Iron Oak

Iron Oak now runs on Minecraft 1.21.11. The last public release ran on 1.19, so this is a big jump — worth reading the two notes at the bottom before you update a world.

Minecraft 1.21.11

• Built for Minecraft 1.21.11 with Fabric Loader 0.19.3 and Fabric API 0.141.6.
• Requires Java 21. 1.19 needed Java 17, so if the game refuses to start after updating, this is almost certainly why.
• Works on a dedicated server as well as single player.

Fire bowl fixes

• A flaming arrow lights the bowl again. Shooting a fire arrow into an unlit bowl did nothing before; it now lights it, like a campfire.
• The cooking time is consistent. Depending on how a log got into the bowl — by hand or through a hopper — it could burn for three different lengths of time. Every log now takes the duration its recipe says.
• The five-second window survives a reload. An idle bowl is supposed to stay lit for about five seconds after its last log and then go out. That countdown restarted every time the chunk reloaded, so a bowl at the edge of your loaded area could stay lit indefinitely. It now picks up where it left off. Existing worlds load fine — a bowl saved before this release simply starts its countdown fresh.

Notes before you update

Licence. From this release on, Iron Oak is under the Iron Oak License 1.0, not MIT. Modpack use is explicitly granted — you may include it in a public or private modpack without asking. What needs asking is redistributing it as a standalone download or republishing it under another name. Releases up to and including 1.2.1+1.20.4 were MIT and stay MIT.

The 1.19 line. 1.19 stays on the versions page but is no longer developed. There is no 1.20.4 release: that version existed only in the source tree on the way here.

Gameplay

Unchanged. Infuse a sapling with ore-infused bone meal, grow it, cut it, burn the logs in a fire bowl for ash, wash the ash for shreds, nine shreds to a raw ore. Six wood types times three metals, as before. If you are new, the README walks the whole loop with pictures.