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5.0

How I miss you, Tinkers' Construct... No other mods will ever come close

Parzival000

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1 month ago

Posted: June 8, 2026 at 11:33:30 PM UTC

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4.5

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5.0

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5.0

Tinkers' Construct is just one of those mods that no alternatives can ever come close to. Being able to create your own custom tools, weapons, and armor with different attributes, using a surprisingly fun and simple smelting and alloys and materials system is just so engaging and fun.

While some aspects can be a little repetitive, confusing, or wiki/youtube-dependant, so are most mods! The awesome aspects of this mod far outweigh any negatives.

I can still remember trying to get different slime balls for the best attributes, and maxing out redstone, lapis, or quartz for each weapon or tool. Basically infinite customization, and a rare immersive yet not complex or boring crafting/smelting system.

I miss you, Tinkers' Construct. Some mods may try to replace you, or update you, but no mods will ever come close to Tinkers' Construct.

5.0

Parzival000

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1 month ago

Posted: June 8, 2026 at 11:33:30 PM UTC

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5.0

Puts YOU in control of your tools

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1 month ago

Posted: June 4, 2026 at 5:11:59 AM UTC

500 hrs

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MC 1.20, 1.1… MC 1.20, 1.12, 1.7

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4.5

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3.0

Performance

4.0

If I had to offer a single bit of criticism, the art really isn't the greatest, not my thing,

BUT

This mod has been, since 1.7.10, one of the definitive mods in virtually all modpacks, adding a sense of actual depth to your tools, your weapons, the things you use to interact with the game.

Minecraft has long, for well over a decade had a issue that nobody really realizes until they use this mod.

you get a wood pickaxe
you get stone until you find 3 pieces of iron
you use iron until you find diamond
you now get to farm villagers to get mending so your tool doesn't break
may as well get netherite, as of more recently
time to farm enchants until i get perfection

ALL OF THAT SUCKS.

Tinkers Construct replaces all of this with custom, upgradable, infinitely repairable tools that you own.
In Tinkers Construct, you create a stone pickaxe, you work to smelt your metals, creating a large multiblock furnace, before creating a Tool Head forged out of a metal of your choice.

The Tool Head you make takes Attributes from the metal you use, and there is no "best material" to optimize with, it's just pros and cons. There's also an Upgrade system, allowing you to apply secondary materials to the tool to add modifiers like Luck or Fortune (an enchanting replacement)

I struggle to figure out a way to describe how gratifying this feels, how much better than vanilla this is, but truly, if by some terrible twist of fate you haven't yet played this mod, get it, you're even provided with in-game documentation.

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Last edited: June 14, 2026 at 5:37:16 PM UTC

5.0

Lor

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Posted: June 4, 2026 at 5:11:59 AM UTC

500 hrs

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MC 1.20, 1.1… MC 1.20, 1.12, 1.7

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5.0

Very great mod, in all its incarnations

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8 months ago

Posted: October 30, 2025 at 10:56:33 AM UTC

250 hrs

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MC Other, 1.… MC Other, 1.7, 1.12, 1.20, pre-1.7

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4.0

Aesthetics

5.0

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5.0

I'd like to start by saying this is my all time favorite mod, at least in it's 1.12.2 incarnation.

I have played lots of versions of this mod, like the early now deleted alphas for mc 1.4.7 (which were kind of buggy and limited but those are old and now long gone from official downloads of course), version 1 in 1.7.10, which was very great overall, version 2 in 1.12.2 which i have to say expanded greatly on version 1 and provided vary qol tweaks, and version 3 in 1.20.1, which, although i feel like is inferior to version 2, is still great and maybe a bit more balanced.

For gameplay, i gave 4/5 stars because although the gameplay is very fun and nice, it sometimes can be a bit overpowered (specially with certain materials added by certain mods).

For aesthetics i gave 5/5 stars because both the old textures and new jappaified textures are very beautiful in their own ways, and the whole seared stone bricks aesthetics was always very sleek.

For performance and stability i gave 5/5 stars because i never ever had any stability or performance problems with the mod, even in its buggy 1.4.7 alpha state.

Honestly, i suggest this mod to anyone.
Plus it replaces the enchanting system with the material/modifier system for its tools and thats a good thing in my book.

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Last edited: June 24, 2026 at 3:37:09 PM UTC

5.0

gabry

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8 months ago

Posted: October 30, 2025 at 10:56:33 AM UTC

250 hrs

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MC Other, 1.… MC Other, 1.7, 1.12, 1.20, pre-1.7

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4.0

Still one of my favorite weapon mods!

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2 years ago

Posted: August 28, 2023 at 6:35:14 AM UTC

MC pre-1.7, … MC pre-1.7, 1.7, 1.12

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3.0

Aesthetics

5.0

Performance

5.0

I played this mod in many different versions, ranging from 1.6.4 in Attack of the B-Team to multiple different modpacks in 1.7.10 and 1.12.2.

With the amount of content added by the mod, it could feel a bit overwhelming for some players, but the books help with that very much. Since every modpack can make tweaks and changes to the base mod, the possibilities are endless.

Even though, the mod sometimes feels repetetive, meaning that you start by creating vanilla tools (or basic tinkers tools if forced by the modpack) and then continue with the next higher tier of tinkers tools, skipping basically everything after iron until you're able to mine cobalt and ardite in order to create manyullyn. Once reached, there is no real reason to go any further as you reached the top. Using mending moss, your tools don't even need to be repaired and therefore last forever.

There are some modpacks who integrate this mod very well, so that you have to use it in order to progess (like Regrowth for example), but for most packs the previous points are why I leave my smeltery untouched after the first few hours of playtime.

4.0

LeStegii

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Posted: August 28, 2023 at 6:35:14 AM UTC

MC pre-1.7, … MC pre-1.7, 1.7, 1.12

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Tinkers' Construct 3.11.2.166 for 1.20.1

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Requires Slimeknights Library Mod: Mantle

Recommended to include the a recipe viewer: Just Enough Items

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Overview

Tinkers' Construct is a mod about putting tools together in a wide variety of ways, then modifying them until they turn into something else. The tools never disappear and can be named and changed to your heart's desire. Once you make them, they're yours forever. Many different materials can be used to make your tools.

This mod includes many related features, including:

Part builders, tinker stations, and modifier workstations for building and modifying your tools
The melter, alloyer, smeltery, and foundry for working with molten metals
Slime islands generating as part of the overworld, nether, and end, granting access to 4 different slime colors
Slimy geodes spawning deep underground
Cobalt ore in the nether

To get started, craft Materials and You then follow the introduction steps. For a more detailed overview, see one of the following links:

Tinkers' Construct 3 Overview: Overview of the mod contents since 1.16.
Tinkers' Construct 2 Overview: Overview of the mod contents between 1.8 and 1.12.

License

The mods binaries, as well as its textures and code are licensed under the MIT License.

Feel free to use the mod in any modpacks. You are allowed to use it, you do not need to ask for permission, in fact permission requests will usually be ignored. When using the mod, please use the Curse/Curseforge, Modrinth, or GitHub download and do not rehost the files.

Any modpack which uses Tinkers' Construct takes full responsibility for user support queries.

For anyone else, we only support official builds from Curse/Curseforge, Modrinth, and GitHub, not custom built jars. We also do not take bug reports for outdated builds of Minecraft.

Credits

Tinkers' Construct 3 - since 1.16

KnightMiner - Lead Developer
alexbegt - Developer
boni - former developer
mDiyo - Original author, game design input
RCXcrafter - Artist
See contributors on GitHub for a full list of contributors

Tinkers' Construct 2 - 1.8 to 1.12

boni - Lead Developer
KnightMiner - Developer
alexbegt - Developer/Updating
mDiyo - Original Author of the mod
Firedingo - General Task Support
Drullkus - Villager textures
Anbaric - Pattern chest and part chest model

Tinkers' Construct 1 - 1.7 and before

mDiyo - Lead Developer
boni - Developer
fuj1n - Landmines, Former Developer
progwml6 - Former Developer
Fudgy_Fetus - Cutlasses
NekoGloop - Thaumium Textures
Skyboy - New tool renderer
Zerokyuuni - Battlegear support
Vexatos - Translations
BluSunrize - Casting Channels
tonius11 - NEI Support
baddaspig - Slime Crystal graphics

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Smeltery

Overview

This mod includes many related features, including:

Part builders, tinker stations, and modifier workstations for building and modifying your tools
The melter, alloyer, smeltery, and foundry for working with molten metals
Slime islands generating as part of the overworld, nether, and end, granting access to 4 different slime colors
Slimy geodes spawning deep underground
Cobalt ore in the nether

To get started, craft Materials and You then follow the introduction steps. For a more detailed overview, see one of the following links:

Tinkers' Construct 3 Overview: Overview of the mod contents since 1.16.
Tinkers' Construct 2 Overview: Overview of the mod contents between 1.8 and 1.12.

License

The mods binaries, as well as its textures and code are licensed under the MIT License.

Feel free to use the mod in any modpacks. You are allowed to use it, you do not need to ask for permission, in fact permission requests will usually be ignored. When using the mod, please use the Curse/CurseForge, Modrinth, or GitHub download and do not rehost the files.

Any modpack which uses Tinkers' Construct takes full responsibility for user support queries.

For anyone else, we only support official builds from Curse/Curseforge, Modrinth, and GitHub. No custom built jars. We also do not take bug reports for outdated builds of Minecraft.

This project currently has builds for 1.18.2+ along with 1.6.4, 1.7.10, 1.12.2, and 1.16.5. If you are using a Minecraft version other than that which has a Tinkers release, make a request on our discord and I will upload the older build.