Smithing Progression

Configuration and Mod Menu

• Added separate client and server configuration files, covering repairs, progression, equipment, healing, survival mechanics, mobs, stations, lanterns and more.

• Added an optional Mod Menu configuration screen with search, categories, editable values, reset and save controls.

• Configuration now includes 204 controls: 14 client preferences and 190 server gameplay settings.

• Server settings control multiplayer gameplay and synchronize to connected clients.

• Mod Menu saves apply during the current singleplayer session when the world resumes.

• Singleplayer file edits reload when the world is reopened. Dedicated servers require a restart after file edits.

• Added validation and safe defaults for missing or invalid settings.

• No animation configuration options were added.

Hammer progression

• Added hammer progression in this order: Copper → Iron → Gold → Diamond → Netherite → Echo.

• The first Copper Hammer uses five Copper Ingots and two sticks:

  Copper  Copper  Copper
  Copper  Stick   Copper
  Empty   Stick   Empty

• Higher-tier hammers require the previous hammer, the destination hammer template and its matching upgrade core at the Smithing Table.

• Added fired and unfired hammer templates. Template crafting uses a clay template at top center, three tier materials across the middle and two materials in the bottom corners.

• Added Hammer Time for crafting the first Copper Hammer, plus advancements for later upgrades.

• Added a configurable hammer tier lock. Higher-tier hammers obtained from other players remain restricted until their tier is unlocked.

• Grouped all six hammers together in tier order in JEI and the creative inventory.

• Adjusted dropped hammer models to half their original scale. Held and repair poses remain unchanged.

Lantern and pickaxe progression

• Added the Stone Lantern, its template, model, recipe and advancement between Flint and Copper.

• Stone Lanterns upgrade from Flint Lanterns at the Primitive Smithing Table.

• Updated lantern detection ranges and cumulative ore limits:

  Tier	Detection radius	Highest ore group
  Flint	3 blocks	Basic ores; excludes copper
  Stone	4 blocks	Copper
  Copper	5 blocks	Iron
  Iron	6 blocks	Gold, lapis, redstone and emerald
  Gold	7 blocks	Diamond
  Diamond	8 blocks	Ancient debris
  Netherite	9 blocks	Ancient debris
  Echo	10 blocks	All recognized ores

• Each tier includes eligible ores from the tiers below it.

• Updated pickaxe mining limits to follow the same progression.

• Added configurable per-tier ore limits.

• Existing custom lantern ranges are preserved when updating.

Compass improvements

• Updated all four compass rims with consistent silver, gold, cyan and dark-purple designs.

• Unbound compass needles now rest pointing straight up.

• Bound compass needles retain their animated movement.

Fiber drops

• Expanded fiber drops to all native leaf types and supported mature crops and plants.

• Added fiber chances when leaves naturally decay.

• Added fiber chances from successful mature right-click harvesting, including sweet berries and glow berries.

• Compatible harvesting interactions must produce drops and remove or reset the mature plant.

• Added safeguards against repeated-click farming, immature crops, self-returning plant loops, Creative harvesting, shears and Silk Touch.

• Does not add a new right-click harvesting interaction to vanilla crops that lack one.

Hunger and healing

• Added a configurable slow passive hunger drain.

• By default, every 2 real-life minutes of active gameplay removes one saturation point, or one food point—half a drumstick—when saturation is empty.

• Normal hunger from activity remains active. Creative, Spectator and Peaceful are exempt from passive drain.

• Added mint-colored healing preview hearts and a recoverable-heart value for the mod’s healing items.

• Healing previews use configured healing amounts and are capped at missing health.

• Added a treatment progress bar below the crosshair, showing remaining time and the patient’s name when healing another player.

• Added separate visibility settings for the healing preview and treatment bar.

Workshops and exploration loot

• Added a 2% bonus enchanted-book chance per chest to existing shelters/ruined workshops and the new workshop variants.

• Workshop books use the normal random-loot enchantment pool, including the mod’s 17 shield enchantments.

• Added Overworld cave workshops with Copper and Iron equipment, supplies, templates and whetstones.

• Added Nether workshops with Gold equipment and related supplies.

• Added End workshops with mostly Diamond equipment and rarer Netherite equipment. Their equipment roll is 80% Diamond and 20% Netherite.

• Each new workshop chest includes one equipment roll alongside supplies and the optional enchanted book.

• Echo materials, Echo templates and boss upgrade cores remain excluded from the new workshop loot.

• New workshops generate in newly generated terrain. Already opened chests are not refilled.

Shields and combat

• Added main-hand attacks while blocking with an offhand shield.

• Hold right-click to block, then press left-click to attack while keeping the shield raised.

• Attacks while blocking use twice the weapon’s normal recovery time by default.

• Recovery scales with the weapon’s attack speed, preserving differences between swords, axes and modified weapons.

• Early attacks retain normal reduced-charge damage.

• Added server settings to enable or disable attacking while blocking and adjust the recovery multiplier.

• Existing shield-disable and shield-bash cooldowns remain unchanged.