Modest Mining
by Baisylia
Modest Mining extends mining with tool systems, a crafting table variant, and archaeology-style drops, and it is built for Forge and NeoForge.
What it does
Modest Mining changes how mining tools and ores behave. Tools are made from ingots and gems, and a set of weapon types joins the tool tiers: javelins work like tridents, while hammers are slow but strong. Ores and dusts can be crushed into other materials, and some vanilla drops are reworked, such as nuggets, coal chunks and rotten flesh that smelts into a new item.
The mod adds two crafting blocks. One resembles a crafting table with furnace fueling and accepts shapeless and shaped recipes. The other runs the opposite way, taking a single input and offering nine outputs, and redstone power drives its spinning and crushing of items. Amethyst shards and diamond shards gain compacted storage and nugget-style uses.
Modest Mining runs on Client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Forge and NeoForge across 1.19.2 – 1.21.1, with 1.4.4-1.20.1 for 1.20.1 and 1.4.6-1.21.1 for 1.21.1 as the latest builds. It is released under All rights reserved and is not open source, although the source code is public.
Key features
Tool tiers and weapons
Mining tools are crafted from ingots and gems, and javelins and hammers extend the tool tiers with new weapon behavior.
Two crafting blocks
A furnace-fueled crafting table accepts shapeless and shaped recipes, and a reverse table provides one input and nine outputs.
Ore crushing
Redstone-powered machinery crushes ores and items into dusts and other materials.
Reworked drops
Nuggets, coal chunks, amethyst and diamond shards, and rotten flesh gain new smelting and compacting uses.
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.
Optional 2
Required by 1 mod
Use cases
Mining-focused survival
Players who build around ore processing can use the crushing and crafting blocks to reduce manual steps.
Who it’s for: Survival players and server owners who want more mining progression and ore processing without reworking the whole game. Modpack authors can also include it, provided they follow its All rights reserved license.
Questions
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What the author says
A vanilla enhancing mod that aims to enhance the mining and tool systems, while also adding archeology. Javelins are a weapon type similar to tridents for all tool tiers.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/modest-mining
- Owner
- Baisylia
- Published
- 2025-09-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15