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Pre-Post Note: I am no longer working on this mod, it is solely maintained by einsteinsci. This post may contain outdated information. Have a nice day.

Better Beginnings

The goal of this mod is to extend the beginning portion of Minecraft's early game, increase the difficulty, all while staying true to the original feel of vanilla.

The early stage of Minecraft tends to be quick and easy. Punch three logs, make a crafting table, make a wood pick, mine three stone, and that's it. No more early game. With BetterBeginnings, you will spend a much longer time "on the move", simply trying to survive the terrifying world you live in. Punching trees? Wood tools? Haha...no. While this mod is primarily designed with early game in mind, it also adds features that continue this experience throughout the survival gameplay.

This mod is designed to stay close to the gameplay of vanilla Minecraft. While we will work on providing as much compatibility as possible, the mod will not fit well with most mods, and is designed to be one of only a few gameplay-altering mods.

Getting Started



To start off, you will need to find gravel. You can find it in the entrances to caves, on cliff faces, and even in the water. Gravel is quite easy to find if you look for it. You will need at least 4 pieces of flint to get started. You can also make flint by crafting 4 blocks of gravel in any shape (though you'll only have room for a square). To get started, you will need to make a flint knife. You can craft a flint knife with two pieces of flint in a diagonal pattern:



A knife is a valuable tool. They come in many variants, from flint all the way to diamond. Breaking grass and vines has a chance to silk touch them like shears do. Knives are good for whittling down things like saplings and bones. Knives also function as a fairly good weapon, dealing about as much damage as an axe.


After that, you'll need to make an axe. In this mod, most blocks cannot be broken without the correct tool. If you try to break a block with the wrong tool, all you'll get is a bit of durability lost. If you try to use your fists, well, what do you think the player's "durability" is? You will need some sticks, which can be crafted with your knife out of saplings, as well as some leather strips, made the same way out of leather. Then, with your sticks and flint, you can make a flint hatchet:



Now you can chop down wood. You'll need some planks to make a couple crafting tables (yes, you will need two). When you place two crafting tables next to each other, they combine into an advanced crafting table, necessary to craft anything but the most basic of equipment.



This advanced crafting table has four additional slots, used for 'catalyst' ingredients needed to complete the crafted item. Things like wool to pad armor, iron nuggets for rivets, leather strips to tie things together are all used as catalysts. When laying out the crafting recipe, which materials are needed are displayed as ghost items in the catalyst slots. If you try to use a recipe that requires the advanced crafting table in a regular crafting table, a red 'X' will appear over the arrow as an indication of this.


To make your very first pickaxe, the bone pickaxe, you will need some bone shards, which are made out of a knife and some bones. One bone makes two bone shards. You can also grind the shards further with your knife to make 2 bonemeal per shard, as a bonus for using your knife. Bones are dropped from all creatures, not just skeletons (only skeletons will drop them when killed by something other than a player). Smaller creatures like chickens drop bone shards. Once you have the needed materials, you can craft your pickaxe: 


Now that you have a pickaxe, you can finally mine some stone, and get started with your survival world!
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