Silky Hands
by Tuxinal
Silky Hands makes a player's bare-handed mining drop the same items a Silk Touch tool would, so blocks can be collected whole.
What it does
Breaking a block with an empty hand, or with the tag set on the player, drops the block itself when a Silk Touch tool would. The mod is server-side only, so players join without installing anything, and the server alone runs it. Some blocks can be excluded from the effect, and a tag on the player marks who gets it, with silkyhands as the default tag. Files are published for Fabric across 20 release versions, 1.17.1 – 1.21.8, under the MIT License, and the project is open source.
Key features
Silk Touch drops by hand
Blocks broken by a player with the tag drop the exact block, as if broken with a Silk Touch tool.
Obsidian broken by fist
Obsidian can be broken with an empty hand and drops the block, which vanilla does not allow.
Per-player tag
The effect applies only to players carrying the tag, and silkyhands is the default tag name.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x9 of 9 versions with builds
1.20.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
In the catalog
Silky Hands is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,201 Technology mods for Fabric. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.
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What the author says
A minecraft mod that makes a specified player (or players) drop the exact block they break keep in mind this is not the same as silk touch, it applies to all blocks (e.g. you can break obsidian with your fist and it will drop) and your hand has to be empty
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/silky-hands
- Owner
- Tuxinal
- Published
- 2021-10-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-08-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15