About YUNG's Better Desert Temples
From ModrinthA complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!
The ultimate upgrade to Minecraft's desert temples! YUNG's Better Desert Temples redesigns vanilla desert temples to be way more exciting, adding a variety of new puzzles, traps, & parkour challenges. And of course, you'll get much better loot than vanilla's desert temples for your troubles!
By default, mining fatigue will be applied to all players in the Better Desert Temple. Once you clear the temple (i.e. kill the pharaoh at the end of the temple), the mining fatigue effect for that temple will be permanently lifted! You can disable this feature in the config. Additionally, you can re-enable vanilla desert temples to spawn alongside Better Desert Temples in the config.
Closer look:
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Animated trailer:
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YUNG's Better Desert Temples is intended to be fully compatible with every worldgen mod, including:
- YUNG's Better Mineshafts
- YUNG's Better Strongholds
- YUNG's Better Dungeons
- YUNG's Extras
- YUNG's Bridges
- Repurposed Structures. RS also offers a custom data pack you can use in addition to the mod that adds repurposed versions of the deser temples! Check it out here.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 11 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
YUNG's Better Desert Temples 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, NeoForge
- 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
- 26.1.2-NeoForge-5.1.1, released 2026-09-10
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.21.4 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| NeoForge | 26.1.1 to 26.1.2 (2 versions) | 26.1.2 |
From 5 recorded builds of YUNG's Better Desert Temples.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26.1.2-NeoForge-5.1.1 | 2026-09-10 | 26.1.1 to 26.1.2 (2 versions) | NeoForge |
| 26.1.2-Fabric-5.1.1 | 2026-09-10 | 26.1.1 to 26.1.2 (2 versions) | Fabric |
| 26.1.2-NeoForge-5.1.0 | 2026-06-24 | 26.1.1 to 26.1.2 (2 versions) | NeoForge |
| 26.1.2-Fabric-5.1.0 | 2026-06-24 | 26.1.1 to 26.1.2 (2 versions) | Fabric |
| 1.21.4-Fabric-4.4.0 | 2025-04-14 | 1.21.4 | Fabric |
Run YUNG's Better Desert Temples 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 catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists YUNG's Better Desert Temples as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 10 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorYUNGNICKYOUNG, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-onlyFree
