Better Nether: New Dawn

Better Nether: New Dawn is an unofficially maintained continuation of BetterNether for Fabric and NeoForge.

The Fabric edition is based on the original BetterNether codebase and includes continued maintenance, bug fixes, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life improvements.

The NeoForge edition brings the same functionality to NeoForge with the loader-specific adaptations required for compatibility.

Unless otherwise specified, the fixes and improvements listed below are included in both the Fabric and NeoForge editions.

Please make sure to download the correct file for your Minecraft version and mod loader.

How this project differs from the original

Platforms: supports both Fabric and NeoForge
Fabric edition: a maintained version of the original Fabric codebase with additional fixes, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life improvements
NeoForge edition: an unofficial port adapted for NeoForge
Goal: continued maintenance and consistent functionality across supported mod loaders
Scope: functionality is kept as close to the original project as reasonably possible, with shared bug fixes, selected balance changes, and loader-specific compatibility adjustments where required

Fixes and improvements

New content from official fabric versions available on 1.21.1!
Added compatibility with the TerraBlender and Lithostitched libraries and mods that use it (Luminous Nether, Garden of the Dead, Biomes O' Plenty, Oh The Biomes We've Gone, Regions Unexplored, etc.)
Added config to disable biomes and structures
Only use Bark wood variant for trees (thanks RedCraft86)
Improved music system (thanks RedCraft86)
Ruby compat tags (thanks RedCraft86)
Fixed: crash when clicking on the Respawn Statue
Fixed: Cincinnasite furnace does not drop when mined in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
Fixed: “flying block” issue in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
Fixed: Golden vine does not drop in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
Fixed: Hook mushroom does not drop in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
Fixed: Giant lucis drops loot twice in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
Fixed: Eye Plants not dropping loot (thanks Myrrium)
Fixed: Fireflies do not spawn from monster spawners (thanks nothingtown)
Fixed (datagen): the automatic tag provider only looked at blocks with the BlockTagDataProvider interface and ignored blocks with the org.betterx.wover.block.api.BlockTagProvider interface (such as BlockTerrain). As a result, runData was writing to wover:surfaces/nether/terrain only what came from other sources
Change (suggestion): changed all fire bowl blocks to use lit instead of fire (thanks Cicopath)
Change (suggestion): Nether Brewing Stand now brews 2× faster, 200 ticks; UI progress remains correct (thanks AcaGamer5)
Change (suggestion): Willow wood renamed to Nether Willow in all languages, with native localized wording (thanks AcaGamer5)
Change (suggestion): removed the Sculk Catalyst from loot tables (thanks Yukiroshi). It was too easy to obtain Fireruby gear early; now you’ll have to pay a visit to the Warden
Change (suggestion): full translation for ru_ru.json (thanks FO13E)
Change (suggestion): prevent the Fireruby pickaxe from smelting ores when it has the Silk Touch enchantment (thanks TimVincii)
Change (suggestion): new name for moss cover in the Russian translation (thanks happykgit)

About BetterNether

BetterNether makes adventures in the Nether more exciting by adding new biomes, plants, and materials. You’ll encounter new challenging monsters (like the Naga), explore dark dungeons taken over by Nether creatures, and use new tools with unique improvements to help you survive. Builders also get lots of unique blocks and additional variants of familiar vanilla blocks.

Features

Dozens of new plants for the Nether
New Nether mobs
New unique biomes
Vertical and volumetric biome system (supporting other mods and datapacks)
Many new materials, recipes, food, tools, and items
Ability to farm some materials using plant farms and mob farms
Many Nether structures, including big and rare Nether Cities
Ability to configure presence of blocks, items, structures, biomes, and plant density (and a config GUI with the ModsMenu mod)
Integrations with some other mods

Support / Issue reports

Better Nether: New Dawn is an independent, unofficial continuation and is not maintained by the original BetterNether developers.

Please do not report issues specific to New Dawn to the official BetterX Team Discord or the upstream BetterNether GitHub repository.

For bugs and support related to this project, please use the New Dawn GitHub issue tracker linked below.

When reporting an issue, please include your Minecraft version, mod loader, BetterNether version, dependency versions, logs, and reproduction steps.

If any issues caused by New Dawn affect the upstream community, please contact me directly.

Credits / Attribution

BetterNether was originally created by Paulev and its contributors.

All original artwork and the majority of the original code were created by the original BetterNether developers and contributors.

Better Nether: New Dawn is an independent, unofficial continuation for Fabric and NeoForge and is maintained by Raijin.

Special thanks to everyone credited above for reporting issues, suggesting improvements, contributing fixes, and testing the project.

BetterNether: New Dawn