Catperson's Earlygame

The mod expands the early game with bone tools, spears and even bundles. Sticks can be piled together, and a fire can be lit by hitting sticks together, a primitive alternative to flint and steel. Food can be cooked on a fire placed below a primitive campfire, one item at a time. Stone can be shaped by right-clicking it while holding bone, and a bone shard is one of the early materials.

Bone tools come in reinforced versions that are stronger than the basic set, and new weapons come in three types, made from stone, bone and iron. A sharpened stick can be used to make stone, and damaged stone can be mined by hand, dropping small rocks. An item called the obliterator removes wooden and stone tools from a world, for players who want to skip them. A wild hog and a new mob that acts as an early-game miniboss add encounters to the first stage of play.

The mod requires Curios API, which must be installed alongside it on Forge and NeoForge. Catperson's Earlygame runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Builds cover only 1.20.1 and are published for Forge and NeoForge under the MIT License, which is not open source.