Gearsmithing

Vanilla repairs cost rising amounts of levels and often more materials, which tends to push players toward crafting new gear. Sneaking while right-clicking a smithing table opens an extra menu in Gearsmithing, which upgrades and repairs equipment along a fixed sequence: wood or leather first, then stone or chainmail, iron, gold and diamond. Each step costs slightly more resources than crafting new equipment would, and the upgraded item keeps its enchantments, custom name and any changes added by another mod.

The mod is built for NeoForge only, runs on client and server, and is released under the Apache License 2.0 without being open source. Costs for each upgrade and repair are set per item type in the config files, and the default settings also accept silver and steel items, repaired with a silver ingot or a steel ingot. Gearsmithing does not change the default smithing table interface, so the vanilla upgrade and trim functions keep working alongside it.

Compatibility rests on the item registry. Gearsmithing finds the material and equipment type of an item from its registry name and patterns, so weapons added by other mods that follow the vanilla naming scheme are handled without extra setup. Custom material types can be added through the repair material registries in the config.