
Upgrade Arid
Breathe life into the wastes. Overhauls forgotten deserts and badlands with unique hazards, beautiful flora, and vanilla-style mechanics
⬇ Download on ModrinthUpgrade Arid is a lightweight Desert and Badlands overhaul mod that's designed to update these biomes in a Vanilla-Friendly way.
Quicksand & Red Quicksand
These blocks look similar to regular sand and regular red sand. However, if you step on it, it'll start sinking you inside slowly. Could be collected with shovels and used for traps.

Oasis Trees
These new types of trees spawn in the deserts and badlands now. They are fully functional for crafts and building.

Desert Vegetation
Adds new dry plants.

Sand Cube
A new agressive mob that spawns in deserts at nights, created specifically for more enemy variety. Uses jumps to move, like a normal slime should!

Cracked Mud Brick Blocks
New mud brick block variants for building.

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- Ships as upgrade_arid-1.0.0-forge-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 776 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.