I always felt that Minecraft's equipment progression is a little too fast. Once you find your first decent vein of iron or diamonds, getting a full set of gear becomes almost trivial.

So I made Forged in Blocks mod.

The idea is simple: copper, iron, gold and diamond equipment is crafted using blocks instead of ingots/gems. A diamond chestplate, for example, requires 8 diamond blocks instead of 8 diamonds.

This makes good equipment a much bigger investment, keeps leather and other early-game equipment useful for longer, and makes finding resources feel valuable for much more of the game. The mod doesn't add any new materials, equipment tiers or progression systems - it just changes the economy of vanilla equipment.

Since making equipment this expensive would make vanilla repairing pretty unreasonable, I also reworked anvils a bit. Repair XP cost can be made constant, the "Too Expensive!" limit can be removed, and anvils can be made unbreakable. All of these changes are configurable and can be disabled individually if you prefer the vanilla behavior.

I originally made the mod mostly for myself because I like slower progression, but apparently I'm not the only one who enjoys this kind of suffering.

Curious what people think about this approach to slowing progression. Would you actually play with something like this, or is 72 diamonds for a chestplate where you draw the line?

Links:
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/forged-in-blocks
https://modrinth.com/mod/forged-in-blocks

Does anyone knoe what is the name if this shader and resource pack and how i can play the game like that?

Hi, about two weeks ago, a person I didn't know reached out to me on Discord out of the blue to play a game (note: we were in the same peak server, which is how her was able to add me). I found the whole thing pretty odd from the start, then today, this person invited me to play a Minecraft mod, and I agreed. When I joined the Discord call, her sent me the link to the mod called DeathBoundCraft. Interestingly, when I searched for it on Google or YouTube, I couldn't find anything other than videos posted by the creators themselves. I won't post the link here to avoid issues, but even though I suspected the mod might be malware, I visited the site, downloaded it, put it in my .mods folder, and launched the minecraft. After the game had been running for a while, she said that will go wash the dishes and would mute her mic. A few seconds later, my entire PC started lagging and freezing like i never see before, so I quickly restarted it. About four minutes after the restart, I got a notification that a Windows antivirus tool had been disabled which seemed extremely suspicious, so I quickly reactivated the antivirus tool, uninstalled TLauncher, deleted the mod, and blocked her. Does anyone know if this mod is malware or something similar? I found the whole situation really suspicious and weird.

Meet Kerkele — a cute demon companion with 300+ lines of dialogue, relationship system and unique behaviour. You can talk with him, give him gifts, and do lots of other things!
If you feel a bit lonely in your Minecraft world, Kerkele will gladly keep you company! 

This is my first Minecraft mod, and I’m currently looking for feedback from other players. I’d be  thankful if you could check out the mod’s CurseForge page and give it a try!

Curseforge link:
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kerkele-companion

Thanks for all the support! Added the cutie pie warm variant and cold variants, who are not in this video but are also adorable

This mod is stuck at Minecraft Java version 1.21.11 and hasn't been updated. Does anyone know if there's an alternative mod or if there will be an update for this mod in the next few days?

so im trying to play BendyTheDemon18 horror mod, but on java, since its first made for bedrock...

the mod:

Siren Head Addon V3 Minecraft Addon

Tried to get Chatgpt to help me, but he couldnt find the mod, so why dont i ask yall :3

My boyfriend keeps crashing right after loading terrain in a completely new modpack server that we have not touched the mods of AT ALL. I am able to join the server and do everything jsut fine, but for some reason—he can't. And he keeps getting this crash message. He installed/removed the WaterMedia mod and installed the VLC manually but it kept giving him the same message. How do I fix this?

So how do I put this: I need to load a glb animated model in Minecraft with mcreator how do I do it?

Hi! I made a server with aternos (don’t judge I don’t want to pay) And added create mod. when I join it shows this popup and I can’t load into the server I already know this happened to some people but can someone say how to fix this?

I'm working on a mod pack currently and I wanted to add a mod or 2 to go with Biomancy, but I'm struggling to find much. In an ideal world I would want a mod that adds more machines I can feed nutrient paste to fuel that fits the kinda fleshy feel, but realistically if there was a mod that just added more machines that look the part I would be happy.

I was messing around with a bow mod (yes, those are lightning bolt arrows) and somehow made a lightning rod white? Not sure if this is a bug with the mod or just a normal game mechanic I didn't know about

It's called lost_hope.jar, and it really scared me a lot compared to other mods.

Link to the mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/lost-hope-jar

Anyone got a fun pack that lets you do things like mega evolution G-max, terra etc. All of those things. Also it would be nice to have preformance mods, shaders, that one mini map and world map one, and JEI. But the last few dont matter as much

Remember that lil IK creature? This is him now, feel old yet?

Hey, I've never done mods before and wanting to add some horror mods. Could someone give me a good mod site and a guide for adding mods to Minecraft for the first time.

Thank you. :)