Insane's Experience Tweaks
by Insane96
Insane's Experience Tweaks changes how experience points are gained, dropped and spent, and it reshapes the experience anvil with many customizations.
What it does
Players who die keep less of their experience: the mod sets the drop on death to 80 percent, and a longer list of options controls how much experience mobs, blocks and other sources drop. Levelling up uses a fixed amount of experience per level instead of the usual exponential curve, and players pick up orbs faster. Bottles o' enchanting always give a full level of experience, and shearing sheep, gathering honeycomb from bee hives or brushing suspicious blocks can also yield experience.
Mobs drop more experience for each piece of equipment they carry, and more still when it is enchanted. Repairing items on an anvil costs less material, and crafting an item costs a little experience without the increasing cost of the vanilla anvil. A multiplier can be applied to how much experience mobs and blocks give, and the default settings leave it disabled.
Insane's Experience Tweaks requires InsaneLib. It runs on the server alone, so players join without installing anything. Files are published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only, with 1.1.4.0 as the latest file, and the code is not open source; it is released under All rights reserved. The mod is part of Insane's Survival Overhaul, and source code and an issue tracker are linked from its page.
Key features
Death experience penalty
On death, a player keeps only part of their experience, with the drop set to 80 percent and a limit of seven levels.
Fixed level cost
Each level needs the same amount of experience, replacing the exponential growth of vanilla levelling.
Enhanced anvils
Experience anvils gain many options for repair cost, material use and the increasing cost of repeated work.
Experience sources
Sheep shearing, honeycomb harvesting, brushing suspicious blocks and bottles o' enchanting can grant experience, and multipliers adjust each source.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Flat exp cost is a NeoForge server-side mod under the MIT License, built for 1.21.1, and it covers the level cost only. Stay Experienced is server-side only, not open source, and published for Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.21.1 – 1.21.4, so it suits a wider range of loaders. Fixed Anvils is a Fabric server-side mod for 1.21.11 that is not open source and targets the anvil alone.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insane's Experience Tweaks | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-10-13 |
| Flat exp cost | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-07-03 |
| Stay Experienced | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 | Server-side only | 2025-03-29 |
| Fixed Anvils | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-01-31 |
Questions
Does Insane's Experience Tweaks need InsaneLib?
Does a player need the mod to join a server that runs it?
Which game version is supported?
In the catalog
Insane's Experience Tweaks is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 12,140 Game mechanics mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Experience Tweaks is a small mod that enhances Experience and Anvils with many customizations. This mod was part of Insane's Survival Overhaul up to 1.20.1.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/insane-experience-tweaks
- Owner
- Insane96
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
