YUNG's Better Desert Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
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The ultimate upgrade to Minecraft's desert temples! YUNG's Better Desert Temples redesigns vanilla desert temples to be way more exciting, adding a variety of new puzzles, traps, & parkour challenges. And of course, you'll get much better loot than vanilla's desert temples for your troubles!
By default, mining fatigue will be applied to all players in the Better Desert Temple. Once you clear the temple (i.e. kill the pharaoh at the end of the temple), the mining fatigue effect for that temple will be permanently lifted! You can disable this feature in the config. Additionally, you can re-enable vanilla desert temples to spawn alongside Better Desert Temples in the config.
YUNG's Better Desert Temples is intended to be fully compatible with every worldgen mod, including:
- YUNG's Better Strongholds
- YUNG's Better Mineshafts
- YUNG's Better Dungeons
- YUNG's Extras
- YUNG's Bridges
- Repurposed Structures. RS also offers a custom data pack you can use in addition to the mod that adds repurposed versions of these desert temples! Check it out here.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.4, 1.21.1, 1.21
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as YungsBetterDesertTemples-1.21.1-Forge-4.1.5.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 884 KB
- Download link checked 8 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
