EB's Book of Blocks
EB's Book of Blocks lets players acquire blocks and items by paying a set amount or reaching a scoreboard goal, instead of grinding for them.
What it does
The mod is a Fabric interpretation of the gating idea from Terraria's Journey Mode, meant for a near-vanilla survival game. Each block or item has an entry that a player acquires once, after which an unlimited supply is available. The aim is to let players build freely without switching to creative mode, while still reducing the repetitive gathering of basic materials. Rare items such as elytra and valuable blocks such as beacons are the kind of entries that take time to collect by hand.
Gate rules are set per item. A player can pay a configured number of an item, reach a score on a chosen scoreboard objective, or meet either or both criteria. The mod ships a default configuration with about 150 items, mostly basic building materials, and custom mod items can be added. Options can be changed in-game and saved to the config file at once. Fabric API is required, and the environment is client and server, so both the server and every player need the mod. It is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and is not open source. Files exist for 1.19.4 and 1.20.1, and the latest Fabric build, 0.8.91-1.20.0, targets 1.20.1.
Key features
Pay-based entries
A player pays a configured number of an item to gain unlimited use of that block or item.
Scoreboard goals
An entry can open when a player reaches a defined score on a chosen scoreboard objective.
Combined gate rules
Each item can require either criterion, or both paying and a scoreboard goal, set per entry.
In-game item options
Right-clicking an item in the BoB item screen opens its gate options, and changes are saved to the config file at once.
Default item set
The default configuration covers about 150 items, mostly basic building materials, and custom mod items can be added.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Small servers
A server owner can offer basic resources in a controlled way, without a large expansion of the world.
Building without creative mode
Players who want to build freely can acquire materials in survival rather than switching game modes.
Who it’s for: Survival players who want to reduce grinding for basic materials, and server owners who want to control how quickly items become available.
Questions
Does EB's Book of Blocks need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod?
Where are gate rules changed?
In the catalog
EB's Book of Blocks is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,201 Technology mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
The Book of Blocks (BoB) mod is an interpretation of Terraria's Journey Mode, and is intended to be used in conjunction with a near-vanilla playstyle, while providing an adjustable quality of life enhancement to the acquisition of blocks and items in game. This is accomplished by the player " spending" a certain…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/mc-book-of-blocks
- Owner
- EternalFragment
- Published
- 2023-05-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-11-30
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15