About

Immerse yourself in brand-new yet familiar adventures! Take your time to explore, face new challenges, and build as much as you want. Meaningful balancing changes have been made to enhance the midgame, ensuring you enjoy every step of your journey while reducing the rush to a fully maxed-out but empty endgame experience.

Designed for both single and multiplayer, everything has been carefully crafted to align with the game's aesthetic and design principles.

Highlights

Gameplay and New Content

More meaningful and rewarding progression and advancements
Updated biomes, new sounds, structures, and mobs (including those from past mob votes)
Added blocks and items that should have already been in the game
Buffed early-game methods of transportation
Rebalanced combat based on the Combat Test Snapshots
Actually playable third-person mode
Improved mob AI
Bedrock parity! (only the good parts)

Mechanics

Problems with inventory management? NO MORE!
Chainstone and movable tile entities
Enchanting and repairing mechanics are now more predictable and less grindy
Villager trading is more flexible and less exploitable
Tools and elytras are trimmable; gold-trimmed armor now distracts Piglins!
Wandering Traders can return items that were destroyed or despawned
Reworked Phantom spawning conditions

Client Improvements

quality-of-life!
Lots of eye and ear candy
More polished menus and controls
In-game screenshot viewer, plus Shader, Resource, and Data Pack browser
Visual and comparative equipment info (durability, enchantability, repair cost, and more!)
Improved multiplayer features: enhanced chat, voice chat, emotes, and other visual interactions
Fixed bugs and odd behavior from vanilla
NO CHAT REPORTS AND TELEMETRY

Other

~~Capybaras~~

Italicized items are current missing or not totally implemented in 1.21

Accessibility Warnings

In order to keep this pack accessible to everybody, you might want to change some options or disable some mods:

Nyf's Spiders - Makes spiders climb walls more realistically
Camera Overhaul - Adds some camera effects that can be nauseating (especially when flying in creative or spectator modes)
Ore Variants (Resource Pack) - Might make ores harder to identify if you have color blindness

Credits

Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/
Xali's Enhanced Vanilla (git version): https://github.com/xalixilax/xali-s-Enhanced-Vanilla-16x
Fresh Animations Extensions: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/fresh-animations-extensions
Increased Nether build height: https://github.com/Apollounknowndev/pack-library/tree/main/nether-build-height