Curiosities!
Curiosities! adds new metals, tools, armor and building blocks to NeoForge 1.21.1, with vanilla-style decoration and small quality-of-life changes.
What it does
Curiosities! adds metals such as Aluminum, Nickel and Invar, each with its own tools, armor and crafting materials. Nickel is a conductive, heat-resistant metal used for redstone components such as the Redstone Diode and Redstone Fuse. Invar is an alloy made from Ancient Scrap, Netherite Scrap, Iron and Nickel, and it gives armor flat damage reduction. Invar Weights are blocks that fall with gravity after a set time, and the amount of Invar used in a craft sets that time.
The mod is split into two parts. One part expands vanilla with building blocks such as Fancied Planks and Ashlar bricks made from vanilla woods and stones, backported models, smooth stone retextures, and missing stairs, walls and slabs for blocks like prismarine and quartz. The other part adds newer content, including industrial and brutalist blockset pieces and decorations such as Tiki Torches and Laterite. Incense is a torch-like block that provides healing buffs to the area around it when lit.
The mod is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and is open source. It is published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only, and the latest file is 0.2.1, released on 2026-04-08. It runs on the client and the server, so both need it.
Key features
New metals and alloys
Aluminum, Nickel and Invar come with tools, armor and materials for crafting.
Redstone components
Nickel is used to make new redstone parts such as the Redstone Diode and Redstone Fuse.
Vanilla building blocks
Fancied Planks, Ashlar bricks and stone retextures extend the vanilla building palette.
Incense healing blocks
Lit Incense gives healing buffs to nearby players, and the effect is centered on the block's area.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Curiosities! need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Curiosities! support?
How does the Invar Weight block fall?
In the catalog
Curiosities! is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,557 Technology mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Curiosities is a general enhancement mod focused on adding new metals, tools, building materials, equipment, quality of life, consistency, and really whatever we think fits. Adds all matter of things such as materials like that of Aluminum, Nickel, and Invar, along with additional building blocks like Fancied Planks…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/curiosities-syndicate
- Owner
- The Syndicate
- Published
- 2026-03-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
