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Way Back When...

Do You want to experience Minecraft like it was way back in alphas or betas, but optimized & updated? Now you can play without hunger or sprint, find many new flowers, craft new tools & explore new dimensions! All in the visual style of minecraft beta
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Way Back When... 1.4

File nameWay Back When... 1.4.zip
Uploader
DukeWitequeDukeWiteque
Uploaded
Sep 4, 2026
Downloads
13
Size
297.1 MB
Mod Loaders
Fabric
File ID
8808360
Type
R
Release
Supported game versions
  • 1.20.1

What's new

ADDITIONS:
-Added a new obsidian block - Pale Obsidian (it generates in nether lava lakes)
-Added corn (obtainable by finding in loot chests/ throwing wheat onto a stone cutter)
-Added FastBoot mod to boost load Times
-Added new Otherside dimension accesed by killing the warden and activating a portal in the ancient city!
(blocks & items have been retextured/removed or repurposed to be appropriate with the core identity of my modpack)
-Added new text splashes


REWORKS & FIXES:
-Remade netherite armor into obsidian armor
-Creeeper, endermen & blaze variants are now more prevalent in spawning (before they were quite rare)
-Brick texture rework -> a lot of original brick textures have been changed to colored standard brick variants, now there are 5 brick colors: vanilla, blue, lime, brown & orange
-Prismarine is now uniform in color and a bit more contrastful
-Changed strawberry & corn crop textures to match other crops better
-Changed copper lampear block texture
-All special glass types have a distinct texture & color now
-Changed Abyss Cave portal block to 'reinforced pale obsidian' (you need to collect pale obsidian from the nether)
-Tweaked guardians to have real prismarine colors with a texture pack
-Echo items have a Purple tint now
-Sculk gleam has been turned into white glowstone
-Changed warped & crimson carpet textures
-Fixed block breaking particles for pear, copper lampear & corn
-Gloomy Geysers cannot be obtained in any way as they would render all other upward transport methods useless
-The stalker has a 10% Chance to drop a culk shell & it drops echo shards
-Renamed the otherside's fish to "Sculkysh"
-rebalamced all crop & sapling growth rates for seasons, now no crop grows during the winter!
Growth rates:
WINTER SAPLINGS: Dark oak, Spruce, Stone pine | CROPS: NONE
ALL SEASON(-winter) SAPLINGS: Mango, Jungle, Mangrove, Acacia
SUMMER/SPRING SAPLINGS: Cherry, Birch, Oak | CROPS Carrots, Potatoes, Corn
FALL CROPS: Pumpkins, Torchflowers, Beetroot, all berries
SUMMER CROPS: Strawberries, Melons
-Renamed poppy moobloom to Rosemoo
-Renamed all poppies to roses (overlooked before)

REMOVED FEAUTRES:
-Removed most content from the mod Nether Depths bcs after some though it doesnt' make sense for fish to exist in the nether & aquatic-like life. I also want the Nether to be different from the overworld.
In place of lava kelp variants there are now: pale obsidian & basalt geysers. They drop shards that can be crafted into blocks. 
-Removed Nears mod as I want the Nether to be a challenging and more different landcape than overworld
-Removed Sculkhyst geodes as they don't provide a useful enough feature to introduce a swath of new blocks, also the snapper is a mod that can be farmed for echo shards
-Removed unnecessary achievements & added an achievement for obtaining warden armor\
-Removed 3 roses as they had very similar colors to other existing roses
-Standard grass texture is now of the same color on all sides, 
this can be edited in the nostalgic tweaks mod menu

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