This mod has been discontinued, as most of its features are now available in my 1.12 mod, Subterranean Switcheroo.

Once upon a time, I was walking through the nether, and my pickaxe broke. I said to myself, "Eh, whatever, I'll build a netherrac pickaxe"
Then, I remembered. I can't do that.
Then, I said, "Wait, why can't I do that?"

Thus the earliest form of this mod was born.

This mod has a few main goals:
- Add no new mobs, mob drops, structures, or natural blocks.
- Allow players to make nether tools
- Allow players who spawn in the nether with no portal to escape.

I highly recommend using this alongside:
- Just enough items (check your crafting recipes)
- Wither Skeleton Tweaks (Makes the final grind like 20x less awful)

Known issues:
- This was made in MCreator, because of that, there are a few parts I wanted to do but couldn't:
- Crafting Table and Furnace are vanilla ones, not nether retextures (I'd have also liked the furnace to have slightly different burn times)
- All the textures on things made from Lava Crystals are super ugly. If anyone wants to submit better ones, I'd be happy to use them.
- Getting enough skulls to escape the nether is too hard right now.
- I'd love to be able to fix the bugs with Pigmen aggroing, since you're supposed to not fight them right now, and if, say, a ghast shoots one, then all of them will try to kill you, but it's a vanilla bug and really outside my range.

Tips:
- If you're doing a pure nether world, look for soul sand, glowstone, and gravel as fast as you can
- If you're doing a pure nether world, note that you cannot get a chest from anywhere but finding them in nether fortresses, so you'll have to manage your inventory very carefully.
- A nicer nether will still kill you. Be careful.
- Scythes can get smite if you craft them using extra material. Good for dealing with wither skeletons.

Modpacks:
If you ask me first, on curseforge/curse/MCF, you may use this in your modpack. No need to wait for a response. If you don't ask, the answer is no. I reserve the right to ask anyone to remove this from their pack, but don't expect to have to do so.

~~The Easier Ender companion mod will be along shortly, as it's way smaller than this.~~

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