Better Step
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Improves player stepping by removing the vanilla ground restriction for stepping up and adding controlled stepping down.
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Better Step
A Fabric server-side and single-player mod that improves player stepping behavior when moving across uneven terrain.
Features
- Allows smoother step-up movement
- Adds controlled step-down behavior for small drops
- Prevents unsafe automatic step-down in survival-like modes
- Treats creative mode as always safe for step-down
- Does not trigger air step-up while the player is creative-flying
- Works on dedicated servers and in single-player worlds
Behavior
The mod improves movement across block-height changes by adding custom step-up and step-down handling.
Step-up behavior:
- Allows players to step up even when they are not fully grounded
- Helps reduce movement blocking when colliding with small ledges or uneven terrain
- Does not trigger while the player is flying
- Only applies to player movement
Step-down behavior:
- If the player moves forward without hitting an obstacle, the mod checks whether there is a reachable lower surface within step height
- If a valid lower surface is found, the player steps down smoothly
- If no reachable surface is found, the mod does not force the player downward
- In non-creative modes, step-down height is limited by the player's safe fall distance
- In creative mode, step-down is treated as safe
Safety rules:
- Survival-like players will not automatically step down farther than their safe fall distance allows
- Creative players are considered safe and may step down up to their step height
- Flying players do not trigger air step-up
Supported Versions
- Minecraft 26.1.2
- Fabric Loader 0.19.2+
- Fabric API 0.150.0+
- Java 25
License
MIT
The Better Step Team
