Bits and Balance

[](https://modrinth.com/mod/bits-and-balance) [](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bits-and-balance) **Bits and Balance** is a mod focused on new features, game-balance, and smoother gameplay. Some features include: Enemies scaling in difficulty as you delve deeper into the world, allowing players to change stances such as sitting, crawling, and stance toggling. New blocks such as Steps and Vertical Slabs with mixing capability for tons of new building possibilities! Combat is lightly refined with anti one-shot protection and snowballs freezing enemies. Numerous quality-of-life features such as double door opening, speedy ladders, and instant shield blocking. The mod also adds new potions and several client-side improvements. Too many things to mention. This mod will be expanding over time - adding new features within the world, more potions, recipes, and compatibility between other mods. Feel free to use the mod in your modpacks! ### **Features** Spoiler # Feature List ## Blocks & World Generation - **Azalea Woodset** - Adds azalea wood blocks and lets azalea trees grow azalea logs instead of oak. - **Dog Music Disc** - Adds C418's Dog as a music disc found in chests or dropped by creepers. - **Coal Veins** - Adds large coal veins in andesite and tuff. - **Coal + Andesite** - Coal veins in shallow andesite. - **Coal + Tuff** - Coal veins deep underground, with occasional coal blocks. - **Nether Gold Veins** - Adds large Nether gold veins with the occasional raw gold block. - **Nether Quartz Veins** - Adds large Nether quartz veins. - **Block of Raw Quartz** - A craftable quartz block that also appears in Nether quartz veins. - **Kiln** - Smelts clay, glass, stone, and similar materials twice as fast as a furnace. - **Ore Variants** - Ores blend into andesite, diorite, granite, and tuff. Create zinc is supported too. - **Steps** - Adds small horizontal quarter blocks that can be combined. - **Vertical Slabs** - Self explanatory. - **Vertical Steps** - Adds small vertical quarter blocks that can be combined. - **Nether Lava Spring Suppression** - Optionally reduces random lava springs in newly generated Nether terrain. ## Client-Side Features - **Auto Walk** - Press a key to keep walking. - **Biome-Tinted Foliage Items** - Foliage items show their biome colors in your hand and inventory. - **Biome Titles** - Shows a title when you enter a biome. - **Chat Heads** - Shows player heads next to chat messages. - **Custom Splash Text** - Adds new splash text to the title screen. - **Elder Guardian Appearance Suppression** - Hides the Elder Guardian jumpscare when it gives you Mining Fatigue. - **Leaf Litter Biome Tint** - Leaf litter and leaf piles take on the colors of their biome. - **Level 30 Old Sound** - Brings back the old level-up sound at level 30. - **Log Filtering** - Hides selected worldgen errors from the client log. - **Night Vision Fade** - Makes Night Vision fade smoothly. - **Recovery Compass** - Shows the distance and coordinates of your last death. - **Screenshots to Clipboard** - Copies screenshots to your clipboard as soon as you take them. - **See Held Item When Riding** - Keeps your held item visible in first person while riding. - **Soul Fire Visuals** - Shows blue flames when you're burning from soul fire and on eligible candles. - **Suppress Experimental Settings Warning** - Hides the experimental settings warning on worlds. - **Usage Ticker** - Shows a progress bar while you use a held item. ## Combat Features - **Maintain Experience** - Keep more of your XP when you die. - **Second Chance** - Helps you survive hits that would otherwise kill you in one blow. - **Snowball Rework** - Snowballs deal damage and freeze targets, with increased damage to Nether mobs. - **Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames** - Lets different damage types hit during the usual damage cooldown. ## Enchantments - **Aerodynamic** - An Elytra enchantment that reduces drag at high altitudes. Rarely found in End Cities. - **Cascading** - Mines connected ores one at a time. Sneak to mine just one block. Rarely found in Mineshafts, Strongholds, and Dungeons. ## Potions & Effects - **Glow Goo** - Throw a glowing blob to place a small light source on surfaces, even underwater. - **Glowing Potion** - Lets you brew potions that give the Glowing effect. - **Bioluminescence Potion** - Lets you brew potions that make you emit light. - **Displacement Potion** - Teleports you to a random spot nearby. - **Haste Potion** - Lets you brew Haste potions. - **Levitation Potion** - Lets you brew Levitation potions. - **Resurfacing Potion** - Teleports you to the surface. - **Returning Potion** - Teleports you to your latest death location. - **Withering Potion** - Lets you brew potions that give the Wither effect. ## Loot Table Modifications - **Custom Loot Tables** - Adds our potions to structure chests. - **Mineshafts** - Can contain Resurfacing, Returning, and Haste potions. - **Strongholds** - Can contain Resurfacing and Returning potions. - **Ancient Cities** - Can contain Resurfacing and Returning potions. - **End Cities** - Can contain Returning potions. - **Simple Dungeons** - Can contain our potions. - **Trial Chambers** - Can contain our potions. ## Mechanics Features - **Campfires Ignite** - Lit campfires set entities on fire when they stand on them. - **Chat Mentions** - Highlights and adds @mentions, suggests names, and can play a ping. - **Cozy Campfire** - Lit campfires give nearby players and bees Regeneration. - **Coyote Time Jump** - Lets you jump for a moment after walking off a ledge. - **Crawling** - Crawl. - **Dismount Entities** - Crouch and right-click to remove passengers from a vehicle. - **Door Knocking** - Left-click (or whichever key you desire) a door to knock on it. - **Dual Riders for Horses** - Lets two players ride the same horse. - **Friendly Fire Friendlies (Tamed Pets)** - Stops you from accidentally hitting your own pets. - **Item Sharing** - Share an item in chat by holding Shift and pressing T while hovering over it. - **Leashed Teleport** - Leashed mobs teleport with you, even across dimensions. - **Navigator Compass** - Set a destination on your compass and point toward it / see how far away it is. - **Pistons Move Tile Entities** - Pistons can move chests, furnaces, and other supported blocks without losing their contents. - **Waterlogging** - Waterlogs blocks placed in water, including doors, fence gates, and pressure plates. - **Quick Harvesting** - Right-click crops and other produce to harvest them with your tool. - **Hoes** - Harvest a 3×3 area of mature crops. - **Axes** - Harvest pumpkins, melons, cocoa, and some modded crops. - **Drops** - Harvested items can fly toward you. - **Rapid Fire Jump** - Hold jump to keep jumping in tight spaces. - **Respawn Anchor Anywhere** - Use respawn anchors in any dimension. - **Sitting** - Sit. - **Speedy Wolves** - Tamed wolves move faster to keep up with you. - **Toggle Stance** - Switch between standing, sneaking, and crawling with a keybind. - **Villagers Follow Emeralds** - Villagers follow you when you hold emeralds or emerald blocks. ## Mob Modifications - **Cave Spider Spawning** - Some cave spiders can spawn in place of regular spiders underground. - **Depth Scaling Enemies** - Hostile mobs get gear based on how deep they spawn. - **Disable Nitwits** - Stops nitwit villagers from spawning. - **Improved Phantoms** - Gives phantoms new ways to attack and players new ways to escape. - **Pickup Mechanics** - Phantoms can grab and carry players. - **Slowness Stacking** - Phantom hits can build up Slowness. - **Double Damage When Carried** - Deal extra damage to a phantom carrying you. - **Carry Counterplay** - Fight back while a phantom carries you. - **Carry Recovery** - Phantoms can let go after a while, with optional Slow Falling. - **Iron Golems vs Creepers** - Iron golems attack creepers without setting them off. ## Recipe Modifications - **Alternative Map Recipe** - Craft maps with black dye instead of a compass. - **Alternative Repeater Recipe** - Craft repeaters with redstone, sticks, and stone. - **Chest from Logs** - Craft four chests from logs. - **Dynamic Stair Recipe System** - Stair recipes give eight stairs, with a smaller recipe for four. - **Ender Eye Recipe** - Adds another way to craft Eyes of Ender. - **Raw Block Smelting** - Smelt raw metal blocks directly into metal blocks. - **Recovery Compass Recipe** - Adds a new recipe for recovery compasses. - **Stonecutter Depth** - Use the stonecutter to turn any wood into planks, stairs, slabs, and more. - **Torch Fuel** - Use torches as furnace fuel. ## Tweaks & Quality of Life - **Armed Armor Stands** - Armor stands spawn with arms so they can hold items. - **Automatic Block Restock** - Refills your hotbar from your inventory when you use your last block. - **Automatic Tool Restock** - Replaces a broken tool with a similar one from your inventory. - **Bottle o' Cloud** - Use a bottle high in the sky to obtain placeable cloud blocks. - **Brushing XP Rewards** - Earn XP when you finish brushing suspicious blocks. - **Candle Bundles (Mixed Candles)** - Mix candle colors in one bundle while keeping each candle's color. - **Compostable Items** - Compost rotten flesh and poisonous potatoes. - **Creeper Sunlight Burn** - Creepers burn in sunlight. - **Curse Uses** - A pumpkin with Curse of Vanishing won't cover your view. - **Despawn With Master** - Vexes and shulker bullets disappear when their owner does. - **Double Door Opening** - Open paired doors and nearby trapdoors together. Crouch to open just one. - **Enhanced Slab Behavior (Mixed Slabs + Slab QoL)** - Adds mixed slabs and makes slabs easier to place, hang from, and mine. - **Mixed Slabs** - Combine two different slabs in one block and mine either half. - **Hang-Below Support** - Hang lanterns, signs, and other blocks beneath slabs. - **Knee Slab Mining** - Mine one half of a double slab at a time. - **Enderdragon Egg Always** - Every Ender Dragon kill creates another dragon egg. - **Glowing Glowberries** - Glow berries give the Glowing effect when eaten. - **Glowing Torchflowers** - Grown and potted torchflowers give off light. - **Improved Climbing** - Placement chains on climbable blocks and climb faster. - **Improved Recovery Compass** - Keep your compass after death and follow a trail to your last death spot. - **Keybind Modifier System** - Use Shift, Alt, or Ctrl with mod keybinds. - **More Mining XP** - Ores can give more XP when mined. - **Responsive Shields** - Raise shields faster, or make blocking instant. - **Return to Killer** - When you kill a mob in the air, its drops and XP fly toward you. - **Sophisticated Scaffolding** - Scaffolding drops appear beside you instead of falling away. - **Speedy Happy Ghasts** - Swiftness and Slowness affect how fast happy ghasts fly. - **Sugarcane Sand Growth** - Sugar cane grows faster on sand and red sand. - **Tipped Arrows Lingering Clouds** - Tipped arrows leave a lingering potion cloud when they hit. - **Treasure Enchantment Gold Color** - Helpful treasure enchantments appear in gold instead of purple. - **Unbreakable Trial Spawners** - Trial spawners cannot be broken in Survival mode. - **Unbreakable Vaults** - Vaults cannot be broken in Survival mode. ## Balance Changes - **Balanced Elytra** - Elytras wear out based on distance flown instead of flight time. - **Full Ender Dragon XP** - Every Ender Dragon kill gives the full XP reward. - **Food Always Edible** - Eat food even when your hunger bar is full. - **Nerfed Mending** - Mending uses more XP to repair items. - **Nerfed Discounts** - Limits villager trade discounts, with an option to remove curing discounts. --- **Note:** This list may not be 100% complete - there might be a feature or two that slipped through the cracks…if someone wants to help me make a Wiki and such, please let me know!