These little elder cave worms develop their homes inside little dugouts inside of caves (Surprise!) eating away slowly at the surrounding minerals and ores! They'll chew through anything, given enough time, before excreting the block it just ate in the form of a refined powder, able to be smelted for double the amount of ores! However, they're easily spooked and hate the light. If scared, they'll eat up as much of the ore as possible before hastily squiggling away, leaving a trail of bio luminescent slime in their wake.
The great part of these little... worms is that you're also able to tame them! When built a home (Made of a 3x3 block of granite, andesite and cobblestone) they'll treat it as a homebase for dropping off any materials it finds, whilst giving the worm an ore (Gold, emerald etc.) causes it to give chase to the ore relentlessly until it finds the ore and brings back that refined excreted goodness.
One of the main enemies to these little elder cave worms however, are bats! Bats love to play with their food, and will pick up the worm before dropping it repeatedly to slowly deal fall damage until the worm's 8 hearts are gone and eating the worm whole! (Leaving you to lose any ores that the worm has processed)
Finally, to help with ordering out your wormies, each worm has little stripes to indicate what ore it's processing and hunting down - In the example given, this worm is hunting down gold ore. You can also monitor its eating process by the intensity of the colors of stripes on its side - This one is almost finished as you can see from the color intensifying towards the butt whilst the color towards the front of the stomach is fading.
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