About Better Forests
From ModrinthFills Minecraft forest biomes with beautiful and varying trees.
Better Forests replaces simple and repetitive vanilla forests with constantly varying ones full of many different kinds of beautiful trees.
Sometime the trees are massive giants.
Sometimes smaller and inviting.
Sometimes stands of pure trees.
Sometimes complex mixtures.
Dense stands of trees.
And open forests you can see all the way through.
Spookier dark forests, that also differ from place to place in trees and in degree of darkness.
Even in the densest and grandest forest a new light tracking and planning system makes dayspawns rare (except in dark forest, of course).
Endless fresh scenery to explore and great backdrops for your builds.
All the tree styles can be hand-grown from saplings, using any vanilla tree material. Better Trees grow from groups of saplings in a 3x3 area, with the sapling in the middle determining the form and the saplings around it the materials.
Comments and suggestions warmly welcomed! Discord forum
This is now a release version. Future plans include compatibility with Fabric and NeoForge.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 4 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.4.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Better Forests on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.5.1, released 2024-08-15
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | 1.20.4 |
From 5 recorded builds of Better Forests.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5.1 | 2024-08-15 | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | Forge |
| 0.4 beta | 2024-06-22 | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | Forge |
| 0.3 beta | 2024-06-10 | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | Forge |
| 0.2 beta | 2024-05-30 | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | Forge |
| 0.1 beta | 2024-05-23 | 1.20.1 to 1.20.4 (4 versions) | Forge |
Run Better Forests on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWorld generation
Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Better Forests as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Forge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.4 and 3 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorZeno410, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-or-laterFree
