Bits and Balance - Complete Feature List

Blocks & World Generation

• Azalea Wood - Complete azalea wood set with custom tree generation, recipes, loot tables, and creative tab support
• Coal Andesite Veins - Large Andesite-Coal deposits in the Overworld
• Nether Gold Veins - Large Nether Gold-Blackstone deposits in Nether biomes
• Nether Quartz Veins - Large Nether Quartz-Blackstone deposits in Nether biomes
• Ore Variants - Replaces vanilla ores with host-stone variants during world generation, including Create zinc when installed
• Nether Lava Spring Suppression - Toggle to remove random singular lava source springs in Nether terrain (off by default)

Client-Side Features

• Auto Walk - Automatic walking functionality with keybind toggle
• Chat Heads – Player head icons render before chat messages with configurable sizing and positioning
• Custom Splash Text - Custom splash texts randomly appear on the title screen with configurable frequency
• Elder Guardian Appearance Suppression - Disable the Elder Guardian jumpscare effect when Mining Fatigue is inflicted
• Leaf Litter Biome Tint - Tint leaf litter and leaf pile blocks using biome colors (supports biome tags like #minecraft:is_overworld)
• Level 30 Old Sound - Plays the long/old level-up sound when reaching level 30
• Night Vision Fade - Smooth night vision transitions instead of vanilla blinking
• Recovery Compass - Distance/coordinate display for recovery compass with enhanced UI
• See Held Item When Riding - Show your held item in first-person while riding entities
• Suppress Experimental Settings Warning - Suppress experimental settings warnings when creating/loading worlds
• Usage Ticker - Visual item usage progress with armor slot display and configurable positioning

Combat Features

• Maintain Experience - Players lose percentage of XP on death instead of most (configurable percentage)
• Second Chance - Anti-one-shot mechanic with cooldown, resistance, and nausea effects (excludes fall damage by default)
• Snowball Rework - Snowballs deal damage and apply freezing effects with special Nether entity damage multiplier
• Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames - Allow damage within i-frames if the incoming damage type differs (with configurable blacklist)

Enchantments

• Aerodynamic - Treasure enchantment for Elytra that reduces horizontal drag based on altitude; caps max flight speed
  • Loot Source: Rarely found as an enchanted book in End City Treasure loot (~1/100)
  • Implementation: Data-driven enchantment (data/bitsandbalance/enchantment/aerodynamic.json) + elytra flight physics mixin

Custom Potions & Effects

• Displacement Potion - Random teleportation within 100-block radius (Recipe: Awkward Potion + Ender Eye)
• Haste Potion - Brewable haste effect (Recipe: Speed Potion + Quartz, upgradeable with Redstone/Glowstone)
• Levitation Potion - Brewable levitation effect (Recipe: Slow Falling Potion + Shulker Shell, upgradeable with Redstone/Glowstone)
• Resurfacing Potion - Teleports player to surface (currently no brewing recipe)
• Returning Potion - Teleports to latest death location (Recipe: Displacement Potion + Echo Shard)
• Withering Potion - Brewable wither effect potion (Recipe: Poison/Harming Potion + Wither Rose, upgradeable with Redstone/Glowstone)

Loot Table Modifications

• Custom Loot Tables - Add custom potions to various structure chests:
  • Mineshafts - Resurfacing, Returning, Haste (regular and strong)
  • Strongholds - Resurfacing, Returning
  • Ancient Cities - Resurfacing, Returning
  • End Cities - Returning
  • Simple Dungeons - (various custom potions)
  • Trial Chambers - (various custom potions)

Mechanics Features

• Campfires Ignite - Campfires cook entities standing on them
• Chat Mentions - Username highlighting and ping sounds with @username or plain username detection, case-insensitive with word boundaries
• Cozy Campfire - Regeneration effect near lit campfires with configurable range, duration, and amplifier (affects bees too)
• Coyote Time Jump - Jump after falling off blocks without jumping first with configurable duration and fall distance
• Crawling - Explicit crawling stance mechanic with keybind integration
• Dismount Entities - Crouch+right-click to eject vehicle passengers with configurable vertical/horizontal velocity
• Door Knocking - Knock on doors with left-click, plays material-appropriate sound
• Item Sharing - Shift+chat while hovering items to share in chat with hoverable links
  • Shared items preserve enchantment glint when applicable
• Leashed Teleport - Leashed mobs follow through all teleportation (commands, chorus fruit, ender pearls, portals) with cross-dimension support, safe placement, and configurable limits
• Navigator Compass - Right-click compass to set custom coordinates with distance and coordinate display
• Quick Harvesting - Right-click crops with hoes/axes to harvest and replant:
  • Hoes - 3x3 area harvest for mature crops; Fortune gives +1 XP per level per crop
  • Axes - Harvest pumpkins, melons, cocoa, and compatible modded crops; Fortune gives +1 XP per level
• Rapid Fire Jump - Hold jump key for continuous jumping within 2-block tall gaps with configurable interval
• Respawn Anchor Anywhere - Use Respawn Anchors in any dimension, not just the Nether
  • Implementation: Mixin forces DimensionType.respawnAnchorWorks() true when enabled, letting vanilla behavior handle the rest
• Sitting - Toggle or hold-to-sit functionality with configurable mode
• Speedy Wolves - Tamed wolves move faster to keep up with owner with dynamic speed scaling based on distance
• Tamed Teleport - Tamed mobs teleport to owner when following and out of range with configurable cooldown, distance threshold, and particle effects
• Toggle Stance - Keybind to switch between standing/sneaking/crawling with full stance integration
• Villagers Follow Emeralds - Villagers follow players holding emeralds/emerald blocks with configurable speed and particle effects

Mob Modifications

• Cave Spider Spawning - Cave spiders have a configurable chance to replace spiders in caves
• Disable Nitwits - Prevent nitwit villagers from spawning
• Improved Phantoms - Multiple enhancements:
  • Pickup Mechanics - Phantoms can pick up and carry players with configurable chance and minimum delay
  • Slowness Stacking - Stacking slowness effect when hit by phantoms with configurable duration and max level
  • Double Damage When Carried - Deal double damage when hitting a phantom while being carried
  • Better Combat Integration - Enhanced phantom combat mechanics when Better Combat mod is installed
• Improved Wandering Traders - Custom trades with multiple configurable categories (Building Materials, Rare Items, Utility Items, Decorative Items)
• Iron Golems vs Creepers - Iron Golems target Creepers; Creepers won’t retaliate/ignite when attacked by Iron Golems (prevents explosions)

Recipe Modifications

• Alternative Map Recipe - Craft maps using paper and black dye (ink sac) instead of compass
• Alternative Repeater Recipe - Craft repeaters with redstone, sticks, and stone
• Chest from Logs - Craft chests from logs (4 chests per recipe)
• Dynamic Stair Recipe System – Override ALL stair recipes (vanilla, modded, custom) to output 8x stairs plus compact 2x2 stair recipes (3 blocks in corner = 4 stairs) for all stair types
• Ender Eye Recipe - Alternative ender eye crafting using echo shard, wind charge, blaze powder, and ender pearl
• Raw Block Smelting - Smelt/blast raw iron/gold/copper blocks into their respective metal blocks
• Recovery Compass Recipe - Improved recipe using echo shards and compass
• Torch Fuel - Use torches as furnace fuel with configurable burn time

Tweaks & Quality of Life

• Armed Armor Stands - Armor stands spawn with arms and can hold items
• Brushing XP Rewards - XP from finishing brushable blocks with configurable min/max values
• Compostable Items - Rotten flesh (30% chance) and poisonous potatoes (65% chance) can be composted
• Creeper Sunlight Burn - Creepers burn in sunlight like zombies and skeletons
• Curse Uses - Hide pumpkin overlay with Curse of Vanishing on pumpkins
• Despawn With Master - Vex despawn with Evoker, Shulker bullets despawn with Shulker
• Double Door Opening - Double doors open together with redstone mirroring support, crouch for single door, chain trapdoors (up to 5)
• Enderdragon Egg Always - Every Ender Dragon kill spawns a dragon egg with configurable placement (random or vanilla location) and particle effects
• Glowing Glowberries - Glowberries give glowing effect when consumed (15 seconds for players, 5 seconds for foxes)
• Improved Climbables - Chain placement for ladders/vines and fast sliding on ladders when looking down with configurable speed and angle thresholds
• Improved Recovery Compass - Keep on death, show distance/coords, right-click to toggle display, sculk particles on shift+right-click
• Keybind Modifier System – Global Shift/Alt/Ctrl modifier support for mod keybinds (used by Item Sharing)
• More Mining XP - Increased XP from mining ores (vanilla + variants), configurable per ore type (coal, diamond, emerald, lapis, redstone)
• Responsive Shields - Remove shield blocking delay with configurable raise time (0 = instant blocking)
• Return to Killer - When killing flying mobs, their XP and drops home toward the killer for easy pickup; item homing speed is capped (5 m/s)
• Sophisticated Scaffolding - All drops appear at player location when breaking scaffolding
• Speedy Happy Ghasts - Happy Ghasts are affected by Swiftness and Slowness (applied to flying speed); Swiftness is doubled for Happy Ghasts (Speed I = +40%)
• Sugarcane Sand Growth – Sugarcane grows 25% faster on sand or red sand
• Tipped Arrows Lingering Clouds - Tipped arrows spawn a lingering-potion-style area effect cloud immediately on impact (block hit and entity hit); cloud behavior matches lingering potions; afterwards, the arrow becomes a normal arrow
• Treasure Enchantment Gold Color - Beneficial treasure enchantments (Mending, Frost Walker, Soul Speed, Swift Sneak) display in gold color instead of purple

Balance Features

• Balanced Elytra - Elytras lose extra durability when flying at high speeds (on top of vanilla durability loss)
• Full Ender Dragon XP - Ender Dragon drops full XP every time it's killed, not just the first time
• Food Always Edible - Allow eating food at full hunger (toggleable)
• Nerfed Discounts - Remove zombie curing discounts (optional) and cap maximum villager trade discounts

Note: This list may not be 100% complete - there might be a feature or two that slipped through the cracks...if someone wants to help me make a Wiki and such. Please let me know!