A comprehensive vanilla+ enhancement mod that refines, expands Minecraft's core mechanics. Neatly Better also focuses on meaningful changes that rebalance, enhance gameplay flow, fix logical inconsistencies, and add depth to overlooked mechanics—all while maintaining the authentic Minecraft experience.
"More features will be introduced in future versions".

Why was this mod created? Because i did not want to browse thousands of mods so that i can create a vanilla+ modpack that i like every time the game updated. Originally it was created for my personal use, but eventually as i added more and more features i decided to publish it.

Features

🌿 Farming & Agriculture

Crops & Plant Growth

• Right-Click Harvesting — Right-click to harvest any fully grown crop and it automatically replants itself. Using a hoe harvests a 3×3 area at once.
• Rain Accelerates Growth — Crops, sugar cane, bamboo, cocoa beans, and sweet berry bushes grow faster when it's raining and exposed to the sky.
• Bonemeal Expansion — Bonemeal now works on sugar cane, cacti, and nether wart.
• Grass Seeds — Placing wheat seeds directly on dirt block automatically converts it to grass block.
• Farmland Protection — Feather Falling boots prevent players from trampling farmland.

Composting

• Poisoned Potatoes and rotten flesh can be composted.

⚔️ Combat & Player

Shields

• Raise Delay — The delay before a shield activates is fully configurable (default: 0, instant). (configurable)
• Explosions Disable Shields — Direct explosive hits will knock your shield down. (configurable)

Enchantments

• Protection Nerf — Protection enchantments are less powerful overall, making armor progression more balanced, this makes specific protections more pronounced. (configurable)
• Resistance Nerf — The Resistance effect gives 10% reduction per level instead of 20%, so Resistance V does no longer grant invincibility. (configurable)
• Mending Overhaul — Mending can now repair items across your entire inventory or hotbar, not just held items. XP-to-durability conversion rate is also configurable. (configurable)
• Feather deals no Damage — Feathers deal no damage but applies knockback, feathers can be optionally combined with knockback enchant.
• Step Up — Step-up is a new enchantment that allows user to step up blocks (hence the name), can be disabled when sneaking. (configurable)
• Improved Infinity — Infinity enchantment does not require arrow in the inventory to function. Infinity can be combined with mending.
• Frost Walker Improvement — Frost Walker protects the user from taking magma block damage.
• Loyalty Improvement — Tridents enchanted with loyalty that are thrown into the void will return to the user.

Elytra

• Disable Firework Boosting — Optionally disable firework rockets from boosting elytra flight. (Off by Default)

Other Player Changes

• Totem Cooldown — Configurable cooldown after using a Totem of Undying (default: 5 seconds). (configurable)
• Sleep Mode — Choose when sleeping is allowed: always, never, or only after defeating the Ender Dragon. (configurable)
• Hunger Mechanics — Modified hunger makes regeneration at full HP slower, scaling with difficulty. (configurable)
• Mining XP Reward — Earn XP by mining non-ore blocks like stone and deepslate. (configurable)
• Building XP Reward — Earn XP from placing blocks. (configurable)
• Farming XP Reward — Earn XP by farming any vanilla crops. (configurable)
• Armor Stand Swap — Shift + Right-Click an armor stand to instantly swap your worn armor with it.
• Armor Quick-Equip — Right-click armor in any inventory screen to instantly equip or swap it.
• Leggings Bush Damage Protection — Any equipped leggings protect the user from taking berry bush damage.
• Gold Mines Gold — Golden Pickaxes can now mine gold related blocks.
• Throwable Knockback — Snowballs and eggs now knock back other players, not just mobs. (configurable)
• Auto Sprint Fix — Remembers the sprint toggle after player respawn.
• Switching Resets Mining — Switching to another item in the hotbar will no longer cause mining progress to reset. (configurable)
• No Equip Cooldown — Switching to another item in the hotbar will no longer cause use cooldown to happen.
• Emissive Trims — Armor with any trims can be made emissive through applying glow ink sac in smithing table. (Does work with Elytra Trims, Trimmable Tools mod)
• Pulsing Trims — Armor with any trims can be made pulsing through applying an echo shard in smithing table. (Does work with Elytra Trims mod)

Recipes

• Cheaper Trim Duplication — Trim duplication recipes are inverted, they cost 1 diamond now instead of 7.
• Utility Recipies — Recipes that make crafting items like dispensers easier, among other things. (WIP)
• Slab/stair Uncrafting — Slabs & Stairs can be converted back to their respective block variants. (WIP)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Entities

Creepers

• Sneaky Creepers — Creepers will sneak up behind the player when they are out of line-of-sight, only beginning their fuse when player spots the creeper. (configurable)
• Walk While Igniting (Normal Mode) — Creepers continue approaching while their fuse is counting down. (configurable)
• Orbiting (Hard Mode) — Creepers orbit around their target during the fuse countdown. (configurable)

Villagers

• Fence Gate Opening — Villagers can open fence gates. (configurable)
• Follow Emerald Block — Villagers will follow players holding an emerald block.
• Farmer Replants — Farmer villagers will re-till dirt tiles that should be farmland when replanting. (configurable)
• Global Curing Discounts — Curing a zombie villager applies the trading discount to all players on the server for that specific villager. (configurable)
• Infinite Curing Stacks — Curing discounts can stack beyond the vanilla cap. (configurable, off by default)
• Book Level Cap — Librarian villagers only offer enchantment books at max level I, limiting easy book farming. (configurable)

Wolves

• Wolf Improvements — Tamed wolves follow owners faster, attack faster, defend their owner from potential attackers, and regenerate health while sitting. (configurable)
• Wolf Collar on Death — When a tamed wolf dies it drops a Wolf Collar. Strike the dropped collar with lightning to revive your companion. (works if Wolf Improvements are enabled)
• Owner Friendly Fire — Owners cannot harm their own wolves. (Disabled while sneaking)

Hostile

• Spider — Spiders now have bigger knockback resistance and are faster, they also use a more responsive leaping attack pattern reminiscent of early Minecraft versions. (configurable)
• Vex Dies with Summoner — Vexes die instantly when their summoning Evoker is killed.
• Mob Parkour (Hard Mode) — Vindicators, Piglin Brutes, Zombified Piglins, Husks, and Zombies can jump over 1-2 block gaps to get to the target. (configurable)
• Ranged Shield Holdoff — Skeletons, Piglins, and Pillagers wait for an opportunity to shoot instead of firing directly into player's shield.
• Crossbow Retreat — Piglins and Pillagers strafe backward while reloading their crossbow.
• Witch Nerf — Witches throw shorter-duration poison potions (25s instead of the usual 45s).
• Phantom Rework — Phantoms spawn only if the player is at world height of 150-245 and the block light is 0.
• Ender Dragon — Ender Dragon does not take knockback from any attack anymore.
• Wither Skeleton — Wither Skeletons no longer drop their stone swords upon death.

Passive & Neutral

• Sheep Flee Wolves — Sheep will run from wolves within 16 blocks. (as they should)
• Iron Golem Reach — Iron Golems can reach up to 4 blocks high, closing off the classic pillar cheese strat. (configurable)
• Iron Golem Block Repair — Iron Golems can only be repaired with Iron Blocks, instead of ingots.
• Piglin Trim Respect — Piglins won't attack players wearing armor with a gold trim or a snout trim pattern.
• Ground Item Breeding — Animals will consume dropped breeding items from the floor, not just items held by players. (configurable)
• Immediate Animal Tempting — Animal tempt delay has been removed.
• Jockey Variants — Strays on Polar Bears, Piglins on Hoglins and Zombified Piglins on Zoglins.
• Persistant Parrots — Parrots stay on the player's shoulder when jumping from non-lethat heights. (Shift + Right-Click with empty hand on a block to drop them)

Misc

• Minecart Linking — Use an iron chain to link minecarts together into a train. Linked carts follow each other.

🎁 Items

New Items

• Map Builder - Left-Click to mark one corner, Right-Click to mark another, Shift + Right-Click to set zoom level — creates a filled map covering the selected area.
• Chest Key - Locks containers, allowing only the owner to open them (intended as multiplayer feature).
• Wolf Collar - Dropped by tamed wolves on death, can be used to revive them by dropping the collar on the ground and letting lightning strike it.

New Potions

Item Improvements

• Glistering Melon Slice - Glistering Melon is now edible and will heal the player for 2hp.
• Glow Berries - Glow berries apply 10 second Glow Effect.
• Trident - Tridents can now be repaired at anvil using prismarine shards.
• Potion Stack Size - All Potions now stack up to 16.
• Throwable Potions - Splash & Lingering Potions have 1 second cooldown after they are thrown to prevent spamming.
• Filled Maps - Filled maps now properly work in nether - displaying blocks at player's current Y coordinate, player icon is show even when the player is outside of the map frame.

🧱 Blocks

New Blocks

Missing stair, slab, and wall variants are added for a large number of stone types, allowing complete decorative sets:

• New Stairs: Smooth Stone, Calcite, Quartz Brick, End Stone, Smooth Basalt
• New Slabs: Calcite, Quartz Brick, End Stone, Smooth Basalt
• New Walls: Polished Granite, Polished Andesite, Polished Diorite, Stone, Smooth Stone, Calcite, Quartz, Quartz Brick, Smooth Quartz, End Stone, Purpur, Smooth Basalt, Prismarine Brick, Dark Prismarine, Smooth Sandstone, Smooth Red Sandstone

Decorative

• Rainbow Wool, Rainbow Carpet, and Rainbow Bed — Wool can be obtained by shearing jeb_ sheep.

Anvil Improvements

• No Rename Cost - Renaming items on the anvil costs no XP levels. (configurable)
• No Italic Rename - Renamed items keep their original text formatting (no forced italics). (configurable)
• Color Code Support - Use & formatting codes to add colors and styles to item names. (configurable)
• Remove "Too Expensive" - The 40-level cap on anvil operations is removed. (configurable)
• Combine with Feather - Knockback enchantments can be combined with feathers in the anvil. (configurable)

Beacon Improvements

• Beacon Soak Effects — Players gradually build up beacon effect duration the longer they remain in range, max level beacon can give upto 4 minutes of effects. (configurable)
• Beacon Extended Range — Configurable beacon range, up to 512 blocks (default: 75, vanilla: 50). (configurable)

Other Block Improvements

• Harder Netherrack — Netherrack, Crimson Nylium, and Warped Nylium have increased hardness to prevent instamine with efficiency IV. (configurable)
• Magma Spawns Lava — Mining a magma block without Silk Touch spawns a lava source block. (configurable)
• Sponge Absorption Radius — Configurable sponge water absorption range (default is larger than vanilla). (configurable)
• Dispenser + Cauldron — Dispensers can fill and empty cauldrons using buckets. (configurable)
• Cauldron Cleaning — Cauldrons can clean off filled maps and glowing/pulsing effects from armor with trims applied.
• Double Doors — Opening one door automatically opens the adjacent matching door. Hold sneak to open only one.
• Scaffolding — Scaffolding drops are constrained to avoid spreading them further than 3 blocks in radius.
• Ladder Placement — Ladders can be placed without supporting blocks behind them.
• Climbable Blocks — Climbing on climbable blocks while looking up or down will make player climb faster. When player opens inventory on climbable block it will force the player to not slide down the block.
• Crying Obsidian — Crying Obsidian is now a valid portal block - Can be used to build a nether portal.
• Grindstone — Disenchanting items at grindstone will return 50% of the xp instead of a random percentage.
• Raised Banner Pattern Limit — Banners support up to 16 layers of patterns instead of the vanilla 6.

☯︎ Rebalance Datapack

This optional, yet enabled by default datapack rebalances the game to be harder so your victories actually feel well-earned. Players can disable the datapack in world creation screen or in-game by typing /datapack disable {datapack_name}.

Loot

• Loot Overhaul — Loot in all vanilla structures is overhauled to make them relatively balanced.
• Totem of Undying — Evokers drop Totems of Undying only if killed in the mansion.
• Warden Loot — Killing the Warden now has 50% chance to drop Silence Armor Trim Template.

Recipes

• Eye of Ender — Player now needs Wind Charge, Echo Shard, Prismarine Shard, Blaze Powder and Ender Pearl to craft Eye of Ender.
• Recovery Compass — Recovery Compass now requires only 4 Echo Shards instead of 8.
• Rail — Crafting Rails now yields 32 instead of 16.
• Powered Rail — Powered Rails now Yield 12 instead of 6.

Generation

• Structure Rarity — Structures like Mineshaft, Ocean Monument, Ocean Ruins, Pillager Outpost, Ruined Portal, Shipwreck, Village are made rarer. (not by much)
• Village Haybales — Haybale Blocks in all village variants are removed. (so that player has to find food him/her self)
• Ore Generation — Coal ore can now spawn under height 0 more frequently. Copper, iron & redstone has slightly decreased generation chance. Diamonds are now way rarer, but generate in bigger vein sizes and are generating also way more when not exposed to air.

🖥️ HUD & Display

These are the client-side only features of this mod.

HUD

• Coordinates Display — Shows your XYZ position on the HUD when compass is in the inventory or ender chest. Displays compass button in inventory to hide it. (configurable)
• Time & Day Display — Shows the in-game time and current day on the HUD when clock is in the inventory or ender chest. Displays clock button in inventory to hide it. (configurable)
• Status Effect Bars — Adds a progress bar to the effect HUD element. (configurable)
• Hide Air Bubbles — Hides the air bubble bar when Water Breathing or Breath of the Nautilus is active. (configurable)
• Player Hunger Bar on Mount — Shows player's hunger bar when riding any living entity.

Tooltips

• Potion Effect Icons — Status effect icons are shown in item tooltips for potions & foods instead of plain text. (configurable)
• Map Preview Tooltip — Shows a map preview in the tooltip.
• Tooltip Guides — Helpful interaction hints are shown on relevant items. (configurable)
• Potion Glint — Potions with effects show the enchantment glint. (configurable)

GUI

• Stonecutter Re-Craft — The stonecutter now has Re-Craft button.
• Recipe Book Quick-Craft — You can now Quick-Craft items using recipe book. (CTRL + Left Click to craft 1 instantly, CTRL + SHIFT + Left Click to craft a whole stack)
• Recipe Book Modes — Choose between SHOWN, HIDDEN, or AUTOHIDE (closes with the crafting/inventory screen). (configurable)
• Framerate in Menus — Menu screens run at the user's set framerate limit instead of a fixed low value.
• No Lan Cheating — When the world has set commands to false it wont show the option to enable it when opening lan screen.
• Unfocus Fix — Clicking outside a text box, button, slider properly unfocuses it.
• Longer Chat History — Removes the chat history limit of 100.

Utilities

• Swing Through Grass — Attack entities through tall grass and other non-collidable blocks. (configurable)
• Auto Refill — Automatically refills your hotbar slot when a stack runs out. Supports: bottles, buckets, bowls, equipment (except armor), and fishing rods. (configurable)
• Copy Screenshots — Screenshots are automatically copied to clipboard. (configurable)
• Disable Telemetry — Completely disables Mojang telemetry. (configurable)
• Logarithmic Volume — Volume sliders use a logarithmic curve for more natural audio control.
• Seamless Music — Music now continues to player even if the player quits to title screen or loads a new world from title screen.

Visual

• 2D Item Rendering — Dropped items render as flat 2D sprites instead of spinning 3D models. (configurable, off by default)

Title Screen

• Clean Branding — Replaces the "Fabric/Modded" branding label in title screen with clean vanilla-style text. (configurable)
• Hide Realms Buttons — Optionally remove Realms buttons from the title screen. (configurable)
• Hide Accessibility Button — Optionally remove the extra accessibility button from the title screen. (configurable)
• Resource Pack Compatibility — Suppresses resource pack version mismatch warnings. (configurable)