BetterNether Neoforge
Modby Raijin2312
An unofficially maintained continuation of BetterNether for Fabric and NeoForge, bringing the latest BetterNether content to every supported Minecraft version alongside bug fixes, compatibility improvements, and expanded Nether world generation
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649,657
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223,454
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Last Updated
Nov 6, 2026
Description
BetterNether (Unofficial NeoForge Port)
This project is an unofficial NeoForge port of Paulev’s Fabric mod “BetterNether”, including bug fixes and a few small balance/quality tweaks. NeoForge only (not Fabric / not Forge). Required on: both client and server. Requires: BCLib, WunderLib, WorldWeaver.
About BetterNether
BetterNether makes adventures in the Nether more exciting by adding new biomes, plants, and materials. You’ll encounter new challenging monsters (like the Naga), explore dark dungeons taken over by Nether creatures, and use new tools with unique improvements to help you survive. Builders also get lots of unique 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
- Ability to farm some materials using plant farms and mob farms
- Many Nether structures, including big and rare Nether Cities
- Ability to configure presence of blocks, items, structures, biomes, and plant density (and a config GUI with the ModsMenu mod)
- Integrations with some other mods
Fixes and changes in this NeoForge port
- 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)
- 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)
Support / Issue reports
This is an unofficial NeoForge port. Please do not report issues to the official BetterX Team Discord or the upstream project, since they do not maintain this NeoForge version.
To report issues, use the GitHub linked below. If any issues arise due to the existence of this port and it affects the upstream community, please contact me directly.
Credits / Attribution
Original mod (Fabric): https://modrinth.com/mod/betternether
This project: unofficial NeoForge port + fixes (maintained by: Reijin2312)
Thanks to the contributors credited above for reports and suggestions
Links
Upstream source (Fabric): https://github.com/quiqueck/BetterNether
Upstream project page: https://modrinth.com/mod/betternether
BetterX Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kYuATbYbKW
Port issue tracker (GitHub): https://github.com/Reijin2312/BetterNether_Neoforge/issues
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