🚷 Better Than Wolves - Community Edition 🚷

This is a continuation of FlowerChild's Better than Wolves total conversion Minecraft mod. Its aim is to both recapture the feeling of that first time you played Minecraft, hiding in a dark hole on your first night with monsters all around, as well as extending gameplay by creating a deep tech tree that lets you slowly master your surroundings, as you craft windmills, kilns and crucibles and eventually reach steel production.

We were informed that FlowerChild, the original author of BTW from 2011-2020, passed away in 2024. He was a retired veteran from the game industry who saw, like we all did, the incredible potential that this new little game called Minecraft had. He spent a decade refining his vision, applying everything he knew about game design, and teaching us along the way. He was a phenomenal game designer, and gave so much of his knowledge and humor back to the community.

Let us remember FlowerChild for the inspiration he was and the community he built. His spirit will forever be a part of our shared journey.

🗜️ Installation

This mod does not work with Modrinth launcher, we cannot fix that on our end, request Modrinth to support Legacy Fabric mods.

Please visit the wiki for instructions on how to install with supported launchers.

🐺 What is Better Than Wolves?

Better Than Wolves is a "total conversion". This differs from most mods that you are probably used to in that it changes many of the rules of play to provide a richer experience, rather than just adding in new stuff. What makes it special however, is that it always attempts to do so in a way that retains the original spirit of the game, perhaps even more so than the newer official releases.

It focuses both on challenging survival play, and player creativity in terms of never providing "magic block" solutions to in game problems. Instead, it provides basic tools and leaves it to the player to figure out how to use them to get the job done.

In short, Better Than Wolves is a vision of what Minecraft could have been, designed by very serious players, for other like minded individuals.

🌐 What Does Community Edition Mean?

Community Edition is the successor to FlowerChild's original mod. It is a direct continuation using FC's source code, developed by the community, and following FC's original vision for the mod. CE aims to modernize BTW, finish the systems left unfinished by FC, fix many bugs, and even add new features.

📝 License

Better Than Wolves and its source code are made freely available under the creative commons attribution license:

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

A note from FlowerChild about licensing:

You are free to modify and redistribute portions of BTW and its code as you wish, but I (FlowerChild) would appreciate acknowledgment if you do so. Keep in mind however that parts of BTW may be based on modified versions of Mojang's code and assets, and it is left to anyone redistributing portions of BTW to make sure they are appropriately considering Mojang's intellectual property and licensing as well.

🔗 Links

• Installation
• Report a bug
• MCForum Thread
• Discord — Wiki
• Original Wolves Are a Bad Idea Thread
• Original Better Than Wolves Thread

💜 A word of gratitude

The Community Edition team would like to express its gratitude to all the people that have kept this community alive all these years:

• FlowerChild, for making BTW, may you rest in peace
• Dawnraider, for spearheading the Community Edition effort
• Zhil, for organizing the extended community
• Hiracho, for contributing significant work on design, features, and bugfixes
• Arminias, for contributing architectural upgrades such as moving to fabric
• Bagel, for porting over several major features
• Battosay, for his tireless work on the wiki
• Sargunster, for keeping the forums and wiki online all these years
• Sarudak, for moderating the forums
• Professor Ion, for hosting all our multiplayer servers

We'd also like to thank all the people that have provided contributions to BTW over the years, we couldn't do this without you.