Better Minecraft — Beta 26.0

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge · First public release (beta)

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Overview

Better Minecraft expands the game with new equipment tiers, invasion-style creatures and events, utility blocks and machines (farming, infusion, XP storage), progression systems (quests, morphing, prisms), and dedicated commands for players and admins.
Beta 26.0 is the full playable baseline for the mod.

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Combat & tools

• New weapon and tool tiers (copper, emerald, enderite, boreal, obsidian, and more) with tuned stats and progression.
• Scythes (multiple tiers) — till and harvest in an area (right-click); slower melee cadence.
  Whirlwind: hold right-click to charge (~2 s), UI bar and labels, then attack a creature for cone AoE damage, visuals and audio, brief heavy slow on struck enemies.
• Bows (lightning, upgraded iron/gold/emerald/diamond variants) and related mechanics.
• Staffs (End, Dragon, Wither, Ice, Echo, Flame, etc.) with modes and varied combat/support effects.
• Enhanced shields (diamond, netherite, enderite) and shield-related enchant gameplay.

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Armor & special gear

• Armor sets including Shulker, Emerald, villager hats, sky boots, upgrade chestplate, obsidian / boreal / sky gear, and more.
• Quivers, backpacks (multiple sizes), portable pocket End chest, storage helpers tied to inventory.

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Farming, utility blocks & automation

• Feeder — large internal storage per food type, automatic feeding for nearby animals via a network, hopper fill from top and sides, extraction from below, HUD hints when looking at it.
• Stations & machines: infusion table, enchanted chest (XP), foundry, End furnace, upgrade table, experience liquid and buckets/containers.
• Sunwood, hollow wood, crops and decoration (boats, signs, etc.).
• Various progression and farming-related blocks and loot hooks.

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Mobs, bosses & events

• Mod creatures: diamond golem, End-themed entities (blink, endling, golem…), radiant slime, skeleton villager, undead illagers, Vlinx, training dummy, clones, quest trader, sunwood boats, and more.
• Undead invasion — waves, captains, victory loot, commands and tuning for admins.
• End storm — dimension-style event with effects and pacing.
• Undead totem — summons / clones, mode cycling, dedicated UI hooks.
• Witch / metamorph, morph crystals, visuals and HUD integration.

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World & exploration

• Additional biomes (e.g. Hollow Garden, Solea Grove) and related worldgen.
• Exploration-related items and blocks (prism, crystals, event bottles, etc.).

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Progression & solo content

• Quest log — generated quests, objectives, HUD display.
• Paths tied to souls / infusion / equipment upgrades (crafting loops and rewards).

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UI & quality of life

• HUD for scythe whirlwind charge, plus contextual overlays for Shulker charges, invasions, quests, metamorph, chests, etc., depending on context.
• Optional integrations: JEI, Jade (declared as optional dependencies).

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Commands

• Better Minecraft commands (/bmc, paginated help, guide book), player heads (/givehead), metamorph (/metamorph), dimension hops, infusion crystals, invasion/debug helpers where permissions allow.

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Installation

• Loader: NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1.
• Install on both client and server for multiplayer.

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Credits

SOLEA PIXEL — https://soleapixel.com