YUNG's Better Strongholds in All the Mods 10

YUNG's Better Strongholds is a complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds. It makes them much more complex and exciting while still staying true to the vanilla themes, so you still know you're in a stronghold, just a far bigger adventure than before.^[1]

Inside you'll find over 15 different rooms, various types of tunnels and hallways, staircases, traps, and even hidden areas. Take your time exploring, because there's more to find than in a vanilla stronghold.^[1]

Version in this pack

This pack ships YUNG's Better Strongholds 1.21.1-NeoForge-5.1.3. It has been included since the first version of the pack, or earlier.^[2]

Compatibility

The mod is intended to be fully compatible with every worldgen mod. Its project page names YUNG's Better Mineshafts, YUNG's Better Dungeons, YUNG's Extras, YUNG's Bridges, Better End, End Remastered and Repurposed Structures.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

This mod is different from most in the pack: it doesn't add gear for you to craft. It redesigns Minecraft's strongholds, so your first steps are about finding one and getting ready to explore it, not making a starter item.^[1]

Expect a lot more variety than in vanilla. The strongholds have over 15 different rooms, several types of tunnels and hallways, staircases, traps and even hidden areas, while still keeping the vanilla look.^[1]

What to do first

1. Track down a stronghold with Eyes of Ender, just like in vanilla. If Repurposed Structures strongholds are enabled, the Eye points to whichever stronghold is closest, whether it's a Repurposed Structures one or a Better Stronghold.^[1]
2. Watch for ruined sections. Small noodle caves can slightly destroy a stronghold if that option is enabled, but large caverns leave it unaffected.^[3]
3. Check the End Portal Frames when you reach the portal room. Each frame has a configurable chance to spawn already filled with an Eye of Ender.^[3]

Unverified No crafting recipes, quests or in-pack changed values for this mod could be confirmed, so there is no recipe to craft first. The default values of the ruin and filled-frame options in this pack are also unconfirmed.

This mod has no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or automation. The sources describe it as a complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds, so the mechanics worth knowing are how the strongholds generate and what changes inside them. Everything below comes from the mod's own data files.^[1]

What a stronghold contains

The mod describes over 15 different rooms, various types of tunnels and hallways, staircases, traps and hidden areas, all while staying close to vanilla themes.^[1]

Where strongholds can generate

The stronghold is registered as a structure and grouped in a structure tag. Its biome list covers mountains, badlands, hills, taiga, jungle, forest, stony shore, mushroom fields, ice spikes, desert, savanna (including plateau and windswept), snowy plains, plains, sunflower plains, swamp, dripstone caves and lush caves. Several entries in that list are optional tags from other mods and loaders, so they only matter if those tags exist.^[4][5]

If Repurposed Structures strongholds are enabled, Eyes of Ender locate whichever stronghold is closest, whether it is a Repurposed Structures one or a Better Stronghold.^[1]

Ruins, portal frames and options

The mod's language file describes a ruin option and a portal frame option. The ruin option lets strongholds be slightly destroyed by small noodle caves, and they remain unaffected by large caverns. The portal frame option sets the chance for each End Portal Frame block to spawn already filled with an Eye of Ender. No config file for this mod is in the pack, so the sources here do not show the values this pack uses.^[3]

How rooms are dressed

When a piece is placed, the main processor list runs a series of processors: ruin, banner, ore, armor stand, item frame, rare block, redstone and leg. It then applies block swaps with the probabilities written in the data file. Here is what the main list does to the blocks:^[6]

• Red stained glass is turned into TNT with the unstable property set to false.^[6]
• Stone bricks can become mossy stone bricks (probability 0.30), cracked stone bricks (0.20) or infested stone bricks (0.05).^[6]
• Cobwebs are replaced with air at probability 0.7. Tripwire becomes cobweb at probability 0.1, and any tripwire left is replaced with air.^[6]
• Torches and wall torches are replaced with air at probability 0.9, and lanterns at probability 0.8. Most stronghold lights are therefore missing, so plan your lighting.^[6]

Some rooms use their own processor lists. The armoury has no rare block processor and none of the TNT, cobweb or tripwire rules, but it removes chests and barrels at probability 0.1 each.^[7]

The grand library skips the ore, armor stand and item frame processors but keeps the rare block processor. It removes chests at probability 0.4 and spawners at probability 0.75, so some of its loot and spawners will simply not be there.^[8]

Unverified The data files for several other rooms (library, mess, portal room, prison), statues, terminators and the main stronghold structure definition are not covered by the sources here, so their exact processing and layout are unconfirmed.

There is no crafting ladder for this mod. The strongholds are a structure you find in the world, and what you get out of them comes from chest loot. The mod's structure tag lists a single entry, betterstrongholds:stronghold, so that is the structure these loot tables belong to.^[5]

Early game: the common chests

The common loot table is basic supplies. Each chest rolls on it a couple of times, so expect a handful of stacks rather than a jackpot.^[9]

• Iron Ingot is the most weighted metal (weight 10). Gold Ingot is much rarer (weight 1).^[9]
• Redstone and Coal drop in stacks, with coal (weight 10) more likely than redstone (weight 5).^[9]
• Food is the most common loot: Bread, Potato and Apple each have weight 15. Sticks, cobwebs and torches show up too.^[9]
• Single pieces include an Iron Pickaxe, a Wooden Pickaxe, an Ender Pearl, a Saddle and iron, golden and diamond horse armor.^[9]
• There is also a small chance (weight 1) of a randomly enchanted Book.^[9]

Deeper in: the crypt

Crypt chests roll more often than common ones. Most of the pool is junk like Bone (weight 10) and Bone Meal (weight 5), but the good stuff is in there: Diamond has weight 2, while Ender Pearl and Iron Sword each have weight 1.^[10]

The best find: YUNG's Better Sword

One special loot table holds a single roll with a single entry: a Diamond Sword named "YUNG's Better Sword". It comes randomly enchanted, so every one is different. If you spot it, grab it.^[11]

Unverified The mod also has other chest loot tables (armoury, library, mess, prison, treasure and trap, among others). Their contents are set in the mod's data files, and the sources here do not show them, so don't count on specific items from those rooms.

All the Mods 10 8.2 ships YUNG's Better Strongholds 1.21.1-NeoForge-5.1.3. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 1.0 or earlier, so you've likely been exploring its strongholds for a while. Here's what changed along the way.^[2]

In the pack: All the Mods 10 2.39

This pack release updated the mod from 1.21.1-NeoForge-5.1.2 to 1.21.1-NeoForge-5.1.3, which is the version you have in 8.2.^[2][12]

Mod version 5.1.3

• A new config option sets the chance that each End Portal Frame block spawns already filled with an Eye of Ender. If you care how quickly you can get through a stronghold, this is the one to look at.^[13]
• Some processors no longer attach unnecessary NBT data to blocks. The changelog says this should help with rare crashes when structures overlapped.^[13]
• Modded blocks and items now work with the extra JSON config files on Fabric. That fix targets Fabric, so it isn't something you'd notice on the NeoForge build in this pack.^[13]

Mod version 5.1.2

The minimum version requirements were lowered, so the mod works on both 1.21 and 1.21.1.^[14]

Mod version 5.1.0

This was the port to 1.21.1, and it had the biggest list of changes.^[15]

• Added an optional ruin processor with a config option. The changelog describes it as disabled by default.^[15]
• All other existing config options moved to structure rule processors.^[15]
• The waterlog processor was replaced by a new liquid_settings option in the structure json.^[15]
• The mod now uses the new Enhanced Terrain Adaptation from YUNG's API to guarantee the stronghold is buried.^[15]
• End Remastered's End Gate was removed from the vanilla advancement.^[15]
• Housekeeping: an unused config entry was removed from the structure json, the config readmes were updated, and all structure NBT files were updated.^[15]