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LanguageCraft

A Fabric mod for Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.1 that turns looting into language practice: when you pick up an item, you must say its name in your chosen language (using offline voice recognition).

“Every item has a name. Say it.”

Fabric · Minecraft 1.21.1 · offline speech recognition

 


You pick up a diamond. The world waits. You have to say diamond — or diamante, diamant, ダイヤモンド.

Get it right, and the item is yours. Get it wrong, and it’s gone.

LanguageCraft turns loot, crafting and chests into language practice. The microphone stays on this PC: nothing is uploaded.


Features

  • 18 languages — English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Greek and Arabic

  • Every vanilla item — names come from Minecraft’s official translations

  • Pickup, crafting and chests — ground items are held; crafted and looted items go into your inventory and are removed if you fail

  • English IPA — Dirt → /dɜrt/ · Poppy → /ˈpɑpi/

  • Learned items — pass once, and that language won’t ask again (you can forget them in the menu)

  • Queue — pick up a bunch of items and keep playing; you are never stuck

  • Score 0–100 — Excellent / Good / Almost / Incorrect

  • Modes — classic, random language, speed, learning (you never lose the item), hardcore

  • K menu — language, microphone, voice test, difficulty, progress


How to play

  1. Pick up an item — or craft one, or take one from a chest.

  2. Press R and say the name.

  3. Pass → you keep it. Fail → it’s gone.

 

 

 

K

Settings

R

Record (works with the inventory open too)


RAM

Minimum:

  • Singleplayer: 4 GB (vanilla + 1 small language)

Recommended:

  • Singleplayer: 6 GB (modpack, or Greek)

Only the model in use is loaded (~100–300 MB). The rest stay on disk.


Install

  1. Fabric 1.21.1 instance + Fabric API

  2. mods/ → languagecraft-1.0.0.jar

  3. Extract the Vosk model for your language into:

<instance>\config\languagecraft\models\

Prism / CurseForge / Modrinth: the instance folder, not the global Minecraft folder.

Do not rename the folder. It is extracted correctly when you see final.mdl (or am\final.mdl) inside.


Voice models

You only need the language you will play. Brazilian and European Portuguese share one zip; US and UK English do too.

 

Language

Folder

 

 

English

vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15 · 40 MB

download

 

Portuguese

vosk-model-small-pt-0.3 · 31 MB

download

 

Spanish

vosk-model-small-es-0.42 · 39 MB

download

 

French

vosk-model-small-fr-0.22 · 41 MB

download

 

German

vosk-model-small-de-0.15 · 45 MB

download

 

Italian

vosk-model-small-it-0.22 · 48 MB

download

 

Dutch

vosk-model-small-nl-0.22 · 39 MB

download

 

Japanese

vosk-model-small-ja-0.22 · 48 MB

download

 

Korean

vosk-model-small-ko-0.22 · 82 MB

download

 

Chinese

vosk-model-small-cn-0.22 · 42 MB

download

 

Russian

vosk-model-small-ru-0.22 · 45 MB

download

 

Polish

vosk-model-small-pl-0.22 · 50 MB

download

 

Greek

vosk-model-el-gr-0.7 · 1.1 GB

download

 

Arabic

vosk-model-ar-mgb2-0.4 · 318 MB

download

 


Notes

  • Audio never leaves this PC. The mod does not download models by itself and does not save recordings.

  • Do not use OptiFine — on Fabric use Sodium (and Iris for shaders).

  • JEI: the R key conflicts. Rebind one of them in Controls.

  • Multiplayer: the mod must be on client and server.

  • Anvil, enchanting table, grindstone, smithing, cartography and creative do not start a challenge (so your gear is not deleted).

  • Windows: Settings → Privacy → Microphone → allow the launcher.


 

LanguageCraft · MIT · Minecraft is Mojang / Microsoft

 

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