Description
Tweakaru
Tweakaru is a lightweight vanilla-friendly Quality of Life mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge).
It adds dozens of tiny improvements that smooth out gameplay, fix annoyances, and make crafting and farming feel more natural — all without breaking the vanilla feel.
Composting Made Better
Give more use to forgotten items:
Rotten Flesh
Eggs
Bamboo
Poisonous Potatoes
Chorus Fruit
Golden Apples
Smarter Block Interactions
Small tweaks that make the world feel more polished:
Paths and Farmland can be reverted back into Dirt.
Wool can be crafted back into String.
Carrot on a Stick and Warped Fungus on a Stick can be reverted into Fishing Rods.
Honey Blocks and Honeycomb Blocks can be broken back down in the crafting table.
Skulls can be ground into Bone Meal.
Sponges can be dried on Campfires.
Wool, Carpets, and Beds can be un-dyed in Water Cauldrons.
Crops replant automatically when harvested with a Hoe.
Farmland can be watered instantly with a Water Bottle.
Sticky Pistons can have slime removed with Shears and reapplied with Slimeballs.
Wearing Leather Boots prevents trampling crops.
Moss Blocks and Moss Carpets now block sculk vibrations, just like Wool.
Crafting & Stonecutter Tweaks
Stonecutter Recipes:
Blue Ice → 9 Packed Ice
Packed Ice → 9 Ice
Dark Prismarine → 8 Prismarine Shards
Prismarine → 4 Prismarine Shards
Prismarine Bricks → 9 Prismarine Shards
Deepslate → Cobbled Deepslate
Stone → Cobblestone
Mossy Blocks → Clean Versions
Crafting Recipes:
Cobwebs are now craftable.
Saddles are now craftable.
Lodestones have a cheaper recipe.
Pottery Sherds can be duplicated with Bricks (like Armor Trims).
Smelting Additions
Compasses & Chains → Iron Nuggets
Clocks → Gold Nuggets
Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold Blocks → their smelted block forms
Extra Utility
Chipped & Damaged Anvils can be repaired by Shift-Right Clicking with Iron Ingots (like Iron Golems).
Minecarts can be broken instantly with Shift-Right Click (when not being ridden).
Wandering Trader has a few new useful trades.