Van Backport Compat
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Adds Vanilla Backport features to moded biomes!
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General improvements to world generation, such as bug fixes, aesthetic overhauls, or misc additions.
Features new biomes or content focused on overhauling existing ones.
Enhances plant life and foliage in the game world.
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Van Backport Compat is officially maintained ONLY on CurseForge and Modrinth. Other sources are not affiliated.

📑 More datapacks:
Vanilla Backport RU Wolves Compat
Vanilla Backport: Terralith & BWG Compat
Vanilla Backport X Farmer's Delight Compat
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⚠️ Note:
This datapack/mod only works with the latest version of Vanilla Backport 1.20.1-1.21.1 1.1.5 or later.
I’ll be adding support for more modded biomes over time. It still has a few inconsistencies that I’ll be fixing.
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📖 About:
Vanilla Backport Compat is a datapack/mod that adds natural generation of Vanilla Backport’s leaf litters, wildflowers, fallen trees and more to modded biomes, no more having leaf litters in only three vanilla biomes in your 200 biomes modpack! In addition, leaf litters now generate in the Pale Garden biome.
I don’t feel the need to add features to certain biomes since they already generate them by default using the forge/fabric biome tags. However, if you have suggestions for adding or removing a feature from a biome in a way that would benefit it, feel free to let me know.
This is the list of things this datapack adds:
- Leaf litter generation
- Wildflower generation
- Bush generation
- Firefly bush generation
- Fallen trees generation (oak, birch and spruce)
- Tall and short dry grass generation
- Warm and cold mob variants
- Wolf variants
- Desert ambient sounds
- Snow! Real Magic! instant compatibility
- Falling leaves
- Falling needles
- Happy Ghast prevents new damage sources
- Natural generation of camels
- Natural generation of armadillos
- Sulfur Cube compatibility (beta)
You only need Vanilla Backport installed, the rest of the mods are optional compatibility and are not required.
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📜 List of compatible mods:
- Biomes O' Plenty
- Biomes We've Gone
- Atmospheric
- Terralith
- Environmental
- Regions Unexplored
- Vanilla Backport
- Windswept
- Snow! Real Magic!
- Upgrade Aquatic
- Nature's Spirit
- Wilderness
- Blooming Biosphere
- No Man's Land
- Twilight Forest
- Better Nether
- William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere
- Still Life
- Spawn
📝List of things to add:
Here’s a list of pending things I’ll be adding.
Add falling leaves to leave blocks from other modsAdd falling needles to leave blocks from other modsAdd leaf colors for compatibility with the falling leavesAdd desert ambient sounds in some biomesAdd compatibility with William Wythers' Expanded EcosphereAdd compatibility with Still Life- Add compatibility with Blue Skies (falling leaves)
- Add compatibility with The Aether (falling leaves)
- Add compatibility with Alex Caves (falling leaves)
⚠️: Please keep in mind that I may sometimes make mistakes. Make sure the errors are coming from VBC before reporting them on the official Vanilla Backport Discord.
Vanilla Backport Compat is officially maintained ONLY on CurseForge and Modrinth. Other sources are not affiliated.

📑 More datapacks:
🐶 Vanilla Backport RU Wolves Compat
🐮 Vanilla Backport Mob Variants Compat
🌸 Atmospheric Cactus Flower Compat
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⚠️ Note:
This datapack/mod only works with Vanilla Backport 1.20.1-1.21.1 1.1.5 or later.
I’ll be adding support for more modded biomes over time. It still has a few inconsistencies that I’ll be fixing.

📖 About:
Vanilla Backport Compat is a datapack/mod that adds natural generation of Vanilla Backport’s leaf litters, wildflowers, fallen trees and more to modded biomes, no more having leaf litters in only three vanilla biomes in your 200 biomes modpack! In addition, leaf litters now generate in the Pale Garden biome.
I don’t feel the need to add features to certain biomes since they already generate them by default using the forge/fabric biome tags. However, if you have suggestions for adding or removing a feature from a biome in a way that would benefit it, feel free to let me know.
This is the list of things this datapack adds:
- Leaf litter generation
- Wildflower generation
- Bush generation
- Firefly bush generation
- Fallen trees generation (oak, birch and spruce)
- Tall and short dry grass generation
- Warm and cold mob variants
- Wolf variants
- Desert ambient sounds
- Snow! Real Magic! instant compatibility
- Falling leaves
- Falling needles
- Happy Ghast prevents new damage sources
- Dried Ghast ambient sounds compatibility
- Natural generation of camels
- Natural generation of armadillos
- Sulfur Cube compatibility (beta)
Mods with sulfur cube compat
- Biomes O' Plenty
- Biomes We've Gone
- Regions Unexplored
- Upgrade Aquatic
- Ecologics
- Environmental
You only need Vanilla Backport installed, the rest of the mods are optional compatibility and are not required.

📜 List of compatible mods:
- Biomes O' Plenty
- Biomes We've Gone
- Atmospheric
- Terralith
- Environmental
- Regions Unexplored
- Vanilla Backport
- Windswept
- Snow! Real Magic!
- Upgrade Aquatic
- Nature's Spirit
- Wilderness
- Blooming Biosphere
- No Man's Land
- Twilight Forest
- Better Nether
- William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere
- Still Life
- Spawn

📝List of things to add:
Here’s a list of pending things I’ll be adding.
Add falling leaves to leave blocks from other modsAdd falling needles to leave blocks from other modsAdd leaf colors for compatibility with the falling leavesAdd desert ambient sounds in some biomesAdd compatibility with William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere (beta)Add compatibility with Still Life- Add compatibility with Blue Skies (falling leaves)
- Add compatibility with The Aether (falling leaves)
- Add compatibility with Alex Caves (falling leaves)
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