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VG steel

A Forge 1.20.1 steelmaking mod adding 6 ores, chemical intermediates, a full iron-to-steel refining chain, steel armor, weapons, shields, potions, colored torches, and 100+ recipes with Forge tag integration.
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steel-1.1.0.jar

File namesteel-1.1.0.jar
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VGhoodVGhood
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Aug 23, 2026
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Supported game versions
  • 1.20.1

What's new

✨ Added

Blocks
- Rich Iron Ore, Rich Coal Ore and Pig Iron Ore - new ores that generate in the world
- Steel Glass - a sturdy, decorative glass block
- Red, Green, Blue and Purple Colored Torch - four new light sources

 Items & Equipment
- Steel Nugget
- Pig Iron Ingot - a new intermediate material in the steel-making chain
- Refined Steel Ingot - the upgraded ingot tier
- Steel Knife and Battle Axe - new weapons
- Steel Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings and Boots - a complete Steel armor set
- Steel Gear, Steel Spring - machine components
- Refined Fuel and Steel Powder Fuel - improved fuel materials
- Steel Star - protects the holder from lethal damage
- Time Alloy - a special alloy item
- Blood Shield - a consumable that grants the Blood Shield effect
- Steel Amulet and Enchanted Steel Amulet - reduce incoming damage while in the inventory (5% / 10%), and the enchanted version can trigger random effects over time

Effects & Potions

- New Bloodthirst effect with Potion of Bloodthirst (including Long and Strong variants, plus splash and lingering versions)
- New Blood Shield effect

Systems & Content
- World generation for the three new ores (rich iron, rich coal, pig iron)
- Crate now features an interactive inventory GUI with a chest loot table (`steel_chest_loot`)
- Custom recipes for Blood Shield and Steel Repair, with their own recipe serializers
- Forge tags for steel ingots, nuggets and storage blocks
- Updated block mining tags (iron/stone tool requirements)
- Mod logo and `pack.mcmeta` resource-pack metadata
- Optional integration dependencies for Curios API and JEI

 New Crafting Recipes
- Recipes for all new blocks, items and armor above
- Tool recipes (Battle Axe, Steel Knife, etc.), torch recipes, gear/spring/star/alloy recipes and many new material conversions (gunpowder, dyes, and more)

🔧 Changed
- The former "Pig Iron" item is now split: the existing item is renamed to "Raw Iron", and a new "Pig Iron Ingot" item was introduced
- Steel Round Shield and Steel Tower Shield gained blocking animation models
- Crate block, item, block entity and world generation were overhauled to support the GUI inventory and loot
- Active skill logic for several steel weapons (fire axe, fire shovel, steel longsword, etc.) was updated in `ModEvents`
- Various item textures and models were refreshed
- `SteelConfig` expanded with additional configuration options

🐛 Fixed
- General fixes and balance adjustments across blocks, items and recipes

🔧 Other
- Build timestamp: 2026-08-09

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