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Silkless Touch

by GamerMC

Silkless Touch makes a set of blocks minable with a regular pickaxe, without the silk touch enchantment, on servers that install it.

FabricForgeNeoForgeQuiltServer required, client optionalMIT License1.20.5 – 1.21.5

What it does

Silk touch normally decides whether glass, glass panes, coral fans, sculk blocks, packed ice and blue ice drop as themselves. Silkless Touch removes that requirement for these blocks, so breaking them with an ordinary tool returns the block. The mod changes block drops only and adds no new blocks or items of its own.

Only the server needs the mod, and clients may leave it out. Dead corals also follow the pickaxe rule. A bundled data pack lets more items come back in their standard form when mined without silk touch, including glass ender chests and campfires. Silkless Touch is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with files for 1.20.5 – 1.21.5, and it is released under the MIT License but is not open source.

Silkless Touch requires no other mod. Files for 1.21.5 are the latest on every loader, and the mod is also available as a data pack for servers. Silkless Touch is categorized as Cursed, with Game mechanics and Utility as secondary categories.

Key features

  1. Silk touch replacement

    Glass, glass panes, sculk blocks and ice variants drop as themselves when broken with a plain pickaxe.

  2. Coral drops

    Coral fans and dead corals follow the pickaxe rule, so collecting them does not need silk touch.

  3. Data pack option

    A data pack adds further item drops in regular form, including glass ender chests and campfires.

  4. Challenge-oriented design

    Blocks that stay reserved for silk touch in other mods remain so here, which keeps the mechanic intact on servers.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.51.1+mod1.1+mod1.1+mod1.1+mod
1.21.41.1+mod1.1+mod1.1+mod1.1+mod
1.21.31.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod
1.21.21.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod
1.21.11.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod
1.211.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod
1.20.61.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod
1.20.51.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod1.0+mod
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Use cases

Who it’s for: Server owners who want to change which blocks drop without silk touch, and players joining such servers who need no client install.

How it compares

Full comparison

Pickaxe Effective Glass [PurpurPack] is open source under the MIT License, works on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and is needed on the server, with the client optional, with files for 1.20 – 26.2. Minable Things is server-side only, Fabric only, built for 1.21.11 with the CC0 1.0 Universal license and not open source. Silk Spawners is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, Fabric only, server-side only and published for 1.21.4 – 1.21.8.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
Silkless TouchFabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt1.20.5 – 1.21.5Server required, client optional2025-03-26
Pickaxe Effective Glass [PurpurPack]Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt1.20 – 26.2Server required, client optional2026-06-24
Minable ThingsFabric1.21.11Server-side only2026-08-23
Silk SpawnersFabric1.21.4 – 1.21.8Server-side only2025-04-10

Questions

Does Silkless Touch need to be installed on clients?

No. Only the server needs the mod, so a client can join without installing it.

Which loaders does Silkless Touch support?

Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. The latest file for every loader is 1.1+mod for 1.21.5, released 2025-03-26.

Is there a data pack version?

Yes. The data pack lets more items come back in their standard form without silk touch, and it is listed as available for data pack servers.

In the catalog

Silkless Touch is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 15,307 mods support Minecraft 1.21.5.

Cursed mods7,555Fabric modsMods for 1.21.515,307

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What the author says

This data pack makes more items drop in their regular form, as if you had silk touch. The items include - glass, ender chests, campfires and much more. Every other block has been reserved for the challenge version, since they make the game almost unbeatable.
GamerMC, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
GamerMC
Published
2025-01-14
Updated on Modrinth
2025-03-26
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

CursedGame mechanicsUtility
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