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Latest Release: 9.0.0

Wood Mekanism or WookMek for short is a 1.21+ NeoForge Minecraft Mod which adds wood-based materials, custom fluids, blocks and custom items with deep Mekanism integration and cross-mod compatibility. Features custom recipes that are embedded.

This is not a conventional, playable mod.

This mod is a WIP, towards no end goal. WoodMek is a functional development mod primarily used as a sandbox for testing and improving my modding workflow. It helps me explore data generation, event handling, integration with other mods, working with textures and pixel art, GitHub version control, IntelliJ workspace setup, and preparing mods for publishing on CurseForge. This project isn’t intended for actual gameplay, but you're welcome to take a look if you're interested or learning yourself. Also note that these ingame screenshots may or may not be the latest reflection of the WoodMek mod (Including blocks, items, features or functions).

For questions or suggestions, message me on Discord: @umf

For the latest updates, go to my Github: https://github.com/umfhero/WoodMek-NeoForge-1.21.1

WoodMek Mod Documentation

Mod Items

BlockMod Items

WoodMek Creative Tabs / Mod items (JEI - Wood Items & Blocks)

Creative Tabs

Processing Workflows (New in v3.0.0)

1. Harvest Logs
Gathered from vanilla loot tables when chopping trees

log

(standard Minecraft wood collection)

2. Crush Logs to Wood Dust

Crusher

Process logs through Mekanism's Crusher to create Wood Dust

3. Smelt Wood Dust to Hard Wood

Smelting Factory

Smelt Wood Dust in any furnace to create Hard Wood, note that mekanism has a furnance like machine (any furnace will work)

4. Infuse Hard Wood to Hardwood Alloy

Infusing Factory

Infuse Hard Wood with Carbon in a Metallurgic Infuser to create Hardwood Alloy

5. Compact Alloy Production (Efficiency Boost)

Compact Infuser

Process Hard Wood Blocks (each made from 9 Hard Wood in a 3x3 craft) to get 9x Hardwood Alloy - more efficient than processing individual Hard Wood items!

FTB Quests

Overview

quests

With any new mod/modpack, a quest is needed and so using FTB quests. I've created just that.

Quest Item

quest item

With each item, comes a description and a linear progression to help players know what steps to take to get to each milestone with custom rewards!

Items

Wood Sheets

v2.0 Update: Detailed wood grain texture
Obtained by:
- Crafting recipes
- Chopping wood (vanilla loot tables)
Processing: Smelt into Hard Wood or crush into Wood Dust

Hard Wood

v2.0 Update: Carbonized texture
Uses:
- Crafted into Hard Wood Blocks (2x2 pattern)
- Processed into Hardwood Alloy via Infusion

Wood Dust

New in v2.0: Fine wood powder
Creation: Crush Wood Sheets in Crusher
Purpose: Intermediate for advanced alloys

Hardwood Alloy

Crafting: Metallurgic Infuser (Hard Wood + Carbon)
v3.0 Feature: Cross-mod recipe support via datapacks

Chisel

v3.5.0 Update: Chisel
Uses:
- Turn set blocks into its counterpart

Transformer Block

v4.0.0 Update: Transformer
Uses:
- Turns entities thrown ontop to their upgraded versions
- Wood dust into hardwood alloys
- Hardwood into hardwood block
- Works for single items and stacks of items

Changelog

[9.0.0] - WoodMek updated to 1.21.1

Added Chemical Oxidizer recipe for hardwood alloy into wood essence gas

[8.8.0] - Converted wood essence into a gas

Liquid: Liquid Sap (Gold)
Gas: Wood Essence (Brown)
Infuse type (Chemical): Enriched wood essence (purple)

[8.7.0] - WoodMek updated to 1.21.1

Gradle properties and Mekanism API updated for 1.21.1
Bug tested and all functionality working

[8.5.0] - Mekanism Custom `Fluid` Functionality

Liquid Sap (Texture update pending)
Fluid has lava functionality with no burning effects etc (eg can be placed next to water)

[8.2.0] - Mekanism Custom `infuse_type` Functionality (Chemicals)

A while after adding Wood Essence, the Wood Essence inside the Metallurgic Infuser now works/displays properly. It will be the primary fluid for WoodMek, with more planned in the future.
Added documentation for others trying to figure this out:
\src\main\resources\assets\woodmek\pics\Mekanism_API_1.21.txt

[8.0.0] - Mekanism Wood Essence Infusion Type

Returning to WoodMek's roots! Thought it would be a good time to take another shot at integrating with Mekanism, this time with something bigger, a custom infuse-type fluid.
Wood Essence and its tank counterpart are now in the game/JEI (added after an hour of debugging).
Added Mekanism API and dependencies to Gradle.

[7.5.0] - Sound Events

Added sounds to the Flare (for both shooting and locking).
Added a full DeferredSoundType for the Transformer block, including break, step, place, hit, and fall sounds.

[7.0.0] - Flaregun, Hardwood tools and hammer

Added Hardwood set of tools (Slightly better than Iron), added Azalea tool set which is slightly better than netherite tools.
Added a Hardwood Hammer which mines a 3x3 area (only of the same type of block

Added a temporary cooldown to the chisel and change to the texture (which changes back after the cooldown)

Added a Flare gun for testing which branches of the chisel cool down. Custom cooldown bar (coloured), with partical trail when shot.
At the moment it has no recipe.

[6.5.0] - Mini hazard block

Added a new mini hazardblock

[6.4.0] - Polished hardwood Block (2 varients)

Added a new polished hardwood blcok to go with the new lamp with 2 varients, dented and undented

[6.3.0] - Retexture

Rextured the base hardwood items and added hardwood bricks

[6.0.0] - Now a standalone mod! - Recipes, Hazard Blocks and ModID Changes

Added a second hazard block: Half Hazard Block
- Both hazard blocks now have recipes:
4x Stone + 1x Yellow Dye

Both blocks support directional movement with the chisel
(rotate 90° back and forth)
- Added a new Blockstate Lamp
Reacts to click inputs and uses blockstates for toggling on/off

Rewrote and restructured the entire project
- Renamed mod from blockmod to woodmek
- New Mod ID: woodmek / WoodMek
Mekanism recipes now built-in
- No datapack required
- Recipes are loaded automatically through mod data
- Fully functional integration with Mekanism

[5.5.0] - DataGen

Added stairs, buttons, doors, fences and fence gates, slabs, walls, pressure plates and trapdoors

[5.0.0] - DataGen

Converted all loot tables, block states, block/item tags, data maps, item models, and recipes to data generators for easier maintenance and future updates.

[4.6.0] - Tool Tips

Added a Tool tips to complex items such as the Chisel and the Transformer block

[4.2.0] - Burn Rates

Added a burn time to all wooden items with all values based on the level on compactness and difficulty

[4.0.0] - Custom Block (Transformer)

Added a Transformer block that can turn items (non modded and modded) into their upgraded counterparts
Example of transformations include wood dust into hardwood alloy. hardwood into hardwood_block
Added recipe for the transformer

[3.8.0] - Custom Items (Chisel)

Added a building Chisel that can turn basic blocks into their building block counterparts

[3.4.0] - Cross-Mod Compatibility & Recipes

Full Mekanism recipe integration via datapacks
Custom processing GUIs (see Processing Workflows)
Compact machine workflows
Added pics folder for this repo documentation and assets
FTB Quest integration (shown in quests)
Backend support for modpack recipe overrides

[2.0.0] - Loot tables, Recipes & New Content

Texture updates for Hard Wood/Wood Sheets
Wood Dust item + crusher recipes
Loot table fixes for block drops
Sound type additions for blocks

[1.5.1] - Modpack compatible with NeoForge Mods (Mekanism, Create, FTB Ultimine and JEI)

Modpack WoodMek on CurseForge with Mekanism, JEI, FTB Ultimine (Forge) and Create (Version 6)
Arguably most important version and proof the swap to NeoForge from Forge was for the best

[1.0.5] - Blocks

Added blocks: Hazard and Hardwood Blocks alongside their inventory counterpart items (rendering on minecraft:block/cube_all)
Created building blocks category for the creative tab

[1.0.0] - Initial Release + Items

Added base items: Wood Sheets, Hard Wood and Hardwood Alloy
Added two creative inventory tabs for wood items and another for building blocks
Backend for future releases (e.g., loot tables, recipes, textures)

[0.0.1] - Pre-Release

Base foundation porting all previous code from Forge to NeoForge for future compatibility, performance and more
Setting up directories, Minecraft documentation, build files etc.
Established gradle.properties for mod name (now officially WoodMek)
Mod_id=blockmod + MIT license + mod_group_id=net.umf.blockmod

WoodMek - Wood for Makanism