Less experience
by Daanlokdrog
Less experience removes most experience orb rewards from the player's activities, so the orbs that normally follow mining, smelting and fishing stop appearing.
What it does
The mod takes out experience rewards from several actions, including mining, fishing, smelting and animal breeding. Killing mobs is the one case where experience can still drop in the early release, so the effect is narrower than a full removal. Because the change is applied through a Mixin and a Forge event handler, it works by altering what the game grants rather than by adding new content. Installing it on the server is enough, since players join without any local file. The mod is published for Forge 1.20.1 under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, which places the work in the public domain and is not open source.
Key features
Mining and smelting rewards
Experience orbs that normally come from mining ore and smelting items are removed on the server.
Fishing and breeding rewards
Fishing catches and animal breeding no longer grant experience in this release.
Mob kill drops
In the early release, only killing mobs still drops experience, so that source stays unchanged.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Brewing XP is a server-side only Forge mod for 1.20.1 under All rights reserved, covering a different experience source. FishingHook is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 under the MIT License that both sides run, and it targets fishing rather than removing experience broadly.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less experience | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2025-01-20 |
| Brewing XP | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2024-02-19 |
| FishingHook | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-10-17 |
Questions
Does Less experience need to be on the client?
In the catalog
Less experience is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,316 Game mechanics mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
In the early release, only killing Mobs will drop experience. Nostalgic Tweaks doesn't have this feature, so I made this mod. I implemented it via Mixin and SubscribeEvent. It should not affect performance.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/less-experience
- Owner
- Daanlokdrog
- Published
- 2025-01-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-01-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15