🐺 Larper Than Wolves

Hardcore Survival Overhaul for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge), inspired by Better Than Wolves (FlowerChild mod)

Larper Than Wolves completely re-engineers Minecraft's early and mid-game into a grounded, authentic, and rewarding survival journey. Say goodbye to instant punching of trees, magical 3x3 crafting tables from your pocket, effortless crop spam, and vanilla skips. Advance through primitive silicon, copper, and bronze tool tiers, craft realistic mechanics, fertilize soils, and automate kinetic milling.

(!) Mod created with support of an AI (!)

🌟 Key Features

🌲 Primitive Woodworking & Workbench Chiseling

• Tree Stumps: Naturally generated trees feature deep, hardened root stumps (hardness 25.0).
• Crafting Table Progression: Crafting tables cannot be made in your inventory. You must use a Chisel on a Tree Stump through 4 consecutive carving stages (Stump Work Stump I–III Crafting Table).
• Axe Requirement: Trees, logs, and planks cannot be broken with bare hands.
• Plank Crafting:
  • 2x2 Inventory Grid: 1 Log + 1 Axe 2 Planks (axe consumes 1 durability and remains in the grid).
  • 3x3 Crafting Table: 1 Log 4 Planks (full yield without tool cost).
• Twigs & Sticks: Fallen twigs spawn under tree canopies and drop from broken leaves (35% chance). Craft 2 Twigs \(\rightarrow\) 1 Stick.
• Flint/Silicon Shears: Early wooden shears with cord bindings and flint blades.

⛏️ Tool Tiers & Mining Progression

⚙️ Hand Mill & Create Rotational Automation

• Hand Mill (mill): Early mechanical quern for crushing ingots, ores, minerals, and bones into fine dusts.
• Mill Crank (mill_crank): 3D animated handle placed on top of the Mill. Right-clicking rotates the handle 360° over 0.5s (10 ticks) and advances progress by 5% (20 rotations = 100%).
• Create Mod Integration:
  • Automatically powered by connecting rotating shafts, cogs, water wheels, windmills, or engines.
  • Grinding speed dynamically scales with rotational RPM (faster rotation = faster processing).
  • Supports Create Hand Cranks directly.
• Grinding Ratios:
  • 1 Ingot (Iron, Copper, Gold, Tin, Bronze) 8 Dusts (2 Dusts = 1 Nugget, 4 Nuggets = 1 Ingot).
  • 1 Diamond 8 Diamond Dust.
  • 1 Diamond Ingot 8 Diamond Dust + 8 Iron Dust + 8 Copper Dust.
  • 1 Raw Ore Chunk / Nugget 2 Dusts.
  • 2 Bones 1 Bone Meal.
• Bone Meal Overhaul: Vanilla instant bone meal crafting from bones/bone blocks is removed. Bone meal is strictly obtained via the Hand Mill. Animals and zombies drop bones upon death.

🌾 Mandatory Soil Fertilization, Animal Digestion & Ecology

• Fertilized Farmland: Crops planted on unfertilized soil will NOT grow. Natural growth must be unlocked with fertilizer:
  • Bone Meal: Provides 1 harvest cycle before resetting back to plain farmland.
  • Dung: Long-lasting organic fertilizer providing 3 full harvest cycles.
  • Fertilizers unlock natural crop growth stages without skipping them instantly.
• Animal Dung Production: Cows, sheep, pigs, horses, goats, camels, and wolves produce Dung 3 minutes (3600 ticks) after eating.
• 2-Stage Hoe Tilling:
  • Stage 1: Till grass into dirt with a 35% chance to gather wild crop seeds (Wheat, Carrot, Potato, Beetroot, Pumpkin, Melon).
  • Stage 2: Till dirt into farmland ready for fertilization and planting.
• Wildlife Overhaul:
  • Predatory Wolves: Wild wolves actively hunt all peaceful livestock (cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, horses, llamas, etc.).
  • Animal Panic: Damaged animals gain Speed II and sprint away from their attacker.
  • Defensive Cow Kick: Striking a cow in close melee (\(\le 3.0\) blocks) causes it to kick backward, dealing 5.0 damage (2.5 hearts) and heavy knockback before sprinting away with Speed III.

🏺 Soils, Clay Mining & Sifting

• Clay Rules: Clay blocks strictly require a shovel to harvest (breaking by hand yields 0 drops). Digging clay yields 1 Clay Ball per block.
• Rich Soils: 5 mineral-infused soil variants (Rich Grass, Rich Dirt, Rich Gravel, Rich Sand, Rich Red Sand) generate naturally in large veins. Digging requires a Copper+ shovel.
• Sieving: Sifting standard and rich soils in the Sieve produces flint shards, flint, and metal dusts (copper, tin, bronze, iron, gold, and diamond).

🧺 Woven Baskets & Hand Weaving

• Unbound Mesh Mesh: Craft 2 Sticks + 2 Ropes into an Unbound Mesh, then hold Right-Click for 15 seconds to manually weave it into a finished Mesh.
• Woven Basket: Crafted from 4 Meshes in a 2x2 grid. Provides 9 slots (3x3 storage) before crafting tables or chests are available. Fully compatible with hoppers (WorldlyContainer).

🍞 Food Oven & Brick Furnace Specialization

• Drying Rack: Passively dries grass into Dry Grass (fuel and cordage) and raw leather into Tanned Leather (required for armor and ropes) under open sunlight.
• Oven: Specialized for food only (raw meat, fish, potatoes, kelp). Does not accept ores or non-food items. Requires manual fueling and ignition.
• Brick Furnace: Replaces vanilla furnaces and blast furnaces. Specialized for ores, dusts, and blocks only (does not accept food).

🧪 Metallurgy & Alloy Mixer

• Metal Processing: 2 Ore Dusts 1 Raw Chunk Smelt 1 Nugget 4 Nuggets = 1 Ingot.
• Alloy Mixer Recipes:
  • Bronze Ingot: 2 Copper Ingots + 1 Tin Ingot.
  • Brass Ingot (create:brass_ingot): 1 Copper Ingot + 1 Zinc Ingot.
  • Diamond Ingot: 1 Diamond + 1 Iron Ingot + 1 Copper Ingot (used to smith Reinforced Iron gear).

⚡ Redstone & Mechanical Devices

🚀 Kinetic Piston

• Directional catapult piston in all 6 orientations.
• 1-Block Projectile Rule: If 1 solid block is in front, fires it as a flying physics projectile up to 10 blocks forward. Upon hitting a wall or falling to the ground, it lands and solidifies back into a full block.
• Entity Launching: Catapults players, mobs, and items 10 blocks forward.

🔲 Filter Grate

• Oak-framed half-block with transparent wire grating on top. Solid surface for players and mobs.
• Phantom Filter (3x3): Right-click to set ghost filter items without consuming them.
• Redstone Inversion:
  • Unpowered: Only items matching the filter pass through to the bottom.
  • Powered (Redstone): Inverted — filter items stay on top, while all other items pass through.

👁️ Entity Observer

• Directional sensor block
• Detects any entity (players, mobs, items, minecarts)
• Emits a 4-tick redstone pulse

🏘️ Worldgen & Village Rebalancing

• Village Rarity
• Villager Trades
• Loot Rebalance

🔌 Mod Compatibility

• JEI (Just Enough Items)
• Create 6.0.10+

📥 Installation

1. Install Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.248+.
2. Download the latest Larper-Than-Wolves jar file.
3. Place the .jar into your .minecraft/mods directory.
4. (Recommended) Install JEI and Create for the ultimate experience!