Real Nether

Without protection, walking through the Nether sets a player on fire. Real Nether counters this with ice-based gear: Ice Packed and Blue Ice are gathered in cold biomes, an Ice Machine turns them into Ice and Ice Shards, and those items supply armor, a Fire Resistance effect, an Ice Totem held in the off-hand, and cooling when a player is burning. Powdered Snow also comes into play, since standing inside it cools the player. The author's aim is to make the Nether a real challenge to traverse rather than a quick passage.

Netherite is reworked as well. A new player-made Netherite Forge is built from Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks and smelts Ancient Debris into Netherite Scrap and Netherite Nuggets, and a Netherite Smithing Table crafts Netherite Ingots, Swords, Pickaxes and Armor. The license is All rights reserved, so the mod is not open source. Only the server has to run Real Nether, and players may leave it out. Builds exist for 1.20 – 26.2, and older game versions are covered by files labeled LEGACY.