Better Beta
Modpackby 69ShadesOfPeanut
Experience the nostalgic feeling of beta Minecraft inside of 1.20. Although some things were probably best left forgotten...
Description
Videos of Better Beta!
"A polished nostalgic experience"
"Best modern modpack I've tried"
In "Better Beta," you will relive the enchantment of Minecraft's early beta stages. Immerse yourself in the simplicity and charm of this bygone era as the modpack faithfully replicates the terrain generation, block textures, and gameplay mechanics of version 1.7.3. Rediscover the sense of wonder and adventure that captivated players in Minecraft's golden age.
But that's not all - this modpack offers new elements to elevate your adventure. Experience the beauty of changing seasons as the world around you transforms, bringing forth unique challenges and breathtaking vistas. Witness the transition from lush spring landscapes to the frozen wonders of winter, each season imbued with its own enchanting atmosphere. Along with other changes such as the soundtrack being limited to C418 music.
But beware, some things are best left forgotten in the shadows... Will you be the one to delve into the darkness and experience what it has to offer?
- A modern beta experience
- Enchantment system rework
- Beta terrain generation
- Seasons
- Only C418 music!
- A focus on exploration
- End remastered
- No sprint or hunger
- Beta textures
- Nostalgia
- Fabric + Optimisation
Better Beta is built from the ground up to replicate beta 1.7.3 Minecraft as close as possible while keeping the new features of Minecraft alongside optimisation and quality of life mods that just overall improve the gameplay experience.
- Is there a wiki?
Yes there is! it can be accessed through this link: https://betterbeta.wiki.gg/
- Is there a official MC or discord server?
There is! you can join the discord server Better Beta server here!
Or you can just enter the following IP: BetterBeta.modded.fun
- Why can't I access the end?
There is a mod called "End Remastered" that makes it so that you require various different unique eyes to open it.. These eyes can be found around the world, mostly through exploration.
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Recommended Gear
AffiliateHardware and extras that pair well with this modpack.
Minecraft Enderman Character Plush
Enderman plush toys, and a reliable gift for a younger player.
Mini PC for Self-Hosting
A low-power box that can sit in a cupboard and run a modded server around the clock.
LEGO Minecraft Set
Official sets that translate the building side of the game off-screen.
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Contained Mods (132)
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
Abuseless Hardcore
Few tweaks for hardcore mode
AdvancementJS
Configure more than advancements by KubeJS
Aileron
A unique Elytra overhaul and rebalance.
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
Anvil Repairing
Allows players to repair anvils in a way that feels vanilla.
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Armor Statues
Unlock the potential of armor stands! Works on servers with the Vanilla Tweaks data pack.
Balm (Fabric Edition)
Abstraction Layer for Multiplatform Mods
Better Third Person
Improves third-person camera view.
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu [FABRIC]
BisectHosting Server List Menu Integration for Fabric
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Borderless Mining
Changes Fullscreen to use a borderless window.
Cardinal Components API
API for data-driven content
Catalogue (Fabric)
A beautiful mod list for Fabric API
Chalk (Fabric)
Fabric port of the Minecraft mod Chalk by mortuusars with some additions.
Chalk (Fabric): Colorful Addon
Colorful Chalk for the Chalk mod
Chunks fade in
A simple mod that adds fade-in animation for chunks!
Clean Tooltips
Improving Tooltips by creating a clean and consistent look! Durability Tooltip & more!
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Conduits Prevent Drowned
❌ Disables drowned zombie spawns around the player when the conduit effect is active.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Convenient Name Tags
Lets you rename Name Tags by right clicking them in the air!
Copper Hopper
Hopper that acts as a simple item filter.
Couplings
Coupled usage of doors, fence gates, and trapdoors
CraftPresence
Completely Customize the way others see you play in Discord!
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Cursery[Forge/Fabric]
Adds 19 curses to the game, and gives enchanting the chance to apply one
Custom Default World Preset
This simple fabric mod allows you to change the default world preset.
Disable New Create World Menu - Fabric
Replace the new Create World Menu with the old menu! (Option to enable/disable this feature).
Disenchanter
A flexible Disenchanter because loot shouldn't go to waste
Elytra Trims
Lightweight and customizable support for elytra trims, patterns and dyes
EMI
Featureful and accessible modern item and recipe viewer with JEI compatibility
EMI Enchanting
EMI Plugin that gives basic enchantment information; valid items, exlcusions, etc.
EMI Loot
A loot drop (chest, block, entity) plugin for the EMI Recipe and Item viewer.
Enchanting System Overhaul
Changes the way items are enchanted to give players more control and reduce impact of RNG
End Remastered [Fabric]
Make your journey to the End more Challenging and Engaging with End Remastered!
Exposure
Camera mod with focus on process and aesthetics
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Fabric Seasons
A simple mod that adds seasons to the game, dynamically changing biomes as you play.
Falling Leaves (Fabric)
Makes leaf particles fall from leaf blocks
FancyMenu [Fabric] [MOVED TO NEW PROJECT]
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Faux Custom Entity Data
This API provides the framework and necessary patches for storing custom and persistent data onto entities.
FerriteCore (Fabric)
Memory usage optimizations
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
From The Fog
Enter a world of fear and mystery with From The Fog, a Minecraft mod that brings the legendary Herobrine to life in a sp...
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Global Packs
Automatically load your favorite data packs and resource packs globally across all your Minecraft worlds. A must have ut...
Go Fish
Fishing enhancement mod for Fabric.
Golden Days Base
A resource pack that will make your Minecraft look like Beta, or Alpha!
Harvest Enchantment
Enchantment to harvest crops with a hoe using right click
Hellion's Sniffer+
A Sniffer expansion, adding new behaviors to the Sniffer, an ancient cave biome, and several new Sniffer-related plants.
Iceberg [Fabric]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
Indium
Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo
IndyPets - Independent Pets (Fabric)
Free your pets from the curse of having to sit, let 'em roam!
Infinity Rework
Reworks and balances the infinity enchantment
Inventory HUD+
Adds your main inventory, potion effects and your equipments to your HUD. And few other features.
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Item Highlighter [Fabric]
Highlights newly picked-up items. Simple and convenient.
Item Obliterator (Modpack Utils Series)
JSON based item tweaking. Disable items, recipes, trades, creative tabs, JEI/REI/EMI, and more.
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Konkrete [Fabric] [MOVED TO NEW PAGE]
Just another boring library mod.
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.
Library Ferret - Fabric
Shared lib for the mods of jtorleon-studios-team
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
LootJS: KubeJS Addon
Add functionality for packdevs to modify global loot modifications through KubeJS
Lootr (Fabric)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Lootr Nostalgic Chests
Makes Lootr's chests use the model from Nostalgic Tweaks
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Mending Over Time
Tools with the mending enchantment slowly repair themselves over time
Menulogue
A wrapper mod that makes Mod Menu config entrypoint compatible with Catalogue
MidnightLib
Common library with a built-in configuration system
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Modern Beta [Fabric]
Generate Beta, Alpha, Infdev, and Indev terrain for modern Minecraft!
Modpack Update Checker
An update checker designed for modpacks!
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
More Banner Features
Banners on Horses, Boats, Happy Ghasts, as Capes, Hats, more layers and more!
MoreJS
A Minecraft mod to extend KubeJS with additional events.
Mouse Wheelie (Fabric)
A "small" clientside mod featuring item scrolling, inventory sorting, item refilling and more!
Necronomicon API
A personal utility library, making development in both platforms easier.
Nemo's Blooming Blossom
Generate pink petals when spawning a cherry tree!
NetherPortalFix (Outdated Versions)
Ensures correct destinations when travelling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
NiftyCarts
A Fabric Port of the AstikorCarts mod. It adds carts for travel, shipping and farming.
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
No Mob Farms
A mod that hampers mob farms, iron farms and raid farms
No Telemetry
Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a
No XP Anvils
Removes the XP cost from anvils
Nostalgic Tweaks (Fabric/NeoForge)
Brings back Minecraft alpha, beta, post-release lost gameplay elements. Made for nostalgic enthusiasts or for those who...
Old MC Logo
Brings back the old minecraft crafting table icon in your taskbar!
OPAL Shaders
Vanilla-inspired shaderpack for Minecraft Java Edition.
Open Parties and Claims
Adds the ability to claim chunks and make player parties, integrates with Xaero's Minimap and World Map
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
PerPlayerWanderingTraders
Modifies wandering trader spawning logic to be per player
Playlist
Take control of Minecraft's music
Polytone
Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Post Shaders, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifi...
ProbeJS
Greatly enhances your KubeJS scripting experience by adding VSCode support.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Rail Destinations
Mod port of the Civ Rail Switch plugin
Rare Ice (Forge/Fabric)
Adds rare ice into the world. Can you find them?
Realistic Fire Spread
Entities on fire will set fire to flammable blocks around them
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Restricted Portals
A mod that requires the obtainment of an item before allowing the player to enter a dimension.
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
Savage Ender Dragon[Forge/Fabric]
Overhauled ender dragon fight with new mechanics
Scholar
Two-page book editing/viewing, easy formatting, colored books, literate mobs and other book-related improvements
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
SeasonHud (Fabric)
Display the current season on the Hud or under the minimap
Server Country Flags
Shows the flag of where a server is located.
Shader Toggle
A streamlined shader experience for modpacks
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Sneaky Curses
Obfuscates curses so you no longer know what to expect! Are you taking the risk?
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Spyglass Improvements: Zoom, Quick Access... [Fabric/NeoForge]
Enhance Minecraft's Spyglass with adjustable zoom, quick access and various spyglass overlays. Versions for Fabric and F...
The Afterdark
A truly immersive Deep Dark alternative dimension with many secrets and resources hidden behind. Explore a new world bro...
Trample
Trampling that makes more sense
UniLib
A common set of Utilities, designed for over 50 versions of Minecraft!
Useful Spyglass
Viewing a mob or player with a spyglass displays some information on the screen. Also adds a unique enchantment for the...
VillagerConfig
A mod to completely customize villagers.
Voice Chat Interaction
Voice chat skulk sensor activation and warden detection
Wandering Collector
Wandering Traders trade lost items back to the player.
Way Much Faster Oxidize Reborn
Copper oxidizes faster when next to water!
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
Xaero's World Map
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Your Options Shall Be Respected (YOSBR)
Your options shall be respected.





