Harder Than Wolves

Name: Harder Than Wolves
Author: Atilist

Harder Than Wolves changes progression in Better Than Wolves Legacy Unofficial by gating the early vanilla tools behind new crafting steps.

FabricBabricClient and serverCreative Commons Attribution 4.0b1.7.3

What it does

The add-on raises the difficulty of the early game. Iron tools need hemp fibers to be moulded first, leather needs proper tanning, and a saw and windmill are required to produce the moulds. Diamond tools are made in the mystical infuser using diamond ingots instead of raw diamonds. It requires Better Than Wolves Legacy Unofficial and StationAPI, runs on client and server, and targets Fabric and Babric for b1.7.3 only.

Key features

Moulded iron tools
Iron tools cannot be crafted until hemp fibers have been moulded into the required parts.
Gold tool progression
Each gold tool uses a varying amount of exotic ingredients, and crafting one opens the next in the chain until the final tool is made.
Crucible recycling
Items can be recycled in the crucible, so spare materials from the new steps are not wasted.

Gallery

Nether portal with the new structural requirements · Accessing the Nether is a lot harder and requires getting through multiple ages of technology before being able to enter it. The portal on the Nether side is

Multi-block structure for the mystical infuser

A smelting setup processing through gold

No per-version build data

Modrinth lists game versions for this project (b1.7.3), but the source data has no build per game version and loader, so the compatibility grid is not shown.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 2

StationAPIA general use API for Fabric Loader mods on legacy Minecraft versions.

Required

Better Than Wolves Legacy UnofficialBetter Than Wolves ported to Station API + Multiplayer Support. Based on version 2.94 (beta 1.7.3) with small improvements and a custom API for recipes and other features mods can use to interact with this mod

Required

Optional 1

Always More Items (AMI)An inventory editor mod for b1.7.3, with a few neat systems like a rarity system.

Optional

Questions

Does Harder Than Wolves need StationAPI?

Yes. StationAPI is a required dependency, along with Better Than Wolves Legacy Unofficial.

Does the server need Harder Than Wolves?

Yes. Installation covers the server and each player's game.

In the catalog

Harder Than Wolves is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 567 mods support Minecraft b1.7.3.

Magic mods7,216 Fabric mods Mods for b1.7.3567

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What the author says

Iron tools require moulding on top of hemp fibers. Better Than Wolves sees a lot of its progression becoming relevant here. A saw and a windmill for the saw are required in order to produce moulding. Leather tanning needs to be done as well. Gold tools have a varying amount of exotic ingredients. One gold tool…

Atilist, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Modrinth page: modrinth.com/mod/harder-than-wolves
Owner: Atilist
Published: 2025-02-13
Updated on Modrinth: 2026-08-23
Facts verified: 2026-10-15