Vanilla With Sugar

A small overhaul of Minecraft's pacing.

Healing

Natural health regeneration is disabled, food is the only way to restore health (besides potions). Foods are divided into healing tiers, with raw foods restoring 2 HP (1 heart) depending on the food. Cooked and prepared foods restore more than their raw counterparts.

• Raw: 2 - 3 HP or 1 - 1 1/2 Hearts
• Cooked: 5 HP or 2 1/2 Hearts
• Prepared/Meals/baked: 7 HP or 3 1/2 Hearts (except cookies which are 4 HP or 2 Hearts)
• Golden Apple/Notch Apple: 9 HP or 4 1/2 Hearts

The hunger bar is effectively disabled. I recommend using the companion resource pack to hide it. It also fixes the furnace texture due to the recipe change (see Progression).

Progression

Stone tools are removed (you might still find them as loot, but they aren't craftable). Progression goes from wooden tools to copper tools, with copper tools able to mine blocks that previously required stone tools.

Furnaces are crafted using mud bricks. Mud can be crafted from dirt and hay. Iron can only be smelted in a blast furnace, which is crafted using bricks rather than iron ingots.

A new advancement guide has been added to help if you get stuck with the new progression. It can be opened by pressing L, and a chat message directs players to the guide when they join a world.

Storage

Shulker Boxes can be crafted before reaching the End using 8 Phantom Membranes and a Copper Chest.

This is much more tedious than crafting them the normal way. The shulker shell recipe remains in the game to make Shulker Boxes cheaper in the late game.

Craftable Enchantments

37 vanilla enchantments can be crafted directly as enchanted books at a crafting table, without requiring an enchanting table or anvil combining.

Every type of enchantment requires a unique item, and higher enchantment levels require increasingly rare additional materials:

• Level 1: Nether Wart
• Level 2: Blaze Rods
• Level 3: Eyes of Ender
• Level 4: Trial Keys
• Level 5: Wither Skeleton Skulls

To unlock these recipes, you will need to pick up the relevant unique ingredient that each type of enchantment requires. I'll leave those for you to discover :)

Maximum-tier enchantment books that are crafted have a 10% chance of also receiving Curse of Vanishing.

Durability and Mending

All tools and utility items have 1.5× their vanilla durability. This applies to every material tier.

Mending is removed from the game and cannot be obtained through villager trades, loot, fishing, or enchanting.

Mobs

Phantoms deal damage equivalent to their Bedrock Edition counterparts. Spiders move faster, while cave spiders are smaller and faster.

Zombies and husks can summon reinforcements when a player comes within 20 blocks. Each zombie or husk can summon up to 3 reinforcements over its lifetime, with reinforcements emerging from the ground with particle effects. (From experience, I recommend you take a water bucket with to trial chambers)

Zombies are also just a tiiiiiny bit faster.

Drops

Copper ore now drops a maximum of 2 copper without Fortune. Cows always drop at least 1 Leather.

Sheep don't drop wool. No more day 1 beds unless you somehow find a village day 1. That said...

World Generation

Villages and shipwrecks are significantly rarer.

Barrel piles can generate in locations where hay bale piles would normally appear (to balance the new progression for furnaces).

Villagers

Villagers generally no longer buy items from players. Most villagers instead sell their items to players, usually for 1 Emerald, with some trades having higher prices based on the value of the item. For example, Armorers can sell Diamonds for 10 Emeralds each.

Weaponsmiths, Armorers, Toolsmiths, and Masons can still buy raw materials from players, allowing ores to be exchanged for Emeralds through these villagers.

Inspiration

Klei Wright's Matcha Flavoured datapack was what ultimately made me decide to make Vanilla With Sugar, I wanted a more vanilla-friendly pack than Matcha but loved some of the mechanics and design choices when it came to Matcha's pacing.

You can find Matcha Flavoured here if you want to check Klei's pack too.

Final Note

Oh yeah infinite sprinting is a thing too!

I think this covers pretty much everything. I hope you enjoy Vanilla With Sugar. It's really helped slow down the pacing of Minecraft for me, and if it can do the same for others, then I consider that a success.