Now available on 1.9 alpha!

Modular Tools introduces a self-balancing mechanic, allowing you to customize your tools using a compromise between upgrades and downgrades. Each upgrade and downgrade has a number of points associated with it, and you must "balance the equation" for the tool to work. Shift+Right-Click the tool to access the GUI. There is a number in the center of the GUI that will tell you if the points are too high or too low.

Current Tools:

Modular Pickaxe
Modular Sword
Modular Ring (movement capabilites)

Modular Tools GUI

Current Modifiers:

Upgrades
- Speed: Increases mining speed in the pickaxe, and movement speed in the ring
- Size: Increases mining area in the pickaxe, and attack area in the sword. 3x3 or 5x5
- Harvest: Increases mining harvest level
- Light: If there are torches next to your pickaxe, it will place them on right-click. If not, it will place temporary lights that will disappear after about 10 seconds.
- Depth: Increases depth of mined blocks
- Trash: Will void any drops that appear in the "Trash Filters" slots
- Stone: When mining smooth stone, smooth stone will drop instead of cobblestone
- Vein: Will mine entire veins of ore. Only works on blocks with an unlocalized name starting with "ore"
- Drops: Increases drop rate from mining in the pickaxe, and from mobs in the sword (like Fortune/Looting)
- Attack: Increases the attack strength of the sword
- Behead: Increases the chance for Vanilla mobs to drop their heads by 20% each
- Flight: Adds time-limited flight and a cooldown. Timer resets every time you touch the ground
- Permanent Flight: Adds permanent flight without a timer/cooldown
- Step: Gives step-assist
- Hotbar: Allows the ring to work anywhere on your hotbar instead of in your hand
Downgrades
- Harvest: Reduces mining harvest level
- Speed: Reduces mining speed in the pickaxe, and movement speed with the ring
- Hunger: Makes mining, attacking with sword, or moving with the ring cost additional hunger
- Expensive: No negative effects, just an expensive recipe
- Very Expensive: No negative effects, just a very expensive recipe
- Damage: Using the tool costs extra durability
- Slowness: Induces the Slowness effect on use
- Experience: Moving with the ring slowly drains experience

FAQ:

Will there be more modifiers and tools soon?
- Yup. I plan to add more modifiers, tools, and possibly change balance (points, recipes, etc.). If you have some suggestions, let me know!
Is there an easy way to disable AoE mining? (Size Upgrade, Depth Upgrade, Vein Upgrade, etc.)
- Sneaking will disable all AoE mining effects.
Why can't I use Speed Upgrades and Speed downgrades at the same time?
- Some modifiers cannot be used together, generally ones with opposite effects.
How do I repair my tools? I'm worried about losing all my modifiers when they break.
- When the tool breaks, you do not lose it. It just becomes unusable until it is repaired. To repair it, put it into a crafting grid with Iron Ingots.