Better With Beta

Modern Minecraft redesigned with the aim of capturing the magic of the Beta experience, both visually and in gameplay. _Heavily inspired by [Better Than Adventure](https://www.betterthanadventure.net/)._ The key design philosophy was to **create cohesion between features** by aggressively tweaking, removing, and occasionally adding blocks/items/features. The _advancement guide aims to walk the player through each and every aspect of gameplay_, particularly important given the **major changes to progression.** This modpack is certainly **more difficult than vanilla**, but is designed to _make every step forward in your journey feel like a leap_, and emphasize the parts of Minecraft that are the most fun.  **Key Features:** - **Custom resourcepack in the style of Programmer Art!** - An upgraded classic feel with **1000+ custom textures.** - **Redesigned progression!** - Full advancement guide, explaining nearly every block, item, and feature in the game. - **800+ custom recipes.** - **Tools and items rebalanced to give everything its own function:** - Mine with wooden tools to get copper, then smelt it in a kiln. - Make Weak torches, campfires, and lanterns with coal for an early light source. - Leather armor now lasts significantly longer, and boots grant you feather falling. - Chainmail armor innately provides thorns. - Mine with Copper Tools to get iron, then smelt it in a furnace crafted with deepslate. - Iron Tools have innate fortune, while armor has blast protection. - Gold Tools have innate silk touch, while armor has fire protection. - Diamond Tools are the fastest in the game. - Steel Tools, acquired in The Nether from Steel Ore, have innate fortune but last longer than iron. - Mine Blazing Netherrack for Blaze Powder which can be crafted into a block as fuel or used to craft improved torches, campfires, and lanterns. - Get Crystal Armor by defeating the End Dragon. - **Reworked workstations!:** - Kiln: Smelt copper, glass, hardened clay, and crack bricks. - Oven: Cook food. It's what it's for, after all. - Furnace: Smelt ores and smooth block variants. - Crucible: Extract minerals from blocks and items, and char blocks. - Crusher: Crush cobblestone to gravel to sand, bones into meal, and flowers into dye. - Armor Bench: Upgrade leather armor into higher tiers with special materials. - **Classic+ hunger system!** - Heal directly, over time. - Reworked hunger items, incentivising crafting foods together to get the best results. - **Better storage:** - Bundles! - Barrels have double capacity! - Trunks can be crafted from Zombie Piglin leather for portable chests. - **Truly consistent, expanded, and diverse block palettes:** - A _regular and/or cobbled, polished, brick, cracked brick, mossy brick, chiseled, and pillar_ **variant** for _stone, granite, slate, limestone, deepslate, clay, sandstone, red sandstone, basalt, quartz, netherrack, charred netherrack, and black netherrack._ - A slab, vertical slab, stairs, and wall for every regular, cobbled, polished, brick, and mossy brick variant. - **Wood you believe it?!** - Wood planks replaced with colored variants for every color, which can be inter-dyed. - Swamp (Green), Azalea (Purple), and Hemlock (Blue) trees offer new opportunities, each with a full wood pallette. - Apple trees! - Directional wooden planks. - Seamless stripped logs. - Wooden walls for every tree type. - Giant mushrooms get a completely new look, with the nether variants (Nether and Glowing mushrooms) better matching with their overworld counterparts. - **Get around differently:** - Sprinting is removed to incentivise thinking about movement and boost other methods. - Paths and other similar blocks give a massive speed boost if you construct roads. - Rafts are cheap, but boats require iron, and only boats can carry chests. - Minecart networks are cheaper, and now have self-powered rails. - Pigs can move faster with a significantly expanded carrot-on-a-stick durability and armor. - The Nether is 1:1, can only be accessed via ruined portals, and ice boats are removed. - **Removed enchantment and experience system.** - Regular tools and armor now last significantly longer. - Innate enchantments for almost every tool and armor. ################################################################################### **Important Notes** - This pack is only available in English (_EN_US_). It does not add any custom items, it instead uses datapacks, custom textures, and custom display names to modify vanilla content. - Similarly, any resource packs on top of this will almost certainly lead to inconsistencies. - Due to the extensive nature of the changes and early stage of this pack, there are probably a lot of issues & bugs. If you find any, please email me at contact@simoneisdocha.ie. **Credits** > This pack wouldn't exist without the work of the [Better Than Adventure](https://www.betterthanadventure.net/) team, but also big props to them for letting me use a few of their textures. Additionally, a few of my custom textures were based on both [Programmer Art Continuation Project](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/pacp) and [Programmer Art Ultimate](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/programmer-art-ultimate), both of which are included in this pack. The mod [Maple Tree](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/mapletree), which is released under MIT License, is also included in this pack, although all of the textures are replaced.