GoldenMaus’s Steel Tools

A vanilla-friendly mid-game upgrade for your Minecraft adventures!

This mod adds a complete steel tool and armor set, and a simple manual ore processing system, crafted to fit Minecraft’s design philosophy.

🔩 Features Overview:

⚔️ Steel Tools & Armor
Crafted with Steel Ingots, this gear is:

• Stronger than iron 🛡️

• Faster than iron ⛏️

• Uses diamond-tier mining level 💎

Full support for vanilla-style crafting recipes (pickaxe, sword, helmet, etc.)

Designed to feel like a natural extension of vanilla progression

⚙️ Steel Production Chain

🪨 Crushing Materials (with the help of hammers)

Just put coal or an iron ingot into the crafting table along with a hammer, and you have some crushed iron/coal

🧪 Crafting Steel Blend

Combine 4 Crushed Iron + 1 Crushed Coal → 2 Steel Blend

A balanced recipe to reward effort and resource investment

🔥 Smelting Steel

Steel Blend can only be smelted in a Blast Furnace!

This makes production a little bit more balanced.

Output: Steel Ingot

🏗️ Steel Block & Beacon Support

Steel Ingots can be crafted into Steel Blocks (9x ingots)

Steel Blocks are fully beacon-compatible

♻️ Tool & Armor Recycling

All steel tools and armor pieces can be smelted in a Furnace to recover Steel Nuggets

Steel Nuggets can be crafted into steel ingots

🧩 Mod Compatibility & Tag Support

All items and blocks are properly tagged for:

• Cross mod compatability

• Crafting recipes

• Ore dictionary systems

Designed for seamless integration into modpacks

📜 License: All Rights Reserved