BetterNether: New Dawn

An independently maintained continuation of BetterNether for modern Minecraft versions

BetterNether: New Dawn is an unofficial continuation of BetterNether for Fabric, Quilt, and NeoForge.

The project continues maintenance of the original BetterNether experience with bug fixes, compatibility improvements, selected balance changes, quality-of-life improvements, and support for modern Minecraft versions and mod loaders.

Check the Versions tab before downloading and make sure you select the correct file for your Minecraft version and mod loader.

Required on both the client and server.

Latest BetterNether Content on Every Supported Version

New Dawn includes all content introduced in the latest BetterNether releases across every supported Minecraft version - including Minecraft 1.21.1.

All additions have been integrated and adapted for the corresponding Minecraft version and mod loader.

Included New Content

• The complete Gloomwood biome
• Bleached, Veined, and Molten Gloomsculk terrain
• Gloomwood trees, leaves, saplings, grass, and vegetation
• Gloomsculk geodes, crystals, vines, and lamps
• Interactive glowing Gloomwisps
• Complete Gloomwood and Dark Gloomwood building sets
• Gloomwood boats and chest boatsNew furniture, containers, signs, and decorative blocks
• Three new biome music tracks and collectible music discs
• New advancements, block mechanics, particles, sounds, and world-generation features
• Natural Gloomwood groves, sparse grove edges, and solitary trees
• Rare Bleached Gloomwood trees with inverted foliage and Ancient Debris beneath their roots
• Massive multi-chunk lava lakes. Search command: /locate structure betternether:mega_lava_lake
• 2×2 giant Willow Tree growth
• Optional 2×2 giant Anchor Tree growth via gamerule: /gamerule betternether:grow_large_anchor_trees true
• Gloomwood Sapling support for Cincinnasite Pots
• Chiseled Bookshelves for every single BetterNether wood set
• Added new spawn egg artwork for the Naga, Jungle Skeleton, Flying Pig, Hydrogen Jellyfish, and Skull
• Fire Ruby retaliation now activates on half of eligible hits instead of one quarter (50% chance instead of 25%)
• Flaming Ruby equipment can now be repaired with Gloomsculk Crystals and Gloomsculk Geode Crystals
• Obsidian Breaker now mines netherrack, Nether ores, glass, and glass panes faster
• Hook Mushroom now converts only Awkward Potions into Healing Potion
• Gamerule for disabling Blue Obsidian in generated ruined portals: /gamerule betternether:generate_blue_ruined_portals
• LabPBR specular textures

Required dependencies

• BCLib: New Dawn
• WunderLib: New Dawn
• WorldWeaver: New Dawn

Supported platforms

• NeoForge
• Fabric
• Quilt, through the compatible Fabric edition

Platform availability may differ between Minecraft versions.

About BetterNether

BetterNether makes adventures in the Nether more exciting by adding new biomes, plants, materials, mobs, structures, tools, food, building blocks, and world-generation features.

You will encounter challenging creatures such as the Naga, explore dark dungeons occupied by Nether mobs, discover large and rare Nether Cities, and use new tools and materials to improve your chances of survival.

Builders also receive many unique decorative blocks and additional variants of familiar vanilla blocks.

Features

• Dozens of new plants for the Nether
• New Nether mobs
• New unique biomes
• Vertical and volumetric biome system supporting other mods and datapacks
• Many new materials, recipes, food, tools, and items
• Farmable resources through plant and mob farms
• Many Nether structures, including large and rare Nether Cities
• Configurable blocks, items, structures, biomes, and plant density
• Configuration-screen support through Mod Menu on Fabric
• Integrations and compatibility with other mods

Fixes and changes in this project

• Fixed: crash when clicking on the Respawn Statue
• Fixed (datagen): the automatic tag provider only looked at blocks with the BlockTagDataProvider interface and ignored blocks with the org.betterx.wover.block.api.BlockTagProvider interface (such as BlockTerrain). As a result, runData was writing to wover:surfaces/nether/terrain only what came from other sources
• Change (suggestion): removed the Sculk Catalyst from loot tables (thanks Yukiroshi). It was too easy to obtain Fireruby gear early; now you’ll have to pay a visit to the Warden
• Change (suggestion): full translation for ru_ru.json (thanks FO13E)
• Fixed: Cincinnasite furnace does not drop when mined in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
• Change (suggestion): new name for moss cover in the Russian translation (thanks happykgit)
• Fixed: “flying block” issue in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
• Fixed: Golden vine does not drop in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
• Fixed: Hook mushroom does not drop in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
• Fixed: Giant lucis drops loot twice in 1.21 (thanks happykgit)
• Fixed: Eye Plants not dropping loot (thanks Myrrium)
• Fixed: missing loot tables and incorrect vanilla and common block tags.
• Fixed: broken plant survival checks and incorrect bone meal behavior.
• Fixed: Eye Vine and Whispering Gourd Vine behavior.
• Fixed: incorrect Statue Respawner and Ruby Fire behavior.
• Fixed: incorrect firefly color packing.
• Fixed: Rubeus leaves not decaying correctly.
• Fixed: Rubeus tree generation issues.
• Fixed: duplicate vine drops.
• Fixed: broken Feather Fern models.
• Fixed: Nether Cities intersecting Nether Fortresses, Bastion Remnants, caves, trees and vegetation during generation.
• Fixed: slim armor rendering incompatibilities with 3D Skin Layers and vanilla player rendering.
• Fixed: incompatibility with Tech Reborn that prevented world creation and caused crashes after deleting worlds (26.3).
• Change (compatibility): added Copper Golem support for modified wooden chests.
• Change (suggestion): prevent the Fireruby pickaxe from smelting ores when it has the Silk Touch enchantment (thanks TimVincii)
• Fixed: Fireflies do not spawn from monster spawners (thanks nothingtown)
• Change (suggestion): changed all fire bowl blocks to use lit instead of fire (thanks Cicopath)
• Change (suggestion): Nether Brewing Stand now brews 2× faster, 200 ticks; UI progress remains correct (thanks AcaGamer5)
• Change (suggestion): Willow wood renamed to Nether Willow in all languages, with native localized wording (thanks AcaGamer5)

How this project differs from upstream

The original BetterNether project is maintained by the BetterX developers.

BetterNether: New Dawn is an independent community continuation that maintains additional Minecraft versions and mod-loader editions.

The project focuses on:

• continued maintenance of the Fabric edition;
• compatibility with Quilt through the Fabric edition;
• support for modern NeoForge versions;
• compatibility fixes required by different mod loaders;
• selected balance and quality-of-life changes;
• support for newer Minecraft versions;
• compatibility with other biome and world-generation mods;
• consistency across the New Dawn ecosystem.

BetterNether: New Dawn is not maintained, endorsed, or officially supported by the original BetterNether developers or the BetterX Team.

Support and issue reports

Please do not report New Dawn-specific issues to the upstream BetterNether repository, the original developers, or the official BetterX support channels. They do not maintain this continuation.

For crashes, bugs, compatibility problems, and other issues affecting BetterNether: New Dawn, use the New Dawn issue tracker:

BetterNether: New Dawn issue tracker

When reporting a problem, include:

• Minecraft version
• Mod loader and loader version
• BetterNether: New Dawn version
• BCLib, WunderLib, and WorldWeaver versions
• Complete mod list
• Latest log or crash report
• Clear reproduction steps

New Dawn community

Join the New Dawn Discord

Source code

BetterNether: New Dawn on GitHub

BetterNether: New Dawn is independently maintained by Raijin.

Credits and attribution

BetterNether was originally created by Paulev and its contributors.

The original artwork and the majority of the original code belong to their respective creators, contributors, and the BetterX Team.

BetterNether: New Dawn is an independent, unofficial continuation maintained by Raijin.

Thanks to everyone credited in the fixes and changes section for their reports, suggestions, translations, and contributions.

Original project

• Original BetterNether project on Modrinth
• Upstream source code

Upstream community

BetterX Discord

The BetterX Discord is provided only as a link to the upstream community. Do not use it to request support for New Dawn-specific problems.

License

BetterNether: New Dawn is distributed under the licensing and attribution terms included in its source repository.

Review the repository license files before modifying or redistributing the project or its assets.