BetterUI

Refined crafting, building, and trader menus, exact hotbar durability, and a living DNA tree for your acquired genetics.

Features

• Clearer recipes, ingredients, categories, and craft-button states.
• Search and live recipe availability updates.
• Integrated fabrication progress.
• A streamlined building catalog with search, categories, plan inspection, and material requirements.
• A compact trader exchange with searchable offers, clear affordability states, and native trade behavior.
• Exact durability values beneath durable hotbar items.
• Five selectable color palettes that persist between sessions.
• Restores the hand-crafting launcher correctly after closing the menu.
• A compact genetics tree with curved branches, gene icons and native descriptions.
• Mouse/controller navigation, pan, zoom, recentering and optional reduced motion.

Open genetics normally to explore your collection. This is a visual upgrade only: it does not grant genes or change their effects. GeneticsTest is not included.

Use the crafting footer's color-wheel button to change palettes. Press F8 to pause or resume BetterUI for the current session.

Open Mod Settings from the pause menu to remap supported FrankMods controls.

Full setup, configuration, compatibility, and troubleshooting details are available on GitHub.

Community and support

For help, feedback, and bug reports, join the FrankMods Discord.

Changelog

0.12.3

• Added restock timers.
• Added a trader font-size slider.
• Fixed the crafting slider not showing double digits.

0.12.2

• Added required Interop Fix dependency.

0.12.1

• Added Remapping support

0.12.0

• Now includes Trader UI.

0.11.0

• Added building UI.
• Display item durability in the hotbar.

0.10.1

performance improvement for GeneUI

0.10.0

• Replace the genetics list with a compact, translucent DNA tree using native gene icons and descriptions.
• Add curved branches, subtle selection animation, mouse/controller navigation, pan, zoom and recentering.
• Support reduced motion and an independent genetics toggle; preserve original genetics data and crafting behavior.
• Handle startup before the genetics panel exists and restore the native panel on failure.

0.9.6

• Added an automatic compatibility dependency for Inferno Protocol's Unity 6 IL2CPP metadata.

0.9.5

• Simplified the Thunderstore page and moved detailed documentation to GitHub.

0.9.4

• Replaced the legacy black crafting-progress popup with an integrated fabrication card.
• Added live item fill, progress, percentage, and batch quantity feedback.
• Restored the ingredient view automatically after crafting finishes.
• Kept the game's original crafting timing and completion behavior intact.

0.9.3

• Fixed the inventory hand-crafting launcher disappearing after the crafting panel closes.
• Kept the hand-crafting launcher in its original game-owned hierarchy.

0.9.2

• Introduced the focused crafting-table interface overhaul.
• Improved recipe rows, categories, component analysis, quantity badges, and action states.
• Added remembered green, blue, cyan, violet, and amber palettes.