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Brief Background
I made this mod back in 2021 as a way to dip my toes into mod making, but I ran into a problem and completely canned the project. Then I rediscovered it and decided to start working on it again.
An update to 1.21.X is in the works
I'm pretty much redoing it from the ground up (mostly), so updating will take some time seeing as I plan to add more to it.
If you're interested in what's next, I've supplied a to-do list that I'll be updating occassionally at the bottom of this description. :)
Do You Enjoy Inconvenience?
All mobs that drop leather no longer do that. You have to mine for it.

Leather Ore Veins now generate in caves and mountain faces.

Leatherite
Obtain Leather by putting 4 Leather Fragments in a crafting table.

Cook Leather in furnace to get a nice treat :)

You can cook Leather in a Furnace, Smoker, and Campfire!

Cooked Leather Can be put back into the furnace to make Charred Leather

Put Charred Leather into the crafting table to make Leather Scraps

You can craft Glue by combining two Bones and two Bonemeal.

Make Gleather by combining Leather Scraps and Glue.

Obtain Leatherite by combining Netherite and Gleather in the Smithing Table!

One Final Diabolical Thing
Take a look for yourself.

You now need leatherite to make Eyes of Ender.
Good Luck
To-Do List
- Deepslate Leather Ore Variant
- Leatherite Armor
- New Structures(maybe, probably, definitely)
- Some Biome of some Kind
- Some Blocks (You know the ones)
- Hybrid Tools
- Some other cursed things (Very descriptive)
- Retexturing of some blocks/items
- Music Discs
- The Cursed...
- Sconces. Yeah Sconces. (I like sconces)
If it's crossed out, it's been added to future update.
If there's an X next to it, some freak accident probably happened preventing me from adding it. Or, more likely, it was too ambitious. I am still an amatuer, you know.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.17, 1.17.1
- 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 Modrinth — 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 better-leather-forever-1.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 119 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.