Useful Minerals
by iceave
Useful Minerals adds tools made from copper, quartz, emerald, amethyst and sculk shards, crafted with a stonecutter from the matching ingots and gems.
What it does
Copper and quartz tools need their respective shards, and the mod supplies a stonecutter recipe that turns a copper ingot or a quartz block into one copper shard or one quartz shard. Emerald shards follow the same pattern from emeralds. Copper tools take breeze rods in place of sticks, which is the only change to the copper recipes.
Amethyst and sculk tools draw on amethyst shards and echo shards, so the materials already in vanilla Minecraft become the crafting inputs. The tool recipes are laid out like the vanilla tool recipes, which keeps the mod simple to learn. The mod runs on Fabric for 1.21 and 1.21.1, and the latest file is 1.1.1 for 1.21.1. It is released under the MIT License but is not open source, and it needs nothing beyond Fabric itself, since it adds no dependencies.
Key features
Copper and quartz shard tools
Copper and quartz tools are made from their shards, which a stonecutter produces from the base material.
Emerald shard tools
Emerald shards are made from emeralds with the same stonecutter step, and they form the material for emerald tools.
Amethyst and sculk tools
Amethyst shards and echo shards supply the amethyst and sculk tools, using materials that appear in vanilla survival play.
Breeze rod copper tools
Copper tools use breeze rods in the handle position instead of sticks, a change from the vanilla tool recipe.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Craftable Sculk Blocks is a Fabric mod for 1.21 – 1.21.1 that is released under the MIT License and is not open source; it is server-side with optional client use. Shard Pickaxe is open source under the MIT License for 1.21 – 1.21.1 and runs on client and server, adding a pickaxe rather than a set of shard-based tools. Enchanting Templates is also open source under the MIT License, but its files only cover 1.21.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Useful Minerals | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-09-21 |
| Craftable Sculk Blocks | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-28 |
| Shard Pickaxe | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-19 |
| Enchanting Templates | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-30 |
Questions
Does Useful Minerals need other mods to run?
Do both the server and players need the mod installed?
Will the mod add armor or other materials later?
In the catalog
Useful Minerals is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This mod is extremely simple and easy to understand and get used to. Copper and Quartz need their respective shards to make all the tools. To make Copper and Quartz shards, simply put a Copper Ingot in a Stonecutter to make 1x Copper Shard. For Quartz shards, you need to put Quartz in a Stonecutter to make 1x Quartz…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/useful-minerals
- Owner
- iceave
- Published
- 2024-09-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-09-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15