Immersive Wood

Version note: Immersive Wood 2.0.0+ is for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge) and is where active development is happening going forward. The 1.20.1 (Forge) version is still available, but it does not have the Knapping feature.

Overhauls early-game progression by removing ‘magic’ crafting. Requires players to manually process logs on Chopping Blocks, physically ignite unlit campfires with a Fire Starter, and utilize primitive Flint tools.

Important note: vanilla wooden and stone tools are still there, but if you are a modpack developer, I highly recommend customizing the wooden and stone tool tiers; perhaps removing their recipes to create more grounded and involved early game content.

✨ Features

• Manual Wood Processing: Crafting table recipes for planks are disabled. You must place logs on a Chopping Block and hew them with an axe.

• Unlit Campfires: Campfires are placed unlit by default. You cannot just plop down instant safety!

• Primitive Fire Starter: A new early-game tool crafted from sticks. Hold right-click to rub them together and ignite your fires.

• Flint Toolset: A complete set of Flint tools (Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe, Sword).

📖 Quick Guide

Scavenge flint from gravel and knap two flints together to make a Flint Axe Head. Pair the Axe Head with a stick (snap one out of a sapling) to assemble your first Flint Axe. Stack two matching logs into a Chopping Block and start swinging that axe at logs to turn them into planks.

🔧 Adding your own Chopping Block recipes

You can add your own input/output pair with a plain JSON file shown below using KubeJS. Don’t forget to drop the JSON file under the kubejs/data//recipe/

{
  "type": "immersivewood:chopping",
  "ingredient": {
    "tag": "minecraft:planks"
  },
  "result": {
    "id": "minecraft:stick",
    "count": 4
  }
}

⚙️ Highly Configurable

Immersive Wood comes with a config file letting you tune how strict the wood-chopping experience is. You can adjust how many planks a Chopping Block gives per log, disable the vanilla shortcut for crafting planks directly from logs, and/or make breaking logs by hand (without an axe) much slower. Find it in your config folder as immersivewood-common.toml after first launch.

📦 Modpacks & Permissions

You are free to use Immersive Wood in any modpack! The only condition is that the mod files must be downloaded via CurseForge or Modrinth.