The Useful Tools Mod

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Useful Tools began as a way to give gold more purpose and has grown into a large collection of material-based equipment, spectral mechanics, explosives, world generation, and configurable integrations.

Tools and armor

Useful Tools adds dozens of complete equipment sets with distinct statistics, recipes, and mechanics:

• Reinforced and expanded vanilla materials, including Obsidian, Jagged Obsidian, Reinforced Gold, Emerald, Jagged Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, Hardened Redstone, and OP equipment.
• Crystal and elemental families such as Rough and Calcified Amethyst, Rough and Polished Quartz, Rough and Polished Prismarine, Snow, and Ice. Their set effects include underwater bonuses, melting and fire-dousing behavior, and other material-specific abilities.
• Coal and Hardened Coal equipment that burns while its owner is on fire, can serve as fuel, and can be extinguished in water before it is destroyed.
• Spectral and Spectral-Infused equipment. Any sword or axe can be infused while retaining its original statistics; infused weapons can damage otherwise-immune spectral mobs.
• Cake, Flint, Flint-Iron, Hardened Glowstone, and complete tool families for the vanilla stone types.

Blocks, mobs, and mechanics

• Spectral Infuser: a furnace-like machine that combines ectoplasm with swords and axes to create Spectral-Infused weapons while preserving their original attributes.
• Ectoplasm Lantern: a bounded spectral light that repels hostile Wraiths, responds to redstone, and replaces the former Soul Lantern name while retaining its old ID as a save-compatibility alias.
• Mining Charge and Remote Detonator: place solid-backed directional charges on any face, link them to a detonator, and identify armed charges by their red indicator.
• Ghost: a peaceful flying spectral mob with damage immunity, breeding, baby behavior, armor interaction, loot, and player-visibility mechanics.
• Wraith: a distinct hostile flying and lunging spectral mob. Ectoplasm Lanterns suppress it, and only ectoplasm-infused weapons can damage it. Supported WTHIT versions report its current ward and weapon state.
• Throwable Grenades, instant-detonation Dynamite, Sticky Dynamite, reinforced-gold ore and storage blocks, materials, recipes, loot, and a broad advancement catalog.
• A built-in in-game configuration screen with 126 controls covering equipment effects, mobs and spawn rates, lantern behavior, explosives, world generation, and other mechanics. Cloth Config and Architectury are not runtime requirements.

Compatibility

Useful Tools 2.3.1 supports:

• Minecraft 1.7.10 on Forge.
• Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.21.1, 26.1.2, and 26.2 on Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge.
• The unchanged Fabric files on Quilt Loader 0.30.0.

Optional JEI, WTHIT or Jade, REI, JER, Mod Menu, Magnetization, and Create: Ore Excavation relationships are listed separately on each compatible file because upstream availability varies by Minecraft version and loader. Features and integrations therefore vary where an upstream project does not publish a compatible build.

Thank you for supporting Useful Tools through all these years!