Basic Materials
Basic Materials is a Fabric library that adds dusts, nuggets, ingots and shards for a set of base materials, so other mods can share them as ingredients.
What it does
The library supplies a common set of material items covering twelve base materials. Each material comes in several forms, including dust, nugget, ingot and shard variants, which give other mods a shared vocabulary for recipes.
Geodes spawn in the world and can be opened for materials, and the crafting recipes for the items work as intended. Copper, Iron and Gold also have coin variants that can be crafted. Modders can depend on the library to use the same materials instead of adding their own copies.
Basic Materials runs on the client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is published for Fabric only, with a 0.1.1 beta build for 1.19.3 as the latest file, and the code is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, so it is not open source. Snapshot builds are also published.
Key features
Shared material set
Twelve base materials are provided as items other mods can use in their recipes.
Dust, nugget, ingot and shard forms
Each material has several variants that represent different roles in crafting.
Geodes in the world
Geodes generate naturally and can be opened to obtain material items.
Coin variants
Copper, Iron and Gold include craftable coin items.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
Use cases
Mod ingredients
Modders can reference the shared materials in their own recipes instead of defining separate ones.
Economy and decoration
The coin variants and material items can be used in trade and building projects.
Who it’s for: Players who want a common set of materials for mods built on this library, and modders who need shared ingredients for their recipes.
Questions
Does Basic Materials need to be installed on both sides?
Which loader and game version does Basic Materials support?
Are there other Fabric libraries to check before choosing?
In the catalog
Basic Materials is one of 3,514 Library mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,348 Library mods for Fabric. 7,205 mods support Minecraft 1.19.3.
Similar mods
What the author says
This mod allows modders to use a collection of essential materials and provide a combined library of ingredients. There are new dust, nugget, ingot, and shard variants to represent different use cases in various mods.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/basicmaterials
- Owner
- BlueSmithStudio
- Published
- 2023-01-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-02-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15