Better Advancements guide for All the Mods 10 0.32 to 0.50

Better Advancements is a quality-of-life mod that rebuilds Minecraft's advancement screen so it actually works in a heavily modded game. Instead of the tiny default window, you get a screen-filling UI, which matters a lot when a pack adds hundreds of advancements across dozens of tabs.^[1]

The mod describes its own scope as purely cosmetic and quality of life. It doesn't add items, blocks or advancements of its own, it just makes the ones already in the game easier to read and navigate.^[1]

What you get

• A screen-filling advancements UI instead of the cramped vanilla window.^[1]
• Configurable advancement icon colors, rather than the default gray, blue and orange.^[1]
• A setting to stop the advancements background from fading when you hover over it.^[1]
• Description boxes that can grow slightly larger, so longer text is easier to read.^[1]
• The name of the current tab added to the advancements UI title.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack

This pack ships Better Advancements 0.4.2.19, and it has been bundled since version 0.32 or earlier. It's a background mod: nothing gates progression behind it, and there are no quests tied to it. It isn't part of the ATM Star path either, so you can treat it as a pure convenience layer.^[2]

Who is it for? Anyone who still uses vanilla advancements as a checklist alongside the pack's quest book. If you like hunting down the odd mod advancement for fun, the bigger screen and readable descriptions save you a lot of squinting and scrolling.^[1][2]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Good news: Better Advancements doesn't ask you to craft anything or hunt for a special item. It's a cosmetic and quality-of-life mod that improves the advancements screen, so your first steps are just about opening that screen and seeing what's different.^[1]

What changes when you open the advancements screen

• The advancements UI fills the whole screen instead of the tiny default window.^[1]
• You can change the color of the advancement icons, instead of the default gray, blue and orange.^[1]
• There's a setting to stop the advancements background from fading when you hover over it.^[1]
• Description boxes can grow slightly larger, so they're easier to read.^[1]
• The title of the current tab is added to the title of the advancements UI.^[1]

That's the mod's whole scope. It tidies up how advancements look and read, and it doesn't add gameplay content of its own.^[1]

Unverified I found no recipes, quests or in-game tooltips tied to Better Advancements in this pack, so there's no crafting order to follow and no recipe block for this section. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

There are no machines, multiblocks, power networks or fluid systems here. Better Advancements is a purely client-side quality-of-life and cosmetic mod: it takes Minecraft's existing advancements system and rebuilds the screen around it so that it actually works in a heavily modded environment.^[1]

The mod is the successor to BetterAchievements, rewritten for the advancements system introduced in 1.12+. Its whole job is improving the UI and UX of that vanilla system, so nothing it adds changes gameplay, progression or item handling.^[1]

What it changes

• The advancements screen fills your window instead of the tiny default panel, which is what makes big modded trees readable.^[1]
• You can change the color of the advancement icons rather than being stuck with the default gray, blue and orange.^[1]
• A setting stops the advancements background from fading when you hover over entries.^[1]
• Description boxes are allowed to grow slightly larger so longer text is easier to read.^[1]
• The name of the tab you are viewing is added to the title of the advancements UI, so you always know which tree you're in.^[1]

I can't show you the pack's exact config values for Better Advancements, because no config file for this mod is available to me. So I can't tell you which options the pack changed from the mod defaults, or what the pack sets them to.^[1]

What the mod's project page does say is that it is cosmetic and Quality of Life only. Two of its listed features are settings-style tweaks you may want to look for in the in-game config screen: changing the color of the advancement icons instead of the default gray, blue and orange, and stopping the advancements background from fading on hover.^[1]

Unverified Exact config file names, option keys, default values and any pack-specific changes for Better Advancements are unverified, because no config data for this mod in the pack was provided.

All the Mods 10 0.50 ships Better Advancements 0.4.2.19, the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 0.32 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the modpack.^[2]

Mod changelog highlights

• 0.4.2.16: a build fix that makes sure a mapping exists before the build runs. It's a developer-side change, so you won't notice anything in game.^[3]
• 0.4.2.19: the update to 1.21.1, which is the version of the mod that 0.50 uses.^[2][4]

There are no pack changelog entries for this mod, so nothing has been recorded about the pack changing how it behaves between releases. The mod's own changelogs above are all we have to go on.^[2]