Bits and Balance

Feature List

Blocks & World Generation

- Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Full azalea wood set (blocks + items) with recipes/loot tables and tag integration; optionally swaps naturally generated + sapling-grown azalea trees to generate with azalea logs instead of vanilla oak (configurable) - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Adds the Dog music disc with the C418 - Dog track; it appears with the other music discs in creative menus, shows up in the Bits and Balance creative tab, drops from the vanilla creeper music-disc pool, and can generate in simple dungeons, woodland mansions, and ancient cities - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Large multi-chunk coal vein generation with two variants (independently toggleable): - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Overworld coal veins in andesite from Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Deep underground coal+tuff veins (tuff + deepslate coal ore with occasional coal block pockets) - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Mojang-style nether “vein” deposits (noise-driven) with configurable per-chunk rarity; generates from Nether Lava Spring Suppression and can include rare raw gold blocks depending on settings (new chunks only) - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Mojang-style nether “vein” deposits (noise-driven) with configurable per-chunk rarity; generates from Nether Lava Spring Suppression (new chunks only) - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Adds a compact decorative `bitsandbalance:raw_quartz_block` crafted from Nether Quartz (analogous to Raw Iron/Gold blocks); generates as small pockets within Nether Quartz veins (configurable / disableable) - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Adds andesite/diorite/granite/tuff variants for vanilla ores and replaces matching vanilla ore placements during worldgen when they generate against those host stones (includes high-elevation surface ores); also supports Create zinc replacement when Create is installed (configurable) - Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Optional toggle to suppress vanilla random single-source lava springs in Nether terrain generation (new chunks only; off by default)

Client-Side Features

- Usage Ticker - Automatic walking functionality with keybind toggle - Usage Ticker - Biome-tinted foliage/grass items in-hand and in-inventory match the tint they would have when placed - Usage Ticker - Display a title/subtitle when entering a new biome with configurable timing, position/scale, and ignore list - Usage Ticker – Player head icons render before chat messages with configurable sizing and positioning - Usage Ticker - Custom splash texts randomly appear on the title screen with configurable frequency - Usage Ticker - Disable the Elder Guardian jumpscare effect when Mining Fatigue is inflicted, with a separate toggle to keep or silence the normal Mining Fatigue sound - Usage Ticker - Tint leaf litter and leaf pile blocks using biome colors (supports biome tags like `#minecraft:is_overworld`) - Usage Ticker - Plays the long/old level-up sound when reaching level 30 - Usage Ticker - Optional client-side log filtering to suppress specific worldgen-related error spam (for example "setBlock in a far chunk") - Usage Ticker - Smooth night vision transitions instead of vanilla blinking, while infinite-duration Night Vision stays steady at full strength - Usage Ticker - Distance/coordinate display for recovery compass with enhanced UI - Usage Ticker - After taking an in-game screenshot, automatically copy the saved screenshot image to the system clipboard and show a client-only chat message confirming it was copied (configurable) - Usage Ticker - Show your held item in first-person while riding entities - Usage Ticker - When burning from Soul Fire / Soul Campfire, render the on-screen fire overlay and burning-entity flames with the blue soul-fire sprites; lit candles on soul sand or soul soil can also use small blue soul-fire flames with their own client toggle - Usage Ticker - Suppress experimental settings warnings when creating/loading worlds - Usage Ticker - Visual item usage progress for held items only, with mirrored offhand support and configurable positioning

Combat Features

- Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames - Players lose percentage of XP on death instead of most (configurable percentage) - Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames - Anti-one-shot mechanic with cooldown, resistance, and nausea effects (excludes fall damage by default) - Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames - Snowballs deal damage and apply freezing effects with a special Nether entity damage multiplier, without leaving hit mobs stuck with powder-snow movement behavior - Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames - Allow damage within i-frames if the incoming damage type differs (with configurable blacklist)

Enchantments

- Implementation - Treasure enchantment for Elytra that reduces horizontal drag based on altitude; caps max flight speed - Implementation: Rarely found as an enchanted book in End City Treasure loot (~1/100) - Implementation: Data-driven enchantment (`data/bitsandbalance/enchantment/aerodynamic.json`) + elytra flight physics mixin

Potions & Effects

- Withering Potion - Throwable blob crafted from glow ink that splats into Goo Splatter: a bright, waterloggable, face-hugging light source with 4-way placement rotation, ambient glow particles, underwater-friendly projectile travel, and separate toggles for the 2-ink and 4-ink recipes - Withering Potion - Brewable from Glow Berries, with long-duration, splash, lingering, and tipped-arrow variants - Withering Potion - Brewable from Glow Goo; makes entities emit light while active, with long-duration, splash, lingering, and tipped-arrow variants - Withering Potion - Random teleportation within 100-block radius (Recipe: Awkward Potion + Ender Eye) - Withering Potion - Brewable haste effect (Recipe: Speed Potion + Quartz, upgradeable with Redstone/Glowstone) - Withering Potion - Brewable levitation effect (Recipe: Slow Falling Potion + Shulker Shell, upgradeable with Redstone/Glowstone) - Withering Potion - Teleports player to surface (currently no brewing recipe) - Withering Potion - Teleports to latest death location (Recipe: Displacement Potion + Echo Shard) - Withering Potion - Brewable wither effect potion (Recipe: Poison/Harming Potion + Wither Rose, upgradeable with Redstone/Glowstone)

Loot Table Modifications

- Trial Chambers - Add custom potions to various structure chests: - Trial Chambers - Resurfacing, Returning, Haste (regular and strong) - Trial Chambers - Resurfacing, Returning - Trial Chambers - Resurfacing, Returning - Trial Chambers - Returning - Trial Chambers - (various custom potions) - Trial Chambers - (various custom potions)

Mechanics Features

- Villagers Follow Emeralds - Campfires cook entities standing on them - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Highlight and optionally ping on name mentions in chat, plus @mention input highlighting, username tab completion, and live suggestion overlays while typing - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Regeneration effect near lit campfires with configurable range, duration, and amplifier (affects bees too) - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Jump after falling off blocks without jumping first with configurable duration and fall distance - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Explicit crawling stance mechanic with keybind integration - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Crouch+right-click to eject vehicle passengers; ejection is forward-biased and collision-safe with configurable velocity - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Knock on doors with left-click, plays material-appropriate sound - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Prevents accidentally melee-attacking your own tamed pets - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Shift+chat while hovering items to share in chat with hoverable links - Shared items preserve enchantment glint when applicable - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Leashed mobs follow through all teleportation (commands, chorus fruit, ender pearls, portals) with cross-dimension support, safe placement, and configurable limits - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Right-click compass to set custom coordinates with distance and coordinate display - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Allow pistons to push and pull supported block entities such as chests and furnaces while preserving their stored data (configurable) - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Right-click harvest that behaves like breaking with your current tool (enchant/loot-context compatible): - Villagers Follow Emeralds - 3x3 area harvest for mature crops; ignores melon/pumpkin stems/attached stems - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Harvest pumpkins, melons, cocoa, and compatible modded crops - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Quick-harvested drops can briefly home back to the player, with a config toggle to disable the homing behavior - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Hold jump key for continuous jumping within 2-block tall gaps with configurable interval - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Use Respawn Anchors in any dimension, not just the Nether - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Toggle or hold-to-sit with synced third-person visuals (proper seated pose + grounded render offset) - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Tamed wolves move faster to keep up with owner; reliably reapplies speed scaling on NeoForge - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Keybind to switch between standing/sneaking/crawling with full stance integration - Villagers Follow Emeralds - Villagers follow players holding emeralds/emerald blocks with configurable speed and particle effects, and stay focused on the active lure instead of immediately snapping back toward workstation pathing

Mob Modifications

- Iron Golems vs Creepers - Cave spiders have a configurable chance to replace spiders in caves - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Depth-based scaling for hostile mob equipment spawns; chestplates are the most common piece, surface-tier weights favor leather, copper gear is included in the equipment pools, and each tier (surface/mid/deep) can be toggled independently. Surface tier is disabled by default. - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Prevent nitwit villagers from spawning - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Multiple enhancements: - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Phantoms can pick up and carry players with configurable chance and minimum delay - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Stacking slowness effect when hit by phantoms with configurable duration and max level - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Deal double damage when hitting a phantom while being carried - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Allows damaging the carrying phantom while being carried, with optional hit-triggered forced drops - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Optional auto-drop timer and optional Slow Falling on hit-earned carry endings - Iron Golems vs Creepers - Iron Golems target Creepers; Creepers won’t retaliate/ignite when attacked by Iron Golems (prevents explosions)

Recipe Modifications

- 1 vertical slab - Craft maps using paper and black dye (ink sac) instead of compass - 1 vertical slab - Craft repeaters with redstone, sticks, and stone - 1 vertical slab - Craft chests from logs (4 chests per recipe) - 1 vertical slab – Override ALL stair recipes (vanilla, modded, custom) to output 8x stairs plus compact 2x2 stair recipes (3 blocks in corner = 4 stairs) for all stair types - 1 vertical slab - Alternative ender eye crafting using echo shard, wind charge, blaze powder, and ender pearl - 1 vertical slab - Smelt/blast raw iron/gold/copper blocks into their respective metal blocks - 1 vertical slab - Improved recipe using echo shards and compass - 1 vertical slab - Craft steps from 1 vertical slab to output 1 vertical slab; matching placements can merge into a quad-step block for up to 4 quarter-block steps in one space; 1 vertical slab convert back into 1 vertical slab; dyed/tinted variants preserve their color in drops and conversions - 1 vertical slab - The stonecutter accepts 1 vertical slab (including modded wood) for dynamic shortcut recipes: 1 vertical slab -> 1 stair, 2 slabs, 4 pressure plates, or 4 buttons; 1 vertical slab -> 1 stripped variant, 4 planks, 4 stairs, 8 slabs, 16 pressure plates, or 16 buttons. Recipes are generated dynamically at world load. - 1 vertical slab - Use torches as furnace fuel with configurable burn time - 1 vertical slab - Craft vertical steps from 1 vertical slab to output 1 vertical slab; matching placements can merge into a quad vertical-step block for up to 4 quarter-block vertical steps in one space; 1 vertical slab convert back into 1 vertical slab; dyed/tinted variants preserve their color in drops and conversions

Tweaks & Quality of Life

- - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Armor stands spawn with arms and can hold items - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - When you run out of blocks in your selected hotbar slot while building, automatically restock from your inventory; strongly prefers exact matches (custom data / custom names) - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - When a tool breaks in your selected hotbar slot, automatically restock from your inventory; strongly prefers similar enchantments (Fortune/Silk Touch, plus Mending/Unbreaking/Efficiency) - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Obtain a Bottle o' Cloud by right-clicking a Glass Bottle at cloud height (Y ≥ 192); place it to create Cloud Blocks, and pick those blocks back up again with an empty bottle - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - XP from finishing brushable blocks with configurable min/max values - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Allows bundling different candle items into the same multi-candle block; each candle keeps its own color visuals and drops back correctly, mixed bundles orient toward the placer, and both regular and soul-fire particles follow the stored bundle orientation (configurable) - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Rotten flesh (30% chance) and poisonous potatoes (65% chance) can be composted - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Creepers burn in sunlight like zombies and skeletons - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Hide pumpkin overlay with Curse of Vanishing on pumpkins - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Vex despawn with Evoker, Shulker bullets despawn with Shulker - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Double doors open together with redstone mirroring support, crouch for single door, and chain trapdoors up to 5; same-block pairing is on by default and compatible hand-openable modded trapdoors can join the chain behavior - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - A bundle of slab improvements (configurable): - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Placing a different slab onto an existing slab forms a mixed slab (instead of a vanilla double slab); each half retains its own block type/textures/sounds and can be mined independently, with per-half mining sounds and piston movement/restoration support - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Top slabs and double slabs provide a sturdy downward face, allowing lanterns, chains, hanging signs, and other hangable items to be placed beneath them - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - - Independently mine each half of a vanilla double slab (or mixed slab) in survival mode; mining speed, crack animation, and particles are locked to the targeted half - - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Enderdragon Egg Always - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Glowing Glowberries - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Improved Climbing - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Improved Recovery Compass - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Keybind Modifier System - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - More Mining XP - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Responsive Shields - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Return to Killer - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Sophisticated Scaffolding - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Speedy Happy Ghasts - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Sugarcane Sand Growth - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Tipped Arrows Lingering Clouds - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Treasure Enchantment Gold Color - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Unbreakable Trial Spawners - Trial Spawners are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config - Unbreakable Vaults** - Vaults are completely indestructible in survival (immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources); creative mode can still break them, and the feature can be disabled via config

Balance Changes

- Nerfed Discounts - Elytras lose extra durability when flying at high speeds (on top of vanilla durability loss) - Nerfed Discounts - Ender Dragon drops full XP every time it's killed, not just the first time - Nerfed Discounts - Allow eating food at full hunger (toggleable) - Nerfed Discounts - Increase the XP cost per point of durability repaired by Mending (configurable multiplier) - Nerfed Discounts - Remove zombie curing discounts (optional) and cap maximum villager trade discounts

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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!