Gearsmithing

About

Gearsmithing is a highly configurable mod that adds an additional menu to the smithing table (opened by sneaking while interacting with it) that allows you to upgrade and repair your equipment.

Minecraft’s usual repair system costs increasingly excessive amounts of levels and often more materials than you spent making the item. Generally punishing players for keeping their current gear instead of making new stuff, unless you have mending. I prefer to have gear that is maintained and personalized throughout a playthrough. I also thought it was weird that the smithing table only has two uses, upgrading gear from diamond to netherite and adding cosmetic armor trims, so this mod was made to remedy these problems.

Upgrades and Repairs

When upgrading gear with this mod, you must follow the listed upgrade path, and doing so costs slightly more resources than making new equipment. The advantage to doing so, is that upgrading gear this way keeps all of its custom properties, be it custom name, enchantment, or some kind of modification another mod gives it.

Upgrade Path: wood/leather>stone/chainmail>iron>gold>diamond

Repairing also generally costs more than making new, but does not have a stacking level cost, unlike vanilla repairs. Repairing will consume one of an accepted resource, return a fraction of the durability based on the item type, and repeat until it is fixed or there aren’t items in the material slot.

Upgrade and repair cost per item type can be set in the config files.

Extra Features

No Netherite Smithing Template (disabled by default)

Allows you to upgrade diamond equipment into netherite through the gearsmith UI without a netherite upgrade template

Repair Netherite with Diamond (disabled by default)

Allows you to repair netherite equipment using diamonds.

Copper/Amethyst Equipment Compatibility

Allows equipment made of copper or amethyst that other mods add to be repaired here, and for copper equipment to upgrade into iron.

Compatibility

This mod is highly compatible and calculates resource cost based on equipment type and material, detected by searching for specific patterns and words in the item registry. Mods that add new weapon types should be fully compatible, IF they follow minecraft’s pattern for registry names. For example, if a mod named Bob’s Cool Weapons adds an item named Iron Scythe, you can repair it and upgrade it into Gold Scythe, if the registry name is something like bobscoolweapons:iron_scythe.

You can also set custom material types and repair material registries in the config for extra compatibility. By default this setting will accept silver and steel items to be repaired by silver_ingot and steel_ingot, respectively.

This mod does not alter the default Minecraft smithing table UI or functionality in any way, and should not interfere with any mod that does.