Stonecutter Sifting

Give your Stonecutter a second purpose.

Drop supported blocks directly on top of a Stonecutter and it will automatically sift them into useful resources.

Stonecutter Sifting is designed especially for OneBlock, SkyBlock, Superflat and other limited worlds, where otherwise common materials can be difficult or impossible to obtain renewably.

No new machine is required: the vanilla Stonecutter itself becomes the sifter.

How It Works

Simply drop a supported block item onto a Stonecutter.

Every few ticks, the Stonecutter consumes one block and rolls its possible rewards.

Different materials provide different resource pools, ranging from vegetation and building blocks to rarer resources.

Supported Materials

Sifting is available for materials from all three dimensions, including:

Overworld Sand, Red Sand, Gravel, Dirt, Podzol, Rooted Dirt, Moss, Clay and Mud

Nether Soul Sand, Netherrack and Blackstone

End End Stone

Ocean Resources Prismarine, Prismarine Bricks and Dark Prismarine

Ocean Sifting

Version 1.1.0 expands sifting with a new renewable route for Monument and ocean resources.

Prismarine materials can produce combinations of:

• Prismarine Shards
• Prismarine Crystals
• Wet Sponge
• Heart of the Sea
• Living Coral Blocks

Prismarine Bricks and Dark Prismarine provide progressively stronger reward tables.

Sniffer Egg

Sand now has a very rare independent chance to produce a Sniffer Egg.

This is a bonus roll and does not replace Sand's normal sifting reward.

Rare Rewards

Some tables also contain rare rewards.

For example:

• Gravel can produce Diamonds.
• Netherrack has an extremely rare chance to produce Ancient Debris.
• Sand has a 0.25% bonus chance for a Sniffer Egg.

JEI or EMI is strongly recommended if you want to inspect every exact chance in-game.

JEI & EMI

Both JEI and EMI are optionally supported.

Every sifting input, possible output and probability is shown directly in the recipe viewer.

The displayed information is generated from the same tables used by gameplay, so the viewer always represents the actual sifting behavior.

Modpack Support

Stonecutter Sifting is fully standalone and does not depend on any specific OneBlock or modpack.

Modpacks can extend or modify its behavior separately without requiring those additions to become part of the base mod.

An exclusion tag is also available for preventing non-Overworld saplings from entering Dirt's random sapling pool.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.235+

Optional

• JEI
• EMI

The mod must be installed on both the client and server.

Credits

Celerbi — Development
Mausermeyer — Stonecutter Sifting logo artwork

Stonecutter Sifting

Stonecutters are often left behind after their normal cutting recipes are no longer needed. Stonecutter Sifting gives them a second, lasting purpose: drop supported block-items directly onto a Stonecutter to turn them into useful resources. Each Stonecutter processes one input every four ticks.

It is designed for OneBlock, SkyBlock, superflat, and other limited worlds. In these worlds, common blocks can pile up while important materials become locked behind scarce or RNG-dependent world access. Sifting makes those blocks useful again by creating renewable, chance-based routes to the resources players need, while keeping normal progression meaningful.

What can be sifted?

Recipe viewers

JEI and EMI are supported. They show the full outcome table and the chance for every possible result, including the chance of receiving nothing.

Modpack support

The empty #stonecutter_sifting:non_overworld_saplings item tag lets modpack authors exclude saplings from other dimensions. Compatible modded Overworld saplings otherwise join Dirt's surprise pool automatically.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.235 or newer
• Java 21
• Works on both client and dedicated server

Credits

• Celerbi — mod development
• Mausermeyer — Stonecutter Sifting logo artwork