Slow Start

Early progression takes longer under this mod. Wood cannot be gathered with bare hands, so the first tools require a stick, and sticks come from leaves, bamboo, dead bushes or saplings. Sticks are also needed to make planks. Stone tools are limited to stone, deepslate and blackstone, which keeps players relying on wood tools for longer.

Smelting is reworked across the game. Food, stones and ores each fall into their own category, and each category has its own cooking time per furnace type, including the campfire, which changes the most. Furnace recipes are also different. Beds require leather to craft. Iron armor is crafted by surrounding an existing chainmail armor piece with four iron, and chainmail armor is the result instead of iron armor being made directly.

The mod adds 19 advancements that guide players through the changed steps. It runs on the server alone, so players join without installing it. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source, and it requires Fabric API. Files are published for Fabric only, covering 1.21.2 – 26.3 across 15 release versions, with 1.6.0 as the latest file for 26.3.