Caves

Explore the caves with 16 new armor sets and 80 tools, each with unique useful effects, made from materials like deepslate, amethyst, sculk and echo shards. No new blocks are added to the game!

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About this project

What does Utility Armors & Tools: Deep Caves add?

🛡️ Utility Armors & Tools: Deep Caves

16 armor sets · 80 unique tools · every piece grants a unique cave-themed effect. No new blocks added.

Conquer the depths of the Overworld with 16 fully-balanced armor sets and their complete toolkits, all crafted from the resources hidden underground. This mod expands Minecraft gear customization with 16 new armor sets and 80 unique tools, each granting useful gameplay effects, status boosts, or unique passive abilities — all in the pure Vanilla+ style, using only materials that already exist in your world.

⚙️ Vanilla+ promise: the mod adds tools, weapons and armor only. No new blocks are generated or added to the game.

⭐ Key Features

⛏️ 16 armor sets — from raw ore to the Ancient City's Echo Shards, each with a unique defensive profile and a signature cave ability
🔧 80 tools — a full matching toolkit (Sword, Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe) for every set, each with thematic on-hit and on-mine bonuses
🧱 0 new blocks — craft everything from the Vanilla blocks and items you dig up
⚖️ Carefully balanced — heavy stone sets grant resistance but slow you down; light sets are fast but fragile
💡 Tier progression — tools scale from STONE to IRON to DIAMOND harvest levels as you delve deeper

🛡️ Complete Armor Catalog

Defense is listed as Helmet / Chestplate / Leggings / Boots. Ability is active while the armor is worn.

Set	Defense (H/C/L/B)	Durability	Enchant	Tough / KB	Crafted From	Repairs With	Active Ability
🥉 Raw Copper	2 / 5 / 4 / 2	14	8	–	Raw Copper Block	Raw Copper	Haste I — mine faster
🟠 Copper	2 / 5 / 5 / 2	20	12	–	Copper Block	Copper Ingot	Haste II
⚙️ Raw Iron	2 / 5 / 4 / 2	14	8	–	Raw Iron Block	Raw Iron	Resistance I
🟡 Raw Gold	2 / 5 / 4 / 2	12	12	–	Raw Gold Block	Raw Gold	Luck I
⛰️ Deepslate	2 / 5 / 4 / 2	22	6	Tough 1.0	Deepslate	Deepslate	Resistance II + Slowness (heavy stone)
🪨 Tuff	2 / 5 / 4 / 2	20	8	–	Tuff	Tuff	Resistance I
⛏️ Pointed Dripstone	2 / 5 / 4 / 2	16	8	–	Pointed Dripstone	Pointed Dripstone	Strength I (sharp edges)
💚 Glow Lichen	1 / 3 / 3 / 1	10	20	–	Glow Lichen	Glow Lichen	Night Vision I (glows in the dark)
🟢 Moss	1 / 3 / 2 / 1	8	15	–	Moss Block	Moss Block	Regeneration I (healing moss)
🌿 Hanging Roots	1 / 3 / 2 / 1	9	12	–	Rooted Dirt	Rooted Dirt	Jump Boost I (grips the cave walls)
🔮 Amethyst	2 / 6 / 5 / 2	18	25	–	Amethyst Block	Amethyst Block	Strength II
🦇 Sculk	2 / 5 / 5 / 2	30	10	Tough 1.0	Sculk	Sculk	Night Vision I + Speed I (sensory hunter)
🤍 Calcite	2 / 6 / 5 / 2	24	10	Tough 1.0	Calcite	Calcite	Resistance I + Slowness (heavy mineral)
🔵 Lapis	2 / 5 / 5 / 2	8	50	–	Lapis Lazuli	Lapis Lazuli	Luck II (mystical fortune)
🔴 Redstone	2 / 6 / 5 / 2	16	15	–	Redstone	Redstone Dust	Speed I (energized)
🔮 Echo Shard	4 / 8 / 7 / 3	30	14	Tough 2.0	Echo Shard	Echo Shard	Night Vision II (ancient sensor)

🔧 Complete Tool Catalog

Every armor set has a full matching toolkit: Sword, Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel & Hoe. Weapons debuff or empower on hit, while mining tools grant you a useful boost as you break blocks — all matching the set's cave theme.

Set	Sword (on hit)	Mining tools (on break)
🥉 Raw Copper	Slowness I	Haste I
🟠 Copper	Slowness II	Haste II
⚙️ Raw Iron	Weakness I	Resistance I
🟡 Raw Gold	Glowing I (marks your target)	Luck I
⛰️ Deepslate	Weakness II (crushing blow)	Resistance I
🪨 Tuff	Slowness I	Haste I
⛏️ Pointed Dripstone	Weakness II (piercing)	Strength I
💚 Glow Lichen	Glowing I	Night Vision I
🟢 Moss	Poison I (rotting)	Regeneration I
🌿 Hanging Roots	Slowness I (entangled)	Jump Boost I
🔮 Amethyst	Weakness I (crystalline edge)	Strength I
🦇 Sculk	Glowing II (sensory mark)	Speed I
🤍 Calcite	Weakness I	Resistance I
🔵 Lapis	Unluck I (hexed)	Luck II
🔴 Redstone	Mining Fatigue I (energized shock)	Speed I
🔮 Echo Shard	Glowing II (ancient curse)	Night Vision I

Tool tiers: sets made of raw/soft materials (Raw Copper, Raw Gold, Glow Lichen, Moss, Hanging Roots) dig at STONE level; ore and stone sets (Copper, Iron, Deepslate, Amethyst…) dig at IRON level; the deep-cave Echo Shard set digs at DIAMOND level with the highest durability.

📦 Changelog

📢 v1.0.0

First release of Deep Caves — the first dimension-focused expansion in the Utility Armors & Tools series.
16 armor sets and 80 tools, each with unique cave-themed effects.
Full balancing pass: heavy sets (Deepslate, Calcite) trade speed for resistance; raw-ore sets are cheap and light; the Echo Shard set is the deep-cave endgame.

⚠️ Technical Notes

This modification adds tools, weapons and armor sets only — no new blocks are generated or added to the game.
Fully Vanilla+ friendly and survival-balanced, themed around the Overworld's caves, ores and deep-dark resources.
✅ Want to help? Report bugs or share ideas for new content in the Comments section — I read and reply to every suggestion!

Project description from CurseForge.

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