Beyond and More

Minecraft 1.21.1 | NeoForge • Forge • Fabric

This update brings major improvements to building, crafting recipes, tool recycling, language support, and item visuals, along with extensive bug fixes and cross-loader compatibility improvements.

New Features & Improvements

Survival Debug Stick

• Added the Survival Debug Stick, with a 1% chance to appear in Nether Bastion Treasure chests.

• Features 128 uses and can be recharged using one Netherite Ingot.

• Allows players to change compatible block orientations, axes, and rotations.

• Supports vertical slabs and various pillar blocks.

• Can remove water from waterlogged blocks, but cannot add water.

• Gameplay-related properties such as redstone power, opening states, age, and levels remain protected.

• The item remains in the inventory when depleted.

Paintings & Enchanted Books

• Added 56 unique painting previews in the inventory: 51 vanilla paintings and 5 Beyond & More paintings.

• Added dedicated previews for the Steel and More Logo, Autumn, Summer, Winter, and Spring paintings.

• Added 128 distinct enchanted book textures, based on enchantment type and level.

• Books without a specific variant retain their vanilla appearance.

Blocks & Building

• Added the missing Cyan Concrete Powder Slab.

• Expanded orientation support to 26 vertical slab families, including logs, stripped logs, bamboo, polished basalt, bone blocks, and pillars.

• Improved end-grain texture orientation and side texture consistency.

Crafting Recipes & Balancing

New Recipes

• Added Blackstone and Cobbled Deepslate alternatives for Levers, Pistons, Dispensers, Droppers, and Observers.

• Added Blackstone and Cobbled Deepslate alternatives for Repeaters and Comparators.

• 1 Wool → 2 String

• 9 String → 1 Cobweb

• 1 Sandstone → 4 Sand

• 1 Red Sandstone → 4 Red Sand

• 8 Glass Panes → 3 Glass Blocks, including all 16 stained glass colors.

• 1 Bricks Block → 4 Brick Items

• 1 Nether Bricks Block → 4 Nether Brick Items

• Added reverse crafting for 156 framed glass pane variants, preserving glass colors and frame materials.

• Added Paper crafting from Bamboo.

• Added Leather crafting from Rotten Flesh.

Recipe Improvements

• Standardized stair crafting to 6 Blocks → 6 Stairs.

• Standardized wooden trapdoors to 6 Planks → 6 Trapdoors.

• Added Composter crafting using 6 Wooden Slabs.

• Balanced reverse stair recipes to prevent material duplication.

• Added 147 missing Stonecutter conversions for Beyond & More blocks.

• Standardized Stonecutter outputs to 1 Block → 2 Slabs or 1 Block → 1 Stair.

• Updated standard pressure plates to 2 Materials → 4 Pressure Plates, covering 342 Beyond & More recipes and 13 vanilla recipes.

• Weighted Iron and Gold Pressure Plates retain their vanilla behavior.

• Fixed TNT Pressure Plate Stonecutter crafting: 1 TNT → 2 Pressure Plates.

Tool Recycling System

Added a new system allowing players to recover crafting materials from tools based on their type and remaining durability.

• Supports Wood, Stone, Iron, Gold, Diamond, and Beyond & More Steel.

• Netherite tools are intentionally excluded.

• Supports recycling 2 different tools made from the same material.

• Supports recycling 3–9 tools of mixed types, provided they share the same material.

• Each tool contributes materials based on its individual durability.

• Preserves vanilla repair mechanics when combining two identical tools.

• Fixed crafting grid issues that prevented recycling with certain item arrangements.

Mods Menu Improvements

• Added a unified Mods screen across NeoForge, Forge, and Fabric.

• Added mod search functionality.

• Displays mod IDs, versions, authors, descriptions, licenses, websites, and other available information.

• Added translation coverage information for installed mods.

• Improved resizable panels, scrollbars, and long-text handling.

• Fixed text overflow and overlapping interface elements.

• Removed obsolete panel resizing arrows.

• Removed unnecessary background blur and dimming.

• Fixed duplicate Mods buttons.

• On Fabric, the Mods button now appears to the left of Minecraft Realms on the main menu.

Languages & Translations

• Added support for 320 languages and regional variants, including 143 Mojang-supported locales and 177 additional locales.

• Improved translation consistency across Minecraft, Beyond & More, and supported mod loaders.

• Added a searchable language selector.

• Added manual JSON translation import and export.

• Imported translations use a managed resource pack without modifying the original mod JAR.

• Improved translation coverage updates after importing language files.

• Fixed language mapping issues, including Afar and Afrikaans.

• Improved placeholder and formatting preservation.

• Automatic translation remains temporarily disabled in this release. Manual import and export remain available.

Bug Fixes & Visual Improvements

General Fixes

• Fixed various vertical slab and pillar texture orientations.

• Improved side and end-face consistency across multiple block families.

• Fixed Target Wall model references.

• Fixed a Target Wall collision issue that could cause startup crashes on NeoForge and Forge.

• Improved model, texture, and interface consistency across all three loaders.

Fabric-Specific Fixes

• Fixed normal and carved pumpkin textures across slabs, stairs, vertical slabs, fences, fence gates, walls, and trapdoors.

• Corrected 134 Chiseled and Cut Sandstone block models, including stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, buttons, pressure plates, fences, gates, and walls.

• Fixed 3 Netherite Trapdoor models.

• Fixed Quartz and Purpur Pillar horizontal texture orientation, including double vertical slab variants.

• Improved transparent foliage rendering, including Cherry Leaves.

• Aligned numerous block models with the validated NeoForge and Forge versions.

Compatibility

Minecraft Version: 1.21.1

Supported Mod Loaders: NeoForge, Forge, Fabric

All three Beyond & More 4.0.10 builds have been compiled, verified, and prepared for release.