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Tools, Enchantments, Building Blocks, Lanterns and Ores

Handwerk (German for "craftsmanship") — formerly known as DayOfMind Additions.

Handwerk speeds up resource gathering, terraforming, and farming with area-of-effect tools, rounds out your building palette, and sets every overworld ore into the rock it grew in. Simple and vanilla-friendly. Built by OxFaTech as the heart of the Fernweh modpack (formerly known as DayOfMind), it works standalone in any modpack across all supported versions.

Supported Versions

Supported Loaders

🛠️ Tools

A family of tools that turns tedious jobs into a single click. Every tool comes in all six tiers (Wood → Netherite) and works with modded blocks too.

• Terraformer Shovel — Excavates earth-like blocks in an area, creates paths, and toggles between dirt and dirt path (sneak to reverse).
• Hammer — Mines stone-like blocks in an area and creates paths.
• Prospector Pickaxe — Vein-mines an entire ore deposit at once.
• Lumberjack Axe — Fells an entire tree and strips logs in an area.
• Harvester Scythe — Right-click to harvest and replant crops.

♻️ Reforging

Your tools grow with you instead of being re-crafted from scratch.

• Reforging Rune — A craftable smithing item that upgrades an Iron or Gold tool to Diamond, transferring its enchantments and wear.
• Netherite Upgrades — Promote a Diamond tool to Netherite using a vanilla smithing template, exactly like vanilla gear.

🌟 Enchantments

Available at the enchanting table and listed in the mod's dedicated creative tab.

• Wide Reach (I–II) — Widens the affected area of radius tools (and the Lodestar Charm's pull).
• Magnetism (I–II) — Sends the drops from blocks you mine or harvest straight to you (does not act as a general vacuum). Level II also pulls in experience. Works on both Handwerk's tools and vanilla mining tools.

🧲 Lodestar Charm

A mystical trinket that draws nearby dropped items and experience toward you.

• Works from your off-hand out of the box.
• With an accessory mod installed (Ohmega or Trinkets Updated), you can equip it in a dedicated accessory slot instead.
• Enchantable with Wide Reach to extend its pull radius.

🏗️ Architectural Options

Expand your building palette with variants that inherit the look and behavior of their base blocks.

• Slabs, Stairs & Trapdoors for a huge range of vanilla blocks — including trickier ones like dirt path, Crying Obsidian, and Magma.
• True to their base — Crying Obsidian variants still weep tear particles, Magma variants still burn and form bubble columns in water, dirt path slabs/stairs keep their lower profile, and grass variants turn snowy under snowfall.
• Lanterns — Small, large, and redstone-powered variants in materials like Copper, Amethyst, and Diamond (includes copper weathering).
• Redstone Chains — Conduct redstone power along their axis for compact, tidy wiring.
• Grass Stairs & Slabs — Biome-tinted so they blend perfectly into the landscape.

⛏️ Ore Variants

Ores that match their surrounding rock perfectly.

• All eight overworld ores (coal, copper, iron, gold, redstone, lapis, diamond, emerald) embedded in granite, diorite, andesite, tuff, and sulfur and cinnabar in the 26.2 sulfur caves.
• Resource-pack friendly — The rock keeps its plain vanilla texture, so any pack restyling granite, tuff, or sulfur applies seamlessly.

🌿 Quality of Life

• Configurable Fast Leaf Decay — Quicker tree cleanup with adjustable timing (optional, can be disabled in the config).
• Vanilla Shovel Tweak — The plain shovel can also toggle between dirt and path (optional, can be disabled in the config).
• Consistent Block Effects — Every variant keeps the exact properties of its base block.
• Craftable Name Tags — Craft name tags from string, a sign, paper, and an iron nugget — no fishing or trading required (Note: Minecraft 26.1 already includes a vanilla crafting recipe for name tags).

🏆 Advancements

A dedicated Handwerk advancement tab guides you through crafting each tool family, forging the Reforging Rune, reaching Netherite, and building your first redstone circuit.

📈 Transparent Development

These version numbers represent the current development plans, not fixed promises. Features may be moved, changed, or replaced as development progresses. Have an idea or a suggestion? Community feedback helps shape future updates!

🚀 Just a few clicks

1. Download the mod from Modrinth or CurseForge.
2. Drop the .jar into your mods folder.
3. Add the dependencies for your loader, matching your Minecraft version:
   • Fabric — Fabric API, Fabric Language Kotlin
   • NeoForge (26.x) — Kotlin for Forge

Handwerk adds custom blocks, so it belongs on the server and every client — a server-only install won't work.

Optional companions: Ohmega or Trinkets Updated (provides an accessory slot for the Lodestar Charm) and MidnightLib for our mod configuration.

🖥️ Get a server

Want to play with friends? Spin up a ready-to-go server with our partner BisectHosting — use code dayofmind for 25% off your first month, and it directly supports the mod's development. ❤️

🌍 Help Translate

Community translations are pulled from Crowdin and bundled at build time. Want the mod in your language? Contributions are welcome — even a few strings help.

🤝 Overview

Got an idea, a translation, or found a bug? We'd love your help.

• 💬 Discord — Chat with the developers and players.
• ✍️ Codeberg — Report issues and open pull requests (this is the primary repository).
• 🌐 Crowdin — Help translate the mod.
• ☕ Ko-fi — Support the development.
• 🖥️ OxFaTech — The team behind Handwerk.

🛠️ Building from Source

Handwerk builds a single source tree into Fabric and native NeoForge jars across every supported Minecraft version. The multi-version (Stonecutter) and multi-loader (platform layer) setup, the build commands, and how to add a version are documented in docs/BUILD.md.

🧪 Testing a Release

Before a release, Handwerk is verified across every supported Minecraft version and loader (Fabric and native NeoForge on 26.x). The full acceptance checklist lives in docs/Handwerk-Test-Protocol.ods — a spreadsheet (opens in LibreOffice Calc or Excel) featuring:

• One row per feature test, detailing the exact in-game commands and expected results.
• A Status dropdown (Pass / Fail / Blocked / N/A / Open) and a note field per target.
• A Summary sheet that tallies the results and automatically displays a per-target release status.

Assemble the test instances from the reports generated by the “Publish Mods (alle Versionen, Dry-Run)” run configuration — one file per upload under build/publish-reports/, as <version>.txt and <version>-neoforge.txt, each listing the jar’s filename and its required and optional dependencies. Export the Test Protocol sheet as CSV for machine-readable results.

📹 Content Creators Welcome

Making a video, short, or showcase? Please do — and thank you! Handwerk is built to look good on camera, and you don't need to ask for permission to cover it.

Fun features to show off: The Harvester Scythe clearing a field, Magnetism streaming drops and XP into your inventory, the Lodestar Charm magnet, tier upgrades with the Reforging Rune, and lantern / redstone-chain builds.

• ✅ Use anything here freely — Every image and GIF in this README is fair game for thumbnails and b-roll.
• ⭐ We'll feature you — Drop your video in our Discord and we'll link it on our pages.

📛 A new name, the same mod

DayOfMind Additions is now Handwerk. Same mod, same team, same update path — your worlds, configs, and launcher profiles keep working. There is nothing to migrate. We picked a name that accurately reflects what the mod is about: honest tools and honest blocks, crafted to feel like vanilla.

📜 License

Handwerk is released under a custom license — see LICENSE. The source code is publicly available on Codeberg; please review the license before redistributing or reusing it.

Maintained with ❤️ by OxFaTech.

Practical tools, smart enchantments, building blocks and ores that feel like vanilla.

Handwerk (German for "craftsmanship") — formerly known as DayOfMind Additions.

Handwerk speeds up resource gathering, terraforming and farming with area-of-effect tools, adds a full tool-progression system, rounds out your building palette, and sets every overworld ore into the rock it grew in — all without overcomplicating the base game. Built by OxFaTech as the heart of the DayOfMind modpack, it works standalone in any pack: Fabric on every supported version, NeoForge from 26.x.

✨ Features · 📈 Roadmap · 🚀 Install · 🖥️ Servers · 🌍 Translations · 🤝 Community

⭐ New in 0.16 — the Ore Update

Ores now look like the rock they grew in. All eight overworld ores come embedded in granite, diorite, andesite and tuff — plus sulfur and cinnabar in the 26.2 sulfur caves. That's 48 new blocks that mine, drop and generate exactly like the ore they are, without changing where ore spawns.

Previously, in 0.15 — the Tools Update: a complete tool rework with the Harvester Scythe, a tier-upgrade system built on the Reforging Rune, two signature enchantments (Wide Reach & Magnetism), the Lodestar Charm magnet, and a dedicated advancement tab.

🎬 See the tools in action (recorded on the earlier tools — the idea's the same!)

✨ Key Features

🛠️ Smart Tools

A family of tools that turn tedious jobs into a single click. Every tool comes in all six tiers (Wood → Netherite) and works with modded blocks too.

• Terraformer Shovel — excavates earth-like blocks in an area, and toggles dirt ↔ dirt-path (sneak to reverse).
• Hammer — mines stone-like blocks in an area, and creates paths just like the shovel.
• Prospector Pickaxe — vein-mines a whole ore deposit at once.
• Lumberjack Axe — fells an entire tree, and strips logs in an area.
• Harvester Scythe — right-click to harvest & replant mature crops, mow grass/ferns/flowers, shear vines/leaves/cobwebs, cut sugar cane/bamboo/cactus, harvest melons & pumpkins, and till farmland — all context-aware.

♻️ Tool Progression & Reforging

Your tools grow with you instead of being re-crafted from scratch.

• Durable by design — every tool carries extra durability over its vanilla counterpart.
• Reforging Rune — a craftable smithing item that upgrades an Iron or Gold tool to Diamond, carrying its enchantments and wear across.
• Netherite upgrades — promote a Diamond tool to Netherite with a vanilla smithing template, exactly like vanilla gear.

🌟 Signature Enchantments

Available at the enchanting table and listed in the mod's own creative tab.

• Wide Reach (I–II) — widens the affected area of the radius tools (and the Lodestar Charm's pull).
• Magnetism (I–II) — sends the drops from blocks you mine or harvest straight to you (never a general vacuum). Level II also pulls in the experience. Works on Handwerk's tools and vanilla mining tools alike.

🧲 Lodestar Charm

A mystical trinket that draws nearby dropped items — and experience — to you.

• Works from your off hand out of the box.
• With an accessory mod installed (optional) — Ohmega or Trinkets Updated — equip it in an accessory slot instead.
• Enchantable with Wide Reach to extend its pull radius.

🏗️ Architectural Options

Expand your building palette with variants that inherit the look and behaviour of their base blocks.

• Slabs, Stairs & Trapdoors for a huge range of vanilla blocks — including trickier ones like dirt path, Crying Obsidian and Magma.
• True to their base — Crying Obsidian variants still weep tear particles, Magma variants still burn and form bubble columns in water, dirt-path slabs/stairs keep their lower profile, and grass variants turn snowy under snowfall.
• Lanterns — small, large and redstone-powered, in materials like Copper, Amethyst and Diamond (with copper weathering).
• Redstone Chains — conduct redstone power along their axis for compact, tidy wiring.
• Grass Stairs & Slabs — biome-tinted, so they blend into the landscape.
• Vertical Slabs — coming in 0.17!

⛏️ Ore Variants

Ore that matches the rock around it — a detail you notice every time you go mining.

• All eight overworld ores (coal, copper, iron, gold, redstone, lapis, diamond, emerald) embedded in granite, diorite, andesite and tuff, plus sulfur and cinnabar in the 26.2 sulfur caves.
• Where ore spawns doesn't change. Veins already ran through granite and friends — they just placed plain stone ore regardless. Now they place the matching block. Same size, frequency, depth and biomes as vanilla.
• They are ore — identical hardness, pickaxe tier, drops, experience, Fortune and Silk Touch. The Prospector Pickaxe veins through them, and other mods recognise them as the ore they represent.
• Sulfur caves finally carry ore. Sulfur and cinnabar were never valid hosts, so veins skipped them entirely and left those pockets empty.
• Resource-pack friendly — the rock keeps its plain vanilla texture, so any pack restyling granite, tuff or sulfur carries straight over.

🌿 Nature & Quality of Life

• Configurable Fast Leaf Decay — quicker tree cleanup with adjustable timing.
• Vanilla Shovel Tweak — the plain shovel can toggle dirt ↔ path too (optional).
• Consistent Block Effects — every variant keeps the properties of its base block.
• Craftable Name Tag — craft name tags from string, a sign, paper and an iron nugget — no fishing or trading required.
• In-game config — toggle the shovel tweak, tune the leaf-decay speed, and manage translation downloads via ModMenu / MidnightLib.

🏆 Advancements

A dedicated Handwerk advancement tab guides you through crafting each tool family, forging the Reforging Rune, reaching Netherite, and building your first redstone circuit.

📈 Development Roadmap

Village Management is more than map markers. Villages get recognised on Xaero's map and managed from there — assigning jobs and sending villagers out to gather resources. It's a big idea and still taking shape, but that's the direction.

🚀 Installation

1. Download the mod from Modrinth or CurseForge.
2. Drop the .jar into your mods folder.
3. Add the dependencies for your loader, matching your Minecraft version:
   • Fabric — Fabric API, Fabric Language Kotlin, MidnightLib
   • NeoForge (26.x) — Kotlin for Forge, MidnightLib

Handwerk adds blocks, so it belongs on the server and every client — a server-only install won't work.

Optional companions: Ohmega or Trinkets Updated (an accessory slot for the Lodestar Charm), plus JEI and Jade — all supported automatically when present.

🖥️ Play with Friends

Want to play with friends? Spin up a ready-to-go server with our partner BisectHosting — use code dayofmind for 25% off your first month, and it directly supports the mod's development. ❤️

🌍 Translations

Community translations are pulled from Crowdin and bundled at build time. Want the mod in your language? Contributions are welcome — even a few strings help.

🤝 Community & Contributing

Got an idea, a translation, or found a bug? We'd love your help.

• 💬 Discord — chat with the developers and players.
• ✍️ Codeberg — report issues and open pull requests (this is the primary repository).
• 🌐 Crowdin — help translate the mod.
• ☕ Ko-fi — support development.
• 🖥️ OxFaTech — the team behind Handwerk.

🛠️ Building from Source

Handwerk builds a single source tree into Fabric and native NeoForge jars across every supported Minecraft version. The multi-version (Stonecutter) and multi-loader (platform layer) setup, the build commands and how to add a version are documented in docs/BUILD.md.

🧪 Testing a Release

Before a release, Handwerk is verified across every supported Minecraft version and loader (Fabric and native NeoForge on 26.x). The full acceptance checklist lives in docs/Handwerk-Test-Protocol.ods — a spreadsheet (opens in LibreOffice Calc or Excel) with:

• one row per feature test, with the exact in-game commands and the expected result;
• a Status dropdown (Pass / Fail / Blocked / N/A / Open) and a note field per target;
• a Summary sheet that tallies the results and shows a per-target release light automatically.

Assemble the test instances from the reports written by the “Publish Mods (alle Versionen, Dry-Run)” run configuration — one file per upload under build/publish-reports/, as <version>.txt and <version>-neoforge.txt, each listing that jar’s filename and its required and optional dependencies. Export the Test Protocol sheet as CSV for machine-readable results.

📹 Content Creators Welcome

Making a video, short or showcase? Please do — and thank you! Handwerk is built to look good on camera, and you don't need to ask permission to cover it.

Fun to show off: the Harvester Scythe clearing a field, Magnetism streaming drops and XP into your inventory, the Lodestar Charm magnet, tier upgrades with the Reforging Rune, and lantern / redstone-chain builds.

• ✅ Use anything here freely — every image and GIF in this README is fair game for thumbnails and b-roll.
• ⭐ We'll feature you — drop your video in our Discord and we'll link it on our pages.
• 🌍 Need a set? Ask in Discord for a ready-made showcase world with everything already built.

📛 A new name, the same mod

DayOfMind Additions is now Handwerk. Same mod, same team, same update path — your worlds, configs and launcher profiles keep working, nothing to migrate. We picked a name that says what the mod is about: honest tools and honest blocks, crafted to feel like vanilla.

📜 License

Handwerk is released under a custom license — see LICENSE. The source is publicly available on Codeberg; please review the license before redistributing or reusing it.

Maintained with ❤️ by OxFaTech.