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Jet's Better Exploration

by JetStarfish · for Minecraft

My ideas to improve the game's exploration!

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2 yr agoLast updated
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About Jet's Better Exploration

From Modrinth

My ideas to improve the game's exploration!

This mod adjusts various Minecraft mechanics to better suit my vision for exploration. Check out my video on it for more information!

Features:

  • Ancient Explorer map, obtained from cartographers after defeating the ender dragon. Leads to an ancient city.
  • Sculk Vial, crafted with 5 echo shards, stores up to 30 levels.
  • Ancient cities are twice as rare, in exchange woodland mansions are made 3x more common.
  • Ancient city loot table now contains diamond armor and tools.
  • The recovery compass is no longer craftable and can now be found in the woodland mansions (with a new texture).
  • Biomes now have a variated ore distribution, and affect the growth rates of different crops. See the Biome Diversification Catalog for more information.
  • Default powered rails are now crafted with copper ingots instead of gold.
  • Minecarts now travel at 12 m/s when a passenger is onboard (default was 8 m/s).
  • Super powered rails are crafted with gold ingots and increase the minecarts speed up to 16 m/s.
  • Increases frequency of biome dependent villager trades appearing, instead of outright overriding the pre-trade rebalance mechanic.
  • Horse armor has durability.
  • Horse armor can be enchanted (unbreaking, mending, protection(s), respiration, frost walker, depth strider, feather falling, soul speed).
  • Horses can sprint 120% faster than their base speed.
  • Horses now have a stamina bar that slowly drains the longer it sprints.
  • When the stamina bar is fully drained, the horse moves 30% slower until fully recharged.
  • Ice evaporates in the nether.
  • Striders no longer get cold when out of lava in the nether, only when out of lava in the overworld will they get cold.
  • Striders can now spawn on the nether terrain, and will not mind walking on it over lava.
  • Boats no longer move quickly with ice. This can be changed with the game rule allowIceBoatSpeed.

Minecart logic adapted from Audaki's Cart Engine. Please check out their work as well!

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Built for Minecraft 1.20.4.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Jet's Better Exploration 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
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
1.1.3+1.20.4, released 2024-07-05

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.20.41.20.4

From 1 recorded build of Jet's Better Exploration.

Dependencies

  • Required: modrinth project P7dR8mSH (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Jet's Better Exploration 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 catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Vehicles & ships

Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Jet's Better Exploration as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Fabric
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.20.4

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorJetStarfish, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree

Jet's Better Exploration, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Jet's Better Exploration?

Modrinth lists Jet's Better Exploration as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric.

Is it free?

Yes. Jet's Better Exploration is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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