Utility Nexus QoL

💡 Utility Nexus QoL

Small optional quality-of-life tweaks for NeoForge: a vanilla-style beacon beam of light rising from every Waystones block so travel hubs stand out at a distance, and an in-GUI picker for crafting recipes that clash between mods.

✨ Overview

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Utility Nexus QoL is a home for small, optional player-facing enhancements that don’t belong in a server-ops mod or a crash-patch mod. Features that enhance another mod stay completely inert unless that mod is installed; the rest are pure vanilla. Every feature is a self-contained toggle. Built for NeoForge 21.1.249 on Minecraft 1.21.1.

What it covers so far:

• Waystone Beacon Beam — a client-side vanilla beacon beam over every Waystones block in view, with configurable colour and height. Requires the Waystones mod; a no-op without it.
• Recipe Conflict Selector — when several mods define crafting recipes that share the same ingredients but produce different results, an in-GUI picker above the result slot lets you choose which one you get. Pure vanilla, no dependencies.

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🎯 Features

🌟 Waystone Beacon Beam

Renders a vanilla-style beacon beam rising from the top of every Waystones block within render distance, so bases, shops and travel hubs are visible from far away — just like a beacon marks a spot.

• Client-side only; nothing changes on a server, and nothing is sent over the network
• Waystones blocks are found by registry namespace alone — the mod never links against the Waystones API, so it survives Waystones updates
• Double-gated: the render is only wired up when the Waystones mod is actually present, and a runtime check re-confirms that on every frame — with Waystones absent the feature registers nothing and cannot crash
• Beam colour (RGB) and height in blocks are configurable

🔄 Recipe Conflict Selector

When two or more crafting recipes match the same grid layout but produce different results — a common clash once several mods are installed — vanilla silently picks one and you can never craft the other. This adds a small swap-arrows button above the crafting result slot so you can pick.

• Works in the crafting table and the 2×2 inventory grid
• Click the button to open a bordered panel of every possible result — the current pick is outlined, and hovering an icon shows its tooltip. Click one to switch.
• The choice updates the preview and the real craft, and is remembered for the rest of the session (never written to disk)
• Pure vanilla — no dependencies. When a grid has only one possible result the button never appears and behaviour is unchanged.
• For the pick to affect a real craft, the mod must be installed on both the client and the server

⚙️ Configuration Reference

Files live under config/utility_nexus/qol/.

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| config.toml — [waystoneBeam] |
| waystoneBeam.enabled |true |Master switch for the Waystone Beacon Beam. Requires the Waystones mod; does nothing without it. |
| waystoneBeam.beamHeightBlocks |100 |How many blocks tall the beam is. Range 1–1024. |
| waystoneBeam.colorRed |80 |Beam colour, red channel (0–255). |
| waystoneBeam.colorGreen |200 |Beam colour, green channel (0–255). |
| waystoneBeam.colorBlue |255 |Beam colour, blue channel (0–255). |
| recipe-select.toml — [recipeSelect] |
| recipeSelect.enabled |true |Master switch for the Recipe Conflict Selector (both the client button and the server-side recipe override). |

📋 Requirements

| Minecraft |1.21.1 |
| NeoForge |21.1.249+ |
| Java |21 |
| Waystones |optional — only needed for the Waystone Beacon Beam feature |
| Dependencies |none — the Recipe Conflict Selector is pure vanilla |

🎮 How to Use

1. Install NeoForge 21.1.249 for Minecraft 1.21.1.
2. Place Utility Nexus QoL in your mods folder.
3. Install Waystones as well to get the Waystone Beacon Beam — the beam appears automatically over Waystones blocks.
4. To change the beam colour or height, or to switch it off, edit config/utility_nexus/qol/config.toml ([waystoneBeam]).
5. The Recipe Conflict Selector works out of the box: whenever a crafting grid has more than one possible result, a button appears above the output slot. Turn it off in config/utility_nexus/qol/recipe-select.toml ([recipeSelect]).

🙏 Credits

Developed by Stalking Dragons.

https://codex.skdragons.com/
Codex Stalking Dragons — Minecraft Modding