Better Than Bountiful (BTB)

Update 1.7.10.6: Ores and Transport

This update focuses on improving transport mechanics, resource recycling, mob overhauls, and extensive configuration options.

🚂 Transport & Minecarts

• Furnace Minecart Buff: Significantly improved!

  • Can now pull up to 4 carts without issues.

  • Accepts Coal Blocks as fuel (runs 9x longer).

  • Added new sound effects while running.

  • Collision Damage: Deals 2 hearts of damage to mobs/players upon collision (includes a new death message).

• Minecart QoL:

  • All Minecarts now have Shapeless crafting.

  • Breaking a cart drops the item itself rather than splitting into parts (e.g., Minecart + Furnace).

  • Activator Rail: Powered Activator Rails now eject players and mobs from carts.

  • Fixed mobs glitching into the ground after riding carts.

• Boats: Boats now break Lilypads (with sound/particles) instead of the boat breaking upon impact.

💎 Ores, Items & Crafting

• Nuggets & Recycling:

  • Added Diamond Nuggets and Iron Nuggets.

  • Recycling: You can now smelt Armor (including Horse Armor), Tools, Compasses, and Clocks into Iron/Gold nuggets.

• Gold Buff:

  • Durability: Gold Tools (+369%) and Armor (+71%) have significantly increased durability.

  • Damage: Gold Sword, Pickaxe, Axe, and Shovel deal +1 Attack Damage.

  • Mining: Gold Pickaxes can now mine Iron Ore.

• Fuel: Wooden items (Ladders, buttons, signs, doors, boats, bowls) can now be used as furnace fuel.

• Beacon: Lapis Blocks can now be used to form the beacon base.

🧪 Potions & Gameplay

• New Potion: Haste I & II

  • Recipe: Nether Wart + Diamond Nugget (Carbonated Water) + Gold Ingot.

  • Extend with Redstone (Haste I only) or upgrade with Glowstone (Haste II, short duration).

• World Border: Added a border at 10k blocks. Players are knocked back if they try to pass. (Configurable).

• Commands: Added /g as a shortcut for gamemode (e.g., /g 0, /g c).

• Beds: Bouncing/landing on beds reduces fall damage.

• Brewing Stand: Stopped particle rendering when inactive.

🧟 Mobs & AI

• Giant Overhaul:

  • Spawn rate halved; only spawns in light level 0–1.

  • Reduced despawn rate.

  • AI: Tracks players from further away with adjusted movement speed.

  • Loot: Can now drop Nametags, Enchanted Books, and Bottles o' Enchanting.

• Pigs: Saddled pigs are 7% faster with better turning. Can be healed with Carrots (1.0 heart) and Apples (0.5 hearts).

• Mob Fixes:

  • Charged Creepers: Should no longer despawn.

  • Endermen: Always drop the block they are holding upon death.

  • Bats: Now drop a small amount of XP.

  • MC-486 Fixed: Mobs (Zombies/Skeletons) now burn correctly on slabs/stairs in daylight.

  • MC-34448 Fixed: Mobs can now see players through Double Tall Grass.

  • Wither Skeletons: Fixed an issue where they would burn during certain ticks in the Overworld.

⚙️ Fixes, Config & Optimization

• General Fixes:

  • Anvil: Renaming an item no longer increases the level cost for future repairs.

  • Dispensers: Can now use Spawn Eggs (Wither Skeleton & Giant).

  • Enderpearls: Fixed sounds in Creative and the visual "double pearl" glitch.

  • MC-7807: Thrown eggs now produce egg particles (instead of snowball particles).

  • Water Physics: Items fall slower in water; splash sounds do not play if the item is already submerged.

  • Fixed "Ocean Ambiance" lag spike.

  • Potential fix for the "Vanilla Achievements spam" bug.

• Config & System:

  • Improved Config file (Added option for Old Gravel texture/logic).

  • Added Config to enable Old Bow and Old Explosion sounds.

  • Fixed Swedish language support and added LOLCAT.

  • Optimized the entire mod.

  • Added more Splash Texts.

  • Mod name now displays a custom color in the mod list.

• Loot: Music Discs Calm 4 and 11 can now be found in more dungeon chests.