Better Step

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Better Step

A client-side Fabric mod that improves player stepping behavior when moving across uneven terrain.

Features

• Allows smoother step-up movement
• Adds controlled step-down behavior for small drops
• Prevents unsafe automatic step-down in survival-like modes
• Treats creative mode as always safe for step-down
• Does not trigger air step-up while the player is creative-flying
• Works on dedicated servers and in single-player worlds

Behavior

The mod improves movement across block-height changes by adding custom step-up and step-down handling.

Step-up behavior:

• Allows players to step up even when they are not fully grounded
• Helps reduce movement blocking when colliding with small ledges or uneven terrain
• Does not trigger while the player is flying
• Only applies to player movement

Step-down behavior:

• If the player moves forward without hitting an obstacle, the mod checks whether there is a reachable lower surface within step height
• If a valid lower surface is found, the player steps down smoothly
• If no reachable surface is found, the mod does not force the player downward
• In non-creative modes, step-down height is limited by the player’s safe fall distance
• In creative mode, step-down is treated as safe

Safety rules:

• Survival-like players will not automatically step down farther than their safe fall distance allows
• Creative players are considered safe and may step down up to their step height
• Flying players do not trigger air step-up

Supported Versions

• Minecraft 26.3
• Fabric Loader 0.19.5+
• Fabric API 0.160.5+
• Java 25

License

MIT