Silent Gear
Silent Gear is a Forge and NeoForge equipment mod that lets players craft tools, weapons and armor from many materials, including vanilla metals and ones added by other mods.
What it does
Crafting draws on the materials that vanilla tools and armor use, along with additional metals and a few ores the mod adds. Each piece is built from a blueprint or template, a main part and a rod, with a cord for ranged weapons and fishing rods. Most recipes are shapeless and work in any vanilla crafting grid, and a quick recipe exists for many tools.
The mod covers tools such as paxels, hammers that break an area at once, excavators, a saw that fells whole trees and prospector hammers that search for ores, plus weapons including swords, tridents, katanas, daggers, bows, crossbows and slingshots. Armor takes plates and an optional lining, while elytra and curios such as rings use jeweler's tools in their crafting steps. Silent Gear runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Silent Lib is required, and the mod is published for Forge and NeoForge across 21 release versions, 1.12.2 – 26.1.2, under the MIT License, and is open source.
Key features
Upgradeable gear
Tools, weapons and armor can be upgraded, and the materials used set their stats and modifiers.
Tool and weapon range
Pickaxes, shovels, axes, hoes, sickles, mattocks and a saw that fells whole trees are among the tools.
Data pack customization
Materials, recipes and other values can be changed through data packs, and other mods are optional.
Mod-added metals
Metals commonly added by other mods, such as tin, silver and lead, work as gear materials once their items exist.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.21.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.20.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.19.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.15.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.14.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.13.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.12.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Required by 5 mods
Use cases
Survival progression
Players can advance from wood and stone gear through metals and netherite using the same crafting steps.
Modpacks
Pack authors can add metals from other mods and tune materials and recipes through data packs.
Who it’s for: Players who want gear with a crafting path across many materials, and modpack authors who need to add metals from other mods.
How it compares
Simply Tools is open source under the Apache License 2.0 and runs on client and server for 1.19 – 1.21.1 on Forge and NeoForge. Only Hammers And Excavators is not open source; it is under All rights reserved, runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, and covers 1.19 – 26.3.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silent Gear | Forge and NeoForge | 1.12.2 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-26 |
| Simply Tools | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-24 |
| Only Hammers And Excavators | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-06 |
Questions
Does Silent Gear need Silent Lib?
Does the server need Silent Gear?
Which loaders does Silent Gear support?
Can Silent Gear use metals from other mods?
In the catalog
Silent Gear is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 9,216 Equipment mods for Forge. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Minecraft Forge and Silent Lib are required! Other mods and data packs are optional. Silent Gear is a mod that focuses on tools, weapon, and armor (collectively called "gear".) Gear can be crafted from any material used to make tools and armor in vanilla Minecraft, plus many more. Silent Gear also adds a couple of…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/silent-gear
- Owner
- SilentChaos512
- Published
- 2023-06-09
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15