History VideoGame / BetterThanWolves

* {{Crossover}}: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. Unlike the majority of major mods, Better Than Wolves is (deliberately) not built against the Minecraft Forge modding API, and as such cannot be played alongside any other mods.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* HarderThanHard: Minecraft is easy compared to Better Than Wolves. Everything you would take for granted in Vanilla has been removed, nerfed, or made more dangerous. 'Peaceful' and 'Easy' difficulties are disabled.

* {{Crossover}}: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. Unlike the majority of major mods, Better Than Wolves is ([[WordOfGod very deliberately]]) not built against the Minecraft Forge modding API, and as such cannot be played alongside any other mods.

* ImAHumanitarian: Sometimes players drop 'mystery meat' upon their death, which you can cook and eat. You can even turn it into a sandwich.
* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Wolfitarian]]: You can feed wolfchops to wolves. They will instantly turn hostile even if you've tamed them.

* SavageWolves: [[spoiler:The Beast.]]

A total conversion mod for ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' created by user Flower Child, that adds mechanical power to the game, which creates a wide variety of things ranging from elevators to pottery. There are also a large number of change to game mechanics ranging from mob behavior to starvation and mining. [[WikiRule There is]] [[http://www.sargunster.com/btw/index.php?title=Main_Page a wiki]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Several.
** Creeper Oysters are an item that you can get in the game from killing or shearing Creepers. Remember what Creepers famously look like?
** The "Breeding Harness" is used to stop animals from moving while producing offspring. It also happens to look like a gimp mask.

* {{Crossover}}: A co-op between Flower Child and Buildcraft creator Space Toad to create Better Than Buildcraft. Currently discontinued.

A total conversion mod for {{Minecraft}} created by user Flower Child, that adds mechanical power to the game, which creates a wide variety of things ranging from elevators to pottery. There are also a large number of change to game mechanics ranging from mob behavior to starvation and mining. [[WikiRule There is]] [[http://www.sargunster.com/btw/index.php?title=Main_Page a wiki]].

* HarderThanHard: Minecraft is easy compared to Better Than Wolves. Everything you would take for granted in Vanilla has been removed, nerfed, or made more lethal. 'Peaceful' and 'Easy' difficulties are disabled.

* HarderThanHard: Minecraft is easy compared to Better Than Wolves. Everything you would take for granted in Vanilla has been removed or made more difficult to achieve. 'Peaceful' and 'Easy' difficulty are disabled.

* HarderThanHard: Everything from the original game is changed to be less efficient and less attainable. If you want to survive, you have to gather resources quickly, and keep gathering them until you have a steady source of food.

* EarlyGameHell: In Minecraft, it's fairly easy to get a full set of stone tools and a decent food supply in less than five minutes. In Better Than Wolves, you must go through a completely different process just to get a stone pickaxe. The first thing you need to do is cut down a tree without using any tools. Seems simple enough, right? It isn't. Each log takes a painfully long time to break and you only get one block of wooden planks from each block of logs, unless you're using an axe, which can't be crafted from wood. Axes can harvest logs, but logs can't be crafted into planks unless you put an axe inside the crafting grid, which also damages the axe. Wooden Pickaxes can only break one piece of stone, so you're going to need a lot of planks just to get one stone pickaxe. The reason this is a problem is that you get hungry really fast, break blocks really slow, and you have less than 10 minutes to build a shelter and acquire food before night falls and tougher versions of Minecraft's monsters come out and hunt you down. Sprinting is also a bad idea because it will drain your hunger points.
** Try not to die either, otherwise you will respawn in the middle of nowhere with no items and have to find your way back, without being able to use the co-ordinate system from Vanilla Minecraft.

* HarderThanHard: Everything from the original game is changed to be less efficient and less attainable. If you want to survive, you have to gather resources quickly.

* HarderThanHard: Everything from the original game is changed to be less efficient and less attainable. If you want to survive, you have to make use of the machines from the mod.

** Just having this mod installed is one of these. Beds are no longer usable at all, eating too much slows you down, armor slows you down, explosives are much more bothersome to get, iron is now worth 1/9th of what it was in the normal game. There's a reason FlowerChild puts the term "Hardcore" before nearly every change to Minecraft he makes.

* EarlyGameHell: In Minecraft, it's fairly easy to get a full set of stone tools and a decent food supply in less than five minutes. In Better Than Wolves, you must go through a completely different process just to get a stone pickaxe. The first thing you need to do is cut down a tree without using any tools. Seems simple enough, right? It isn't. Each log takes a painfully long time to break and you only get one block of wooden planks from each block of logs, unless you're using an axe, which can't be crafted from wood. Axes can harvest logs, but logs can't be crafted into planks unless you put an axe inside the crafting grid, which also damages the axe. Wooden Pickaxes can only break one piece of stone, you you're going to need a lot of planks just to get one stone pickaxe. The reason this is a problem is that you get hungry really fast, break blocks really slow, and you have less than 10 minutes to build a shelter and acquire food before night falls and tougher versions of Minecraft's monsters come out and hunt you down. Sprinting is also a bad idea because it will drain your hunger points.

* EarlyGameHell: In Minecraft, it's fairly easy to get a full set of stone tools and a decent food supply in less than five minutes. In Better Than Wolves, you must go through a completely different process just to get a stone pickaxe. The first thing you need to do is cut down a tree without using any tools. Seems simple enough, right? It isn't. Each log takes a painfully long time to break and you only get one block of wooden planks from each block of logs, unless you're using an axe, which can't be crafted from wood. Axes can harvest logs, but logs can't be crafted into planks unless you put an axe inside the crafting grid, which also damages the axe. Wooden Pickaxes can only break one piece of stone, you you're going to need a lot of planks just to get one stone pickaxe.