Minecraft B-Side

Minecraft B-Side is a datapack aiming to expand upon and interconnect many of the systems of Minecraft. The datapack is developed and released in 'tracks'; small to medium sets of features focused around a theme or system.

Track 1 - Overture

• Fourteen new music discs have been added to the game
• These include many songs from c418's Minecraft Volume Alpha & Beta that were never added to the game, as well as a few miscellaneous picks
• Most of these will be found in structures or otherwise via exploration
• Music Disc 11 can now be repaired

Track 2 - Enchanting

• Villagers and Enchantment Tables now only provide a small set of 'core' enchantments
• Enchanted books are distributed per structure - ie, structures will contain thematic enchanted books, such as fortune in a mineshaft
• A new spear enchantment, Poison Tipped, will poison enemies when hit
• Wearing a full set of level 4 projectile protection, blast protection, or fire protection armour will be strong enough to fully protect you from that damage type
• Frost Walker is now applicable to armour, and freezes a wider radius
• Impaling is effective against all mobs, but deals less damage
• Quick Charge charges much quicker, but deals less damage
• Anvil costs will no longer increase the more an item is repaired or enchanted
• Ocean Monuments and Witch Huts now both contain loot

Track 3 - Into The Jungle

• Jungle generation has been overhauled with taller and denser trees, forming a lower and upper canopy
• Mossy rocks, muddy lakes, leaf litter, and podzol now cover the ground (alongside jungle bushes)
• The jungle floor will at points be dark enough to spawn mobs during the day, including the bogged
• A new Poison Dart frog variant will spawn in jungles, and is poisonous to the touch
• Ocelots can be tamed again, and will keep their fur colour

Track 4 - Interactivity

• Four new Sulphur Cube archetypes have been added;
  • Magnetic (lodestone) - Will appear on the player locator bar up to 32 blocks away
  • Immovable (obsidian, crying obsidian) - Has no knockback, and is difficult to push
  • Floaty (end stones) - Low gravity, very bouncy
  • Thorny (cactus) - Similar to hot archetype
• Banners placed on top of lodestones will create a Waypoint on the player locator bar
• Cactus Flowers, Melons, and Glistening Melons are all now edible, and are all snack foods
• Bamboo can be caught while fishing anywhere
• Golden Dandelions can no longer be crafted
• Sniffers can now also sniff Pumpkin Seeds, Melon Seeds, Cocoa Beans, Beetroot Seeds, Golden Dandelions, and Chorus Flowers when on end stone
• Crafting doors now gives two doors; crafting trapdoors now gives 6 trapdoors, or 4 for metals
• Turtle Helmets give much longer water breathing, and minor respiration and aqua affinity
• Axolotls can be bred with Tropical Fish, not just Buckets of Tropical Fish
• Green Dye can be crafted with Blue and Yellow dye
• A bottle of ink or glow ink can be crafted with a bottle and an ink sac or glow ink sac, giving blindness or glowing respectively when thrown
• Respawn Anchors now function in all dimensions

This datapack is still in development! Many more tracks, as well as expansions to these tracks, are in the works and will be released in the future. If you have any feedback or find any bugs, feel free to message me @lostwillowtree on discord.