Soap
by MaximeriX
Soap is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that lets players clean dyed and colored blocks back to their plain form, using soap items.
What it does
Soap adds soap items that remove color from blocks. Used on a colored block, a red soap turns it back to its uncolored form, so a player can rebuild a surface with the original tones. Players can also eat soap, and the mod lets a player clean blocks with bare hands, without any tool.
The cleaning covers a wide set of block families: copper except waxed types, wool and woolen carpet types, banners, concrete and concrete powder types, mossy blocks, coral and crying obsidian. Recipes appear in the recipe book, and the soap is crafted from a honeycomb and a dye, so the process stays inside the normal crafting flow.
Soap is published for Forge only, for 1.20 and 1.20.1, and the latest file targets 1.20.1. The server and every player need the mod installed. The code is under the MIT License and is not open source, and the author keeps an issue tracker for reports.
Key features
Soap cleaning blocks
Soap items strip color from blocks such as crying obsidian and green concrete powder, returning them to a plain form.
Color-specific soaps
Each dye color has its own soap, so a red soap turns colored blocks back to their base shade on use.
Bare-hand cleaning
Blocks can be cleaned with bare hands, so no separate tool is needed for the simplest cases.
Crafted from a honeycomb and dye
Soap recipes appear in the recipe book and combine a honeycomb with a dye, placing the process in the normal crafting flow.
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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.
Use cases
Recoloring builds
A builder can take a colored structure back to plain blocks and repaint it in another shade.
Reusing dyed blocks
Players who gathered many dyed blocks can reset them for new designs without placing new materials.
Who it’s for: Builders and survival players who work with dyed, colored or waxed blocks and want to clean them back to plain forms. Server owners who run it need the mod on every client.
How it compares
Smooth Concrete is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that runs on client and server, but it is released under All rights reserved and focuses on concrete. Dyeless Concrete Recipes works on Forge for 1.19.4 – 1.20.1 as an optional client or server mod under the MIT License, and changes concrete crafting rather than cleaning. Soap differs from both in covering many block families through cleaning.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soap | Forge | 1.20 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-03-21 |
| Smooth Concrete | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-11-08 |
| Dyeless Concrete Recipes | Forge | 1.19.4 – 1.20.1 | Client or server, optional | 2024-05-02 |
Questions
Does Soap need to be installed on the server?
Which loader does Soap support?
Which blocks can Soap clean?
In the catalog
Soap is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,316 Game mechanics mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Soap - Adds soap to the game that can clean blocks, such as Crying Obsidian or Green Concrete Powder. What does the mod add? - The mod adds Soap that can clean blocks, and for example, using Red Soap will turn all colored blocks red, and so on. If you eat the soap, you will be able to clean blocks with your bare hands.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/soap
- Owner
- MaximeriX
- Published
- 2024-09-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-03-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15