BetterEnd: Before Dawn

BetterEnd (Unofficial Forge & Fabric Port) — Minecraft 1.20.1

This project is an unofficial port of BetterEnd to Forge & Fabric for Minecraft 1.20.1.
It includes new content from official 1.21.8+ fabric versions, various bug fixes and optimizations.

Required on: both client and server.
Requires: BCLib, WunderLib.

What this project does

Adds new content to The End: new biomes, blocks, items, mobs, world generation, and exploration features (see Features below).
Forge port includes Forge/1.20.1-specific bug fixes while keeping behavior as close to upstream as possible.

Latest BetterEnd Content on Forge & Fabric 1.20.1

BetterEnd: Before Dawn includes all new content introduced in the latest BetterEnd releases, fully adapted and backported to Minecraft Forge & Fabric 1.20.1.

Included New Content

• Datapack-customizable loot tables for all BetterEnd mobs
• Flower Islets biome
• Waterfall Ponds biome
• Ruined End Bridges
• Dragon-Helix trees and Amaranita patches
• Reworked End lakes and biome-specific shores
• BetterEnd boats and chest boats
• End Lotus Raft
• Chiseled Bookshelves for all End wood types
• Resonance I & II Hammer Enchantments – mine 3×3×3 and 5×5×5 areas
• Infusion Ritual recipes for Resonance enchanted books
• Built-in Infusion Recipe Book
• Visual construction guides for Infusion Pedestals and Eternal Portals
• LabPBR specular textures for supported End blocks and furniture

How this port differs from the original

• Loader/platform: Forge & Fabric (upstream is Fabric)
• Minecraft version: 1.20.1
• Changes: Forge/Fabric/1.20.1-specific bug fixes (see list below)
• New content from official 1.21.8+ fabric versions
• Support: this is an unofficial port; upstream authors do not maintain it

Fixes and changes in this Forge & Fabric 1.20.1 port

• Backport new content from official 1.21.8+ fabric versions
• Added compatibility with the TerraBlender library and mods that use it (Luminous Nether, Garden of the Dead, Biomes O’ Plenty, Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone, etc.)
• Partial compatibility with Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (C2ME) (thanks RedCraft86)
• Only use Bark wood variant for trees (thanks RedCraft86)
• Improved music system (thanks RedCraft86)
• Fix/wall plant facing crash (thanks Maeiro and magcicada)
• [Bug] The armor durability for thallasium and terminite are not working instead its a huge number that doesnt equal what the code says it should (thanks Komodile)
• [Suggestion] Thallasium is no longer treated as iron in common tags (thanks shadowwing85)
• [Suggestion] Renamed Dragonfly → Ender Dragonfly (entity + spawn egg) across all locales (thanks AcaGamer5)

About BetterEnd

BetterEnd expands and refreshes The End by adding new biomes and enhancing existing ones. Each biome has its own atmosphere, resources, and mobs. The mod also includes custom music, sounds, and effects to make exploration feel alive and interesting.

BetterEnd includes a custom End world generator and custom Central Island structures. With the new generator, End islands can have different shapes, terrain, and heights. Inside islands you can find caves with unique resources.

Features

• 24+ new biomes (more may be added later)
• 6 new mobs (with biome variations for some of them)
• Many new blocks, including 9 wood types and 7 new stone types
• Many new items, including new food sources, tools, armor, and weapons
• New mechanics like Infusion Rituals, Anvil Recipes, End tool progression, and others
• Integrations with other mods (example: 2 new sub-biomes for BYG biomes in 1.16 and some new plants for them)
• Custom End world generator (configurable) with more possibilities than vanilla
• Configs for blocks, items, mobs, enchants, and many other things

Credits / Attribution

Original mod (Fabric): BetterEnd by Paulev (and contributors).

Original project (upstream)

Upstream project page (Modrinth): https://modrinth.com/mod/betterend

Upstream source (GitHub): https://github.com/quiqueck/BetterEnd

Support / Issue reports

This is an unofficial Forge & Fabric port. Please do not report issues to the official BetterX Team’s Discord or the upstream GitHub, as they do not maintain this port.

For bugs and support related to this Forge/Fabric version, please use this port’s GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/Reijin2312/BetterEnd_Forge/issues

If any issues caused by this port affect the upstream community, please contact me directly.

BetterX Discord (upstream community): https://discord.com/invite/kYuATbYbKW