10/2/2022 UPDATE: This forums thread might be outdated, please refer to PlanetMinecraft, Modrinth, and the official Web site for the most up to date info.
BetterCraft is a mod for MineCraft Beta 1.7.3 that adds many new blocks, items, and animals to make the game more interesting.
Version 0.6 released!
Multiplayer compatible!
This mod required ModLoader, ModLoaderMP, and Minecraft Forge 1.0.6!
"Why such an old version!"
Beta 1.7.3 is the last version of MineCraft that doesn't have sprinting, hunger, experience, or potions.
Those features make the game less fun and noticeably easier.
While many of the later updates had some good additions such as the ability to place slabs and stairs upside-down, the damage has already been done, and playing Minecraft b1.8+ feels different than playing the older versions.
If you would like to see a feature from modern Minecraft back-ported and implemented into this mod, post it in the comments, and if I like it, I might implement it into the main branch of this mod.
I also plan on writing an "expansion pack" for this mod that would add sprinting and faster tools for those who prefer a more fast-paced game play style.
This mod is available under the MIT license, this means you can have it on your server, upload it to other sites,
use it in a modpack, or even sell it (although I doubt anybody would want to pay for it), as long as you credit me.
I encourage you to license your mods under permissive licenses as well.
Version 0.4.0 was released yesterday, it adds mangrove trees, rainforests, stone circles, new dungeons, and multiple new building blocks, among other things.
10/2/2022 UPDATE: This forums thread might be outdated, please refer to PlanetMinecraft, Modrinth, and the official Web site for the most up to date info.
BetterCraft is a mod for MineCraft Beta 1.7.3 that adds many new blocks, items, and animals to make the game more interesting.
Version 0.6 released!
Multiplayer compatible!
This mod required ModLoader, ModLoaderMP, and Minecraft Forge 1.0.6!
"Why such an old version!"
Beta 1.7.3 is the last version of MineCraft that doesn't have sprinting, hunger, experience, or potions.
Those features make the game less fun and noticeably easier.
While many of the later updates had some good additions such as the ability to place slabs and stairs upside-down, the damage has already been done, and playing Minecraft b1.8+ feels different than playing the older versions.
If you would like to see a feature from modern Minecraft back-ported and implemented into this mod, post it in the comments, and if I like it, I might implement it into the main branch of this mod.
I also plan on writing an "expansion pack" for this mod that would add sprinting and faster tools for those who prefer a more fast-paced game play style.
More screenshots:
Official Web site: https://mcl.sovnat.info/soft/bettercraft/index.htm
Similar mods that you may like:
- BetaExpansion
- Not So Seecret Saturday
- Better Than Adventure
- BetterBeta
- New Frontier Craft
- The Master Caver's World
List of features: (INCOMPLETE)
- Thatch
- Tomatoes
- Dynamite
- Boiled eggs
- Mangrove swamps
- Bark blocks
- Stone bricks
- Colored wood
- Adobe
- Hardened clay
- Copper
- Tungsten
- Mud
- Salt
- Spikes
- Chains
- Zinc
- Sandstone with hieroglyphics engraved in it
- Obsidian pressure plates
- Boulders
- Pyramids
- Sulfur
- Emeralds, emerald ores, and emerald blocks
- Rubies, ruby ores, and ruby blocks
Features that were in the b1.6.6 version of this mod and have to be ported to ModLoader first:
- Iron ladders
- Iron furnaces
- Oil
- Studded armor
- Fans
Planned features:
- Natural gas
- Ravines
- Better caves
- Abandoned mineshafts
- Cave biomes
- Swamps
- Extreme Forest (a biome with very tall trees)
- Colored wood slabs and stairs
- Strongholds like the one in the image below:
BetterCraft 0.7
Very Nice!
Thank you!
Version 0.4.0 was released yesterday, it adds mangrove trees, rainforests, stone circles, new dungeons, and multiple new building blocks, among other things.
BetterCraft 0.7
Can't find a 1.7.3 modloader to get this going
you can get it here https://mcarchive.net/
Hello! In the next update could you also add the early villages please? I always wanted to see them in-game but anyone made a mod for it.
Here's the official MediaFire download page: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vb5bq3aoitdkgx8/ModLoader B1.7.3.zip
Who do you think you are to tell me what to do?
BetterCraft 0.7