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    But... why Beta? And why specifically Beta 1.7.3? If you played Old Minecraft, you know the game felt quite a bit different than it does now. Pre-Alpha, Alpha, and Beta had their own little quirks about them, but all generally had the same feel and atmosphere. At some point along the line, the feel of the game suddenly had a large shift that carries over into how the game feels now.

    This shift is seen by many people as happening around Beta 1.8, the "Adventure Update". Multiple things may have contributed to this shift, the faster pace of the game from sprinting and a higher focus on fighting, and/or the player base becoming a lot bigger, younger, and edgier, and/or the looks of the game becoming duller and more orange with the new torch lighting and textures with lower contrast, and/or something else we may have not mentioned.

    Now, originally, New Frontier Craft's intention was to really try and harp on the nostalgia chords, with its original slogan being "New Frontier Craft - The answer for your Nostalgia", but this is an unrealistic goal as everyone has a different standard as to what is "Nostalgic" to them. We all had something different about the game that we loved back then. What we can do is freshen up the old times with something new, a new vision for the game - a New Frontier - while keeping to the old roots of the game.

    We feel this has resulted in something more matured than Beta or modern. Something that can bring people who enjoy modern versions back to experience old times, as well as something that retains the ability to play on those feel chords again. Hopefully this something we've created can be that something for you too

    This mod should be considered as more of an overhaul, or even a new path of development for Minecraft, than just a simple mod. Think of something like TerraFirmaCraft or the Aether. We're completely overhauled pieces of the game like oregen and the tool tier system, and we have huge plans for the future in for expansions we're going to be adding to the game. We're trying to make the game feel new again, yet stay within the feeling of Beta to keep the original atmosphere alive.

A Cloud Slider.

New mobs and blocks in the Nether.

An optional Creative Mode.

3D Dropped Items.

Shift Clicking.

Cobblestone Walls.

Custom Language Support

The Blood Moon

Changes:
There have been quite a few crafting changes from vanilla.
Massive changes to caves. They just keep on going.
Some of the old textures are added back in.
A new, fuller look for grass.
Zombies now uncommonly drop a leather tunic or leather pants.
Mobs spawned from monster spawners do not drop anything.
Plants in general will grow slower, but not by much. I plan to make this slower yet.
Worlds are saved to "NFCSaves" in the Minecraft directory.
Trees cannot generate with just one log block under the leaves, it needs to be at least 2 now.
As mentioned earlier, stairs and slabs can be placed in various orientations.

Texturepack loading has been improved, and they can be loaded from unzipped folders as well now in NFC