About Better Nature
From ModrinthThis mostly client side mod adds mushrooms to trees, insects, 3D leaves, new plants, and new animals compatible with vanilla clients
Better Nature
This mod is mostly a visual enhancement mod, but also has server side cosmetic features compatible with vanilla clients!
Also available in a resource pack format
Features when the mod is installed on both the client and server:
- 3D leaves
- New plants
- Mushrooms on trees
- Branches on trees
- New underwater plants
- Better cactus
- Pebbles on stones
- Actual leaves vines
- 2 new music discs, obtainable from creepers
- 3 new musics, one for the menu, one for badlands and one for frozen peaks
- Underwater particle for breathing
- New animal: the crab (compatible with vanilla client)
- Beetles
- Dragonflies
Features of the mod when only installed on the client:
- 3D leaves
- New plants
- Mushrooms on trees
- New underwater plants
- Better cactus
- Pebbles
- Leaves on vines
- 3 new music, one for the menu, one for badlands and one for frozen peaks
- Beetles
- Dragonflies
Features of the mod when installed on the server but not on the client:
- Underwater particle for breathing
- New animal: the crab (compatible with vanilla client)
How to summon the crab in survival with the mod installed on the server:
- Use a name tag with the name << Crab >> and apply it to a turtle!
The crab will behave agressively, but doesn't drop anything
Music credits
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 42 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogListed on Modrinth as “Mods”
Creatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Works on a server
From source side supportModrinth lists server-side support for Better Nature as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 41 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorThirtyFangs, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
