A Nice Experience — Version 1.1

Visual & Interface Polish

Version 2.2 focuses on polishing the overall experience rather than simply adding more content. Several visually intrusive animations and unnecessary mob variants have been removed, while the map, interface, combat feedback and equipment systems have been improved.

✨ Main Changes

• Reduced visual clutter and excessive first-person animations.

• Replaced the previous atlas with a more detailed and visually consistent world map.

• Removed unnecessary mob and axolotl variants to preserve a cleaner Vanilla+ style.

• Added a party HUD for playing and exploring with friends.

• Improved health, armor, durability and combat feedback.

• Reworked Waystone generation and teleportation rules.

• Cleaned up several overlapping or redundant equipment additions.

🗺️ Map and Exploration

• Added Hoofprint, replacing Antique Atlas 4.

  • Improved terrain rendering.

  • Biome-colored water and foliage.

  • Transparent water and visible terrain elevation.

  • Lighting and dimension-specific map rendering.

  • The map remains assigned to the M key.

• Added Better Treasure Map for an improved treasure-hunting experience.

⚔️ Combat and Equipment Improvements

• Added Cut Through.

  • Dead enemies will no longer absorb attacks during their death animation.

• Added Armor Damage Limit.

  • Armor can lose a maximum of 20% of its durability from a single hit.

• Added Better Durability for clearer equipment durability information.

• Added Overflowing Bars.

  • Improved display of health, armor and armor toughness beyond vanilla limits.

• Replaced Fixed Anvil Repair Cost with Stable Anvil Cost for a more consistent anvil system.

• Added a subtle eating animation while removing the more intrusive first-person animation system.

👥 Multiplayer Improvements

• Added Epic RPG: Party HUD.

  • Party members can now be displayed directly on the HUD.

  • Shows player names and current health.

  • Designed to make cooperative exploration and combat easier.

🎨 Visual Improvements

• Removed the Punchy first-person animation system and its Better Combat compatibility addon.

• Added Entity Model Features and Entity Texture Features for improved compatibility with custom entity models, textures, emissive details and resource packs.

• Disabled dynamic lighting by default to reduce visual noise and improve consistency.

• Adjusted HUD positioning to prevent interface elements from overlapping.

• Improved entity shadows, biome color blending and general visual presentation.

🧭 Waystone Changes

• Random Waystones no longer generate freely throughout the world.

• Villages are now guaranteed to generate with a Waystone.

• Naturally generated Waystones cannot be broken.

• Cross-dimensional teleportation has been disabled.

• Waystone teleportation no longer costs experience.

• The inventory teleport button has been disabled.

These changes make Waystones easier to find in meaningful locations while preventing them from bypassing dimension progression.

➕ Added Mods

• Armor Damage Limit

• Better Durability

• Better Treasure Map

• Cut Through

• Eating Animation

• Entity Model Features

• Entity Texture Features

• Epic RPG: Party HUD

• Hoofprint

• Overflowing Bars

• Stable Anvil Cost

• GroovyModLoader, required as a technical dependency

➖ Removed Mods

• All The Arcanist Gear

• All the Wizard Gear

• Antique Atlas 4

• Better Item Breaking

• Epic Fight & Better Combat x Punchy

• Fixed Anvil Repair Cost

• More Axolotl Variants API

• More Axolotl Variants Mod

• More Mob Variants

• Punchy! – First Person Animations

• Variants & Ventures

🔧 Additional Adjustments

• Reorganized several controls for combat, magic, inventory and interface features.

• Updated the default resource-pack loading order.

• Improved the placement of potion effects on the HUD.

• Simplified the FPS counter.

• Increased the default FPS limit.

• Added Spanish as the currently configured default language.

• General configuration cleanup and interface polishing.

Version 1.1 is intended to feel cleaner, more coherent and less visually overloaded while preserving the content, progression and Vanilla+ identity of A Nice Experience.