User:FlowerChild

{I guess this might be useful ? Taking from Zhil's amazing faq, will need some expanding}

The first version of BTW was released April 9, 2011, il y a 12 ans by its original author, FlowerChild, a game industry veteran. He's not around anymore, but we keep the vision alive.

Q: Why is it named Better Than Wolves?

The mod started as an exercise of making features that were high bang for the buck. At the time, Notch had started to implement wolves as a feature, even though pets are very expensive in development time. FlowerChild made a forum thread talking about how there are easier features to implement, like Hoppers, Redstone Lamps, Minecart Boosters, Dispensers, Cauldrons, and Observers (yes, all those features originated in BTW). He decided to ask the community for features like this and created the mod of things to add that would be better than wolves.

Q: What is Better Than Wolves - Community Edition?

FlowerChild said goodbye to the mod on April 09, 2021, at the 10 year anniversary. He opened the source to the community and a team was formed to update the mod and fix some of the lingering bugs. It ended up being a long journey that included integrating MCPatcher and moving over to Fabric for addon development.

Q: Why is the mod for v1.5.2?

Originally, FlowerChild felt like he had to take out more features in 1.5.2 than he kept, so he decided to stay on one version of Minecraft and save the humongous effort of porting to new versions.