TougherThanLlamas

Night spawns and mining are the first things a player notices. Random spawns land within a 1000-block radius of the player during the night, and the mod avoids placing them in the same spot twice. Mining is slowed to at least four times slower than vanilla, and wood can be mined by hand with realistic timing. Occupied villages no longer hand out shipwreck loot freely, which removes a source of gear.

Hunger drains much faster during physical activity, running in particular, and the hunger bar shakes to show how quickly it is falling. Caves can turn pitch black in a gloom effect that mirrors real darkness, and a player who stays too long in that gloom can be claimed by the Dark Force. Animals follow goals and more complex systems instead of standing idle, monsters gained new behaviour, sleep no longer skips the night but fast-forwards time gradually, crops change how weeds grow and are cut, and bonemeal behaves like a real fertilizer rather than the vanilla version.

The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. It requires a dynamic lighting dependency, which is the only other mod the card names. The code is open source under the MIT License, and the 1.0-alpha build for 1.21.4 was published on 2026-03-01, on the alpha channel, after a first release on 2026-02-28.