Heart and Stone: Vanilla Edition

Most items get between 1.5x and 6x their vanilla durability, so tools and armor last far longer and need Mending less often. Stone tools stay craftable later in the game, copper forms a new early tier, and wooden tools are buffed to compensate. A wooden pickaxe can dig copper ore in this version.

Gold armor is worth wearing: gold shortens burning time and leather reduces fall damage. Gold tools keep their fast mining speed but attack noticeably faster and break after fewer uses. Netherite hits much harder, and the stats reflect how much effort each material takes to gather. Tooltips use simple icons in place of the vanilla clutter, and the early game is reworked around these changes with a few new items, mobs and blocks.

Installing the pack converts existing gear and permanently changes its stats, so back up the world first. Drop the pack into the world's datapacks folder and run a reload or restart the world. Removing the pack later will not undo the conversion, and items keep their new stats either way. The mod is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only and is open source, with its source code and issue tracker public. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and as a data pack, for 26.3, 26.2, 26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1 and 1.21.11.