
Jet's Better Exploration
My ideas to improve the game's exploration!
About this Mod
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!
Available Versions
How to Install Jet's Better Exploration on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.4).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Jet's Better Exploration". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.20.4
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Jet's Better Exploration server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.4). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Jet's Better Exploration compatible with fabric?
Jet's Better Exploration officially supports fabric for Minecraft 1.20.4. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Jet's Better Exploration – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Jet's Better Exploration 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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