Cave Compendium
The Cave Compendium is a craftable guide book covering general content about Alex's Caves, along with a section for every new biome added by the mod.
Obtaining
Underground Cabins
A Cave Compendium has a roughly 50% chance to be found in a loot Chest or Barrel in an Underground Cabin. All Underground Cabins contain one loot chest or barrel each, and only one Compendium can be found per cabin.
Crafting
Cave Compendiums can also be crafted from a Book, a Gold Nugget, and any Cave Tablet.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Book + Gold Nugget + Cave Tablet |
Usage
Reading
Caves Compendiums provides insightful documentation about the general content Alex's Caves has to offer, such as information on the biomes, mobs, and progression this mod adds. To use this book, holding and using it will cause it to open on your screen. From there, simply hovering your cursor over or past the side of a page will cause it to play a swaying animation if there is another page before or after it. This animation indicates that the page is ready to flip over to the previous/next page by pressing any mouse button.
Unlocking information
- Main article: Cave Codex § Compendium unlocking
In the Cave Compendium, there are six sections detailing the biomes added by Alex's Caves. However, these sections first need to be unlocked with the use of their corresponding type of Cave Codex. Luckily, flipping to the next few pages will tell you how to obtain a Cave Codex and how to get started finding these rare cave biomes.
Sections and chapters
If a unique type of cave codex has been used for the first time, the matching section and Introduction chapter of the codex will be unlocked in the Cave Compendium.
From there is where you can unlock 3 more chapters in the same section with the use of 3 extra cave codices of the same type. The extra chapters you can unlock are labelled and write about the Resources, Inhabitants, and Utilities each biome has to offer.
Secrets
- Main article: Cave Codex § Secret unlocking
If the used Cave Codex pertains to the Primordial Caves or Toxic Caves, one extra codex can be used to unlock further information in previously unlocked chapters about their corresponding biome.
History
| 1.0.0 |  Introduced.
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| 1.0.1 | Added missing Underzealot entry to the Cave Compendium. |
| 1.0.9 | Added config toggle for quicker Cave Compendium completion. Fixed incorrect description for the Primordial Armor Set in the Cave Compendium. |
| 1.1.0 | Secret Cave Compendium entries for the Primordial Caves and Toxic Caves have been added. |
| 1.1.3 | Fixed Cave Compendium images slanting to one corner. Fixed long links in the Cave Compendium overflowing onto the next line. |
| 1.1.5 | Fixed an unspecified typo in the Cave Compendium. |
| 2.0.0 | Added Candy Cavity section and entries to the Cave Compendium. |
Trivia
- The Cave Compendium is written by "Professor Alexander Caverns", a pun on the name of the mod.
- Cave Compendiums obtained in Creative Mode lack the secret entries (i.e. Atlatitan, Luxtructosaurus, and Tremorzilla) by default.
