Yet Another Hammer Mod (YAHM)

Hammers are crafted from two sticks plus the material of the tier, so a wooden hammer uses two planks, a stone hammer two cobblestone, an iron hammer two iron ingots, a gold hammer two gold ingots, a diamond hammer two diamonds and a netherite hammer two netherite ingots. Each hammer breaks blocks at the same tier as the pickaxe of its material, which means a wooden hammer cannot break iron ore while a stone hammer can, and an iron hammer cannot break obsidian while a diamond hammer can.

The hammers are meant to work in place of pickaxes, and the author notes that this swap is the main intent of the project. Settings are stored in a TOML file, with several true or false switches to toggle behaviour. The project is marked as work in progress, and the author describes it as a first mod built by hand, after one earlier mod made with MCreator. Recipes that use pickaxes are not changed, so those still require a pickaxe.

The mod is open source under the MIT License and runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. Files are published for Fabric only, for Minecraft 1.20.1, with 1.1.0 as the latest file.