Secret Bases
Secret Bases adds walk-through building blocks for NeoForge, with solid-looking lava, water and sand variants made from items players craft.
What it does
Secret Bases lets players build hidden rooms out of blocks that look like ordinary stone, deepslate, dirt, grass, sand, netherrack, endstone, ice and oak log, but can be walked through. Each walk-through block is crafted from a standard material combined with a membrane dropped by phantoms, the flying monsters that appear to players who go long periods without sleeping.
Combining buckets adds a further group: a water bucket with a membrane gives solid water, a lava bucket with a membrane gives non-burning lava, a lava bucket and a water bucket together give solid lava, and a water bucket with sand gives liquid sand that can be swum through. A hollow oak log block and a dedicated creative tab complete the set. The mod runs on client and server, so a server and every player need it. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source. Builds exist for NeoForge only, for Minecraft 1.20.1, with version 1.0.0 published on 2026-05-13.
Key features
Walk-through blocks
Stone, deepslate, dirt, grass, sand, netherrack, endstone and ice variants let players pass through walls that look solid.
Solid liquids
Solid water, non-burning lava, solid lava and liquid sand are created by combining buckets with a phantom drop or sand.
Hollow oak log
A hollow oak log block is made by filling the side columns of a crafting table with oak logs and a hollow log.
Own creative tab
All the mod's blocks are gathered in a separate creative tab, so they are simple to find in creative mode.
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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.
How it compares
Bucket-Pickup is a client-side only mod released under the MIT License, open source, for Fabric and NeoForge across 1.21 – 1.21.11, so it does not change how blocks behave on a server. See Through Water/Lava is also client-side only and open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, for Fabric and NeoForge across 1.16 – 26.2, and it changes how water and lava are seen rather than how they are walked through. Cobblemon Secret Base Trainer 1-6-1 is client and server, under All rights reserved and not open source, for Fabric and NeoForge on 1.21.1 only, which is a different version from Secret Bases.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Bases | NeoForge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-13 |
| Bucket-Pickup | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2025-12-09 |
| See Through Water/Lava | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.16 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-06-24 |
| Cobblemon Secret Base Trainer 1-6-1 | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-27 |
Questions
Which loader does Secret Bases need?
Does Secret Bases have to be installed on the server?
Where do the membranes for the recipes come from?
In the catalog
Secret Bases is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,477 Utility mods for NeoForge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
~Walk-through blocks that are textured like some in-game blocks ~Solid Lava (Why not use this to make a secret base in the middle of a nether lava-lake!) ~Non-burn lava (This could also help with the above!) ~Solid water (Perfect for a trap!) ~Ghosts, drop phantome membranes, put these with stone for example and out…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/secret-bases
- Owner
- BlackWolfModding
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15