Beyond & More 4.1.0 — Wood & Storage Update

This update brings Beyond & More 4.1.0 to Minecraft 26.2, introducing expanded wooden storage options, improved crafting mechanics, and visual fixes across all three supported mod loaders.

New Features

• Added 12 wood variants of chests, trapped chests, and barrels, including Pale Oak.
• Added matching textures and inventory models for wooden storage blocks.
• Improved the organization of storage blocks in the Creative Mode inventory.

Crafting Improvements

• Crafting a chest using a single wood type now produces the corresponding wooden chest.
• Mixing different wood types produces the vanilla Minecraft chest.
• Crafting a barrel using matching wooden planks and slabs produces the corresponding wooden barrel.
• Mixing wood types produces the vanilla Minecraft barrel.
• Added matching trapped chest recipes using wooden chests and tripwire hooks.
• Updated alternative chest recipes using logs and wooden slabs.
• Fixed conflicting recipes that previously produced incorrect crafting results.

Visual Improvements

• Improved wooden chest inventory models, including metallic latches.
• Corrected Oak and Birch barrel textures to better match their respective planks.
• Improved consistency between placed blocks and inventory representations.
• Preserved Minecraft 26.2-specific textures and rendering systems.

Technical Improvements

• Updated custom crafting recipe registration for Minecraft 26.2.
• Improved compatibility across NeoForge, Forge, and Fabric.
• Removed conflicting legacy barrel recipes.
• Improved resource packaging and removed obsolete development files.
• Preserved all 320 supported language locales.
• Maintained existing Beyond & More features, including recycling mechanics, alternative construction recipes, and the Survival Debug Stick.

Compatibility

• Mod version: 4.1.0
• Minecraft version: 26.2
• Supported loaders: NeoForge, Forge, Fabric
• Java version: 25

Testing

• Visual testing successfully completed on all three loaders.
• All three release JARs compiled successfully.
• Verified embedded mod version metadata, crafting recipe files, textures, and language resources.
• All three release archives passed ZIP integrity checks.
• Removed obsolete resource files from the Forge release package.

Thank you for playing Beyond & More!