Nice Things is a collection of small additions and tweaks that make the game a bit more fun without changing how it feels. It adds new blocks like Conveyors, Fans and Display Cases, handy tools like the Wrench, new food, decorative structures, hundreds of new recipes and many small quality-of-life changes to vanilla blocks and mobs.
The data pack is currently published only on Modrinth. All required assets are included in the data pack and can also be used as a resource pack. An automatically converted mod version is also available. You can download it here: Nice Things on Modrinth
The resource pack is required for the textures of the new blocks and items. When using the mod version in singleplayer worlds, the data pack does not need to be loaded as a resource pack. However, when using the mod version on a server, you must either include the assets from the data pack in your server's resource pack or instruct players to install the mod locally.
| Page |
Description |
| Vanilla Tweaks |
Changes to vanilla blocks, mobs and items, such as climbable chains or Endermen that only pick up melons and pumpkins. |
| Recipes |
All new crafting, smelting and stonecutter recipes, including Mini Blocks, redyeing and Suspicious Sand. |
| Villager Trades |
New trades for Farmers, Clerics, Cartographers and Fletchers. |
| Decorations |
New paintings, banner patterns and the unused vanilla paintings. |
| Block |
Description |
 Conveyor |
Moves items and entities and processes some items in water. |
 Fan |
Blows items and entities away and weathers copper. |
 Chopper |
A conveyor that mines, strips and cuts blocks. |
 Container |
Stores up to 10,000 items of one type. |
 Display Case |
Shows off a rotating item, in 21 variants. |
| Food |
Description |
 Apple Pie |
A pie baked with an Apple instead of a Pumpkin. |
 Chorus Pie |
A pie baked with a Chorus Fruit instead of a Pumpkin. |
 Sweet Berry Cookie |
A cookie baked with Sweet Berries instead of Cocoa Beans. |
 Cheese |
Made from milk and sugar. Removes all status effects, like drinking Milk. |
 Cake Slice |
A single slice of cake to take on the go. |
 Boiled Egg |
An egg boiled in a Furnace. Any type of egg can be boiled. |
 Golden Foods |
Golden Beetroot, Golden Potato, Golden Chorus Fruit and Golden Sweet Berries, as nourishing as a Golden Carrot. |
Nice Things adds the following advancements to the Explorer's Eden advancement tab:
| Advancement |
Description |
Type |
| A Nice Thing |
Craft, use, or find something from Nice Things for the first time. |
Task |
| Keep It Moving |
Craft a Conveyor. |
Task |
| Blowing Air |
Craft a Fan. |
Task |
| Chop Shop |
Craft a Chopper. |
Task |
| Storage Solutions |
Craft a Container. |
Task |
| On Display |
Place an item in a Display Case. |
Task |
| Wrench It |
Craft and use the Wrench. |
Goal |
| Through the Kaleidoscope |
Craft and use the Kaleidoscope. |
Goal |
| Copper Companion |
Give a held item to a Copper Golem. |
Task |
| Anvil Whisperer |
Repair a damaged anvil. |
Task |
| Duplicity |
Duplicate a pottery sherd using a brick. |
Task |
| Fashion Forward |
Dye a Saddle and an Elytra. |
Goal |
| Gourmet |
Cook and eat Cheese, Apple Pie, Chorus Pie, Sweet Berry Cookie, Boiled Egg, and a Cake Slice. |
Challenge |
| Set the Mood |
Craft both Ambient Music Discs (Forest and Ocean). |
Goal |
| Brewer's Tour |
Use all 14 Biome Brews. |
Challenge |
| Gallery Opening |
Place all 10 custom paintings. |
Challenge |
| Outpost Explorer |
Find all 7 Villager Outposts. |
Challenge |
Nice Things also adds advancements centered around vanilla content to the vanilla advancement tabs:
| Advancement |
Description |
Type |
| Copper Age |
Obtain a full set of Copper Armor. |
Task |
| Penny Pincher |
Obtain every Copper tool, including the Copper Spear. |
Task |
| Ring Mail |
Get your hands on a piece of Chainmail Armor. |
Task |
| Heraldry |
Decorate a Shield with a Banner. |
Task |
| Diamond Arsenal |
Obtain every Diamond tool and weapon, including the Diamond Spear. |
Goal |
| Maxed Out |
Enchant an item using the strongest option of an Enchanting Table. |
Goal |
| Well Read |
Obtain an Enchanted Book with a level V enchantment. |
Goal |
| Full Frame |
Carry a stack of 12 Eyes of Ender, enough to fill a whole portal. |
Task |
| Second Opinion |
Carry both a Golden Apple and a Splash Potion of Weakness, ready for the next patient. |
Task |
| Lava Lounge |
Take a dip in lava while under the effect of Fire Resistance. |
Task |
| Advancement |
Description |
Type |
| Gold Digger |
Obtain boots enchanted with Soul Speed. |
Goal |
| Three's a Crowd |
Carry three Wither Skeleton Skulls at once. |
Goal |
| Black Bloom |
Obtain a Wither Rose. |
Goal |
| Snowball's Chance |
Kill a Blaze with a Snowball. |
Goal |
| Full Netherite Kit |
Obtain a Netherite Sword, Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel and Spear. |
Challenge |
| Debris Hoarder |
Carry a stack of 16 Ancient Debris. |
Goal |
| Supercharged |
Receive Haste II from a Beacon. |
Goal |
| Mad Scientist |
Obtain a Splash Potion, a Lingering Potion and a Tipped Arrow. |
Task |
| Liquid Courage |
Brew a Potion of Strength II. |
Task |
| Fireproof |
Explore the Nether under the effect of Fire Resistance. |
Task |
| Above It All |
Stand on top of the Nether's bedrock ceiling. |
Challenge |
| Crying Shame |
Carry 8 Ghast Tears at once. |
Task |
| Advancement |
Description |
Type |
| Chorus Hop |
Eat a Chorus Fruit in The End. |
Task |
| Trophy Room |
Obtain a Dragon Head. |
Goal |
| Rainbow Storage |
Collect a Shulker Box of every color, plus an undyed one. |
Challenge |
| Skywriter |
Glide with an Elytra at Y 300 or higher. |
Goal |
| Advancement |
Description |
Type |
| Point Taken |
Obtain a Spear of every material. |
Goal |
| Core Strength |
Obtain a Heavy Core from an Ominous Vault. |
Goal |
| Bad Omen, Good Loot |
Obtain an Ominous Trial Key. |
Task |
| Asking for Trouble |
Drink an Ominous Bottle. |
Task |
| Eagle Eye |
Kill a mob with a projectile from at least 64 blocks away. |
Challenge |
| Grand Finale |
Kill a mob with a Firework Rocket. |
Goal |
| Head Hunter |
Collect a Creeper, Zombie, Skeleton and Piglin head. |
Challenge |
| Hush |
Defeat a Warden. |
Challenge |
| Lost and Found |
Obtain a Recovery Compass. |
Goal |
| Lost Civilization |
Enter an Ancient City. |
Task |
| House Call |
Enter a Woodland Mansion. |
Goal |
| Monumental |
Enter an Ocean Monument. |
Task |
| Soak It Up |
Obtain a Wet Sponge. |
Task |
| Deep Breath |
Receive Conduit Power from an activated Conduit. |
Goal |
| Sightseer |
Visit every major Overworld structure. |
Challenge |
| Shard Hoarder |
Collect every Pottery Sherd. |
Challenge |
| Material World |
Own armor trimmed with every trim material. |
Challenge |
| High Camp |
Sleep in a Straw Bed at Y 200 or higher. |
Task |
| Shelf Life |
Place a Shelf. |
Task |
| Frosty Friend |
Build a Snow Golem. |
Task |
| Peeping Tom |
Look at an Enderman through a Spyglass... and hope it doesn't notice. |
Task |
¶ Husbandry
| Advancement |
Description |
Type |
| Cloud Rider |
Put a Harness on a Happy Ghast and take it for a ride. |
Task |
| Shell Shocked |
Tame a Nautilus and give it armor. |
Task |
| Dolphin Draft |
Swim alongside a Dolphin and receive Dolphin's Grace. |
Task |
| Treasure Hunter |
Fish up an Enchanted Book, Name Tag, Nautilus Shell, Saddle and Bow. |
Goal |
| Cubed |
Catch a Sulfur Cube in a Bucket. |
Task |
| Feeling Blue |
Catch a rare blue Axolotl in a Bucket. |
Challenge |
| Full Stable |
Tame a Horse, a Donkey, a Mule and a Llama. |
Goal |
| Brown Bovine |
Milk a brown Mooshroom with a Bowl. |
Goal |
| Arborist |
Plant every kind of sapling, propagule and azalea. |
Goal |
| Silk Road |
Use Silk Touch to collect Grass, Mycelium, Ice and a Mushroom Block. |
Task |
| Shell Game |
Craft a Turtle Shell. |
Task |
| Wolf Wardrobe |
Dye a set of Wolf Armor and fit it on a Wolf. |
Task |
The custom blocks (Conveyor, Fan, Chopper and Container) are made of a Petrified Oak Slab with a display entity. Petrified Oak Slabs are therefore mineable with a pickaxe and no longer drop themselves. Display Cases use a Barrier block.
To save performance, the custom blocks only work while a player is within 64 blocks.
Wrench
Kaleidoscope
Emerald on a Stick
Biome Brew
Armadillo Chestplate
Invisible Item Frames
Harnesses
Campfires
Ambient Music Discs
Music Disc (MELANCHOLIA)