VanillaBackport (1.20.1)

[gokufunnygirl]

Suggesting an addon for BlackGear's VanillaBackport mod (1.20.1) / (1.21.1 NeoForge)

Not sure if this matters since it's 1.20.1 and not 1.21 but the mod is both Forge and NeoForge

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/vanillabackport

1.20.1 so far has only backported the Pale Garden biome, so the only tree is the Pale Oak Tree.

Spring to Life is in development for this version currently, so maybe the Cacti can be affected to support the new flowers on them? Once that releases of course. The main focus of this post is the Pale Garden.

QUICK EDIT: I'm aware people have requested Pale Garden before but I'm specifically asking for compatibility with the mod linked above, not those other mods. I'm not sure if this counts as a repost im sorry if it is?

12/29/2025 EDIT: VanillaBackport now has Spring to Life features and is on both 1.20.1 and 1.21.1

5/4/2026: ANOTHER QUICK EDIT I'm requesting both 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 now

[BrandonPotter0]

Ive also noticed that Dynamic trees currently replaces the Pale Oak stuff with the regular Non-Pale variant as well. Kinda breaking the Pale Garden Biome entirely.

Id also like to request this addon for 1.21.1 on NeoForge.

[Nitess]

Yes, it would be great to get the add-on for NeoForge version 1.21.1.

[exocyt0sis]

Agreed – I’d love to see genuine support for The Pale Gardens. From what I gather, though, the trees there are technically different from any other trees in Minecraft. Apparently, some of them interact with the new creaking monsters. I guess that could pose a whole new challenge when trying to implement support for Dynamic Trees? (hoping for the best, though!)

[zrkdev]

Also interested in this for Forge 1.20.1. Dynamic Trees replacing Pale Oak with normal Oak really breaks the atmosphere of the Pale Garden biome. Would love proper support for VanillaBackport.

[exocyt0sis]

@supermassimo Hi there! Quite a few of your fans wish that Dynamic Trees should support the Pale Garden. Would you please care to comment? Thank you for an outstanding mod, by the way! 👍

[supermassimo]

I just released a 26.1 port with the pale garden implementation

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dynamictrees/files/8101728

I do not work on back porting features, but now that the official implementation is there anyone with a bit of coding knowledge should be able to back port it

[BrandonPotter0]

I just released a 26.1 port with the pale garden implementation

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dynamictrees/files/8101728

I do not work on back porting features, but now that the official implementation is there anyone with a bit of coding knowledge should be able to back port it

I hope 26.XX will also get fabric versions to :D

[exocyt0sis]

I just released a 26.1 port with the pale garden implementation

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dynamictrees/files/8101728

I do not work on back porting features, but now that the official implementation is there anyone with a bit of coding knowledge should be able to back port it

Sweet Christmas! Excellent work, Max! You and the team have spoiled me and my server - playing Minecraft without Dynamic Trees would be a really bleak experience, and knowing that you have aimed for 26.1 is a stark signal for the future! The reason I just took the jump from Forge 1.20.1 to NeoForge 1.21.1 is thanks to Create: Aeronautics, so here's hoping they already have 26.x on the horizon (chances are they'll wait for Mojang to launch Minecraft Java for Vulcan, though).

Regarding backporting the 26.1 branch of Dynamic Trees to NeoForge 1.21.1 - I'm happy to hear that you don't close the doors if anyone else would try to give it a go. I can't make any promises myself, however I have recently ported Immersive Weathering to 1.21.1 (currently a pending pull request), so I may consider it. By the way - how much work would you say porting one of the "third party tree packs" (for mods like Biomes O' Plenty, Alex's Mobs and Twilight Forest) entails?

Again, great work - thank you so much!

[supermassimo]

By the way - how much work would you say porting one of the "third party tree packs" (for mods like Biomes O' Plenty, Alex's Mobs and Twilight Forest) entails?

Luckily thanks to the work by Harley O' Connor and the rest of the team making TreePacks so powerful, most addons today are 90% json, 10% code. Porting them is not really that much of a hassle other than the fact that the base mod can change between versions so you might need to work on new things (Biomes O Plenty usually adds and removes biomes between versions, for example).