Description
BetterQoL - Enhance Your Minecraft Experience
BetterQoL is a comprehensive Quality of Life mod that brings powerful inventory management, intelligent mining tools, movement helpers, and useful overlays to your Minecraft gameplay. Every feature is fully configurable and designed to work seamlessly together.
🔧 Vein Miner
Mine entire ore veins, trees, or crop fields with a single action. Vein Miner intelligently breaks connected blocks while respecting tool requirements, enchantments, and game rules.
- Multiple activation modes: Toggle, hold key, or always on
- Three search shapes: VEIN (flood fill), COLUMN (vertical), and TUNNEL (geometric volumes)
- Configurable tunnels: 3x3, 5x5, or 7x7 cross-sections with adjustable depth
- Enchantment scaling: Vein size increases with enchantment level (8/16/32/64/128 blocks)
- Resource costs: Optional XP or hunger costs that scale with blocks broken
- Farmer mode: Harvest crops and vertical plants with automatic replanting
- Undo system: Reverse accidental activations
- Fully configurable: Tool restrictions, block whitelists/blacklists, durability handling, and more
Perfect for: Mining operations, tree harvesting, farming, and large-scale building projects.
📦 Better Inventory
Streamline your inventory management with powerful sorting, bulk transfer, smart filtering features, and automated item distribution.
- One-click sorting: Middle-click any slot to sort player inventory or containers
- Bulk transfers: Ctrl + middle-click to move all matching stacks, or Shift + drag to transfer multiple slots
- Quick deposit: Shift + double-click containers in the world to auto-deposit matching items
- Chest tag filtering: Assign tags to chests, barrels, and shulker boxes for automatic item organization
- Matched item transfer: Shift + double-click a slot to transfer all matching items from your inventory
- Controller system: Use crafting tables as controllers to distribute items to nearby chests with a single action
- Custom tags: Create your own item groups using Minecraft tags or individual items
- Default tags included: Pre-configured tags for stones, logs, ores, crops, building blocks, wood, food, tools, armor, redstone, dyes, mob drops, and decorative blocks
Perfect for: Organizing storage systems, managing large inventories, automated sorting, and reducing repetitive clicking.
🏃 Better Movement
Reduce repetitive inputs with automatic movement helpers that keep you in control.
- Auto-Run: Toggle automatic forward movement with smart sprinting
- Auto-Jump: Automatic jumping with obstacle detection and cooldown system
- Smart cancellation: Auto-Run stops on damage, GUI open, or manual input
- Mount support: Optional mount and boat compatibility
- Configurable behavior: Adjust cooldowns, obstacle detection, and stop conditions
Perfect for: Long-distance travel, exploration, and reducing hand strain during extended play sessions.
📊 Better Stats
Keep important information visible without cluttering your screen or opening the debug menu.
- Customizable overlay: Show FPS, ping, coordinates, biome, entities, and memory usage
- Drag-and-drop layout: Reposition any stat block to your preferred location
- Chat sharing: Shift + click overlay entries to send values to chat
- Context-aware: Automatically hides during pause, HUD off, or configuration screens
- Individual toggles: Enable or disable each stat independently
Perfect for: Performance monitoring, coordinate sharing, and keeping track of important game information.
🔍 Zoom
Enhanced zoom functionality with smooth controls and cinematic camera integration.
- Hold-to-zoom: Hold the key to zoom in, release to return to normal
- Adjustable zoom: Scroll wheel adjusts zoom level from 0.01x to 1.0x
- Cinematic camera: Automatically enables smooth camera movement while zoomed
- Client-side only: No server impact, purely visual enhancement
Perfect for: Building details, exploration, and getting a better view of distant areas.
Quick Start
- Install the mod - BetterQoL requires NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21+
- Configure features - Open Options → BetterQoL to customize each module
- Set keybindings - Go to Options → Controls → BetterQoL to bind keys
- Start playing - All features work out of the box with sensible defaults
Configuration
BetterQoL uses a modular configuration system with separate files for different settings:
- betterqol-common.toml - Server-side settings (Vein Miner, Better Inventory)
- betterqol-client.toml - Client-side settings (Movement, Stats, Zoom)
Each feature can be enabled or disabled independently, and most settings can be changed in-game through the config screens.
Keybindings
All keybindings can be customized in Options → Controls → BetterQoL:
- Vein Miner Toggle - Activate/deactivate Vein Miner
- Undo Vein Miner - Reverse last Vein Miner action
- Cycle Shape Mode - Switch between search shapes
- Open Shape Config - Configure tunnel dimensions
- Toggle Auto-Run - Enable/disable automatic forward movement (default: R)
- Toggle Auto-Jump - Enable/disable automatic jumping (default: J)
- Zoom - Hold to zoom in (default: Z)
Requirements
- Minecraft: 1.21+
- NeoForge: Latest version for your Minecraft version
- Java: 21 or higher
Compatibility
BetterQoL is designed to be compatible with most mods. All features use standard Minecraft APIs and should work alongside other quality of life mods. Server-side features (Vein Miner, Better Inventory) require the mod on both client and server for full functionality.
Enjoy a better Minecraft experience with BetterQoL!