Quality of life

The comprehensive list of every off-vanilla tweak. Small fixes that compound into "just feels right."

This is the comprehensive list. Every off-vanilla tweak, in one place. Most of these are small individually; together they make the whole game feel notably less rough.

Movement

Speed paths — lay down the right path blocks and walking them gives you a movement boost, so a well-built road actually carries you faster than open grass
Worn trails — walk the same route enough times and the grass wears into a dirt path on its own; your most-used lines through the world mark themselves
Faster happy ghast — climb aboard a ridden Happy Ghast and it flies much faster than a wild one, better than three times the usual pace; step off and it drifts back to normal
Sleep ignores nearby mobs — you can sleep at your safe-zone base even if mobs are technically in detection range
AFK players count as sleeping — sleep-vote works regardless of half the server being AFK
Phantom changes — phantoms only attack genuinely AFK / insomniac players, not active players who haven't slept

Mobs

Mobs ignore rails — no more pathfinding-broken minecart tracks
Pets immune to owner damage — accidentally hit your dog? No problem
Lightning transforms — villager → witch, pig → zombified piglin (vanilla)
Iron golems can spawn in air — no need for a specific block underneath
Wandering trader spawn rate — slightly tuned for better natural appearance

Combat

Totems work in any inventory slot — not just main hand. Save your life from a totem in slot 27
No bow-attack-cancellation in some scenarios — vanilla quirk fixed
Disable end credits — option for players who skip the credits screen post-dragon

Mining

Diamond and netherite picks silk-touch spawners — with the mob name baked into the spawner item
Spawner protection — sneak to break a spawner (avoid accidental break-and-lose)
Anvil cumulative cost capped — a heavily-used item doesn't become anvil-impossible to repair
Better mending — XP routes to whichever Mending item benefits most
Mob loot pickup — vanilla rule disabled; mobs don't pick up your dropped loot

Building

Falling-block break — a falling sand or gravel breaks a non-full block below it (instead of stopping)
Double-door sync — set two doors side by side and both halves open and close together as one doorway
Sturdy lily pads — larger lily pads solid enough to stand on and build from, so a platform or dock can start right off the water's surface
Anvil splits boats and minecarts — back to base item form
Loom max layers bumped to 8 — for more elaborate banner designs
Note blocks play with a block above them — vanilla rule (blocks above silence them) inverted
Dispensers shear pumpkins, place discs in jukeboxes, interact with cauldrons — broader dispenser interactions
Invisible item frames — shift-right-click an item frame to make it invisible (item still shows)
One-punch creative mode block break — for creative builders, faster destruction

Crops & farming

Cactus protection — items dropped on cactus don't burn
Auto-plant — dropped seeds (wheat, beetroot, melon, pumpkin, sapling) auto-plant after a short delay, with a particle effect confirming the planting
Pig plows — harness a pig and ride it across your field to till rows of farmland as you go, turning a big plot into a single pass

Silk touch+

Silk touch works on a few additional blocks beyond vanilla:

Budding amethyst — silk-touch picks it up intact
Cobwebs — silk-touch gets you the cobweb
Farmland — silk-touch retains the tilled state

Fire & lava

Fire tick delay slightly slower — fire spreads less aggressively in player-controlled environments
Frosted ice mechanic — vanilla mechanic preserved with slight tuning

Misc

Cozy campfires — rest beside a lit campfire and you pick up a warm, restful comfort effect; a fire at camp becomes a genuine place to catch your breath, not just a light source
Void fishing — cast your line out over the open void in the End and you reel in a catch table you won't find anywhere else (bring a way back and something to stand on)
Dragon egg mechanics — slightly improved interaction (pick-up scenarios, etc.)
Hunger mechanics — slight tuning so food drain doesn't feel punishing in low-activity sessions
Block damage — dangerous blocks deal contact damage (cactus, magma block, etc., vanilla)

Anvil

Anvil text colors — full hex color in anvil item names (see Inventory tweaks)
Cumulative repair cost cap — heavily-used items stay repairable
Anvil splits boats and minecarts — disassemble for base item

Chat

Chat hover cards — player info on chat-name hover (see Chat & nicknames)
Disabled MOTD spam — clean message-of-the-day on join

What's NOT tweaked (still vanilla)

For clarity — these things are deliberately preserved as vanilla:

Crafting recipes — vanilla, no removals
Combat formulas — vanilla swing damage, knockback, crit hits
Mob AI base behaviors — vanilla pathfinding, vanilla aggro rules
Block physics — vanilla gravity, vanilla redstone
Vanilla block IDs and names — bedrock is bedrock
Vanilla mob spawn rules — with very minor performance tweaks
Vanilla world generation foundation — overworld, nether, end exist as expected

The "deepened, not replaced" principle.

These tweaks individually are small. Together they remove the vanilla papercut layer that distracts players from actual play. You don't have to learn them — they just work in your favor when you encounter them.

A new player coming from another server will notice: things just feel right. The little frictions are smoothed. That's the polish bar Sunday Market is built around.