Advanced Copper Age

Advanced Copper Age remakes the early game of Minecraft in a way to make it more realistic and take longer to complete. Instead of advancing from nothing to iron equipment in a couple minutes, this mod changes how basic tools are crafted, as well as adding in copper tools in between iron and stone.

Note: For a full early game experience, this mod is meant to be used alongside a mod to prevent tree punching. This mod does not prevent trees from being broken with your fist.

Changes:
– Wooden tools now require flint and grass string to craft
– Stone tools now requrie grass string to craft
– Wooden and stone tools now have less durability and mine slower
– Stone pickaxes can no longer mine iron ore
– Adds in Copper Ore, Copper tools and Copper armor
– Adds in basic smithing to create copper and iron gear

Progression guide:

(Skip to marker below if you are not using a mod to disable breaking trees with your fist)

– Leaves no longer drop sticks, aquire two sticks from breaking grass, dead bushes, ferns, etc.
– Aquire plant fiber from leaves and grass-like plants
– Craft Grass String using plant fiber

– Collect one flint and craft a flint axe

– Use said flint axe to gather logs

(Skip here if you are not using a mod to prevent tree punching)

– Gather more flint and grass string to craft a wooden pickaxe

– Gather three cobblestone and craft a stone pickaxe

– You can now use the stone pickaxe to collect copper. Remember, iron cannot be mined with a stone pickaxe! Sometime before or after you’ve aquired said copper, craft a furnace (to… smelt the copper), along with a unique item to this mod, a Stone Anvil.

– Smelt Raw Copper in the furnace to get Molten Copper. Right click to Molten Copper on the Stone Anvil (or a standard iron anvil) to forge it into ingots. Note: Anvils may be harmed in the making of the ingots! You’ll need to do the same thing with Iron once you’re there. Watch out, molten metal is hot!
– Note: Smelting down Copper or Iron ore blocks gives ingots directly. But then you miss out on Fortune.

– Craft a Smithing Hammer using cobblestone and sticks

– You can now use the hammer to turn your ingots into plates, the main material for crafting gear. 

– Use a Copper Plate, Stone Anvil and other vanilla materials to craft a Blacksmith’s Workbench.

– You can now craft items using metal Plates at the Workbench! Place your items and then click “Craft” to craft them.

You can craft the following items at a Blacksmith’s Workbench:
– Copper Tools (pickaxe, axe, sword, hoe, shovel)
– Iron Tools (same as the above)
– Copper and Iron armor
– Shield
– Bucket

AI note (for people who care):
– I used AI for some code in this project, as I generally suck as Java programming. However, all of the art, models, etc. are 100% by me, other than copper tools and armor.

Inspiration was taken from many other similar mods.

Enjoy!