Smiley's Better Brain
by Toast5
Smiley's Better Brain extends the AI companion Verity JE with persistent memory, a stronger physical identity and new in-game abilities for Forge and NeoForge.
What it does
Verity JE is required, and the mod expands what that companion remembers and can do. It adds short-term and long-term memory that persists between sessions, expanded world knowledge, and abilities such as acting on the weather and time, teleporting, riding, summoning and striking with lightning. Verity's default personality is cheerful and energetic, but it can grow colder if players mistreat him, and the mod clarifies his behavioral rules.
The text AI defaults to Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which the author recommends for fast replies, strong instruction following and image understanding. An experimental configuration tab lets players switch to Groq's llama-3.3-70b-versatile, which matches Verity JE's own default Groq model. Gemini's thinking level can be set to Fast, Balanced or Smart. Either provider keeps the memory tools, personality rules and text-to-speech integration. A screenshot falls back to Gemini automatically when Groq is selected.
Admin abilities run immediately by default, without a stream of confirmation dialogs. A server can turn off specific ability categories, require operator level 2, and cap ranges or counts through brain-server.toml. Valuable or dangerous blocks that cannot be obtained in survival stay restricted, and players, bosses other than the protected ones, and similar targets are guarded by default. The mod is published for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 and runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it.
Key features
Persistent memory
Verity keeps short-term and long-term memory, so conversations carry over beyond the recent-chat window that Verity JE normally keeps.
Physical in-game abilities
Verity can act on the weather and time, teleport, ride, summon mobs and call lightning, with categories that server owners can turn off.
Recommended text AI
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is the default provider, with an experimental Groq option using llama-3.3-70b-versatile.
Adjustable thinking level
Gemini's thinking level is set to Fast, Balanced or Smart, trading reply speed against depth.
Guarded players and bosses
Players and bosses are guarded by default, and valuable or dangerous survival-unobtainable blocks stay restricted.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Questions
Does Smiley's Better Brain need Verity JE?
Do server owners need to install it?
Which AI provider does Smiley's Better Brain use?
In the catalog
Smiley's Better Brain is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,122 Technology mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Smiley's Better Brain 3.0.0 is an unofficial add-on for Verity JE 5.7.3 that upgrades Verity's conversations, memory, personality, world awareness, and in-game abilities. Use Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite by default, or try the experimental Groq / Llama 3.3 70B provider used by Verity JE. Either provider keeps Better Brain's…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/smileys-better-brain
- Owner
- Toast5
- Published
- 2026-07-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
