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Better Than Ocelots [a WORKING Modern Better Than Wolves Port & Faithful Updates!]

This a modern port / recreation of Better than wolves for Minecraft 1.21.1 - A complete hardcore realistic survival Minecraft conversion.
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Better Than Ocelots v1.8 MASSIVE Fixes, Balancing and New Items from BTW!

File nameBetter Than Ocelots.zip
Uploader
Gilly1313Gilly1313
Uploaded
Oct 22, 2026
Downloads
30
Size
119.4 MB
Mod Loaders
Fabric
File ID
9284576
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 1.21.1

What's new

Villagers & Trading

  • The Cartographer now levels up 1–5 like the other villagers, with new trades at every level
  • Explorer maps are permanent Cartographer trades, unlocked by level (ocean, desert, woodland, swamp, trial chambers, jungle, ancient city)
  • The Cartographer sells a Mending scroll at level 5
  • The trade screen holds 16 trades (was 12)
  • Every villager's trades now follow BTW, amounts are rolled anywhere in their range (e.g. 16–24), some trades come in variants, and some come up more or less often than others
  • The Cartographer's level 5 random map is a different map each time it comes back
  • Dark oak sapling trades accept Sturdy Trees' dark oak sapling too
  • Clicking a trade moves its ingredients from your inventory into the input slots
  • Arcane scroll trades cost 48 emeralds + 1 vellum (was paper)
  • The Farmer buys every overworld log type
  • The Farmer buys stakes + string

Piglin Bartering

  • Rebalanced: iron nuggets cut to 2–6, no Soul Speed iron boots, ender pearls and fire resistance potions are rare, no splash potions
  • New barters: nethercoal, hellfire dust, soul dust, ground netherrack, brimstone
  • New rare barters: nether groth spores, blood wood saplings, blaze powder
  • Obsidian, crying obsidian, leather, quartz, nether brick, soul sand and spectral arrows come less often or in smaller amounts
  • Piglin bartering shows in REI, with each item's chance and amount

New: Stake

  • Recipe: string over a wooden moulding makes 2 stakes
  • Place a stake on any solid face
  • Right-click a stake while holding string to run string to the next stake in the direction you're looking
  • Right-click it again to take the string down
  • Right-click the string to pluck it: it plays a note and tells you its length

New: Snow

  • Loose snow and loose snow slabs: they fall like sand, harden into solid snow in cold biomes and melt in warm ones
  • Recipes: 4 snowballs → loose snow slab, 8 → loose snow block (and back), snow block → solid snow, 8 snowballs piston-packed → solid snow
  • Snow layers pile up to 8 while it snows and slope at edges
  • Snow layers melt near bright light, slow you down, and drop one snowball each
  • A shovel digs 2 layers at a time

Stonecutter = Stone Saw

  • The stonecutter now works like the saw, but for stone: no screen, needs mechanical power, faces any direction, blade only moves when powered
  • Cuts every stone into sidings, mouldings, corners, columns, pedestals and tables
  • Has its own REI tab

Loom

  • New recipe: mouldings and slats on top, gears and an axle in the middle, planks or sidings at the bottom
  • Only takes power from its sides, back and bottom
  • 9 hemp → 2 fabric (crafting fabric by hand still works)
  • Fabric and rope can only be broken down in the loom: 2 fabric → 9 hemp, 1 rope → 6 hemp

Crafting & Recipes 

  • The anvil is now the crafting table (the crafting table recipe is removed)
  • All 12 wood types use BTW recipes: stairs, doors, trapdoors, buttons, pressure plates, signs, fences and gates
  • Blood wood, crimson and warped logs chop with an axe like the other woods
  • Hanging signs: 6 planks or sidings + 2 iron nuggets → 6
  • BTW recipes for the axes and the golden hoe
  • Stone stairs make 6, rails make 12, a clay block takes 9 clay balls
  • Arrows, broadhead arrows, map, pulley, hibachi, composite bow, bow drill, candles, ocular, spectacles, lead and comparator follow BTW
  • Hemp fibre works as a stone-tool binding
  • The soul forge makes 6 broadheads; the fletching table takes sticks only and makes 3 arrows
  • BTW food recipes: dinners, kebabs, sandwiches, chicken soup, scrambled eggs, omelette, bread dough, carrot cake (raw eggs where BTW uses them)
  • Gear box, turntable, boats and raft (from sidings too), wool slabs, carpets from wool, soil planter, infused wither skull, lens and screw follow BTW
  • Netherite chisel = 4 netherite nuggets; the netherite axe is made in the soul forge
  • Wheat → 2 seeds in the crafting grid
  • More break-down recipes: bow, bow drill, mashed melon, unfired pottery and bricks, bookshelf → books, pumpkin → carved pumpkin + seeds, and more
  • The saw cuts flesh, oyster and spider eye blocks, and wicker slabs
  • Many stoked crucible refunds and stoked cauldron rendering recipes added from BTW CE
  • Soups are cauldron-only; several leftover vanilla recipes removed

Piston Packing, Kiln & Turntable 

  • New piston packing: packed earth, soul sand, clay, bone block, loose blackstone / end stone / calcite / basalt and their loose bricks
  • Unfired nether bricks can be fired in the kiln or oven
  • Iron, gold and copper ore blocks give one nugget in the kiln
  • The turntable gives 2 clay per step

Stone & Chiselling

  • Loose slabs and stairs for tuff, blackstone, end stone, calcite and basalt
  • Solid end stone, calcite and basalt slabs and stairs
  • Calcite and basalt small stones, usable for stone tools and chisels
  • Every stone ends in its own depleted block when chiselled down
  • All ten cracked stones share one set of drop rules
  • Cracked stone textures change at each crack level, in each stone's own colour

Other Changes

  • Purple-moon phantoms: 1–3 spawn every minute of the night for the player who summoned the moon

Bug Fixes

  • Water-bottle bread dough can now be crafted, and gives the bottle back
  • Diamond pickaxes now get drops from cracked stone
  • Cracked calcite and basalt now drop items
  • Melons and pumpkins no longer burst when placed on slabs, saws and other partial blocks
  • Shears now work on dead bushes

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