Niobium – A Community-Driven Modification
Niobium expands Minecraft's capabilities with features added at players' requests while maintaining the vanilla game's atmosphere. This multifunctional Vanilla+ modification offers new building blocks, mobs, tools, furniture, and food items—everything needed for complete gameplay.
📺 Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTRsRchIEY
📦 Main Features of the Modification
🧱 New Blocks and Construction Possibilities
- Palm wood – obtained from palm trees growing on beaches
- Quartz brick stairs, slabs, and walls – additional construction options
- Furniture – including wooden chairs
- Carving tool – allows easy transformation of stone blocks (regular stone, end stone, quartz, and packed mud)
⚔️ Equipment and Combat System
- Endrite equipment – crafted from endrite ore found in the End, superior to netherite items
- Emerald tools and armor – now emeralds have practical use
- 3D mace model – this weapon type received a 3D model when held
- Netherite horse armor – make your horses even stronger
World and Creatures
The environment became more diverse with:
- Palm trees – new decorative elements in beach biomes
- Illusioner mob – previously unused creature now spawns in the game
Crops and Nutrition
Truly new farming life:
- New crops – such as rice found near rivers
- Food products – new types of food and their cooked variants (including horse meat)
Technical Features
Should work with various loading methods (can be loaded once with all models, or with quality-controlled interface of modpacks). Installation can be performed with Fabric API.