This mod is designed for Forge. No port for fabric is planned, but feel free to make a port yourself (as long as you credit me in said port)

No matter how skilled at building you are, you've probably felt limited by Vanilla's block pallete in some way or another. NEB aims to fix this by adding Polished, Smooth, Chiseled, Cut, Brick, Tile, And Pillar variants of every major stone type, including Deepslate, Andesite, Granite, Diorite, Sandstone, Prismarine, Blackstone, Basalt, and End Stone. It also adds things that really should be in the game already, like Blue Nether Bricks to compliment your warped nether builds, or variants of Gilded Blackstone. Every Block is fully craftable in survival, and is designed to fit in with the vanilla Minecraft style.

how is this mod different than similar mods? (I.E. Chisel, Chipped, Etc.)

NEB is designed for maximum vanilla friendliness. unlike both of the above examples, there's no new tools or tables required, just the crafting table and the stonecutter. also unlike the above 2 (and many more,) I actually made each and every texture individually, instead of making 1 set of textures and recoloring them for each of the different stone types.

How many blocks are in this mod?

Approxamitely 200, though I admittedly lost track a few times :D