Hendrix's Better Spring to Life
ModImprove the forests with new hollow logs, firefly jars, new ambient mobs and more.
Why gradeA
How grades workStrengths
Points lost
- Under 5 million downloads−1 point
All 11 criteria
Maintenance
Full points27 / 27Last releaseHow long ago the newest file came out, or an existing file was marked as working on a new Minecraft version.4 weeks ago (30 Sep 2026) 12 / 12Supports popular versionsWhether the project has a file for a Minecraft version that 15% or more of the popular mods updated in the last 6 months also support. A version many modpacks use, like 1.20.1 or 1.21.1, also counts after a release in the last 12 months.26.3 on Fabric (latest) 9 / 9Regular releasesIn how many of the last 24 months a new file came out. Full points at 8 months.Releases in 9 of the last 24 months 6 / 6Stability
Full points22 / 22Removed from modpacksHow many modpacks removed it in a later version of the pack. We can only see this in modpacks with two or more versions. A pack that swaps it for another edition of the same project, or that is rebuilt from scratch, does not count.None of the 8 modpacks with two or more versions removed it 10 / 10Quick fixesHow often a release needed a quick fix: a new release within 3 days to fix a problem in it.No quick fix in 2 years 7 / 7Known conflictsHow many projects say they do not work with it, compared with how widely it is used. Packs, small projects, forks, ports, add-ons, alternatives and old versions do not count.None 5 / 5Transparency
Full points10 / 10Source codeWhether the project page links to its source code, so anyone can read what it does.GitHub · JimiIT92/BetterSpringToLife 7 / 7Place to report problemsWhether the project page links to a place where players can report problems: an issue tracker.GitHub issues · JimiIT92/BetterSpringToLife 3 / 3Popularity
1 point lost3 / 4DownloadsDownloads on Modrinth and CurseForge. Full points from 5 million.21,428 3 / 4Track record
Full points8 / 8AgeHow long the project has existed. It counts less when no new file came out recently.19 months, 12 releases 8 / 8Security
PassedFile checksThis check adds no points. It can only take points away.Our checks found nothing harmful in all 10 latest files for recent Minecraft versions. See Security
69.6 of the 71 points that apply = 98 out of 100. The points above are rounded to whole numbers.
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About
Hendrix's Better Spring to Life expands the overworld’s forests and other biomes with ambient wildlife, plants, natural details, and small points of exploration. Fireflies can be caught from bushes in glass bottles and kept in jars holding up to five, with the jar’s light depending on how many fireflies it contains; bushes replenish their fireflies at night. Fallen trees can generate with hollow logs, and players can hollow and strip logs of any wood type, waterlog them, and decorate their sides with up to four red or brown mushrooms of one type; leaf piles made from leaves offer another waterloggable forest detail. Snowy grass, tall grass, and bushes appear in snowy biomes and can be placed on snow or powder snow, while additional plants including cactus flowers, bushes, and dry grasses can be potted. Wooded Badlands cacti may grow edible, pottable prickly pears, and Old Growth Birch Forests gain the two-block-tall Asphodel, whose particles, bee-attracting properties, and white dye make it more than a decorative flower. Flower Forests may host Mooblooms bearing Buttercups, which regrow after shearing and can be used for yellow dye or a bowl of Absorption-effect suspicious stew; Buttercups do not spawn naturally on their own. Mangrove Swamps gain Muddy Pigs, sometimes carrying a non-regrowing Poppy that can be sheared off, while butterflies add weak, drop-free ambient wildlife to forests and can be tempted with small flowers. Campsites can appear in Forest, Birch Forest, and Taiga biomes, with chests containing supplies such as logs, food, tools, and sometimes the Sweden music disc, which also provides a comparator output of 15.
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In-game changes
Changes the game's code in 1 area: Blocks and fluidsChanges 1 game code file in this area: how blocks, fluids and redstone work..
Adds 59 blocks, 4 items, 3 mobs, 3 structures, 18 recipes, 6 loot tables and 3 sounds.
Counted from the names and data files in the mod, so the list may not be complete.
Replaces 1 of vanilla Minecraft's advancements.
Details
- Creator
- Minehendrix
- License
- MIT License
- Downloads
- 21K
- Created
- 24 Mar 2025
- Official pages
- Modrinth , CurseForge
- Links
- Source code , Issues , Wiki
Security
No harmful code found
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- FilesWe download the files from Modrinth or CurseForge and look at what is inside them and what their code can do, without running them. Fixed rules tell what is harmful.10 latest files: the newest file for each Minecraft version and loader. All 10 are for recent versions. Recent versions: those released in the last 2 years, plus 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, among the most played in modpacks. See each file in Releases
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- Author on ModrinthThe disclosure form on Modrinth, where the author declares that the project reads or edits things on your system outside the game. Since 13 Aug 2026, Modrinth's rules require it when this applies.Nothing declared about your system outside the game.
- Looked for, not foundWe looked for these in the file and did not find them.The internet, folders outside the game, other programs, updating itself, the webcam or microphone, an AI service.
Privacy
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AI
No sign so far that AI was used to make it
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No sign of AI in the game
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- Code historyThe public code on GitHub: who made each change, credit lines such as "Co-authored-by", and its files.Not read yet
- Description and changelogsThe description, project page and newest changelogs: sentences saying an AI tool was used, and text pasted from an AI chat.Nothing found2 of 24 changelogs read
- Its filesFiles that AI coding tools leave behind (like AGENTS.md), and the texts inside the files you download.Nothing found
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- Sounds in its filesThe tags of the sound files in the files you download, where some AI music tools write their name.Nothing found1 sound file read
- Code of the modThe code and files of the mod, read without running it: addresses of AI services, AI libraries, AI model files and a place for your own AI key.No AI service, AI library or AI model file49 code files read
Compatibility
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