Mettle

Minecraft, earned.

⚠️ Alpha: Mettle is unfinished and changing fast. Expect bugs, balance changes and the occasional reset between versions. Feedback is hugely welcome on our Discord.

Instead of everyone ending up with the same gear and the same abilities, Mettle lets you build a character no one else has: shaped by how you play, what you choose, and the trade you eventually master.

⚔️ Levels and skills

• Earn player levels from everyday play: mining, fighting, farming and exploring all count.
• Skills grow as you use them. Mining, Combat, Defense, Agility, Vitality, Farming, with more planned.
• Every level brings a small bonus, so progress always feels like something.

✨ Special abilities you choose

Higher skill levels unlock special abilities, and you pick which ones you take. Choose Swift Strikes or Sharp Edge in combat, or Gentle Hands for mining. Your picks make your build different from everyone else's.

🔨 Where Mettle is heading

Mettle is a mod series. Upcoming parts add professions: pick a trade like Smith, Fletcher or Cartographer and craft step by step at stations in the world. Everything you make carries "Made by" and your name.

The long-term goal is for hand-crafting to replace vanilla crafting entirely, so the best gear comes from the players who mastered that trade.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 26.3 with Forge
• Mettle Lib (required)
• Install on both client and server

💬 Join the community

Mettle is built alongside a whitelisted community server, where every update is playtested before release.

• 💬 Discord: updates, playtests, suggestions and bug reports
• 🌐 Website and roadmap
• ▶️ YouTube: Mettle Forge

Found a bug? Report it in #bug-reports on the Discord.

Mettle is a fan-made mod series and is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft. Built with AI assistance from Claude; designed, playtested and improved by hand.