BetterThanMite

A hardcore Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.16.5 that makes the game truly punishing. If vanilla Minecraft feels too easy, this mod will change your mind.

Features

❤️ Health & Hunger

• 3 hearts base health — you start with only 6 HP instead of 20
• +1 heart every 5 XP levels — grind experience or stay fragile
• Hunger is tied to health — max hunger always equals max health. Gain a heart, gain hunger capacity. Lose hearts, and your hunger cap shrinks too
• Passive regen only when well-fed — you only regenerate health when hunger is at or near max, and it costs saturation/food to do so

🧟 Hostile Mobs

• 1.2× more hostile mob spawns at night — extra zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, endermen, witches, and slimes spawn near players in darkness
• Difficulty forced to Hard — always. No switching to Peaceful or Easy
• /difficulty command is blocked — you cannot change it

🐄 Passive Mobs

• 1.3× fewer passive mob spawns — animals are scarce, making food and resources harder to obtain

⛏️ Mining & Movement

• 1.5× slower mining — breaking blocks takes significantly longer
• 1.2× slower movement — you can't outrun danger as easily

💀 Damage & Drops

• 1.5× less damage dealt by the player — fights are harder and longer
• 1.5× fewer block drops — every resource matters, waste nothing

🦘 Jump Hunger

• Every jump costs 1 food point — spamming jump will starve you
• Jump hunger drain stops at 2 food points — you won't die from jumping alone, but you'll be too weak to sprint or regen

🎨 Custom Title Screen

• Branded main menu logo

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.16.5
• Fabric Loader 0.12.0+
• Fabric API

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for 1.16.5
2. Download Fabric API for 1.16.5
3. Place both BetterThanMite and Fabric API in your .minecraft/mods/ folder
4. Launch the game and prepare to suffer

License

MIT