Small Logic Tweaks

Minecraft logic is weird. We’re making it make sense—one block at a time.

Small Logic Tweaks is a lightweight Vanilla+ mod focused on intuitive interactions that feel like they should already exist in Minecraft.

This is not a tech mod, automation overhaul, or progression expansion.

Minecraft already encourages certain player behaviors naturally:

restoring landscapes
building kitchens
clearing forests
large-scale building

But Vanilla mechanics do not always support those behaviors intuitively.

These tweaks aim to close that gap while preserving Vanilla balance and pacing.

If you’ve ever said:

“Why doesn’t Minecraft already work like this?”

…this mod is probably for you.

✨ Features

🦴 Bone Meal: Instant Greenery

Why do you need Silk Touch just to start a patch of grass?

Instant Surface Conversion: Apply Bone Meal directly to Dirt blocks to instantly begin natural grass spreading.
Biome Awareness: In Mushroom biomes, Dirt becomes Mycelium instead.
Vanilla Integration: Uses native sounds, particles, and behavior for a seamless Vanilla feel.

This mechanic is not intended to replace Silk Touch entirely.
It simply removes the awkward requirement of transporting a grass block halfway across the world just to restore natural terrain.

🪓 Timber

Tired of climbing giant trees just to remove the top few logs?

Timber transforms your axe into a specialized forestry tool.

Breaking the base log can fell the entire tree.
Connected leaves decay instantly alongside logs, dropping saplings and fruit immediately.
Chopping speed scales dynamically based on the tree’s volume, though higher Timber enchantment levels mitigate this multiplier.
Only naturally generated leaves are targeted, preventing accidental destruction of wooden builds.
Hold Shift to temporarily disable Timber and mine normally.

Higher Timber levels can support extremely large natural trees, though larger trees require proportionally more time to cut.

🌱 Jungle Sustainability

Jungle trees are technically renewable — until players accidentally erase the biome.

slightly improved Jungle Sapling drops
better long-term jungle sustainability

🎨 Coal & Charcoal → Black Dye

Charcoal requires deliberate player production, yet behaves almost identically to ordinary Coal.

Charcoal Processing: Craft Black Dye directly from Charcoal to give it a small practical identity.
Coal Alternative: Includes an optional config toggle to enable crafting Black Dye directly from standard Coal as well.

💧 Hydro-Hardening

Water Bottles already turn Dirt into Mud. Concrete Powder still somehow ignores them.

Water Bottle Interaction: Right-click Concrete Powder with a Water Bottle to instantly solidify it into Concrete, returning an empty glass bottle to your hand.
Splash Potion AOE: Throwing a Splash Water Bottle triggers a realistic area-of-effect splash where the direct hit block hardens completely, and surrounding powder blocks have a 40% chance to dry and solidify.

🥔 Poisonous Potato Integration

Automated agricultural harvesting shouldn’t create forced inventory trash micromanagement.

Composting: Throw Poisonous Potatoes into a Composter for a reliable 65% chance to increase the compost level.
Brewing: Brew them with an Awkward Potion to craft a standard Potion of Poison, giving the item a practical chemical utility.

🌌 Void Insomnia

Overworld insomnia tracking punishes builders with an aerial nuisance while skipping nights with beds ruins nocturnal exploration.

Overworld Liberation: Phantoms no longer spawn in the Overworld, completely freeing the night for creative building and hunting.
The End Dimension Apex: Phantoms now exclusively spawn as native threats of the void in The End dimension.
Dynamic Thresholds: The spawning engine adapts directly to your equipment progression, tracking separate insomnia thresholds depending on whether you possess an Elytra.

🔥 Magma kitchen

Players build kitchens constantly, yet most cooking remains hidden inside utility blocks.

Direct cooking: Drop cookable raw food directly onto Magma Blocks to start slow cooking.
In-world interaction: Items sizzle and roast visibly in the world without requiring an interface.

⚖️ Design Philosophy & Balance

Small Logic Tweaks is built around one core principle:

Improve interaction flow without removing gameplay effort.

These tweaks are intentionally designed to remain:

manual rather than automated
immersive rather than excessive
supportive rather than progression-skipping

These systems also include intentional limitations and tradeoffs to preserve Vanilla gameplay flow:

felling massive trees takes time
Timber axes cannot receive Efficiency
large-scale cutting may briefly increase server load

Timber intentionally avoids Efficiency compatibility to preserve precision building and reduce accidental large-scale destruction.

For building:

use Efficiency

For forestry work:

use Timber

Different tools for different jobs — just like Vanilla Minecraft.

🔧 Compatibility

Built for Vanilla-style gameplay with minimal footprint.
Compatible with most quality-of-life and world generation mods.
Required on both client and server for multiplayer gameplay to ensure event synchronization.

🏗️ Roadmap

The following ideas are currently being explored and may release in any order.

🪚 Sawmill

Stone has precision cutting. Wood still doesn’t.

less wasteful wood crafting
smoother decorative building workflows
possible future use for the Fletching Table

🔨 Anvil: Structural Penalty

Maintaining equipment and evolving equipment are not the same thing.

repairing durability no longer increases RepairCost
renaming items no longer increases RepairCost
enchantment upgrades still increase long-term cost

🧪 Acoustic Glass

Amethyst Shards block light via Tinted Glass, but Echo Shards lack an acoustic equivalent.

craft transparent blocks using Echo Shards that block 100% of vibrations
clean aesthetic solution for engineering wireless Sculk redstone layouts

⚙️ Configuration

Every tweak in Small Logic Tweaks can be toggled independently to match your preferred playstyle.

Config location: Settings are saved in .minecraft/config/small_logic_tweaks.json.
Startup loading: Configuration is loaded when the game launches. Modifying settings requires restarting the game (hot-reloading is not supported).
Server synchronization: When playing on multiplayer servers, the server automatically synchronizes its active tweak rules to connecting clients to keep mechanics consistent.

🤝 Feedback & Contributions

Suggestions for additional “logical” Vanilla-style improvements are always welcome.

Please report bugs, balancing concerns, compatibility issues, or performance problems through the GitHub Issue Tracker.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Small Logic Tweaks

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