Block Skills
by impleri
Block Skills restricts how players interact with blocks and fluids, gating them behind skills that players earn through Player Skills.
What it does
Block Skills is a library mod that exposes KubeJS methods to decide which blocks a player can see, break or use, based on skill requirements. A block can be masked so that it appears as air or as another block to players who lack the skill, and the drops of a mined block can be restricted the same way. Interactions can also depend on the item a player holds and the way the player uses the block, which lets a modpack shape progression without editing the blocks themselves.
Block Skills is built for modpack developers, who write the rules as KubeJS scripts. It leans heavily on Player Skills, which supplies the skill-based restrictions the mod consumes, and Architectury API is required to run it. Fluid Skills can add the same kind of control over how players see and interact with fluids. The mod is released under the MIT License and is open source, with the source code and an issue tracker published on its public links. It is available for Fabric and Forge, across the 1.18.2 – 1.19.3 range, with files for 1.18.2, 1.19.2 and 1.19.3 and 1.5.2 for 1.19.2 as the latest file.
Key features
Skill-gated block visibility
Blocks can be hidden from players who lack the required skill, so they are not revealed before progression reaches them.
Masked blocks
A block can be replaced in the world with air or another block for players without the skill, for example showing diamond ore as stone.
Restricted drops
The items a block drops when mined can be limited by skill, so breaking a block may yield nothing for an unskilled player.
Item and use-based interactions
Interactions with a block can depend on the item the player holds and how the player uses the block.
KubeJS scripting
Rules are written as KubeJS scripts, which lets modpack developers define restrictions without changing code in the mod.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Optional 2
How it compares
Item Restrictions is open source under the Apache License 2.0 and runs on Client and server across 1.20.1 – 26.2, covering Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, while Block Skills targets 1.18.2 – 1.19.3. Pufferfish's Skills x Origins is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and is available for Fabric and Forge across 1.18.2 – 1.21.1, while Block Skills is published for Fabric and Forge only up to 1.19.3.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block Skills | Fabric and Forge | 1.18.2 – 1.19.3 | Client and server | 2023-04-21 |
| Item Restrictions | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-29 |
| Pufferfish's Skills x Origins | Fabric and Forge | 1.18.2 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-27 |
Questions
Does Block Skills need Player Skills to work?
Does the server need Block Skills?
Can Block Skills run on Forge and Fabric?
In the catalog
Block Skills 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.
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What the author says
A library mod to control how players see and interact with fluids using skill-based restrictions created in KubeJS scripts. This is similar to Ore Stages. Player Skills | Block Skills | Dimension Skills | Fluid Skills | Item Skills | Mob Skills
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/block-skills
- Owner
- impleri
- Published
- 2022-12-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-04-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15