Better Nether Mod (1.21, 1.20.1) - Overhaul and Amplified The Nether (2024)

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379,937views ❘June 18, 2024❘ Author: Quiqueck ❘ Available for: Fabric, Forge

Better Nether Mod (1.21, 1.20.1) improves the Nether, adds more biomes, plants, and materials into it. Its content is unique and interesting for exploring as also useful. Many concepts are still in WIP, but here are some results. Mod was designed as compatible with other nether mods (especially in world generation). For other desirable compatibilities please write on the issue tracker.

Features:

Biomes:

Biomes are volumetric, instead of default forge and Minecraft system, but they are not displayed in debug.

Empty Nether

Just default Nether as common

Wart Forest

The dense forest of wart trees with some small bushes
Ground made from Nether Moss and Soul Sand

Nether Jungle

A very dense forest of some strange plants
Ground covered with Nether Grass, Egg Plants.
Ground made from Nether Moss, Netherrack and Soul Sand
Plants are: Egg Plants, Nether Grass, Stalagmite, Lucis, Eyes

Nether Grasslands

Grassy places with some bushes
Ground covered with grasses and bushes
Ground made from Nether Moss, Netherrack and Soul Sand
Plants are: Egg Plants, Nether Grass, Smoker, Wart Bush, Black Bush, Ink bush

Gravel Desert

Big semi-empty spaces of gravel fields with cactuses
Ground made from Gravel
Plants are: Nether Cactus, Agave, Barrel Cactus

Mushroom Forest

Covered with Nether Mycelium and Soul Sand
Contains large mushroom trees – Red and Brown
Contains 3 different colored mushrooms as a source of dyes

Plants:

Egg Plants

Small bush with egg-shaped glands.
Poisonous
Can be collected
Plant on Netherrack / Nether Moss / Soul Sand

Eyes

Tall vine from the ceiling with a big or small eye on the end
Source of slime
Can be broken all-way-down from point of destruction
Seeds are plantable only on ceiling
Plant on Netherrack

Black Apple

Small bush with a big berry on the stem end
Berry can be collected and eaten or spend on seeds (crafting as pumpkin seeds)
Berry (“Black Apple”) give your regeneration for 2 seconds (and ~5 hearts)
Plant on Netherrack / Nether Moss / Soul Sand

Black Bush

Small decorative plant
Can be collected
Plant on Netherrack / Nether Moss / Soul Sand

Lucis

The glowing mushroom that grows on walls
Can be planted only on walls
Source of glowstone
Plant on Netherrack

Nether Grass

Decorative plant
Can be collected with shears
Have 3 models chosen randomly
Textures based on new coral fan textures by Mojang
Can be grown with bonemeal used on Netherrack

Mushrooms:

Large Mushroom Trees

Have 2 types –RedandBrown
Can be grown from vanilla mushrooms, if they are planted on Nether Mycelium with Bonemeal

Orange Mushroom

Has 4 stages of grow
Adult form drops 1-3 seeds and 1-2 dyes (orange and magenta colors)
Can be planted only on Nether Mycelium

Red Mold

Cover Nether Mycelium
Can be collected and planted
Spreading around, it has only 1 neighbor
Source of red dye

Gray Mold

Cover Nether Mycelium
Can be collected and planted
Spreading around, it has only 1 neighbor
Source of light gray dye

Nether Wart Mushroom

Could not be grown
Grows on nether fortress support columns
Contains red mushroom blocks as filler and red wart blocks as skin

Items:

Black Apple

Tools:

Cincinnasite pickaxe

* speed of gold pickaxe
* can break 512 blocks
* power of iron pickaxe

Cincinnasite-diamond pickaxe

* speed of gold pickaxe
* can break 1024 blocks
* power of diamond pickaxe

Materials:

Stalagnate Stem
Stalagnate Wood + Stairs, Slabs,etcs.

Reeds Block + Stairs, Slabs, etc.

Cincinnasite (metal, something between gold and bismuth)

Recipes:

Generation:

Terrain “fix” pass:

Fix messy terrain by smoothing it before generation starts
Acts only on Netherrack, Gravel and Soul Sand

Before:

After:

Configuration:

Block registration (remove the plant or its part will remove it from world generation)
Item registration
Biomes registration
Biomes size in horizontal and vertical space
Additional pass on|off switch
Damage for players and mobs from eggplant
Plant density (global and per-biome)