Vanilla Reworked is a mod that reworks the game's progression in the most vanilla-friendly way possible.
Many people are probably tired of the same old thing: wood, stone, iron, diamonds, the Nether, the End, and that's it.
There's no variation, no new features, nothing to make you explore more of the game's content. This is because many things in the game are either completely optional or not necessary to progress.
In my opinion, you progress too quickly in this game; you barely have time to break any of your early-game tools because you replace them immediately. Think about it: how long does it usually take you to get iron armor? Have you even considered getting leather armor before? Well, no, because leather is awful and objectively harder to obtain than iron.
Well, with this mod I'm trying to fix this: to slow you down and encourage you to explore more of what this game has to offer, by adding new tiers of armor and tools, delaying the jump to other sets, and giving new life to things that are often considered useless or irrelevant.
The mod is still under development and is not yet finished, so any suggestions or constructive criticism are very helpful.
I'm going to divide the mod review into 3 stages: Early-game, Mid-game, and End-game.
Early-game
The progression changes quite a bit at this stage. It starts normally, chopping down trees and crafting wooden tools, but now you need stone instead of cobblestone to craft stone tools, which means you must build a furnace earlier.
Later, you'll realize that the Stone Pickaxe can't mine iron. This is because of the vanilla copper set, a new tier between stone and iron. The Copper Pickaxe is essential for progression, as it can mine iron.
Soon after, you'll realize that iron is burned in nuggets, not ingots. This was done to make it take longer to obtain iron. What you need to do is burn 20 raw iron ore and convert it into 5 ingots. With these ingots, you can build a Blast Furnace and extract iron ingots again.
Mid-game
When you have all the iron gear, you can consider yourself to have reached the mid-game. From here you have several options.
Diamond is not currently an option, as its recipe has been modified to be post-Nether Fortress. In this case, you have access to reinforced gold tools, which retain all the benefits of gold but with the power of iron. You also have access to Beewax Armor, that grants regeneration, coralite, a new material made from coral, copper, and saltpeter, a new mineral added by the mod, or Titanium, a strong material found only in cold biomes.
You could ignore all of this and stick with the iron one, but if you do, you'll miss the opportunity to upgrade both of them in the future. The choice is yours.
That said, since you don't have access to diamonds yet, you can create obsidian blocks with lava buckets and water in the crafting interface, make the portal, and go to the Nether. In the nether, you can encounter Nether Rubys, an alternative to Diamonds found only in The Nether.
Once you've explored a fortress and have enough blaze rods, you'll gain access to the Diamond and Nether Ruby set. With that, you should be ready to explore the world in search of more materials to reach the End.
End-game
The mod modifies the Eye of Ender recipe; to create them, in addition to ender pearls and blaze powder, you need Echo Shards, Prismarine Shards and Wind Charges. That means you must explore a deep dark biome, search for an ocean temple and beat a trial chamber in your world.
With all this, you go to the End and defeat the dragon. This grants you access to the rest of the End dimension and the End Cities. In the end cities, you can obtain dragon scales, which are vital for crafting all the end-game equipment offered by the mod.
In the End dimension, you can find Stardust, a new ore that let's you to craft ANY enchantment. Including those ho don't appear in the enchantment table. This ore only can be mined with a Diamond Pickaxe or better, Stardust can also be dropped sometimes by Endermans (7%).
From here, progression stops and you can do as you please, such as completing the various advancements the mod adds. Good luck with them—you'll need it!
Other Things
The mod also tries to give utility to mobs and objects that are often considered useless or redundant, such as phantom membranes, nautilus shells, or the sniffer.
It also features cool stuff like the firebound rod, a new fishing rod that has a unique effect when used on the -20 y-axis and below.
There are several things I've left out, but the most important ones have been explained. I'll let you discover the rest on your own and have a different vanilla experience.
The mod features its own texture pack for a better experience. it was created for 1.21.1, but it works fine. You can download it here: https://mega.nz/file/32hXkCCK#EXeuCPGSZHg-sb0M6Vsy-PXcFzJNlvahNE3PCZSOn…
Also, the mod modifies A LOT of vanilla recipes, so I implore you to play it with JEI to avoid confusion/frustration.
The mod is available in US English and Spanish (Spain).
That's all for now, have fun!
Version 0.9.0.2
More bug fixes and QOL changes.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Sturdy Scute.
- Added a new advancement.
-CHANGES-
- Fixed Ebony Leaves having a broken loot table.
- Fixed Firebound Rod fishing 2 fish at once while in sulfur caves.
- Brushes can now be used in Turtles to get Turtle Scutes.
- Changed the recipe of all coralite armors.
- Fish of Silence is now always fished with the Firbound Rod while in deep dark biomes.
- Music disc "Bounce" can now be fished in Sulfur caves with the Firebound Rod with a 5% chance.
- Coralite, Reinforced Golden and Titanium pickaxes now have a tooltip indicating that they can now mine obsidian.
- Buffed Flour recipe from 1 unit per craft to 2.
- Added Hay Bales as possible loot in Strongholds.
Enjoy!
Version 0.9.0.1
Bug fixes and balance changes.
- Fixed librarian villagers selling enchanted books without enchantments.
- Buffed Reinforced Golden Tools durability from 400 to 470.
- Nautic Tool set now have the uncommon rarity instead of common.
- Ancient junk can appear in pairs in chests instead of always one.
- Wither Skeletons now should drop more Black Bones.
- The Firebound Rod now works in the Y axis of -10 or below in Sulfur Caves.
- The Iron Spear can now be crafted with nether sticks.
Enjoy!
Version 0.9.0
26.3 Support.
From now on, the mod will continue to be updated in this version and beyond. Version 26.1.2 will no longer receive updates.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Sulfur Cube Goo.
- Added Nuclear Salmon.
-CHANGES-
- The Furnace now requieres 1 Clay Ball to be crafted.
- Changed the recipe of Gunpowder.
- Nerfed the Protection enchantment: Now is a 25% less effective.
- The Ender Eye now requieres a Wind Charge to be crafted.
- Polished some loot tables.
- Removed the Roasted Carrot from Rabbit Stew's recipe.
- Cinnabar can now be crafted.
- Bane of Arthropods is now much rarer in the enchantment table.
- Nerfed the loot of secret abandoned camp's chest.
Enjoy!
Version 0.8.3
Shiny Metals Update.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Titanium and everything related to it: tools, armor, ores, blocks, advancements... etc. This ore is exclusive of cold biomes, and is used between iron and diamond.
- Added Magical Ingot.
- Added Magical Golden Tools. (A pseudo-endgame toolset)
- Added Ancient Junk. (A new material exclusive of strongholds)
- Added Ancient Shield.
- Added new alternative recipes for green and brown dyes.
-CHANGES-
- Modified the loot of various chests, most notoriously, the end cities chests.
- Buffed Band Aid's health recovery from 2 hearts to 4.
- Improved some item sprites.
- Puryfing Gem now has a new recipe.
Enjoy!
Version 0.8.2
"Playing God" update
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Time and Weather effigys (new items that changes day cycles and downfalls)
- Added Bottled Lightning (new item that summons thunderstorms)
- Added Ebony tree, sapling, planks and derivatives (It does not spawn naturally, must be found in chests or bought)
-CHANGES-
- Changed the loot tables of Abandoned Mineshaft's chests and Wandering Trader trades.
- Nerfed the loot of Trial Chamber's pots.
- Fixed some inconsistencies with English descriptions (now shows colored texts correctly)
- Fixed the mod's logo not having the correct picture (again...)
Enjoy!
Version 0.8.1
Enchantment revolution update part II.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Plagebringer.
- Added Wormhole Potion.
- Added four new advancements.
- Added a recipe for the Bell.
-CHANGES-
- Rebalanced a LOT of villager trades; Nerfed the strong ones and buffed the weak ones. (Very susceptible to changes, calm down.)
- The Bee Keeper's Blade now can be found as rare drop from trail ruins instead of being a rare drop from Bees.
- Hugely buffed Crossbows; Now can be enchanted with Power, but tweaked its recipe and availability to compensate.
- Changed the loot table of Pillager outposts.
- Resprited Bee Keeper.
- Reorganized the order of the items in the creative mode tabs.
- Changed the recipes of Bow and Crossbow.
- Now Reinforced Golden Pickaxe and Coralite Pickaxes can mine Obsidian.
-BALANCE CHANGES-
- Buffed Bee keeper: Now gives poison on hit instead of having extra knockback.
- Nerfed the recipe of the Quick Charge enchanted book.
- Buffed the nautic set: The tools now have a passive 400% extra speed while submerged, the sword now gives 2 points of extra oxygen.
Enjoy!
Version 0.8.0.1
Quick Patch
- Stardust Blocks can now be uncrafted back to 9 Stardust.
- Buffed Cactus Smoothie saturation from 0.5 to 0.6.
- Fixed the mod's logo not having the correct picture.
Version 0.8.0
Enchantment revolution update.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Stardust
- Added Stardust Block (Thanks to 1MaximoZo1 and Blacking for the texture)
- Added Stardust Ore (Thanks to 1MaximoZo1 for polishing the texture)
- Added Big Bottle and variants, new decorative blocks.
- Added Cactus Smoothie.
- Added Purifyng Gem.
- Added Bee Keeper and Bee Keeper Blade.
- Added 3 new advancements.
- Added recipes for ALL the enchantments. (yes, all of them)
-CHANGES-
- The Firebound Rod now can be enchanted with durability enchants.
- Modified the recipe of Cosmic Bee Armor and Ender Soup.
- Now Gravel can be crafted from Cobblestone in a Stonecutter.
- Now Sand can be crafted from Gravel in a Stonecutter.
- Phantom Cloth Boots now have a +0.5 step height attribute.
- Endermans now have a 100% chance of dropping an Ender Pearl instead of 50%.
Enjoy!
Version 0.7.2
Quality of life update
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Red Velvet Cake.
- Added a new advancement.
-CHANGES-
- Zombified Piglins now drop Netherrack on death, making it renewable.
- Piglins now have a 5% chance of dropping Nether Rubys on death, making them renewable.
- Ravagers now have a 10% chance of dropping Diamonds on death, making them renewable.
- Short Grass now have a 1% chance of dropping Beetroot Seeds.
- Coralite and Nautic swords can obtain the Impaling enchantment without the rest of the trident's useless enchantments.
- Wooden and Sticky Wooden shields now can be used as fuel in a furnace.
- Flour, Dough, Raw Cake and Red Velvet Cake can now be used at a composter.
-BALANCE CHANGES-
- Nerfed both Hot potato's and Royal Cookie's saturation.
- Buffed Pumpking Soup saturation.
- Phantom Cloth Armor now has 0.5 or armor toughness per piece.
- Reduced Band Aid cooldown from 5 seconds to 2,5.
Enjoy!
Version 0.7.1.1
"Nothingburger" update mkII.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Hot Potato.
-CHANGES-
- Rebalanced various food items.
- Resprited Golden Upgrade Template, Nether Ruby Sword, Cooked Tropical Fish and Metallic String.
- Carrots and Tropical Fish now can be cooked at a campfire.
Enjoy!
Version 0.7.1
"Nothingburger" update
-ADITIONS-
- Added Frozen Bladefish.
- Added Sticky Wooden Shield.
- Added Metallic String.
- Added Roasted Carrot.
- Added 2 new advancements.
- The Rocky Tuna has a new death message.
-CHANGES-
- Modified the recipes of: Golden Carrot, Raw Cake, Chainmail armor, Royal cookie, Firebound Rod, Band Aid and Rabbit Stew.
- Buffed Royal Cookie effects from 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Piglin Brutes now drop Nether Rubys.
- Resprited Armadillo Scute Shield.
-PLANNED-
- Add spears to every set.
- Add a new spear-like fish.
- New trim materials.
Enjoy!
Version 0.7.0.1
Quick Patch.
- Fixed Husks and Wither Skeletons not dropping nothing.
- Updated texture pack: Resprited Diamond Spear.
Version 0.7.0
Minecraft 26.1.2 Support.
From now on, the mod will continue to be updated in this version and beyond. Version 1.21.1 will no longer receive updates.
-ADDITIONS-
- Added Lapis, Gold and Packed ice bricks.
- Added Chiseled Block of Lapis and Bug Tiles.
- The old recipes have been adapted to ensure consistency with the new versions.
- Some recipes for items added since version 1.21.2 have been modified.
- Added 3 new Advancements.
- Added recipes for Horse and Nautilus armors.
- Support for a new official Texture Pack (it was created for the 1.21.1 version, but it works perfectly fine.)
-CHANGES-
- Nether ruby Ore is now a bit rarer.
- Slightly nerfed Nether Ruby armor durability (again).
- Buffed Royal Cookie saturation from 0.8 to 1.
- Resprited Basalt Tuna, Polished Basalt Bricks, Dripstone Bricks and Band Aid.
- Resin Clumps and Resin Bricks can now be found in Shipwrecks and buried trasures respectively.
- Copper Ore and Deepslate Copper Ore now drops more items than before.
- The Golden Smithing Template can be used to distract Piglins.
- Modified a few loot tables.
-REMOVALS-
- Removed Copper Tools and armor that were added by the mod previously (for obvious reasons)
Version 0.6.0.2
Balance changes
- Nerfed Nether Ruby tools durability from 1.561 to 1.284.
- Nerfed Nether Ruby armor durability slightly.
- Buffed Nether Ruby gear enchantability from 11 to 12.
- Buffed Royal Cookie saturation from 0.7 to 0.8 and buffed its buffs duration from 5 seconds to 15 seconds.
- Stonecutter con now be crafted with Blackstone.
- Fixed other minor things.
Version 0.6.0.1
Quick patch.
- Fixed wrong numbers with Nether Ruby Tools (Attack damage, speed...)
- Fixed Nautic Shovel having less damage that it should be.
- Fixed the recipe of the Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template not overriding the vanilla one.
Version 0.6.0
Nether expansion update.
- Added Nether Iron Ore.
- Added Nether Ruby Ore.
- Added Nether Ruby.
- Added Nether Ruby Alloy Ingot and Dust.
- Added Nether Ruby armor and tools.
- Added Block of Nether Ruby.
- Added Royal Cookie.
- Added Crimson and Warped Sticks.
- Added a new advancement.
- Changed the recipes of Diamond Tools.
- Changed the recipe of the Netherite Upgrade Template.
- Changed the recipe of the Firebound Rod.
- Changed the recipe of Soul Lantern.
- The Lantern is now cheaper to craft.
- Slightly tweaked Coralite armor sprites.
- Nether Quartz Ore now requires at least an iron pickaxe to be mined.
Version 0.5.1
Blocks galore!
- Added Smooth Sandstone Bricks and variants.
- Added Amethyst Bricks and variants.
- Added Dripstone Bricks and variants.
- Added Calcite Tiles and variants.
- Resprited Polished Basalt Bricks.
- Resprited Snow Bricks.
- Resprited Nautic Pickaxe.
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Changed the sprites of the creative tabs.
Version 0.5.0.2
Quick Fixes
- Fixed the incorrect names of the coralite ingots in English (I overlooked it, sorry)
Version 0.5.0.1
Quick Fixes
- Fixed the inconsistency of the bonuses of coralite armors.
- Slightly resprited Dragon Scale
- Band Aid now has a cooldown of 5 seconds on use, but its max stack was increased from 4 to 8.
Using tags.
I added the blocks that I didn't want the stone pickaxe to be able to mine to `incorrect_for_stone_tool` (which is a vanilla tag, by the way)—specifically, iron ores and their corresponding blocks.
Since the copper pickaxe is a different tool—despite being in the same tier—it isn't affected by that tag, allowing it to mine iron blocks.
Hope it helped you!
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