Netherbound Data Pack
Netherbound transforms the Nether into a true survival challenge. This data pack adds new recipes, food items, entities, and building blocks that make the hellish dimension actually livable. You get temporary buffs when you first enter, custom advancements to complete, and new ways to craft what you need to survive. Bosses hide around the map, mobs drop useful materials, and there’s plenty to discover.
Core Features
Nether Spawning & Buffs
When you first arrive in the Nether using the pack’s command, you get these temporary boosts:
- Fire Resistance for 45 seconds
- Slow Falling for 30 seconds
- Resistance V for 15 seconds
Advancements & Progression
New advancement page with old and new challenges to complete. Recipes unlock as you collect items, so you discover new crafting options as you progress through the Nether.
New Food & Recipes
The pack reworks several recipes and adds new food items to keep you fed:
- Mushroom Stew: Craft from 3 red/brown mushrooms or crimson fungi plus 1 bowl
- Books and Quills: Made from 1 book, 1 feather, and 1 black dye
- Warped Wart: Craft from 1 nether wart and 1 warped roots. Replaces fermented poison spores for fermented spider eye recipes
- Crimson Spores: Plant on crimson stems, nether wart blocks, or shroomlights. Harvest for crimson fungi
- Syrup Bottles: Glass bottle, sugar, ghast tear, and nether wart. Restores hunger, cures poison, and grants saturation
- Salted Porkchops: Raw porkchop plus ghast tear. Refills 1 extra hunger point
- Cooked Salted Porkchops: Cooked porkchop plus ghast tear. Refills 2 extra hunger points
- Meat Stew: Any two edible mushrooms, 1 cooked salted porkchop, and 1 bowl. Restores 14 hunger and grants Regeneration for 15 seconds
- Spicy Meat Stew: Meat stew plus blaze powder. Restores 8 hunger and grants Fire Resistance for 30 seconds
New Building Blocks
Tons of new crafting options for construction:
- Soul Soil: Craft from 4 soul sand in a 2×2 square
- Sticky Pistons: Craft from 1 piston and 1 magma cream
- Flower Pots: Craft from nether brick
- Scaffolding: Craft from 6 sugarthorn and 1 string
- Netherrack Slabs and Stairs
- Basalt Slabs, Stairs, and Walls
- Warped Wart Blocks: Craft from 9 warped warts
- Blue Nether Bricks: Craft from 2 warped wart and 2 nether brick in a checkerboard pattern
- Blue Nether Brick Slabs, Stairs, and Walls
- Ender Chests: Now craft from chiseled quartz blocks instead of obsidian
Magic Chamber
A new crafting block that replaces the smoker. Craft from 7 blue nether bricks, 1 iron bars, and 1 diamond. Use it to transmute items into what you need.
New Entities & Mobs
Hijacks: Spiders that spawn in warped forests on warped nylium. They’re slow but inflict slowness on nearby players. Get too close and you’re poisoned for 15 seconds. Wearing a helmet protects you from the poison. They drop string and warped fungi. Sometimes they create cobwebs and convert nylium to netherrack.
Cockatrices: Added to the pack but don’t spawn naturally yet. Tame them and you can fly them around.
Blaze Changes: Blazes now drop iron nuggets.
Other Changes
- Weeping vines smelt into ghast tears, not sugar
- Sugarthorn crops grow on magma blocks like bamboo. Smelt them for sugar instead of weeping vines
- Skull blocks can be traded from piglins or found in soul sand valleys. Wear them to prevent aggravating endermen
- Skull lanterns craft from skull blocks and torches. They emit light
- Gravel changed to slag with adjusted flint drop rates
Installation
Data packs install directly to your world folder. No mod loader needed.
Full instructions: How To Download & Install Data Packs
Known Issues
- Nether spawning platform sometimes doesn’t generate air and spawns players in terrain. Try running the
/datapack disable vanillacommand after generating the world for the first time without saving - Ladders, weeping vines, and scaffolding aren’t climbable due to missing minecraft:climbable tag
Download Links
Minecraft 1.15.x
Data Pack:
This file is part of Netherbound Data Pack 1.16.5, 1.15.2 – Nether Survival. Visit the main page for features, installation guide, screenshots, and more download options.
Resource Pack:
This file is part of Netherbound Data Pack 1.16.5, 1.15.2 – Nether Survival. Visit the main page for features, installation guide, screenshots, and more download options.
Minecraft 1.16.x
Data Pack:
This file is part of Netherbound Data Pack 1.16.5, 1.15.2 – Nether Survival. Visit the main page for features, installation guide, screenshots, and more download options.
Resource Pack:
This file is part of Netherbound Data Pack 1.16.5, 1.15.2 – Nether Survival. Visit the main page for features, installation guide, screenshots, and more download options.