Better Connections

🔗 Better Connections

Fences, walls and iron bars connect to each other — and to every modded block that uses the vanilla tags.

✨ Overview

Better Connections closes the ugly gap left where a fence meets a wall, or an iron-bar window meets a fence gate. Fences, walls and iron bars now join each other — and wall signs — into one continuous run. The connection rules are driven by block tags (minecraft:fences, minecraft:walls, minecraft:fence_gates, minecraft:wall_signs) plus the vanilla iron-bars block type, so modded fences, walls, gates and bars are picked up automatically when they are tagged the way vanilla expects — no per-mod patches, nothing to configure. A NeoForge, Fabric and Forge port of BetterWalls by Lemonnik6484 and JX_Snack (originally a Fabric mod), reworked and extended with the modded-block and wall-sign compatibility by Stalking Dragons. Distributed under the same license (AGPL-3.0). The change is purely visual — hitboxes, collision, redstone and mob pathing are untouched — and it is safe to add to or remove from an existing world at any time. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original authors.

🎯 Features

🪵 Fences

Fences connect to walls, other fences, iron bars and wall signs. No more floating fence post sitting a pixel away from the wall it should be joining.

⛓️ Iron Bars

Iron bars (and blocks that behave like them) connect to fences, fence gates and wall signs — ideal for windows, railings and mixed-material barriers.

🧱 Walls

Walls connect to fences and wall signs, on top of the wall / iron-bar / fence-gate connections they already make in vanilla. Hybrid fence-and-wall runs finally touch.

🧩 Modded blocks

Any fence, wall, fence gate or iron-bars-style block from another mod is included automatically when it uses the standard block tags. The compatibility rule is added once, on the vanilla connection logic, instead of listing blocks one by one.

⚡ Zero cost, no dependencies

Three small mixins on the vanilla connection checks. No config file, no commands, no runtime overhead, nothing else required.

🧱 Mod Structure

📋 Requirements

📦 Available Versions

The tables list the NeoForge, Fabric and Forge builds in that order (Fabric API is not required). All versions share this CurseForge project. Pick the file that matches your Minecraft version.

🎮 How to Use

1. Install NeoForge, Fabric or Forge for your Minecraft version (see the tables above; Fabric API is not needed).
2. Place Better Connections in the mods folder — on the server and on every client in multiplayer.
3. Launch the game. Connections apply immediately; there is nothing to configure.

🙏 Credits & License

Better Connections is a NeoForge, Fabric and Forge port of BetterWalls by Lemonnik6484 and JX_Snack (Fabric), reworked and extended by Stalking Dragons. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original authors.

License: GNU AGPL v3.0 (AGPL-3.0-only), the same license under which BetterWalls is published on Modrinth and CurseForge. Under its copyleft terms this port stays under the AGPL, keeps the original BetterWalls copyright, and its complete corresponding source is published at gitlab.com/stalking-dragons/minecraft/better-connections. The full licence text ships in the jar (META-INF/LICENSE) and in the repository LICENSE file.

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