Changelog — Modern Blocks

Forge 1.12.2 mod that ports blocks from modern versions of Minecraft to 1.12.2.

3.0

New Features

Creative Inventory

• The mod is divided into 6 tabs: solid blocks, stairs, slabs, vertical slabs, decoration & functional, and items & equipment. Items are automatically sorted by block type.

26.x Blocks

• Concrete stairs, slabs, and vertical slabs (16 colors).
• Wool stairs, slabs, and vertical slabs (16 colors), flammable like wool.
• Cushions (16 colors): entities you can sit on (right-click), leave by sneaking, and break by attacking. They can be placed on the actual top surface of blocks (slabs, stairs…). Recipe: 3 wool slabs; recoloration using dyes.
• Poplar: complete wood family (logs, wood, planks, stairs, slabs, fences, fence gate, door, trapdoor, button, pressure plate, signs). Orange, red, and yellow leaves, and sapling.
• Sulfur & Cinnabar: base blocks, polished, cut, and chiseled variants, concentrated sulfur, complete with stairs, slabs, walls, and vertical slabs.

Stone Families

• Tuff: stairs, slab, wall, and vertical slab.
• Stone (1.14): slab and vertical slab.
• Red Nether Bricks: stairs, slab, and vertical slab.
• Resin Bricks: complete family, plus Resin Block and Chiseled Resin Bricks.
• Stone Brick Wall.
• Quartz Bricks, Chiseled and Cracked Nether Bricks, Chiseled Tuff Bricks, Smooth Stone.
• Vertical slabs for vanilla slabs: sandstone, red sandstone, stone, bricks, stone bricks, nether bricks, quartz, purpur, and all 6 wood types.

Wood Families

• Complete Pale Oak set: planks, logs, wood, stairs, slabs, fence, fence gate, trapdoor, leaves, sapling (2×2 tree growth).
• Wood and Stripped Wood for all wood types (hyphae for crimson and warped).
• Fences and fence gates for modern wood types.
• Trapdoors, buttons, and pressure plates per wood type, including vanilla species.
• Signs and hanging signs for all wood types, with editable text.
• Mangrove, cherry, pale oak, and azalea leaves (flowering or non-flowering). Cherry and pale oak saplings, mangrove propagule; saplings grow full trees.
• Axe stripping for all logs, including vanilla ones.

1.14 Functional Blocks

• Barrel (27 slots).
• Smoker and Blast Furnace: twice as fast, restricted to food and ores/metals/equipment respectively.
• Campfire and Soul Campfire: cook 4 items, burn entities, extinguished with a shovel, reignited with flint and steel. Produces signal smoke when placed over a hay bale.
• Lectern: holds a readable book for everyone, retrieved with sneak + click.
• Composter: 8 levels, produces bone meal.
• Grindstone: repairs by combining two items, removes non-curse enchantments, and refunds experience.
• Stonecutter.
• Loom: supports 1.12 banner patterns.
• Smithing Table: diamond to netherite upgrades.
• Cartography Table: expand or clone maps.
• Bell: animated, triggerable by redstone.
• Scaffolding: climbable, falls if unsupported.
• Fletching Table.

Items

• Copper tools and armor (26.x equipment sound).
• Copper ingot, nugget, and raw copper; raw iron, raw gold, and their block forms; amethyst shard; honeycomb; honey bottle (drinkable and cures poison).
• Copper ore and Deepslate ores (coal, copper, iron, gold, lapis, redstone, diamond, emerald), prepared for a future dimension.

Extra-Vanilla Features

• Mixed slabs: place two different slabs within the same block space (all slabs, including vanilla), and two vertical slabs in the same block space (identical or different). Only the targeted half breaks.
• Custom recipes for the bell (gold + stick) and scaffolding (sticks + string), due to missing villager trades and bamboo in 1.12.

Recipes

• Recipes added for all new blocks and items, as well as parts for existing modern wood types (mangrove, cherry, bamboo, crimson, warped).
• Vanilla recipes for trapdoors, buttons, pressure plates, and signs now craft Oak variants only, making room for wood-specific recipes.

Changes

• Honey block behavior updated: players sink in slightly, move/jump slower, fall damage is reduced, and sliding down sides works properly. Updated translucent rendering.
• Wooden buttons match vanilla behavior (triggered by arrows, plays wood sounds).

Bug Fixes

• Double slabs had missing textures and dropped nothing when broken. They now properly drop two slabs.
• Modded doors dropped a vanilla oak door when broken.
• Pick block (middle-click) failed on doors, double slabs, campfires, and deepslate lapis ore.
• Sitting position on cushions was rendered too low.
• Transparency bugs (black background) fixed on the White Cushion icon, stonecutter saw blade, and grindstone.
• Mixed slabs always played the bottom-half sound regardless of which half was broken.
• Broken accented characters in French localization ("Épée en Netherite", "Porte en Chêne Pâle").

Known Limitations

• Hanging signs only have 4 placement orientations, as 1.12 does not support 22.5° chain rotations.
• The Smithing Table ignores the smithing template slot.
• The Cartography Table cannot lock maps.
• No copper horse armor available yet.
• Shelves (26.x) and sulfur stalagmites are not implemented yet.
• World generation is not implemented yet.