Better 2Gether

Better 2Gether 1.0.0

The first full release. The pack moves from Minecraft 1.21.8 to Minecraft 26.3 on NeoForge 26.3.0.95 (Java 25). Worlds from 0.6 are not supported: start a new world. The 0.6 files stay online for 1.21.8.

New

• Play with a friend anywhere: turn LAN on (Esc, World Options…, Multiplayer) and e4mc gives you a link to send them. They paste it into Direct Connection. No router setup.
• Proximity voice chat (Simple Voice Chat): hear each other when you are close. Press V to set up your microphone. Works on LAN and on servers, not through an e4mc link.
• A minimap and a world map (Xaero's). Your friends show on the map, and you can share waypoints in chat.
• WorldLedger: a journal that remembers your places, chests and deaths. Send an entry to a friend so they can find it too.
• Village Standing: villagers remember how each of you treats them. Take on bounty board requests and earn better prices, gifts and golem help (press R).
• BlockByte Exchange: build crypto-mining machines and trade on the market, and start a co-op so friends share machines, research and payouts (press P).
• Cosy building: Macaw's Furniture, Lights and Lamps, and Paths and Pavings, on top of the Macaw's mods you already had.
• Cosy farming and cooking: right-click ripe crops to harvest and replant (RightClickHarvest), and a kitchen you can build together that shows what you can cook (Cooking for Blockheads).
• Better 2Gether Core, the pack's own small mod: endermen leave your builds alone, and in a new world one of two players in bed is enough to skip the night.
• A new title screen drawn for the pack: two friends at a campfire by a cosy cottage, the Better 2Gether logo, and a tidy button layout (Singleplayer, Multiplayer, Options and Quit, with Friends and Mods next to them). A matching loading screen and periwinkle buttons.
• The pause menu loses the Report Bugs and Give Feedback icons.
• A small "More from JustJosh99" button on the title screen opens my CurseForge page.
• Good default settings and key binds for new players, with the key clashes between the mods fixed (Default Options). Your own settings are never overwritten. Ping is on ` (the key under Esc), mute your microphone with J, new waypoint on N.

Changed

• Every mod is updated to its newest version for Minecraft 26.3.
• Dynamic Lights is now AtomicStryker's Dynamic Lights: hold a torch and the area around you lights up.
• The pack no longer ships old config files. Mods start with their own up-to-date defaults, apart from the few settings the pack changes on purpose.

Removed

• Essential: it has no NeoForge version for Minecraft 26.3. e4mc now covers inviting friends.
• Valx' EssentialF3, FastBoot, Goblin Traders, Yukami's Sophisticated Backpack Tab, the old Dynamic Lights [Server], Disable enderman picking up blocks, Additional Enchanted Miner, Golden Hopper and Pufferfish's Biome Dither: no versions for Minecraft 26.3 yet (Better 2Gether Core now stops endermen taking blocks).
• Scalable Cat's Force: no mod in the pack needs it any more.