Dawn of Time: Beyond Vanilla
Dawn of Time: Beyond Vanilla gives builders hundreds of new block variants for vanilla materials, from wood, stone and deepslate to nether and mineral blocks.
What it does
Each new block uses an existing vanilla material and adds a shape or finish that the base game does not include. Stone, cobblestone, sandstone, red sandstone, deepslate, bricks, mud bricks and packed mud receive cut, polished, cracked, mossy and tiled forms. Concrete and terracotta come in 16 colors.
The nether side includes netherrack, nether bricks, cracked and red nether bricks, nylium, soul sand and soul soil. Mineral materials such as coal, iron, gold, lapis, diamond and netherite get their own variants. The blocks share one inventory system and are sorted into four categories with custom tabs and subtabs, so a player finds a given block in the same place each time.
The mod is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and is installed on the client and the server. It is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, with files for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1. Ancient Structures: Chinese requires it.
Key features
Wood and stone variants
Wood types, stone, cobblestone and deepslate each get several block shapes and finishes, including cut, polished and cracked forms.
Nether and mineral materials
Nether bricks, nylium, soul soil and ore-based materials such as diamond and netherite are available as new block variants.
Sorted creative tabs
The blocks sit in four categories with custom tabs and subtabs, which makes the palette easier to browse.
Colored blocks
Concrete and terracotta are available in 16 colors, adding more options for paint and decoration.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Required by 1 mod
Use cases
Who it’s for: Builders who want more block shapes and finishes from vanilla materials, and server owners who want a shared set of decoration blocks for players.
How it compares
Many Bricks adds brick blocks for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Fabric and Forge, under All rights reserved and not open source. Just Block Shapes covers Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 26.2 and is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only. Dawn of Time is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and targets 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 on the same three loaders.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn of Time: Beyond Vanilla | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-06-26 |
| Many Bricks | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-02-23 |
| Just Block Shapes | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-06-21 |
Questions
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In the catalog
Dawn of Time: Beyond Vanilla is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Dawn Of Time: Beyond Vanilla is a Minecraft mod that expands the vanilla building palette with hundreds of new block variants using the Dawn of Time block templates. Every block uses an existing vanilla material, giving builders far more freedom to detail and decorate their constructions without leaving the vanilla…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/dot-beyond-vanilla
- Owner
- Dawn of Time Project
- Published
- 2026-04-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15