A mod that aims at upgrading and overhauling the basic Minecraft's tools and armors crafting with the introduction of forging to make it more engaging. Heavily inspired by the mods Hot Iron and TerraFirmaCraft. The mod was made with the aim for easy customization through the use of datapacks, and the recipe json format are based on vanilla recipe json for easy understanding. Recommended to use alongside Just Enough Items to view the recipes.

New Items and Blocks

Steel Equipments

New lines of items and equipments dedicated to steel.

Smithing Hammer

One of the two required items in order to start forging. Crouch right click with it onto a Smithing Anvil when there's a valid recipe to forge items.

Smithing Tongs

Include Iron Tongs and Steel Tongs. Hold them in the off-hand slot to not get burnt by the hot metals.

Smithing Anvil

The focus block of the mod, it lets you forge items by arranging ingredients in a 3x3 grid not unlike that of a Crafting Table. Then you need to crouch right click the anvil using a Smithing Hammer to start a forging minigame. The quality of the result items are dependent on how good you did in the minigame.

Water Barrel and Wooden Bucket

Cheaper alternatives to Cauldron and vanilla Bucket as Cauldron and Bucket now need to be forged in the Smithing Anvil.

New features

• A new Forging system for tools and armors. Equipments now have a quality feature that gives the items a modifier based on how good you did in the minigame, ranging from Poorly Forged to Perfectly Forged.

• Diamond equipments now need to be crafted in the Smithing Table, using Steel equipments with a new Smithing Template that can be found in the Overworld.

• Added Rock Knapping System

  Introduced a new knapping mechanic using rocks to craft stone tool heads via a 3x3 clicking interface inspired by traditional flint knapping.

  To get rocks you need to continuously right click a piece of flint on a stone block.

• New Tool Head Modifiers: Unpolished and Polished

Tool heads now have a quality modifier affecting the final crafted tool.

• Start with unpolished tool heads.

• Use a grindstone to polish them and improve the resulting tool's quality.

• New Item Tags: overgeared:grindable and overgeared:grinded

  • Items in grindable can be used on the grindstone.
  • Items in grinded represent the polished results.
  • These tags must align in order for proper conversion (1-to-1 mapping).