🧱 Dawn Of Time: Beyond Vanilla

Dawn Of Time: Beyond Vanilla is a Minecraft mod that expands the vanilla building palette with hundreds of new block variants using the Dawn of Time block templates. Every block uses an existing vanilla material, giving builders far more freedom to detail and decorate their constructions without leaving the vanilla aesthetic.

What this mod adds

For a large selection of vanilla materials, this mod introduces new block shapes that do not exist in the base game:

Block type Description Plate Half vertical blocks. Supports inner and outer corners. Edge Half slab, similar to a plate but placed on the lower half of a face. Also supports corners. Support Slab A slab with a structural cutout, useful for framing and detailing the ceiling. Support Beam A beam is added below the support slab. Beam A connected pillar with a wooden beam and a thicker base. Pergola Thinner beam, useful for gardens and covered walkways. Lattice A decorative cross grid panel, good for outdoor decoration. Stairs / Slabs / Walls Filling in the gaps: vanilla materials that were missing one of these standard shapes now have them.

Materials covered

The mod covers virtually every major vanilla material group:

All wood types (Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Cherry, Mangrove, Bamboo, Crimson, Warped), including leaf variants for Plates and Edges
Stone, Cobblestone, Stone Bricks and their cracked and mossy variants
Deepslate and all its variants (Cobbled, Polished, Bricks, Tiles, Cracked)
Sandstone, Red Sandstone, Cut and Smooth variants
Bricks, Mud Bricks, Packed Mud
All 16 colors of Concrete and Terracotta
Nether materials (Netherrack, Nether Bricks, Cracked Nether Bricks, Red Nether Bricks, Nylium, Soul Sand, Soul Soil)
Minerals (Coal, Iron, Gold, Lapis, Diamond, Netherite)
Copper (all waxed oxidation stages)
Amethyst, Quartz, Prismarine, Calcite, Tuff, Dripstone, Blue Ice
Natural blocks (Dirt, Sand, Gravel, Grass, Podzol, Clay, Moss and more)

Unique block sorting system

This mod is sharing the same Dawn of Time inventory system, allowing custom tabs and subtabs. All the blocks are sorted in 4 categories:

Building
Naturals
Colored
Dimensions

This tab sorting architecture helps to memorize the blocks emplacements and make the process of finding between all the blocks way easier and smoother.