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Also available on CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-tools-and-armor
Overview
Better Tools and Armor is a mod for Forge/NeoForge 1.19.4/1.20.1 which aims to improve Minecraft's progression system by encouraging exploration. Many new ores are added, each of which spawning in unique locations. For example, Sapphire Ore only spawns above y=100.
BT+A also extends Minecraft's progression beyond Netherite, emphasising player freedom and choice. Once you have Netherite gear, you can choose to either go for Ender Titanium, or Crystallite, depending on your taste. Ender Titanium is the most powerful resource overall in the mod, while Crystallite can be upgraded in many ways to excel in certain areas!
BT+A also adds a whole heap of other features designed to fit well into Survival Minecraft, with a kind of vanilla-plus feel to them. Check out the Images Tab (on CurseForge), or the Knowledge Base for more information!
Major Additions
As of v11.0, Better Tools and Armor adds:
- Over 450 new Items, Over 200 of which are Crystallite-related
- Over 100 new Blocks
- 6 new Ores
- Over 20 new Tool Sets
- Over 30 new Armor Sets
- 16 different upgrades for EVERY Crystallite Tool and Armor piece, each with a special effect
- 20 different Charms, for use with the Curios API Charm Slots
- 77 new Advancements
- 10 new Potions, including 4 new Potion Effects
- 7 new Enchantments, including Smelting Touch for Pickaxes
- 2 new uses for the Luck Effect
- A new type of Ranged Weapon: Magic Staffs
- A new Tool Type: Daggers
- A new Villager Profession: The Jeweller
Latest Features
Version 11.0 [The Information Update] adds:
- NEW CRYSTALLITE UPGRADE SET - The Honey upgrade uses the new Hive Crystal item.
- NEW VILLAGER PROFESSION - The Jeweller makes Crystallite easier to use.
- MADE CRYSTALLITE CHEAPER - Gems now only require 2 shards, instead of 4.
- 4 NEW UTILITY POTIONS - Find new potions in Mineshaft and Dungeon chest loot!
- ADDED JEI INFORMATION - More clarity about items and features in the mod.
- MORE USES FOR LUCK - The Luck attribute now effects any secondary effect of any tool/armor piece.
- INTEGRATION WITH SUPPLEMENTARIES MOD - Various items in the mod can now drop from Cave Urns in the Supplementaries mod.
Knowledge Base
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1He8bRxTe3ZKKWorMC83HX3p8cEW-XAuF2V5gSBYK4fo/edit?usp=sharing
This Google Doc contains everything there is to know about all features in the current version of the mod, if you need to know anything specific such as item stats.
Also, feel free to use Better Tools and Armor in any modpacks you may create!
Planned Features
- Ports to 1.20.4 and 1.21, when MCreator supports them
- Floating Islands
- Crystallite Bows
- More Enchantments
For earlier versions, see the files on CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-tools-and-armor/files
Version 11.0 Patch Notes [The Information Update]
Major changes:
- NEW CRYSTALLITE UPGRADE SET - The Honey upgrade uses the new Hive Crystal item.
- NEW VILLAGER PROFESSION - The Jeweller makes Crystallite easier to use.
- MADE CRYSTALLITE CHEAPER - Gems now only require 2 shards, instead of 4.
- ADDED JEI INFORMATION - More clarity about items and features in the mod.
- MORE USES FOR LUCK - The Luck attribute now effects any secondary effect of any tool/armor piece.
- INTEGRATION WITH SUPPLEMENTARIES MOD - Various items in the mod can now drop from Cave Urns in the Supplementaries mod.
1.20 only:
- Added Crystallite Upgrade Smithing Template, which is now required for upgrading Crystallite tools and armor.
- All armor in the mod, except Effect Armor, is now trimmable.
- Fixed an issue with wearing a Nature Ring and Emerald-Crystallite Chestplate, where it would increase the regeneration timer, rather than decreasing it.
Crystallite changes (in general):
- Crystallite Gems now use 2 Shards in their recipe, down from 4.
- Added Jeweller Villager profession
- Added Jewellery Table, used as a workstation
- Added Hive Crystal and Honey Crystallite upgrade set
- Crystallite Charm Bases now have a 1/100 chance to spawn in a wider variety of structure loot tables.
- Tweaked chances of Crystallite Charm Base spawning in Dungeon and Mineshaft chest loot.
- All Charm recipes which were previously smithing recipes are now crafting recipes.
- Renamed 'Crystallite Crystals' to 'Elemental Crystals'
- Updated tooltips of all Crystallite items, so that their effects are more clear, especially for some items with more than one effect.
Changes to specific Crystallite items:
- Amethyst-Crystallite tools now all have the same effect - locating chests and ores. This effect now has a search radius of 20 blocks.
- Netherite-Crystallite Pickaxe now breaks all stones instantly with Efficiency V
- Prismarine-Crystallite Leggings now actually give low gravity in rain, instead of doubling gravity.
- Fixed an issue with the Icy Bracelet, where it would apply the effect of Sapphire Armor, even when it was not worn.
- Sky-Crystallite Boots are now more effective when you have low gravity.
- Gold-Crystallite swords and daggers now replace lower levels of Sweeping Edge with level IV
- Sculk-Crystallite Hoes now give drops when they break Wool.
- Redstone-Crystallite tools now only rotate blocks when the user is crouching.
- Redstone-Crystallite Axes can now rotate blocks.
- Diamond Hard Plate charm now gives +2 Armor Toughness rather than just 1
- Removed durability costs for the Emerald- and Amethyst-Crystallite Chestplate abilities
- All potions now count as 'drinks' for the Sky-Crystallite Helmet.
- The recipe for the Spiked Crystal now uses a Netherite Ingot, instead of 4 Netherite Scraps.
Other changes:
- Added more utility potions:
- Potion of Ascension
- Potion of Descension
- Recall Potion
- Potion of Lost Souls
- Added utility potions to Mineshaft and Dungeon loot, and Cave Urns from Supplementaries.
- Having an increased Luck value now increases the chances of all tool/armor secondary effects by +5% per Luck point.
- Magnetic Pickaxes, Smelting Touch and using Luck to increase ore drops are now less glitchy, and they all work together at once. They also work more reliably underwater.
- Smelting Touch now works with Fortune again.
- Made Double Jump less glitchy overall. It no longer activates when sprint-swimming
- Karma damage now stacks with Thorns damage, since it now bypasses cooldowns.
- Fixed having an increased Critical Hit Multiplier - it now actually deals more damage for a crit.
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- Added JEI Information for various items and features in the mod.
- Added many new advancements, along with a whole new tab!
- Removed End Stone Pebbles
- Removed enchantment glint from Experience Potion
- Removed recipe unlocking, since JEI is now a required dependency
- Removed advancement for getting a full set of Nether Diamond Armor.
- Made harvest level of Nether Diamond and Ender Titanium Blocks consistent.
- Adjusted hardness and blast resistance of Nether Diamond Block.
- Staff projectiles no longer bounce off players in Creative Mode.
- Frozen mobs now emit more, bigger particles, so that it is more clear that they are frozen.
- Improved any tooltips showing a key-bind, so that the key to press is more clear.
- Improved the 'Press Shift' tooltips for many items in the mod.
- Lots of tag changes, including adding more forge: tags, as well as tags for different crystallite effects.
- Minor text changes
- Various code improvements
- Adjusted creative tab order
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