More Faithful

What it is

Minecraft beta 1.7.3 with more in it, where you still do everything yourself. More Faithful is Still Faithful (beta with polish, on Old Faithful and Pure Faithful) with the Faithful Library's mods:

• World Rules: rules for each world. Mobs breaking blocks, explosions destroying items, keeping your inventory on death, sleeping in beds, the weather, natural monsters, monsters in dim light, apples from oak leaves, the falling hit bonus, bows that wear out, picking up items from a little further. A world's rules can be locked. A new world here starts with More Faithful's own rules, not beta's: creepers and ghast fireballs break no blocks, explosions destroy no items, a bed only sets your respawn point, no monster appears in torch or lava light, oak leaves drop apples, there's no falling hit bonus, and bows wear out. In every world, the ones you already have too, you pick up items from a little further, as in later versions. Each can be changed, before you make a world or after, and worlds you already have keep their other rules.
• Buried Towers: ruined towers stand on the land, and go a long way down: floors somebody built and time got to, a different way down from each. They take the place of beta's small dungeons in new chunks. A new world chooses simple towers, crude like beta's dungeons, or complex ones of dressed stone.
• Hearty Food: food heals half as much again, a little at a time instead of at once, and pale hearts show where you'll end up.
• Alchemy: gild a flower or a feather with gold, then brew it with water into potions: health that heals at once, a ward that's a set of armour in a bottle, and for a few minutes faster walking and mining, or softer falls.
• Water Bottles: glass bottles you fill at any water and drink from for nothing. Alchemy's potions are made with them.
• Blue Flowers: bluebells in patches across the cold forests and tundra, for light blue dye, in new chunks. And beta's yellow flower is called Dandelion.
• Explosive Arrows: an arrow and two gunpowder make one, which bursts where it lands with a small blast of beta's own. It breaks no blocks, but sets off TNT.
• Feather Lure: a fishing rod and a feather make a lured rod, on which fish bite twice as often. Each fish you catch has a 1 in 8 chance of taking the feather.
• Wolf Packs: your tamed wolves take a monster each and go on to the next, guard you, and fight creepers. A sitting wolf keeps watch over its spot: it goes for a monster it sees within 8 blocks, then walks back and sits down again. They eat fish as well as pork, each food healing a wolf what it heals you.
• Wild Saplings: saplings grow every tree that grows wild, tall pines and full big oaks too, so a forest you cut down can be planted again.
• Item Repair: two worn tools, weapons or pieces of armour of a kind in the crafting grid make one, as in later versions.
• Plain F3: the F3 screen without position, facing and entity counts, so you find your way without coordinates.
• No Toasts: no achievement or tutorial pop-ups. Achievements are still earned.

Playing the Faithful Library's packs?

Through version 0.4.0 this was the Faithful Library's pack for Still Faithful. Import More Faithful as a new instance and copy your worlds across: they play on as they were. The library's pack for Old Faithful has gone, since each of our packs is now the one before it with more. Its instance keeps working, and its mods can be updated from the Faithful Library. To have the mods without Still Faithful's changes, switch those off in the game's Options, under More Faithful, then Changes.

On a server

World Rules, Hearty Food, Item Repair, Wild Saplings and Wolf Packs run where the world runs, so a server can use them with any client, vanilla beta 1.7.3 too. Plain F3 and No Toasts are yours alone and work anywhere.

The server download comes with every mod on, as the pack does; an owner takes out what they don't want. A server running Buried Towers, Water Bottles, Alchemy, Blue Flowers, Explosive Arrows or Feather Lure needs every player to have it, and refuses anyone without it. If a server sent you here, download More Faithful above: they're all on in it. If you've turned one off, the refusal screen offers to match that server's mods, as long as another of the mods is on.

Turning a mod off

Your world opens without it, in More Faithful, the editions and the original game. World Rules' and Wolf Packs' choices wait in the world's folder and come back with their mods. Towers already built stay, and so do rooms the old Better Dungeons built. Items and flowers from Water Bottles, Alchemy, Blue Flowers, Explosive Arrows and Feather Lure don't survive: they become bowls, plain flowers and feathers, arrows, and fishing rods, for good. While another of the mods is on you're warned first; if you turn off the last one, nothing warns you, so copy the world's folder before you do.

Privacy

More Faithful sends nothing to its makers; there's no server of ours. The game talks to Mojang to sign you in, and to the servers you join. On its first start it also fetches beta's own bow and door sounds from an archive of beta's files kept by Modification Station, a community of beta modders; its README says how to turn that off.

With any of the mods on, your game tells a server you join that you have the Faithful Library. A server with the library sees that, and which of its own library mods you have too, of those that work on both sides. It isn't told which other mods you have, Plain F3 and No Toasts included.

For developers

• Source code on GitHub
• All downloads, and the server
• The mods on their own, and writing your own