Stoneling Loot Fix

Prevents Scaling Difficulty from multiplying the item carried and dropped by a Quark stoneling.

The problem

A Quark stoneling can drop more of its carried item than was supplied to it. The ordinary bonus-loot multiplier can turn a carried stack of 64 into 89.

Why it happens

Scaling Difficulty applies its bonus-drop handler to the stoneling's carried item as though it were ordinary generated mob loot.

Scope of the fix

• Skips that bonus-drop handler only for the entity ID quark:stoneling.
• Preserves the original bonus-loot behaviour for other mobs, the disabled-bonus path and Levelplate integration.
• Keeps Quark's own drop handling intact.

No Steam & Steel progression or general balance adjustments are included.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.235
• Java 21
• Scaling Difficulty 1.0.1 by HeroBrot
• Quark when using stonelings

Install on the server; installing the same addon on clients is also supported. The issue requires Quark stonelings. This addon targets HeroBrot's Scaling Difficulty, not unrelated mods with similar names.

From Steam & Steel

These changes originated in Steam & Steel SMP, our custom Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge server pack. This addon is supplied separately from the full pack.

Acknowledgements

Scaling Difficulty is by HeroBrot. Quark is by Vazkii, WireSegal and the Quark contributors. Both original mods keep their own licenses.

Beta / Feedback

This is a beta release. The original in-pack changes come from the specific Steam & Steel server pack used and tested by our players. These newly packaged standalone addons have local code checks; compatibility with other packs still needs feedback.

The real original handler reproduced 64 to 89. The real transformed handler passed 21 checks, including carried quantities, other mobs, Levelplate settings, the disabled-bonus path and equivalence to the previous native patch. A new Minecraft gameplay session with this standalone package has not yet been tested.

If you encounter a crash, an error or unexpected behaviour, please leave a comment with your Minecraft, NeoForge, original-mod and addon versions, plus steps to reproduce the problem. Include a log after removing private details. We will investigate reported bugs and work on fixes.

License

Addon code is licensed under BSD 3-Clause. Copyright (c) 2026, DanielBasov (Steam & Steel). Forks, fixes and redistribution are permitted; retain author attribution, the license conditions and disclaimer. A fork may not imply endorsement by the original author.

The project icon is original voxel artwork by DanielBasov (Steam & Steel), rendered through our V3 pixel pipeline and supplied under BSD 3-Clause. No original-mod classes or assets are bundled in this addon.