Jet's Better Exploration

The mod targets the adventure side of survival play. Ancient Explorer maps become available from cartographers once the ender dragon is defeated, and they lead to ancient cities. A Sculk Vial crafted from five echo shards stores up to 30 levels of experience. Ancient cities are made twice as rare in exchange for woodland mansions appearing three times as often, and the ancient city loot table gains diamond armor and tools. A recovery compass can no longer be crafted and is instead found in woodland mansions, where it has a new texture.

Transport and mobility get their own changes. Default powered rails use copper ingots instead of gold, and minecarts with a passenger move at 12 m/s instead of 8 m/s. Super powered rails crafted with gold ingots push minecarts up to 16 m/s. Horses sprint 120% faster, and a stamina bar drains during long sprints, slowing a horse by 30% until it recharges. Horse armor gains durability and can carry enchantments such as unbreaking, mending and protection. Striders stop feeling the cold outside lava in the Nether, spawn on Nether terrain and no longer get cold in the Overworld, while ice evaporates in the Nether. Boat behavior on ice follows the allowIceBoatSpeed game rule.

Jet's Better Exploration requires Fabric API. It is a client and server mod, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Fabric only, for 1.20.4, with 1.1.3+1.20.4 as the latest file, and the project is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Public links are available for the source code and issue tracker.