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Bits and Balance

Bits and Balance

Adds over 50 new features, mechanics, tweaks, client-side features, and balance changes.

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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21–1.21.1

Platforms

Supported environments

Client and server

Links

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Creators

OneNOnly
OneNOnlyAuthor
xBott
xBottArtist

Details

Licensed ARR
Published 3 months ago
Updated 2 months ago

Available on Modrinth Available on CurseForge Requires NeoForge

Bits and Balance is a mod focused on new features, game-balance, and smoother gameplay. Enemies scale in difficulty as you delve deeper into the world, and players gain new stances like sitting, crawling, and stance toggling. Combat is refined with anti one-shot protection and a reworked snowball. The mod adds numerous quality-of-life features that implement improved double door, ladders, and shields. The mod also adds new potions, expanded wandering trader trades, and several client-side improvements, creating a more polished and balanced Minecraft experience.

This mod will be expanding over time - adding new features within the world, more potions, recipes, and compatibility between other mods. We are looking for an additional artist - feel free to contact me.

Features

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Blocks & World Generation

  • Azalea Wood - Complete azalea wood set with custom tree generation, recipes, loot tables, and creative tab support
  • Coal Andesite Veins - Large Andesite-Coal deposits in the Overworld
  • Nether Gold Veins - Large Nether Gold-Blackstone deposits in Nether biomes
  • Nether Quartz Veins - Large Nether Quartz-Blackstone deposits in Nether biomes
  • Ore Variants - Replaces vanilla ores with host-stone variants during world generation, including Create zinc when installed
  • Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Toggle to remove random singular lava source springs in Nether terrain (off by default)

Client-Side Features

  • Auto Walk - Automatic walking functionality
  • Chat Heads – Player head icons render before chat messages with configurable sizing and positioning
  • Navigator Compass - Enter coordinates into your compass (future rework to Lodestone / Lodestone Compass coming)
  • Night Vision Fade - Smooth night vision transitions
  • Recovery Compass - Distance/coordinate display for recovery compass
  • Usage Ticker - Visual item usage progress

Combat Features

  • Maintain Experience - Players lose percentage of XP on death instead of most
  • Second Chance - Anti-one-shot mechanic with cooldown, resistance, and nausea effects
  • Snowball Rework - Snowballs deal damage and apply freezing effects

Enchantments

  • Aerodynamic - Treasure enchantment for Elytra that reduces horizontal drag by 50% based on altitude

Custom Potions & Effects

  • Displacement Potion - Random teleportation within 100-block radius
  • Haste Potion - Brewable haste effect
  • Levitation Potion - Brewable levitation effect
  • Resurfacing Potion - Teleports player to surface
  • Returning Potion - Teleports to latest death location
  • Withering Potion - Brewable wither effect potion

Loot Table Modifications

  • Custom Loot Tables - Add custom potions to various structure chests (mineshafts, strongholds, ancient cities, end cities, dungeons, trial chambers)

Mechanics Features

  • Campfires Ignite - Campfires cook entities standing on them
  • Chat Mentions - Username highlighting and ping sounds
  • Cozy Campfire - Regeneration effect near lit campfires
  • Coyote Time Jump - Jump after falling off blocks without jumping first
  • Crawling - Explicit crawling stance mechanic
  • Dismount Entities - Crouch+right-click to eject vehicle passengers
  • Door Knocking - Knock on doors with a keybind
  • Item Sharing - Shift+chat while hovering items to share in chat
  • Leashed Teleport - Leashed mobs follow through all teleportation
  • Navigator Compass - Right-click compass to set custom coordinates
  • Quick Harvesting - Right-click crops with hoes/axes to harvest and replant; Fortune gives +1 XP per level per crop
  • Rapid Fire Jump - Hold jump key for continuous jumping within 2-block tall gaps
  • Respawn Anchor Anywhere - Use Respawn Anchors in any dimension, not just the Nether
  • Sitting - Toggle or hold-to-sit functionality
  • Speedy Wolves - Tamed wolves move faster to keep up with owner
  • Tamed Teleport - Tamed mobs teleport to owner when following and out of range; less often than vanilla
  • Toggle Stance - Keybind to switch between standing/sneaking/crawling
  • Villagers Follow Emeralds - Villagers follow players holding emeralds / emerald blocks

Mob Modifications

  • Cave Spider Spawning - Cave spiders have a slight chance to replace spiders in caves
  • Disable Nitwits - Prevent nitwit villagers from spawning
  • Improved Phantoms - Pickup mechanics, slowness stacking, double damage when carried, Better Combat integration

Recipe Modifications

  • Alternative Map Recipe - Craft maps without a compass using paper and black dye
  • Alternative Repeater Recipe - Craft repeaters with redstone, sticks, and stone
  • Chest from Logs - Craft chests from logs (4 per recipe)
  • Dynamic Stair Recipe System – 8x stair output plus compact 2x2 stair recipes for all stair types
  • Ender Eye Recipe - Alternative ender eye crafting
  • Raw Block Smelting - Smelt/blast raw iron/gold/copper blocks
  • Recovery Compass Recipe - Improved recipe using less echo shards
  • Torch Fuel - Use torches as furnace fuel

Tweaks & Quality of Life

  • Armed Armor Stands - Armor stands spawn with arms
  • Brushing XP Rewards - XP from finishing brushable blocks
  • Compostable Items - Rotten flesh and poisonous potatoes can be composted
  • Creeper Sunlight Burn - Creepers burn in sunlight like zombies
  • Curse Uses - Hide pumpkin overlay with Curse of Vanishing
  • Despawn With Master - Vex despawn with Evoker, bullets with Shulker
  • Double Door Opening - Double doors open together, redstone mirroring
  • Enderdragon Egg Always - Every Ender Dragon kill spawns a configurable dragon egg
  • Glowing Glowberries - Glowberries give glowing effect when consumed
  • Improved Climbables - Chain placement and fast sliding on ladders
  • Improved Recovery Compass - Keep on death, show distance/coords, sculk particles
  • Keybind Modifier System – Global Shift/Alt/Ctrl modifier support for mod keybinds
  • More Mining XP - Increased XP from mining ores (vanilla + variants), configurable per ore
  • Responsive Shields - Remove shield blocking delay
  • Sophisticated Scaffolding - All drops appear at player location
  • Sugarcane Sand Growth – Sugarcane grows 25% faster on sand or red sand
  • Treasure Enchantment Gold Color - Treasure enchantments show in gold

Note: This list may not be 100% complete - there might be a feature or two that slipped through the cracks...if someone wants to help me make a Wiki and such. Please let me know!