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Insane's Experience Tweaks
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
⬇ Download on CurseForgeThe author built this one for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. On other versions it may install and then do nothing.
Summary
Experience Tweaks is a small mod that enhances Experience and Anvils with many customizations.
The mod
Experience
Players
- Players now drop 80% of experience on death and no longer 7 levels at most
- Levelling up always requires a fixed amount of experience instead of exponential
- Players pick up experience faster
Dropped
- Mobs drop more experience per equipment piece (even more if enchanted)
- Bottle o' enchanting always drop a full level of experience
- You now get experience for shearing sheep, gather honey(comb) from bee hives and brushing suspicious blocks
- You can apply a multiplier on how much experience mobs, blocks and in general drop (disabled by default)
Anvil
- Repairing items cost less material than used to craft an item and costs just a bit of xp without having increasing cost.
- The anvil has a lower chance to break
- Renaming no longer costs levels and will not break the Anvil
- Anvils can be fixed with Iron Blocks
This mod was part of Insane's Survival Overhaul up to 1.20.1.
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Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 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.
File checked by MCModsHub
- Ships as experienceoverhaul-1.1.0.0-alpha.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 688 KB
- Download link checked 3 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.