SYLA (Staining Your Life Away)
by AJBruner77
SYLA adds stains made from pulped wood, so vanilla woods can be turned into a natural-looking variety of stains, slabs, and bottles.
What it does
Players harvest stripped logs, blast them in a Blast Furnace to produce pulp, and combine eight pulp with one empty bottle to make a stain. Each of the eight supported wood types yields its own pulp, and the stain is equipped by right-clicking a vanilla piece.
Placing a slab on the ground and right-clicking it with a stain changes it into a natural version of that wood. Recipes for new blocks use the slabs and stains, and barrels of each wood type can be converted with the matching stain while keeping their contents. Installation covers the server and each player's game. It is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, which is open source, and has files for 1.21.1 and 26.1.2 on both Fabric and NeoForge.
Key features
Wood pulp from logs
Stripped logs blasted in a furnace yield pulp for each of the eight supported wood types.
Stains from pulp
Eight pulp and one empty bottle craft a stain for the matching wood.
Natural slabs
A stain applied to a vanilla slab converts it into a natural version of that wood.
Barrel conversion
Barrels of each wood type can be changed with the matching stain, and their contents stay in place.
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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
Building with a matching palette
Builders can use stained slabs, stairs and fences so new structures match the wood of their surroundings.
Who it’s for: Builders and survival players who want a wider range of wood-based blocks in their vanilla-style builds, and server owners who want the stains available to every player.
How it compares
Extra Chests is client and server, released under the MIT License, and built for Fabric and NeoForge 1.21 – 26.2 in its own range. Iron Crate is also client and server and is not open source, released under All rights reserved for 1.21.1 – 26.2. More Leaf Particles is client-side only, so servers run without it, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Wooden slab and stairs is client and server under the MIT License, covering Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20 – 1.21.8, but its files stop before 26.1.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SYLA (Staining Your Life Away) | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-20 |
| Extra Chests | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-10-08 |
| Iron Crate | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-10-03 |
| More Leaf Particles | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.5 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-07-19 |
| Wooden slab and stairs | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-07-14 |
Questions
Does SYLA need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does SYLA support?
How is a stain made?
In the catalog
SYLA (Staining Your Life Away) is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,201 Technology mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
This mod brings a more natural feel to the vanilla woods using Stains. Players must harvest stripped logs of: Acacia, Birch, Cherry, Dark Oak, Jungle, Mangrove, Oak, and Spruce. Once harvested, put them into a Blast Furnace to create Pulp for whatever variety of wood was Blasted. Then players can use the Pulp…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/syla-staining-your-life-away
- Owner
- AJBruner77
- Published
- 2026-08-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15