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BetterDefaultBiomes Mod for Minecraft 1.18.2

Mobs, Enchantments, Mob Arrows, Torch Arrows, Food, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Blocks, Trades, Tweaks and more!!

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📖 What does this mod do?

A highly configurable mod that tries to enhance the vanilla world with various tweaks and additions. I want to add lots more mobs, plants, structures, tweaks and other types of generation in the future.

BetterDefaultBiomes — screenshot 3

Some of the features

  • Adds 14 various mobs.
  • Difficulty of the new mobs depends on the difficulty setting.
  • Adds 3 new arrows.
  • New foods.
  • Adds new enchantments.
  • Adds 6 new advancements.
  • Adds 2 new trees and wood types.
  • Adds 12 different flowers and plants.
  • Adds 16 Trades (wandering trader & fletcher).
BetterDefaultBiomes — screenshot 4

Cross-compatibility

  • Enchantment Descriptions

Trading

Enchantments

Tools:

Enchantment name: Levels: Available on: Description

Smelting Touch 1 Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe Smelt Blocks when mining.

Armor

Enchantment name: Levels: Available on: Description

Scout 1-4 Helmet Mobs in a small area around the Player get the Glowing effect.

Weapons

Enchantment name: Levels: Available on: Description

Hunting 1-3 Bow, Crossbow Do more damage against animals.

Shields

Enchantment name: Levels: Available on: Description

Spikes 1-3 Shields Thorns for Shields.

Guard 1-2 Shields Knockback for Shields.

Horse Armor

Enchantment name: Levels: Description

Horse Protection

1-4 Like the Vanilla Protection Enchantment for the Player.

Horse Fire Protection

1-4 Like the Vanilla Fire Protection Enchantment for the Player.

Horse Feather Falling

1-4 Like the Vanilla Feather Falling Enchantment for the Player.

Horse Blast Protection

1-4 Like the Vanilla Blast Protection Enchantment for the Player.

Horse Projectile Protection

1-4 Like the Vanilla Projectile Protection Enchantment for the Player.

Floating

1 Horses float in water.

Neko's Enchanted Books adds unique textures for all the books in this mod.

Modpack Permission

You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted on CurseForge.

Videos:

  • Boodlyneck
  • bstylia14
  • AsianHalfSquat
  • GWPunch

Future Updates

I will try to keep the mod updated. So I'm working on 1.18 at the moment! However, I will not do earlier versions of Minecraft.

FAQ:

Is this mod compatible?

This mod should be compatible with all the other mods out there.

Known Bugs:

I'm aiming to fix all of these. Sorry for the inconvenience.

There are no known bugs at this time. Enjoy playing :)

Items disappearing when right clicking a Duck. [2.6.0 Fixed]

Items disappearing when right clicking a Zebra.

Happens when the Curios mod is also installed. [2.5.2 Fixed]

The Smelting Touch enchantment doesn't work correctly with Fortune when breaking some modded ores. [2.5.3 Fixed]

How to install BetterDefaultBiomes

  1. Install Millida Launcher

    The launcher is free: download it at millida.net/launcher and sign in with any nickname.

  2. Click “Install” on this page

    The launcher opens and installs the mod for Minecraft 1.16.3–1.18.2 on Forge automatically.

  3. Launch the game

    A profile with it appears in the launcher: click “Play”.

Minecraft 1.18.2 runs on Java 17: with a different Java version the game may close right after launch.

Versions

With dependencies

MinecraftLoaderFileDateActions
1.18.2ForgeBetterDefaultBiomes-1.18.2-Alpha 3.1.0.jar1.5 MB
1.16.4ForgeBetterDefaultBiomes-1.16.4-Alpha 2.5.0.jar1.2 MB
1.16.3ForgeBetterDefaultBiomes-1.16.3-Alpha 2.2.0.jar870 KB

FAQ

Which Minecraft versions does BetterDefaultBiomes work on?

There are files for 1.18.2, 1.16.4, 1.16.3. The newest is 1.18.2.

Is BetterDefaultBiomes for Forge or Fabric?

Only for Forge: 1.16.3–1.18.2. There are no files for Fabric or NeoForge: a mod for another loader will not start.

Does BetterDefaultBiomes need other mods?

The author lists no required dependencies: the Forge loader is enough.

Which Java does BetterDefaultBiomes need?

Minecraft 1.18.2 runs on Java 17. If the game closes right after launch, the usual cause is the wrong Java version in the profile settings.

How do I download BetterDefaultBiomes?

With Millida Launcher: it installs BetterDefaultBiomes into a modpack by itself, for the right game version and loader. The launcher is free.

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