BetterNether

Create blue Obsidian

Use a bucket of Water on a Lava-Source above Soulsand/-stone to generate blue Obsidian.

Charge Obsidian

Use a Lightning Rod to create crying (or weeping) obsidian.

Nether Biomes

Some of the new Nether Biomes (rendered using Iris and Complementary Reimagined)

Faster Obsidian Mining

All Nether Pickaxes have improved mining speed for Obsidian Blocks

Freeform Portals

Build arbitrary shaped nether portals, with all the previously enabled Obsidian Block

New Portal Frames

All Full Obsidian related Blocks can be used as a portal Frame. Other mods can add new Frame-Blocks using the custom Tag *c:nether_pframe*

5.3.5 - AutoConvert old Worlds

BetterNether was migrated to BCLib which requires some updates on your world

7.0.2 - Freeform Portals

Build arbitrary shaped nether portals, with all the previously enabled Obsidian Block

5.3.5 - Faster Obsidian Mining

All Nether Pickaxes have improved mining speed for Obsidian Blocks

5.3.5 - Charge Obsidian

Use a Lightning Rod to create crying (or weeping) obsidian.

5.3.5 - New Portal Frames

All Full Obsidian related Blocks can be used as a portal Frame

5.3.5 - Create blue Obsidian

Use a bucket of Water on a Lava-Source above Soulsand/-stone to generate blue Obsidian.

Nether Biomes

Some of the new Nether Biomes (rendered using Iris and Complementary Reimagined)

Freeform Portals

Build arbitrary shaped nether portals, with all the previously enabled Obsidian Block