About BetterNether: Before Dawn
From ModrinthAn unofficial port of the BetterNether mod to Forge & Fabric, bringing the latest content to 1.20.1 and adding improvements to the Nether, including plants, biomes, structures, and world generation
BetterNether (Unofficial Forge & Fabric Port) — Minecraft 1.20.1
This project is an unofficial Forge & Fabric port of Paulev’s Fabric mod “BetterNether” for Minecraft 1.20.1, including bug fixes and a few small balance/quality tweaks.
Required on: both client and server. Requires: BCLib, WunderLib
Latest BetterNether Content
BetterNether Forge & Fabric for 1.20.1 includes all content introduced in the latest BetterNether releases.
All additions have been fully integrated and adapted specifically for this Minecraft version and the Forge & Fabric mod loaders.
Included New Content
- The complete Gloomwood biome
- Bleached, Veined, and Molten Gloomsculk terrain
- Gloomwood trees, leaves, saplings, grass, and vegetation
- Gloomsculk geodes, crystals, vines, and lamps
- Interactive glowing Gloomwisps
- Complete Gloomwood and Dark Gloomwood building sets
- Gloomwood boats and chest boatsNew furniture, containers, signs, and decorative blocks
- Three new biome music tracks and collectible music discs
- New advancements, block mechanics, particles, sounds, and world-generation features
About BetterNether
BetterNether makes adventures in the Nether more exciting by adding new biomes, plants, and materials. You’ll encounter new challenging monsters (like the Naga), explore dark dungeons taken over by Nether creatures, and use new tools with unique improvements to help you survive. Builders also get lots of unique blocks and additional variants of familiar vanilla blocks.
Features
- Dozens of new plants for the Nether
- New Nether mobs
- New unique biomes
- Vertical and volumetric biome system (supporting other mods and datapacks)
- Many new materials, recipes, food, tools, and items
- Ability to farm some materials using plant farms and mob farms
- Many Nether structures, including big and rare Nether Cities
- Ability to configure presence of blocks, items, structures, biomes, and plant density (and a config GUI with the ModsMenu mod)
- Integrations with some other mods
Fixes and changes in this Forge & Fabric 1.20.1 port
- Added compatibility with the TerraBlender library and mods that use it (Luminous Nether, Garden of the Dead, Biomes O' Plenty, Oh The Biomes We've Gone, etc.)
- Add Ruby item and block tags for better compatibility (thanks RedCraft86)
- Fix Stripped Rubeus Log/Bark textures (thanks RedCraft86)
- Only use Bark wood variant for trees (thanks RedCraft86)
- Improved music system (thanks RedCraft86)
- Change (suggestion): removed the Sculk Catalyst from loot tables (thanks Yukiroshi). It was too easy to obtain Fireruby gear early; now you’ll have to pay a visit to the Warden
- Change (suggestion): full translation for ru_ru.json (thanks FO13E)
- Change (suggestion): new name for moss cover in the Russian translation (thanks happykgit)
- Change (suggestion): terracotta has been replaced with smooth basalt in flooded deltas (thanks Eletoast)
- Change: lava can now pass through stalactites
- Change (suggestion): Nether Brewing Stand now brews 2× faster, 200 ticks; UI progress remains correct (thanks AcaGamer5)
- Change (suggestion): Willow wood renamed to Nether Willow in all languages, with native localized wording (thanks AcaGamer5)
Support / Issue reports
This is an unofficial Forge & Fabric port. Please do not report issues to the official BetterX Team Discord or the upstream project, since they do not maintain this Forge & Fabric versions.
To report issues, use the GitHub linked below. If any issues arise due to the existence of this port and it affects the upstream community, please contact me directly.
Credits / Attribution
Original mod (Fabric): https://modrinth.com/mod/betternether
This project: unofficial Forge & Fabric 1.20.1 port + fixes (maintained by: Reijin2312)
Thanks to the contributors credited above for reports and suggestions
Links
Upstream source (Fabric): https://github.com/quiqueck/BetterNether
Upstream project page: https://modrinth.com/mod/betternether
BetterX Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kYuATbYbKW
Port issue tracker (GitHub): https://github.com/Reijin2312/BetterNether_Forge/issues
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 2 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.1.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
BetterNether: Before Dawn 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
- Fabric, Forge, Quilt
- 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
- 20.0.13, released 2026-10-18
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | 1.20.1 |
| Forge | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | 1.20.1 |
| Quilt | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | 1.20.1 |
From 8 recorded builds of BetterNether: Before Dawn.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20.0.13 | 2026-10-18 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Forge |
| 20.0.13-fabric beta | 2026-10-18 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Fabric, Quilt |
| 20.0.12-fabric beta | 2026-10-12 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Fabric, Quilt |
| 20.0.12 | 2026-08-06 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 20.0.11 | 2026-07-06 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 20.0.10 | 2026-03-05 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project obMZk452 (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
- Required: modrinth project 5T56XRUO (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run BetterNether: Before Dawn 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 BetterNether: Before Dawn as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.1 and 1 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-19Open ↗
- ✓AuthorRaijin2312, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree











