Golden Frontier

Name: Golden Frontier
Author: locallupo

Golden Frontier brings a gold rush setting into the world, with prospecting, new ores and western-themed building materials.

FabricClient and serverMIT LicenseOpen source26.2

What it does

Golden Frontier generates new sandstone, red sandstone and colored sandstone variants in deserts and mesas, and adds silver, a valuable mineral used for hats and pocket watches, along with pyrite, known as fool's gold. Prospecting villagers appear with a furnace job block and trade at high prices. Players can make a gold pan and use it on river water to look for gold and other resources to trade with the prospector villager.

The mod also adds tools for building western towns. A dynamite detonator can be connected by wire to blow up walls and caves in a controlled way, cowboy hats come in three styles that can be dyed, and wooden planks can be painted to create colorful western buildings, with an axe used to strip the color when a player wants. Golden Frontier runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is published for Fabric only, for 26.2, and is open source under the MIT License.

Key features

New desert ores
Silver and pyrite generate as new ores in the world, with silver used for hats and pocket watches.
Gold panning
A gold pan sifts river water to recover gold and other resources for trade.
Prospecting villagers
A prospecting villager works from a furnace job block and sells goods at high prices.
Dynamite detonator
A wire-connected detonator sets off dynamite to remove walls and caves in a controlled way.
Painted western builds
Wooden planks take paint for colorful buildings, and an axe removes the color again.

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Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.21.1.0

ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Use cases

Western towns

Builders can paint planks, add cowboy hats and set up a town in a gold rush style.

Prospecting adventures

Players can work the rivers and mesas for gold and trade the finds with the prospector villager.

Who it’s for: Players who want an adventure built around prospecting and gold rush themes, and server owners running a western-style world.

How it compares

Full comparison

Prospector Potion is a Fabric mod for 1.21.1 with the same client and server environment, but it is not open source and is released under All rights reserved. Prospector is available for Fabric and NeoForge, targets 26.1.2, and is also not open source under All rights reserved. Dynamite Mod covers the dynamite side of the theme for Fabric 1.21.8, with a client and server environment and All rights reserved licensing.

Mod	Loaders	Game versions	Environment	Updated
Golden Frontier	Fabric	26.2	Client and server	2026-08-31
Prospector Potion	Fabric	1.21.1	Client and server	2026-04-04
Prospector	Fabric and NeoForge	26.1.2	Client and server	2026-06-01
Dynamite Mod	Fabric	1.21.8	Client and server	2025-08-11

Questions

Does Golden Frontier need Fabric API?

No required dependency is listed for Fabric.

Does the server need Golden Frontier?

Yes. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod.

Which game version does Golden Frontier support?

The mod has files only for 26.2, with 1.1.0 as the latest Fabric file.

In the catalog

Golden Frontier is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.