Better Than Battle Towers

Better Than Battle Towers

Port of the Battle Tower mod for Better Than Adventure. Tweaked are being made to fit BTA.

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Screenshots

Stone Bricks BattleTower
Buzzing City
Permafrost BattleTower
Meet the family
The classic
Battle Towers

About this Mod

Better than Batte Tower

About

Port of the Battle Towers mod for Better Than Adventure. While this mod is mostly a faithfull recreation of the original some features were omitted or adapted to better fit with BTA.

Here is a list of all the features that Battle Towers offers:

  • Golems with 11 different skins:
    • Golems are fall and knockback resistant mobs
    • Guarding the top of the tower
    • They speed up as they loose health.
    • While dormant, golems cannot be harmed
    • In peaceful mode golems are always dormant
  • 32 different looking towers with 3 different types:
    • Battle Towers, a spawner filled tower rising into the sky
    • Reverse Towers, battle tower that disappeare into the ground
    • Vanquished Towers, vanquished battle tower with the golem slain and many spawner destroyed.
    • Bastion Towers, a square battle tower.
    • Vanquished Bastion Tower, a ruined version of the BAstion Tower
  • New Blocks:
    • Tinted Iron Cage, a block to see through that block light, can be enabled to spawn as windows in towers.
    • Tinted Iron Bars, a decorative fence made from tinted iron cage, also blocks light.
    • Obsidian Slabs and Stairs
    • Crumbling Block, Slab and Stairs, that crumbling under players feet.
    • Runic Stone, Pillar, Chiseled, Glyph, decorational explosion resistant blocks, used in hardcore towers.
    • Overgrown bricks and Blooming Overgrown Bricks, found as decorative blocks for the towers.
  • Hardcore mode, enabled in config for a more challenging tower with more deadly mob and traps.
  • Support for BTWaila.

Permafrost BattleTower
Stone Bricks BattleTower

Special thanks goes to the people that have over the years contributed to this project.

Credit

Original mod developer:

  • freakstritch

7.1 version developer:

  • JamDoggie
  • bigsir24
  • LukeisStuff
  • UselessBullets

7.2 version developer:

  • mayonaka8478
  • baguchan

7.3 version developer:

  • MonkeySaint
  • Redart15
  • Cauliflower
  • Hobble

Issues:

Please contact us regarding issues via BTA discord. The channel can be found under community content/mods/Better than Batte Tower

Available Versions

Better Than Battle Towers 4.1arelease
MC b1.7.3bta-babric
January 31, 2026
Better Than Battle Towers 4.1release
MC b1.7.3bta-babric
January 29, 2026
Better Than Battle Towers 4.0release
MC b1.7.3bta-babric
November 25, 2025
Better Than Battle Towers 3.3release
MC b1.7.3bta-babric
November 7, 2025
Better Than Battle Towers 3.2release
MC b1.7.3bta-babric
November 6, 2025

How to Install Better Than Battle Towers on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended).

2

Set bta-babric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the bta-babric loader and matching Minecraft version (b1.7.3).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Better Than Battle Towers". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

bta-babric

Minecraft Versions

b1.7.3

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

6 GB(min. 4 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Better Than Battle Towers server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong bta-babric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 4 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (b1.7.3). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Better Than Battle Towers compatible with bta-babric?

Better Than Battle Towers officially supports bta-babric for Minecraft b1.7.3. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Better Than Battle Towers – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 6 GB (per 5 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Better Than Battle Towers consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Server-side
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Supported Versions

b1.7.3