Manual Labour

Players craft hammers from flint, iron, gold, diamond and netherite, and higher tiers last longer. A workstone takes items placed on it and lets a hammer strike, flatten or break them down, turning ingots into plates and ores into raw components. A mortar set over a heat source is needed for recipes that require heating, and a pestle crushes herbs, plants, minerals, food and dyes inside it. A ladle mixes multi-ingredient recipes by hand.

The mod is built for the early game, as a step between vanilla crafting and more complex machinery. Recipes are also shown in JEI when it is installed, and Ponder scenes bundled with the mod walk through the workstation in game. Create is optional: with it present, its own milling, crushing, mixing and pressing recipes are used, and the workstone and mortar cover the same work without it. Hammer variants are added automatically for Caverns Chasms and Oreganized ores. Manual Labour requires YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL). It is published for NeoForge, for 1.21.1 only, with the latest file 2.4.0-1.21.1 dated 2026-09-03.