The McAlister Special [TMAS]

The mod removes leather from mob drops and replaces it with a series of crafted and cooked intermediate items. Leather Fragments combine into leather at a crafting table, and cooking that leather in a furnace, smoker or campfire produces a food item. Cooked leather goes back into a furnace to become charred leather, which a crafting table turns into leather scraps. Two bones and two bonemeal make glue at a crafting table, and leather scraps combined with glue make gleather.

The chain ends with leatherite, which is made at a smithing table from netherite and gleather and is needed to craft eyes of ender. Leather ore veins generate in cave and mountain faces, so the material can also be mined. The author describes the mod as a deliberately inconvenient take on a common resource, aimed at players who find the vanilla path too light.

The mod depends on Fabric API and loads only on Fabric. Either side can run it, and neither needs it. The project is released under the MIT License and is not open source. Files exist for 1.17 and 1.17.1, and the latest Fabric file is 1.1 for 1.17.1, published on 2025-06-15.