BetterEnd: New Dawn

Better End: New Dawn

Better End: New Dawn is an actively maintained, unofficial continuation of BetterEnd for Fabric and NeoForge.

New Dawn keeps BetterEnd available across multiple Minecraft versions while adding continued maintenance, compatibility improvements, bug fixes, configuration options, and new content.

Latest BetterEnd Content on Every Supported Version

New Dawn includes all content introduced in the latest BetterEnd releases across every supported Minecraft version - including Minecraft 1.21.1.

All additions have been integrated and adapted for the corresponding Minecraft version and mod loader.

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
• Shelves for all End wood types (1.21.11, 26.1.x, 26.2)
• Thallasium, Terminite and Aeternium Spears (1.21.11, 26.1, 26.2)
• New blocks, plants, structures, and world-generation features

   Fixes and improvements

• New content from official fabric versions available on 1.21.1!
• Added compatibility with the TerraBlender and Lithostitched libraries and mods that use it (Luminous Nether, Garden of the Dead, Biomes O' Plenty, Oh The Biomes We've Gone, Regions Unexplored, etc.)
• Added config to disable biomes and structures
• Partial compatibility with Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (C2ME) (thanks RedCraft86)
• Only use Bark wood variant for trees (thanks RedCraft86)
• Improved music system (thanks RedCraft86)
• Crystalite leggings now correctly grant +4 Max Health (thanks Lemur0313)
• Fixed 1.21.1 armor issues (thanks JsHash565)
• Fixed disorganized creative tab and wrong third-person item holding position on 1.21.1 (thanks This1Potato)
• Dragon Tree saplings now render correctly in Violecite Flower Pots on 1.21.1 (thanks Verse-V)
• Fixed incompatibility with Sodium Mod (thanks yzi1b)
• Fixed end vegetation (grass, mushrooms, etc) wont generate under land masses (thanks xg787)
• Fixed end crops do not grow naturally
• Thallasium is no longer treated as iron in common tags (thanks shadowwing85)
• Renamed Dragonfly → Ender Dragonfly (entity + spawn egg) across all locales (thanks 

  AcaGamer5)

• Added complete Ukrainian (uk_ua) localization.
• Added customizable loot tables for all BetterEnd mobs, allowing mob drops to be modified using datapacks and /reload.
• Added crafting recipes for Dense Snow (4 Snow Blocks → 1 Dense Snow → 16 Snowballs).
• Snow Golems can now be constructed using Dense Snow.
• Made Amaranita renewable by allowing Amaranita Hymenophores to be crafted into Small Amaranita Mushrooms.
• Added proper enchanting support for Aeternium, Crystalite, Terminite and Thallasium armor.
• Added support for Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, Unbreaking and Mending on hammers.
• Added composting support for previously unsupported foliage, mushroom caps, fur blocks, Jellyshroom blocks and Needlegrass.
• Fixed Amaranita stems not being recognized as axe-mineable blocks.
• Fixed Umbrella Cluster Juice not using the proper drinking animation.
• Fixed incorrect Flammalix inventory texture.
• Fixed Brimstone not growing Sulphur Crystals due to missing random ticks.
• Fixed broken End Crystal textures on pedestals.
• Fixed item duplication with Infusion Pedestals.
• Fixed End Fish crashing when damaged or killed by non-player sources.
• Fixed freezing-vulnerable mobs spawning on Ancient Emerald Ice.
• Fixed Respawn Obelisks not clearing linked player respawn points when destroyed.
• Fixed Elytra wing rendering issues with animation mods such as Fresh Animations.
• Fixed unintended changes to End Slime, End Fish, Cubozoa and Silk Moth drops after loot table migration.
• Fixed server freezes caused by excessive synchronous chunk generation during Eternal Portal exit searches.
• Fixed invalid Eternal Portal IDs and Eternal Rituals activating without a central pedestal.
• Fixed concurrent wall and ceiling plant generation crashes.
• Fixed mountains and lakes being cut off after world reloads.
• Prevented Crashed Ships and End Lotus Leaves from generating outside their permitted world generation areas.
• Fixed End path generation, Umbrella Tree Cluster regeneration and invalid sapling soil checks.
• Fixed incorrect Sulphur Crystal drops and missing regular furnace recipes for End food.
• Fixed incorrect waterlogged states in crystal and world generation features.
• Restored missing vanilla and common tags for Thallasium and Terminite bars and chains.
• Fixed missing flower pot tags and restored normal liquid wash-away behavior.
• Fixed registry identifiers depending on the operating system locale.
• Fixed Palladium not generating in Umbra Valley (1.21.1).
• Fixed server-side particle crashes (26.2).
• Added a configuration option to control guidebook rewards when entering an End Gateway.
• Improved compatibility with animation mods by separating the armored elytra renderer from the vanilla Elytra render layer.
• Renamed "Endstone Flower Pot" to "End Stone Flower Pot".

About Better End

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

Support and issue Reports

Better End: New Dawn is an independent, unofficial continuation and is not maintained by the original BetterEnd developers.

Please do not report issues specific to New Dawn to the official BetterX Team Discord or the upstream BetterEnd GitHub repository.

For bugs and support related to this project, please use the New Dawn GitHub issue tracker linked below. If any issues caused by New Dawn affect the upstream community, please contact me directly.

Credits / Attribution

BetterEnd was originally created by Paulev and its contributors.

Better End: New Dawn is an independent, unofficial continuation for Fabric and NeoForge and is maintained by Raijin.

Special thanks to everyone credited above for reporting issues, contributing fixes, and testing the project.

Better End: New Dawn is not maintained or endorsed by the original developers.

Links

• Upstream source (Fabric): https://github.com/quiqueck/BetterEnd
• Upstream project page: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/betterend
• New Dawn Discord: https://discord.gg/BHxhJSn5uR
• BetterX discord: https://discord.com/invite/kYuATbYbKW
• New Dawn issue tracker (GitHub): https://github.com/Reijin2312/BetterEnd-New-Dawn

BetterEnd: New Dawn

An independently maintained continuation of BetterEnd for modern Minecraft versions

BetterEnd: New Dawn is an unofficial continuation of BetterEnd for Fabric and NeoForge.

The project continues maintenance of the original BetterEnd experience with bug fixes, compatibility improvements, loader-specific changes, and support for modern Minecraft versions.

Check the Versions tab before downloading and make sure you select the correct file for your Minecraft version and mod loader.

Latest BetterEnd Content on Every Supported Version

New Dawn includes all content introduced in the latest BetterEnd releases across every supported Minecraft version - including Minecraft 1.21.1.

All additions have been integrated and adapted for the corresponding Minecraft version and mod loader.

Improvements and Fixes

• 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
• Shelves for all End wood types (1.21.11, 26.1.x, 26.2)
• Thallasium, Terminite and Aeternium Spears (1.21.11, 26.1, 26.2)
• New blocks, plants, structures, and world-generation features

Required on both the client and server.

Required dependencies

• BCLib: New Dawn
• WunderLib: New Dawn
• WorldWeaver: New Dawn

Supported platforms

• NeoForge
• Fabric
• Quilt, when using a compatible Fabric build and Quilt environment

Platform availability may differ between Minecraft versions.

Fixes in this project

• 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)
• [Bug] Crystalite leggings now correctly grant +4 Max Health (thanks Lemur0313)
• [Bug] Fixed 1.21.1 armor issues (thanks JsHash565)
• [Bug] Fixed disorganized creative tab and wrong third-person item holding position on 1.21.1 (thanks This1Potato)
• [Bug] Dragon Tree saplings now render correctly in Violecite Flower Pots on 1.21.1 (thanks Verse-V)
• [Bug] Incompatibility with Sodium Mod (thanks yzi1b)
• [Bug] End vegetation (grass, mushrooms, etc) wont generate under land masses (thanks xg787)
• [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)
• Added complete Ukrainian (uk_ua) localization.
• Added datapack-editable loot tables for all BetterEnd mobs, with support for /reload, including mobs that previously only dropped experience.
• Added Dense Snow crafting recipes: 4 Snow Blocks → 1 Dense Snow, and 1 Dense Snow → 16 Snowballs.
• Snow Golems can now be built using Dense Snow.
• Amaranita is now renewable: 1 Amaranita Hymenophore → 4 Small Amaranita Mushrooms.
• Added proper enchanting support for Aeternium, Crystalite, Terminite and Thallasium armor.
• Hammers now support Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, Unbreaking and Mending.
• Added composting support for additional BetterEnd foliage and mushroom blocks.
• [Suggestion] Amaranita stems are now correctly recognized as axe-mineable blocks.
• [Suggestion] Umbrella Cluster Juice now uses the proper drinking animation and behavior.
• [Bug] Fixed the Flammalix inventory model using the block texture instead of the correct item texture.
• [Bug] Restored Brimstone random ticking, allowing Sulphur Crystals to grow correctly.
• [Bug] Fixed broken End Crystal textures when placed on pedestals.
• [Bug] Fixed item duplication involving Infusion Pedestals.
• [Bug] Fixed End Fish crashes caused by non-player damage sources.
• [Bug] Fixed freezing-vulnerable mobs spawning on Ancient Emerald Ice.
• [Bug] Destroying a Respawn Obelisk now correctly clears linked player respawn points.
• [Bug] Fixed duplicated or incorrectly positioned Lytra wings with player animation mods such as Fresh Animations.
• [Bug] Preserved the original End Slime, End Fish, Cubozoa and Silk Moth drop balance after migrating to loot tables.
• [Bug] Fixed server freezes caused by excessive synchronous chunk generation when searching for Eternal Portal exits.
• [Bug] Fixed invalid Eternal Portal IDs and Eternal Rituals activating without a central pedestal.
• [Bug] Fixed crashes caused by concurrent wall and ceiling plant generation.
• [Bug] Fixed End mountains and lakes being cut off after reloading worlds.
• [Bug] Prevented Crashed Ships and End Lotus Leaves from generating outside their intended world generation boundaries.
• [Bug] Fixed End path generation, Umbrella Tree Cluster regeneration and incorrect sapling soil checks.
• [Bug] Fixed incorrect Sulphur Crystal drops and missing regular furnace recipes for End food.
• [Bug] Fixed incorrect waterlogged states in crystal and world generation features.
• [Bug] Restored missing vanilla and common tags for Thallasium and Terminite bars and chains.
• [Bug] Fixed missing flower pot tags and restored proper liquid wash-away behavior.
• [Bug] Fixed registry identifiers depending on the operating system locale.
• [Bug] Fixed Palladium not generating in Umbra Valley (1.21.1).
• [Bug] Fixed End crops not growing naturally (1.21.1).
• [Bug] Fixed server-side particle crashes (26.2).
• [Suggestion] Added a configuration option to control guidebook rewards when entering an End Gateway.
• Improved compatibility with player animation mods by separating the armored elytra renderer from the vanilla Elytra render layer.
• [Suggestion] Renamed "Endstone Flower Pot" to "End Stone Flower Pot".

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 and attribution

BetterEnd was originally created by Paulev and its contributors.

The original artwork and the majority of the original code belong to their respective creators, contributors, and the BetterX Team.

BetterEnd: New Dawn is an independent, unofficial continuation maintained by Raijin.

Original project

• Original BetterEnd project on Modrinth
• Upstream source code

New Dawn source code

• BetterEnd: New Dawn on GitHub

Support and issue reports

BetterEnd: New Dawn is not maintained, endorsed, or officially supported by the original BetterEnd developers or the BetterX Team.

Please do not report New Dawn-specific issues to the upstream BetterEnd repository or the official BetterX support channels.

For crashes, bugs, compatibility problems, and other issues affecting BetterEnd: New Dawn, use the New Dawn issue tracker:

BetterEnd: New Dawn issue tracker

When reporting a problem, include:

• Minecraft version
• Mod loader and loader version
• BetterEnd: New Dawn version
• BCLib, WunderLib, and WorldWeaver versions
• Complete mod list
• Latest log or crash report
• Clear steps to reproduce the problem

New Dawn community

Join the New Dawn Discord

Upstream community

BetterX Discord

The BetterX Discord is provided only as a link to the upstream community. Do not use it to request support for New Dawn-specific problems.

License

BetterEnd: New Dawn is distributed under the licensing and attribution terms included in its source repository.

Review the repository license files before modifying or redistributing the project or its assets.