SURVIVAL

• Health does not regenerate from a full hunger bar. To recover, sleep near a lit campfire, eat suspicious stews, drink potions, or eat golden apples.
• Every death costs you 1 max heart (minimum 4). PvP deaths don't reduce max hearts unless you're a bandit.
• Sleeping above Y=50 near a lit campfire heals missing HP and has a chance to restore a max heart. Soul Campfires heal more and have a much higher restore chance.
• The lower your max HP, the higher the restore chance. Campfires extinguish after sleeping. You can't sleep through thunder.
• Enchanted golden apples always restore a max heart. Regular ones occasionally do. Craft an enchanted golden apple from 8 gold blocks and 1 golden apple.
• All online players need to sleep to skip the night.

Beds no longer set spawn; they only heal. To set your respawn point, place a respawn banner.

• Named banner: rename a banner in an anvil to your exact Minecraft username, then place it. This always overrides any other active banner.
• Unnamed banner: just place any banner. It becomes your spawn only if you don't already have one set.
• One banner per player. If yours is destroyed, you respawn at spawn town. Banners only work in the Overworld. Exiting the Nether or End sends you to your banner (or spawn town).
• Recovery Compass now uses copper ingots instead of echo shards (because coordinates are obfuscated). Keep one near your banner.

Coordinates and the world seed are disabled. You navigate with what you can see and hold.

• Maps, compasses, and lodestones are your tools. World knowledge is the rest.
• Cartographers occasionally sell Ancient City maps at higher levels. Exploration is intentional, not lucky.

Crops and animals both need direct sky access and an altitude of Y > 50. Underground farms and basement barns are dead.

• Crops only grow with nothing above them. Growth and animal maturation are 30% slower than vanilla. Rain restores vanilla speed for as long as it lasts.
• Harvest crops with a hoe. Anything else yields no drops. Farmland turns to dirt after harvesting.
• Bonemeal grass anywhere for a chance at oxeye daisies (regen stews) and the occasional mushroom on podzol. Nether wart only grows in the Nether.
• Overcrowded animals get sick. They take damage, slow down, and drop nothing if they die of disease. Spread your livestock out.

Smokers are now the dedicated cooking block. Furnaces and campfires still work, but they're much slower than vanilla.

• Smoker recipe was reworked. It now requires 3 copper blocks alongside a furnace.
• Cook time scales with the food's "quality": kelp and potatoes are fast, beef and pork are slow. The smoker is roughly 2× faster than a furnace.

Blast furnaces are the dedicated smelter and the only way to fully recycle gear. The recipe was reworked too.

• Blast furnace recipe now uses copper blocks instead of stone, and unlocks after you craft your first regular furnace.
• Recycling iron or gold tools, weapons, or armour returns a full ingot in a blast furnace, but only a nugget in a regular furnace. Blast furnaces also give increased XP for these recycles.
• Smelt time depends on ore tier: stone < slate < raw, and nether ores are fastest. Blast furnaces roughly halve regular-furnace times for ores.

Armour now affects movement speed per piece. Stacking diamond and netherite is no longer free.

• Faster: leather (+5% per piece), copper (+3%), gold (+2%).
• Chainmail is neutral.
• Slower: iron (-2%), diamond (-3%), netherite (-5%).
• Mixing sets gives you a speed somewhere in between. Pick gear for the situation, not just the highest tier.

The enchanting system is built around early-game value, not infinite stacking. Real choices replace endless combining.

• Enchanting tables max out at level 3 and 3 enchantments. Infinity is gone from the table.
• Anvils can't combine two books, can't push past 3 total enchantments, and can't raise an existing enchantment above level 3. They can still apply a high-level enchantment that wasn't there before.
• Conflicting combos are blocked: flame + infinity/mending on a bow, fire aspect + sharpness on a weapon.
• Repair and enchant cost scales with material tier: wood and gold are cheapest, diamond and netherite are pricier.
• Mind Potions bottle XP for trade or storage. Brew lapis + water → essence, then essence + amethyst → mind. Drinking it converts your XP into a Bottle o' Enchanting (and gives you 30s of hunger).
• Highly-enchanted gear and books still come from structures, villagers, and fishing.

Villager trades have been rebalanced to be useful but not abusable. The Mojang Villager Trade Rebalance pack is the baseline, with extra changes layered on top.

• Rerolling is slower (~20% less villager XP), and farmable trades like sticks now require a full stack for an emerald.
• Some trades are restructured or replaced. Cartographers can sell Ancient City maps at higher levels.
• Hero of the Village is capped at level I so raids can't break the economy.
• You can leash villagers, which makes moving them much easier.

Nether travel doesn't work like vanilla. Portals are temporary, coordinates are 1:1, and exiting always sends you home.

• Light a portal in the Overworld and you have 30 seconds to enter. After that it breaks, consuming some obsidian. Frames must be exactly 3×2; larger ones won't activate.
• The Overworld and Nether map at 1:1, not 8:1. A matching portal opens for you on the Nether side automatically.
• Exiting any Nether portal returns you to your respawn banner (or spawn town). It does not return you to your original portal. Set a banner before you go in.

The End is a one-shot, shared instance per portal lighting. The dragon fight has been reworked, and Phantoms now spawn here exclusively.

• Eyes of Ender are harder to craft: 1 ender pearl + 1 blaze powder + 1 breeze rod + 1 echo shard + 1 prismarine shard. You'll be visiting the Nether, Trial Chambers, Ocean Monuments, and Ancient Cities to assemble it.
• Once a portal is filled, a 30-second countdown starts. Anyone who jumps in joins the same shared instance, then the portal closes permanently.
• If everyone in the instance dies, it's deleted forever along with all dropped items. The instance survives as long as someone is online inside it (or has logged in within the past 2 days).
• The dragon fight spawns Ender Ghasts: smaller, tougher, more aggressive ghasts with new movement and targeting.
• Tamed pets travel between worlds with you automatically as long as they aren't sitting and stay nearby. Only players can use the End portal. Other entities are blocked.