The Useful Tools Mod
Adds extensive material-based tools and armor, spectral mobs and machinery, explosives, world generation, advancements, and configurable integrations.
Автор: StonyTark8781обновлён 27 авг. 2026 г.
СнаряжениеМеханики игрыМобы
Описание
The gallery begins with current 2.3.1 in-game screenshots; earlier captures are retained as Legacy 1.6.
Useful Tools began as a way to give gold more purpose and has grown into a large collection of material-based equipment, spectral mechanics, explosives, world generation, and configurable integrations.
Tools and armor
Useful Tools adds dozens of complete equipment sets with distinct statistics, recipes, and mechanics:
- Reinforced and expanded vanilla materials, including Obsidian, Jagged Obsidian, Reinforced Gold, Emerald, Jagged Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, Hardened Redstone, and OP equipment.
- Crystal and elemental families such as Rough and Calcified Amethyst, Rough and Polished Quartz, Rough and Polished Prismarine, Snow, and Ice. Their set effects include underwater bonuses, melting and fire-dousing behavior, and other material-specific abilities.
- Coal and Hardened Coal equipment that burns while its owner is on fire, can serve as fuel, and can be extinguished in water before it is destroyed.
- Spectral and Spectral-Infused equipment. Any sword or axe can be infused while retaining its original statistics; infused weapons can damage otherwise-immune spectral mobs.
- Cake, Flint, Flint-Iron, Hardened Glowstone, and complete tool families for the vanilla stone types.
Blocks, mobs, and mechanics
- Spectral Infuser: a furnace-like machine that combines ectoplasm with swords and axes to create Spectral-Infused weapons while preserving their original attributes.
- Ectoplasm Lantern: a bounded spectral light that repels hostile Wraiths, responds to redstone, and replaces the former Soul Lantern name while retaining its old ID as a save-compatibility alias.
- Mining Charge and Remote Detonator: place solid-backed directional charges on any face, link them to a detonator, and identify armed charges by their red indicator.
- Ghost: a peaceful flying spectral mob with damage immunity, breeding, baby behavior, armor interaction, loot, and player-visibility mechanics.
- Wraith: a distinct hostile flying and lunging spectral mob. Ectoplasm Lanterns suppress it, and only ectoplasm-infused weapons can damage it. Supported WTHIT versions report its current ward and weapon state.
- Throwable Grenades, instant-detonation Dynamite, Sticky Dynamite, reinforced-gold ore and storage blocks, materials, recipes, loot, and a broad advancement catalog.
- A built-in in-game configuration screen with 126 controls covering equipment effects, mobs and spawn rates, lantern behavior, explosives, world generation, and other mechanics. Cloth Config and Architectury are not runtime requirements.
Compatibility
Useful Tools 2.3.1 supports:
- Minecraft 1.7.10 on Forge.
- Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.21.1, 26.1.2, and 26.2 on Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge.
- The unchanged Fabric files on Quilt Loader 0.30.0.
Optional JEI, WTHIT or Jade, REI, JER, Mod Menu, Magnetization, and Create: Ore Excavation relationships are listed separately on each compatible file because upstream availability varies by Minecraft version and loader. Features and integrations therefore vary where an upstream project does not publish a compatible build.
Thank you for supporting Useful Tools through all these years!
Галерея
Последние версии
Все версии →release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 26.2 Neoforge
2.3.1-26.2-neoforge27 авг. 2026 г.120Minecraft: 26.2neoforge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 26.2 Fabric
2.3.1-26.2-fabric27 авг. 2026 г.157Minecraft: 26.2fabric, quilt
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 26.2 Forge
2.3.1-26.2-forge27 авг. 2026 г.31Minecraft: 26.2forge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 26.1.2 Neoforge
2.3.1-26.1.2-neoforge27 авг. 2026 г.17Minecraft: 26.1.2neoforge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 26.1.2 Fabric
2.3.1-26.1.2-fabric27 авг. 2026 г.31Minecraft: 26.1.2fabric, quilt
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 26.1.2 Forge
2.3.1-26.1.2-forge27 авг. 2026 г.11Minecraft: 26.1.2forge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 1.21.1 Neoforge
2.3.1-1.21.1-neoforge27 авг. 2026 г.61Minecraft: 1.21.1neoforge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 1.21.1 Fabric
2.3.1-1.21.1-fabric27 авг. 2026 г.50Minecraft: 1.21.1fabric, quilt
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 1.21.1 Forge
2.3.1-1.21.1-forge27 авг. 2026 г.18Minecraft: 1.21.1forge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.
release
Useful Tools 2.3.1 — Minecraft 1.20.2 Neoforge
2.3.1-1.20.2-neoforge27 авг. 2026 г.9Minecraft: 1.20.2neoforge
Что нового
- Renamed the former Soul Lantern to Ectoplasm Lantern. New content uses
`usefultoolsmod:ectoplasm_lantern`; `usefultoolsmod:soul_lantern` remains a
deprecated save-compatibility alias.
- Replaced the transparent `cube_all` Ectoplasm Lantern and Mining Charge blocks with bounded, solid-backed models on all modern targets; added state-complete charge orientation and armed-indicator variants.
- Made newly placed Mining Charges remain stable when their block-entity data has no saved fuse, and added dedicated unlit, lit, directional, and glass-platform visual evidence.
- Split modern inventory sprites from placed-block geometry and restored bounded selection/collision plus non-occluding rendering, preventing adjacent floors and walls from being culled behind transparent pixels.
- Added the equivalent Forge 1.7.10 repair with opaque generated block faces, bounded legacy blocks, and separate original inventory sprites.
- Repaired the Forge 1.7.10 Wraith spawn egg to use Minecraft's complete two-pass egg texture with Wraith-specific colors instead of requesting a missing overlay texture.
- Added Wraith WTHIT coverage wherever WTHIT is supported, including live Ectoplasm Lantern suppression and ectoplasm-infused weapon eligibility; WTHIT remains optional.
- Decoupled natural Wraith spawning from the Ghost enable switch; Wraith spawning now follows its own enable and chance controls while retaining its distinct hostile behavior.
- Fixed event-driven advancements, including the Wraith encounter advancement, to award their declared remaining criteria instead of assuming every advancement used a criterion named `trigger`.
- Reduced the paged 1.20.x/1.21.1 config layout to seven entries per page so loader-provided buttons no longer overlap Useful Tools navigation controls.
- Added a 16-target static resolver gate and expanded release-JAR checks for blockstate, model, texture, and item-model completeness.
- Preserved all registry IDs, recipes, configurations, save formats, and published compatibility bounds.