Utility Nexus QoL
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Small optional quality-of-life tweaks for NeoForge, starting with a vanilla-style beacon beam of light rising from every Waystones block so travel hubs stand out at a distance.
💡 Utility Nexus QoL
Small optional quality-of-life tweaks for NeoForge: a vanilla-style beacon beam of light rising from every Waystones block so travel hubs stand out at a distance, and an in-GUI picker for crafting recipes that clash between mods.
✨ Overview
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Utility Nexus QoL is a home for small, optional player-facing enhancements that don't belong in a server-ops mod or a crash-patch mod. Features that enhance another mod stay completely inert unless that mod is installed; the rest are pure vanilla. Every feature is a self-contained toggle. Built for NeoForge 21.1.249 on Minecraft 1.21.1. What it covers so far:
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🎯 Features
🌟 Waystone Beacon Beam
Renders a vanilla-style beacon beam rising from the top of every Waystones block within render distance, so bases, shops and travel hubs are visible from far away — just like a beacon marks a spot.
- Client-side only; nothing changes on a server, and nothing is sent over the network
- Waystones blocks are found by registry namespace alone — the mod never links against the Waystones API, so it survives Waystones updates
- Double-gated: the render is only wired up when the Waystones mod is actually present, and a runtime check re-confirms that on every frame — with Waystones absent the feature registers nothing and cannot crash
- Beam colour (RGB) and height in blocks are configurable
🔄 Recipe Conflict Selector
When two or more crafting recipes match the same grid layout but produce different results — a common clash once several mods are installed — vanilla silently picks one and you can never craft the other. This adds a small swap-arrows button above the crafting result slot so you can pick.
- Works in the crafting table and the 2×2 inventory grid
- Click the button to open a bordered panel of every possible result — the current pick is outlined, and hovering an icon shows its tooltip. Click one to switch.
- The choice updates the preview and the real craft, and is remembered for the rest of the session (never written to disk)
- Pure vanilla — no dependencies. When a grid has only one possible result the button never appears and behaviour is unchanged.
- For the pick to affect a real craft, the mod must be installed on both the client and the server
⚙️ Configuration Reference
Files live under config/utility_nexus/qol/.
| Key | Default | Notes |
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config.toml — [waystoneBeam] | ||
waystoneBeam.enabled | true | Master switch for the Waystone Beacon Beam. Requires the Waystones mod; does nothing without it. |
waystoneBeam.beamHeightBlocks | 100 | How many blocks tall the beam is. Range 1–1024. |
waystoneBeam.colorRed | 80 | Beam colour, red channel (0–255). |
waystoneBeam.colorGreen | 200 | Beam colour, green channel (0–255). |
waystoneBeam.colorBlue | 255 | Beam colour, blue channel (0–255). |
recipe-select.toml — [recipeSelect] | ||
recipeSelect.enabled | true | Master switch for the Recipe Conflict Selector (both the client button and the server-side recipe override). |
📋 Requirements
| Minecraft | 1.21.1 |
| NeoForge | 21.1.249+ |
| Java | 21 |
| Waystones | optional — only needed for the Waystone Beacon Beam feature |
| Dependencies | none — the Recipe Conflict Selector is pure vanilla |
🎮 How to Use
- Install NeoForge 21.1.249 for Minecraft 1.21.1.
- Place Utility Nexus QoL in your
modsfolder. - Install Waystones as well to get the Waystone Beacon Beam — the beam appears automatically over Waystones blocks.
- To change the beam colour or height, or to switch it off, edit
config/utility_nexus/qol/config.toml([waystoneBeam]). - The Recipe Conflict Selector works out of the box: whenever a crafting grid has more than one possible result, a button appears above the output slot. Turn it off in
config/utility_nexus/qol/recipe-select.toml([recipeSelect]).
🙏 Credits
Developed by Stalking Dragons.
https://codex.skdragons.com/
Codex Stalking Dragons ā Minecraft Modding
Utility Nexus QoL Team
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