Description
Better Than Bountiful (formerly known as One Point Seven Reloaded) is a comprehensive update and expansion for Minecraft 1.7.10.
The original goal of this project was simple: stay close to vanilla, add back unused content (even from different versions of Minecraft like Pocket Edition and Bedrock), and of course, fix the bugs Mojang never had the time to patch. As the mod evolved, it grew into a true "what Mojang might have shipped" style mod by enhancing mechanics, overhauling useless items, adding new challenges, and bringing massive Quality of Life improvements.
Dependencies: This mod requires GTNHLib and Unimixins to function.
Client & Server: This mod needs to be on both the server and the client to work.
Bosses & Mobs
The Giant: Added as a fully functional boss! It spawns rarely at light level 0-1 (double chance during a full moon) or can be summoned manually using a pillar of 2 Mossy Cobblestone and a Zombie Head. It throws boulders, spawns minions, and drops valuable loot (Nametag, Enchanted Book, Bottle o' Enchanting).
Wither Boss Buff: Health increased by 50%. It now spawns 3 Wither Skeletons upon being summoned.
Charged Creepers: No longer despawn. If a Zombie, Skeleton, Creeper, or Wither Skeleton is killed by a Charged Creeper, it will drop its skull.
Ocelot Jockey: Baby zombies have a chance to spawn riding an ocelot.
Cats: The classic standalone Cat Spawn Egg returns. 11 backported modern cat variants (black, red, siamese, calico, jellie, persian, ragdoll, tabby, british shorthair, all-black, white) can appear via taming, spawn eggs, and breeding (50/50 inheritance between parents with a 1/16 chance for a fresh mutation).
Pigs: Saddled pigs are 7% faster, take curves much better, and can be healed with Apples and Carrots.
Endermen: Will now always drop the block they are holding when killed.
Silverfish: Now have a 25% chance to drop Iron Nuggets.
Bats: Now drop a small amount of XP.
Items, Tools & Crafting
Gold Gear Overhaul: Gold tools and armor are finally useful. Durability is massively increased (+369% for tools, +71% for armor). Gold tools deal +1 attack damage, and Gold Pickaxes can mine Iron Ore — and Gold Ore (a vanilla bug fixed).
Nuggets & Recycling: Added Iron and Diamond Nuggets. You can now smelt down old Armor (including Horse Armor), Tools, Compasses, and Clocks to recycle them into Iron or Gold Nuggets.
New Recipes: Added crafting recipes for Packed Ice, Chiseled Stone Bricks, Mossy Cobblestone, and Mossy Stone Bricks. Smelting Stone Bricks yields Cracked Stone Bricks.
Glistering Melon: Now edible.
Milk Bottle: Milk in a glass bottle (because why was it bucket only?).
Pumpkin Head Armor: Wearing a pumpkin or jack-o-lantern on your head grants a small armor bonus. The Jack-o-Lantern variant additionally emits dynamic light, making it a great explorer tool.
Buffed Items: Fishing Rods and Carrot on a Stick now have 100 durability. Iron doors and wooden doors now stack to 16.
Enchantments
Bane of Arthropods Buff: Now deals extra damage to Squids, Slimes, Magma Cubes, Ghasts, and Bats. Weapons enchanted with it also instantly mine cobwebs.
Blast Protection: Knockback resistance scales with the sum of Blast Prot levels across all 4 armor pieces (full set of IV = 100% immunity). Dropped items with Blast Prot are no longer destroyed or pushed by explosions.
Fire Aspect: Dropped items with Fire Aspect can no longer burn up.
Fire Protection: Wearers swim faster through lava. Dropped items with Fire Prot can't burn up.
Projectile Protection: Chance to fully block projectiles scales with summed armor levels (Punch arrows still bypass the block).
Silk Touch on Infested Blocks: Silk Touch now lets you harvest Infested Stone/Cobblestone/etc. as the silverfish-bearing block.
Potions
Haste Potion: Brewed using Nether Wart → Diamond Nugget → Gold Ingot. Can be extended (Haste I) with redstone or upgraded with glowstone (Haste II).
Hunger Potion: Brewed with zombie flesh. Applies rapid hunger.
Jump Potion (Grasshop): Brewed with grass. Grants jump boost.
Blindness Potion: For confusing your friends or enemies.
Transport & Mechanics
Minecart Overhaul: All minecarts now use shapeless crafting and drop as items when broken. Furnace Minecarts are vastly improved: they can pull up to 4 carts, run on Coal Blocks (for 9x the duration), and deal damage to entities blocking the tracks. Powered Activator Rails will now eject passengers.
Boat Overhaul: Boats drop themselves when broken instead of sticks and planks. Crashing into Lilypads will now destroy the Lilypad, rather than breaking your boat.
Sleeping & Spawn: You can now set your spawn point in a bed during the day. Landing on a bed reduces fall damage. Added new gamerules: playersSleepingPercentage (default 50) and instantSleep (default true).
Armor Swapping: Shift + Right-click with a piece of armor in your hand to instantly swap it with your currently equipped armor.
Book & Quill Revamp: Increased pages from 50 to 99, and characters per page from 256 to 320. You can now add/remove pages in the middle of the book and navigate text using the mouse or arrow keys.
Anvil Fixes: Renaming an item now always costs exactly 1 level, and renaming no longer increases the cost of future repairs. Diamond repair level cost is capped at 30 to prevent the "too expensive" lockout.
Beacons: The base pyramid can now be built using Lapis Lazuli blocks. Stained glass placed above a beacon dyes the beam to match the glass color.
Spawner Editing: Mob spawners are available in the creative menu. Right-click any spawn egg on a spawner to change its mob (supports modded eggs: donkey, mule, wither skeleton, cat, giant).
Furnace Fuel: Ladders, Buttons, Signs, Doors, Boats, and Bowls can now be used as fuel.
Climb Ladders with Space: Hold Space on a ladder to climb up.
Glass & Glowstone Placement: Torches and rails can now be placed on glass and glowstone blocks.
Lava Bucket / Fire in Water: A lava bucket thrown into water empties; fire items thrown into water dissolve.
Cactus Damage: Breaking cactus by hand now damages you and applies Slowness, with a custom death message.
Commands: Added the /g command for quick gamemode switching (e.g., /g c or /g 1).
World Border: Added a configurable world border at 10,000 blocks that bounces players back (disabled by default).
Slim Skins: Added a fix wich makes skins with the slim version work on this version.
World & Plants
Cyan Flower: Backported from Pocket Edition. Spawns naturally in Plains and Flower Forest biomes. Can be placed in flower pots.
Large Fern Pickup: Large Ferns can now be harvested with Shears.
Music, Audio & Visuals
New Music Discs: Added the "Calm 4" disc (Mono audio, found in dungeon, temple, and stronghold loot) and the "Eleven" disc (crafted with the "11" disc, 4 Lapis, and 4 Diamonds).
Expanded Soundtrack: Integrated unreleased/unused C418 tracks into the background music (Chris, Door, Droppy Like Ricochet, Equinoxe, Flake, Ki, Kyoto, Moog City).
Ambiance: Added subtle ocean ambiance sounds made by C418.
Custom Creative Tab: All mod-added items are collected on a dedicated creative tab (page 2).
Slim Skin Detection: Players using slim/Alex skins now render with the correct model.
Configurability: Toggle old explosion/bow sounds and the old gravel texture via the mod settings menu.
Achievements
Added custom mod achievements, accessible via the "Minecraft" tab, including:
- Wolf Breeder: Breed two wolves
- 100 Days: Survive for 100 in-game days
- Tame Ocelot: Tame your first ocelot
- Balanced Diet: Eat every food item in the game
- Plus achievements for boss kills, special items, and progression milestones.
Admin Tools
Login Logger: Server tracks player login/logout history with timestamps.
Grief Logger: TNT, lava, and fire placement is logged for moderation review.
Custom Join/Leave Messages: OPs can configure server-specific join/leave broadcasts.
Name Color Persistence: Per-player chat-name colors persist across restarts.
Creative Mode Tweaks
Added spawn eggs for The Giant and Wither Skeletons. Command Blocks, Fireworks, and fire are now visible in the creative inventory. Enderpearls can be thrown in creative mode.
Vanilla Bug Fixes (Mojira)
BTB includes numerous fixes for lingering 1.7.10 vanilla bugs, including but not limited to:
MC-3884 / MC-66347 / MC-506: Fixed missing/incorrect sounds for items dropping in water, beds (cloth sounds), and hoppers (metal sounds).
MC-5991: Smooth Sandstone can no longer be crafted into Smooth Sandstone.
MC-51655: Ladders are now mined at the correct speed depending on the axe and enchantments.
MC-5312: Thorns enchantment now functions correctly against all mobs.
MC-34772: Efficiency enchantment now properly works on Packed Ice.
MC-63370: Baby cows can no longer be milked.
MC-486: Zombies and Skeletons now correctly burn when standing on slabs and stairs in sunlight.
MC-34448: Mobs can now see the player through Double Tall Grass.
MC-3100: Renamed "Stone Stair" to its correct name, "Cobblestone Stair"