Better Advancements guide for All the Mods 10 0.51

Better Advancements is a quality-of-life mod that reworks Minecraft's advancements screen so it actually works in a modded environment. It's the successor to BetterAchievements, rebuilt for the advancements system introduced in 1.12+, and its scope is deliberately cosmetic and QoL: it doesn't add items, blocks or progression of its own.^[1]

The headline change is a screen-filling UI instead of the tiny default window, which matters a lot when you've got dozens of mods each adding their own advancement tab. Description boxes can also grow slightly larger so they're easier to read, and the tab's name gets added to the title of the advancements UI so you always know where you are.^[1]

There are a couple of visual tweaks on top of that: you can change the colour of the advancement icons instead of the default gray, blue and orange, and there's a setting to stop the advancements background fading when you hover over it.^[1]

Where it fits in this pack

The pack ships Better Advancements 0.4.2.19, and it's been included since version 0.32 or earlier, so it's been part of the experience for a long while.^[2]

Because the mod is purely a UI layer over vanilla and modded advancements, there's nothing here to unlock or progress through. It's not on the ATM Star path and no quests involve it. Treat it as a free upgrade to a screen you'll be opening anyway, especially when a mod you've just started using drops a fresh advancement tab into the list.^[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 or power networks to learn here. Better Advancements is a purely cosmetic and quality-of-life mod: it replaces the vanilla advancements screen with a better one and leaves the underlying advancement system, its triggers and its rewards completely alone. Everything below is about how that screen behaves in this pack.^[1]

What the mod changes about the screen

• The advancement UI fills the screen instead of the small vanilla window, so you can see far more of a tree at once.^[1]
• Advancement icons can be tinted with custom colours instead of the vanilla gray, blue and orange.^[1]
• The fading of the advancements background on hover can be switched off with a setting.^[1]
• Description boxes can grow slightly larger, which makes long modded advancement text easier to read.^[1]
• The name of the current tab is added to the title of the advancements UI.^[1]

Criteria detail, the one pack change

The most useful system here is criteria detail. For a partially completed advancement it lists the individual criteria behind it, so an advancement that wants a long checklist can show you what is left instead of a single vague line. The option supports turning it off for vanilla behaviour, a spoiler-free mode that only reveals the criteria you have not obtained yet, and a full mode that shows both obtained and unobtained criteria.^[3]

The pack changes this one on purpose. criteriaDetail is set to "Default" here, where the mod itself ships with the mode that lists the criteria you have already obtained.^[3]

criteriaDetailRequiresShift is false in this pack, so the criteria list shows without you holding shift.^[3]

The rest of the in-pack settings

• uiScaling is 100, the top of its 1 to 100 range. The config warns that values below 50 percent may give odd results, so drop it at your own risk.^[3]
• addInventoryButton is false, so no extra advancements button is added to your inventory screen.^[3]
• doAdvancementsBackgroundFade is true, so the background fade the mod lets you disable is left on.^[1][3]
• orderTabsAlphabetically and onlyUseAboveAdvancementTabs are both false, so tabs keep their normal order and placement.^[3]
• defaultHideLines and defaultDrawDirectLines are both false, so connecting lines are drawn, in the usual routed style rather than straight point-to-point.^[3]
• showDebugCoordinates is false, which keeps developer coordinate info off the screen.^[3]

Default colours

Completed advancements use #DBA213 for both defaultCompletedIconColor and defaultCompletedTitleColor, while uncompleted ones use #FFFFFF for defaultUncompletedIconColor and #0489C1 for defaultUncompletedTitleColor. Both defaultCompletedLineColor and defaultUncompletedLineColor are #FFFFFF.^[3]

Unverified Whether "Default" for criteriaDetail behaves like the spoiler mode or the full list in-game is not confirmed by the sources; check the in-game config screen if you want a specific behaviour.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Better Advancements is cosmetic and quality-of-life only, so its config is small. All of it lives in the client file, starting with criteriaDetail. Here's what's worth knowing and how this pack sets it.^[1][4]

The one value the pack changed

criteriaDetail controls the criteria listed for partially completed advancements, like the biomes needed for 'Adventuring Time'. The mod's default is to list which criteria you have already obtained. This pack changes it and sets it to "Default".^[4]

The file's own comment describes these modes: Off is the vanilla default, Spoiler only reveals unobtained criteria, and All shows both obtained and unobtained criteria.^[4]

Screen size and layout

• uiScaling is 100, the same as the mod default. The allowed range is 1 to 100, and the file warns that values below 50% might give odd results.^[4]
• addInventoryButton is false in this pack.^[4]
• orderTabsAlphabetically is false and onlyUseAboveAdvancementTabs is false.^[4]
• showDebugCoordinates is false.^[4]

Visual options

The mod lets you recolour advancement icons and stop the advancements background from fading on hover. In this pack doAdvancementsBackgroundFade is true, so the fade stays on. Set it to false if you want to stop the fade.^[1][4]

The line options are defaultDrawDirectLines and defaultHideLines, and both are false here.^[4]

• Completed icons and titles use #DBA213 (defaultCompletedIconColor and defaultCompletedTitleColor).^[4]
• Completed lines are #FFFFFF (defaultCompletedLineColor).^[4]
• Uncompleted icons and lines are #FFFFFF (defaultUncompletedIconColor and defaultUncompletedLineColor).^[4]
• Uncompleted titles are #0489C1 (defaultUncompletedTitleColor).^[4]

All the Mods 10 0.51 ships Better Advancements 0.4.2.19, the NeoForge build for 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since 0.32 or earlier.^[2]

Mod releases

• 0.4.2.19: the changelog lists a single change, an update to 1.21.1. This is the version you have in the pack right now.^[2][5]
• 0.4.2.16: the changelog lists a single change, which makes sure a mapping exists before the build. It is a change to how the mod is built, not a feature.^[6]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for this mod were available, so any change the pack itself made to Better Advancements is unverified.