Useless Items to feature
by ItsBumblebee
Useless Items to feature changes five items from vanilla and adds new behavior to each, such as a beacon ring, a smart watch, a heart, a sea item and an ender dragon egg.
What it does
The five items named Beacon, Clock, Heart, Sea and Echo, along with the Sharp Dragon Egg, can be crafted or bought from a villager shop and gain new uses. A beacon ring can be worn for an effect, a smart watch tracks its charge and can be refilled by right-clicking a charger, and holding Shift while right-clicking a beacon copies its data. A heart piercer, used with right-click, lets the player kill nearby sea entities.
Beyond the crafting items, the mod lets a player summon a ghost of a player with a soul item by right-clicking, and obtain a soul that kills a warden. The Dragon Egg section places an endstone block, a chorus flower on top and an ender dragon on top, then waits ten seconds before a baby ender dragon appears. A player can ride the dragon: B shoots a fireball, R moves it down, Space moves it up, and Shift dismounts.
The mod is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. It runs on client and server, meaning the server and every player need it. Files are published for NeoForge only, for Minecraft 1.21.1, with 1.0 as the latest file from 2025-09-03. It needs the mod work to function, as noted by the author.
Key features
Beacon ring
A ring that can be crafted or bought from a villager shop and worn for its effect.
Recharging smart watch
A smart watch that drains and is refilled by right-clicking a charger.
Soul-based summons
Right-clicking a ghost-summoning soul calls a player ghost, and a separate soul is used to kill a warden.
Rideable baby ender dragon
A baby dragon hatches after endstone and chorus flower placement, and can be ridden with keys for fireballs, rising and descending.
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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.
How it compares
Echos of the dark is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 that is not open source and runs on client and server. Hearts In A Bottle is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 that is open source and server-side only, so players join without installing it. Anti-Air Beacon is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, covers Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, and runs on client and server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Useless Items to feature | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-03 |
| Echos of the dark | NeoForge | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Client and server | 2025-05-06 |
| Hearts In A Bottle | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2024-12-14 |
| Anti-Air Beacon | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-26 |
Questions
Does Useless Items to feature need any other mod?
Does the server need Useless Items to feature?
Which game version does Useless Items to feature support?
In the catalog
Useless Items to feature is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,557 Technology mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This is a mod that changes 5 useless items to features. And the items are Beacon, Clock, Heart of Sea, Echo Sharp, and Dragon Egg. beacon ring and smart watch can be crafted and bought from the Villager shop.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/useless-item-to-feature
- Owner
- ItsBumblebee
- Published
- 2025-09-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-03
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15