V-Tweaks
by oitsjustjose
V-Tweaks gathers small quality-of-life changes into one Forge and NeoForge mod, covering crops, cake, trees, torches, tooltips and a few mob and cactus behaviors.
What it does
Right-clicking a mature crop harvests it, and an empty hand returns only the original crop drop along with the seeds that would normally come back, minus one that is replanted. Breaking a cake that has not been eaten drops the cake itself, and cake can still be eaten. Trees fall as a unit when their trunk is broken, following the approach of Tersnip's ChopDown Mod. Most plantable blocks work with the crop behavior, since they follow the same code pattern as vanilla crops.
The mod also changes how items and food are shown. Durability appears in item tooltips on hover, and food tooltips show hunger and saturation. Cacti can be set to stop destroying items that touch them. A feather-plucking action lets players take feathers from chickens with shears, with a cool-down of about five minutes, and the chicken is not harmed. Torches and other ignition sources are handled by item tags, so right-clicking a tagged block such as a lit furnace, redstone ore or campfire lights it.
V-Tweaks needs Just Enough Items (JEI) to run. It is installed on both the server and every player, and it is published for Forge and NeoForge across 26 release versions, 1.7.10 – 1.21.1. The code is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and the source, issue tracker and wiki are public.
Key features
Crop harvesting
Right-clicking crops harvests them and returns the original drop with reduced seed replanting, for most plantable blocks.
Cake breaking and eating
Breaking an uneaten cake drops the cake item, and the cake can still be eaten normally.
Tree felling
Breaking a tree trunk brings the whole tree down, based on the approach of Tersnip's ChopDown Mod.
Tagged torch ignition
Right-clicking a block or item in the vtweaks:ignition tag lights it, and vtweaks:torch sets what is excluded.
Tooltips for items and food
Durability is shown on item hover, and food tooltips show hunger and saturation values.
Challenger mobs
A data-driven system turns mobs into boss-like enemies, configured through a dedicated datapack page.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.20.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.19.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.18.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.15.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.14.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.12.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.11.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.10.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.9.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.8.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.7.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Realism Tweaks is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 – 1.21.4, released under the Apache License 2.0 and not open source, and it runs on client and server. Offhand Torch & Lantern Tweak covers Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 26.3, is client-side only, and is licensed as All rights reserved. Universal SMP-Tweaks is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only, for Forge 1.20.1 and running on client and server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| V-Tweaks | Forge and NeoForge | 1.7.10 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-10-18 |
| Realism Tweaks | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2026-06-29 |
| Offhand Torch & Lantern Tweak | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-06 |
| Universal SMP-Tweaks | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-18 |
Questions
Does V-Tweaks need Just Enough Items?
Which loaders does V-Tweaks support?
Can the cactus behavior be turned off?
In the catalog
V-Tweaks is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,316 Game mechanics mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
V-Tweaks is a small Vanilla+ and QOL mod that plays beautifully with any modpack out there. It's highly configurable, and doesn't add any new items to the game -- just new mechanics and interactions! There's a lot in V-Tweaks, which is why it has its own highly-detailed Wiki - check it out to learn what all it has to…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/v-tweaks
- Owner
- oitsjustjose
- Published
- 2023-04-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-10-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15