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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 v1.8.5-hotfix Fixed Broken Mob Spawning (sorry) + Block Drop Tweaks.

File nameBetter-Than-Ocelots.zip
Uploader
Gilly1313Gilly1313
Uploaded
Nov 12, 2026
Downloads
5
Size
85.4 MB
Mod Loaders
Fabric
File ID
9572666
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 1.21.1

What's new

 

Better Than Ocelots — v1.8.5-hotfix

Mob Spawning

  • Hostile mobs spawn on the surface at night again, in singleplayer and multiplayer - caves filled the whole monster limit and left the surface empty. The open surface, caves and deep caves now each have their own limit, and the numbers match vanilla Minecraft (caves had about 3.5 times and deep caves about 11 times as many)
  • Drowned spawn as rarely as in vanilla - they were spawning at every water spot the spawner picked

Tools & Mining

  • Every block now drops what it does in BTW for the tool and tool tier you use.
  • Gold tools work like stone tools everywhere
  • Copper pickaxes work like stone pickaxes, except they break stone, granite, diorite, andesite, calcite and their ores in one mine (with a stone pickaxe’s drops). Copper axes and shovels work like iron ones
  • Stone tools (and gold tools and the copper pickaxe) never get the full block from a block that needs a tool - they get its piles instead, e.g. 3 amethyst shards from an amethyst block, small stones from polished stone, nuggets from metal blocks, 6 small stones from an ore they can’t harvest. An iron tool or better gets the block
  • Magma blocks, lanterns, cisterns, anvils, cauldrons, block dispensers, buddy blocks, detector blocks and the piston shovel drop themselves to any pickaxe
  • Every tuff, blackstone, basalt and deepslate block - ores, bricks, tiles, polished, chiseled, stairs, slabs and walls - needs an iron pickaxe or better to mine at all (loose blocks excepted). Blackstone now counts as strata 2, like tuff

Breaking Blocks With the Wrong Tool

  • A block broken with too weak a tool drops its parts, like BTW - e.g. sandstone without a diamond pickaxe gives 16 sand piles, mossy cobblestone without an iron pickaxe 6 small stones; planks, stairs, fences, gates and trapdoors without an iron axe give sawdust, chests sawdust and sticks, bookshelves sawdust and books, and machines (gear box, hopper, saw, pulley, bellows, axle, screw pump) their parts
  • Cobblestone, stone bricks, nether bricks, their stairs and slabs and most loose blocks drop their loose version, even by hand
  • Copper and better shovels dig dirt, sand and gravel whole; stone and golden shovels give piles (except Clay Ore)
  • Wooden doors need an iron axe (6 sawdust otherwise); buttons, signs, ladders, crucibles, planters and the hand crank need no tool
  • Any axe takes a log whole. Crimson and warped stems and the bamboo block need an axe (sawdust - and soul dust for the nether stems - otherwise)
  • Netherrack and nylium need an iron pickaxe, the enchanting table a diamond one, the soul forge a netherite one
  • Terracotta (plain and dyed), red sandstone and every sandstone stair, slab and wall need a diamond pickaxe - sand or red sand piles otherwise
  • Concrete powder, coarse dirt, podzol, mud, packed mud, mud bricks (and their stairs, slabs and walls), soul soil and muddy mangrove roots need a shovel - piles otherwise (mud piles for the mud blocks)
  • Polished blackstone bricks, tuff bricks and deepslate tiles (and their stairs and slabs) need an iron pickaxe for the loose block, like deepslate bricks - lower pickaxes give 8 bricks
  • Bricks drop loose bricks with any tool; loose bricks give 1-3 bricks to anything but an iron pickaxe or better
  • Polished stones and end stone bricks drop themselves; end stone breaks whole with any pickaxe (no more chipping)
  • Both brick ovens give 4-9 bricks to any tool; smoker and blast furnace bricks give their bricks to any tool; the furnace breaks into 12-16 small stones
  • Trapped chests and chiseled bookshelves need an iron axe
  • The hamper needs an iron axe (9 wicker otherwise); the wicker basket gives 3 wicker to the wrong tool
  • The block of flesh needs a shovel
  • Leaves drop a sapling 1 time in 20 with any tool or by hand; shears keep the leaves
  • Sea lanterns drop 2-3 prismarine crystals - Silk Touch or a piston shovel keeps them whole

World Generation

  • River and swamp clay generates as Clay Ore (any shovel: 4 clay and 6 dirt piles); a clay block gives back all 9 clay balls

Bug Fixes

  • Dirt, grass, mycelium and podzol slabs dropped nothing when broken
  • Loose brick blocks, stairs and slabs dropped nothing to a pickaxe
  • The piston shovel couldn’t be mined
  • The dung block, concentrated hellfire block and flint block dropped nothing when broken
  • The game window is titled Better Than Ocelots again (another mod in the pack was renaming it)

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