Latest Release: 9.0.0

Wood Mekanism or WookMek for short is a 1.21+ NeoForge Minecraft Mod which adds wood-based materials, custom fluids, blocks and custom items with deep Mekanism integration and cross-mod compatibility. Features custom recipes that are embedded.

This is not a conventional, playable mod.

This mod is a WIP, towards no end goal. WoodMek is a functional development mod primarily used as a sandbox for testing and improving my modding workflow. It helps me explore data generation, event handling, integration with other mods, working with textures and pixel art, GitHub version control, IntelliJ workspace setup, and preparing mods for publishing on CurseForge. This project isn’t intended for actual gameplay, but you're welcome to take a look if you're interested or learning yourself. Also note that these ingame screenshots may or may not be the latest reflection of the WoodMek mod (Including blocks, items, features or functions).

For questions or suggestions, message me on Discord: @umf

For the latest updates, go to my Github: https://github.com/umfhero/WoodMek-NeoForge-1.21.1

WoodMek Mod Documentation

Mod Items

WoodMek Creative Tabs / Mod items (JEI - Wood Items & Blocks)

Processing Workflows (New in v3.0.0)

1. Harvest Logs
Gathered from vanilla loot tables when chopping trees

(standard Minecraft wood collection)

2. Crush Logs to Wood Dust

Process logs through Mekanism's Crusher to create Wood Dust

3. Smelt Wood Dust to Hard Wood

Smelt Wood Dust in any furnace to create Hard Wood, note that mekanism has a furnance like machine (any furnace will work)

4. Infuse Hard Wood to Hardwood Alloy

Infuse Hard Wood with Carbon in a Metallurgic Infuser to create Hardwood Alloy

5. Compact Alloy Production (Efficiency Boost)

Process Hard Wood Blocks (each made from 9 Hard Wood in a 3x3 craft) to get 9x Hardwood Alloy - more efficient than processing individual Hard Wood items!

FTB Quests

Overview

With any new mod/modpack, a quest is needed and so using FTB quests. I've created just that.

Quest Item

With each item, comes a description and a linear progression to help players know what steps to take to get to each milestone with custom rewards!

Items

Wood Sheets

• v2.0 Update: Detailed wood grain texture
• Obtained by:
  • Crafting recipes
  • Chopping wood (vanilla loot tables)
• Processing: Smelt into Hard Wood or crush into Wood Dust

Hard Wood

• v2.0 Update: Carbonized texture
• Uses:
  • Crafted into Hard Wood Blocks (2x2 pattern)
  • Processed into Hardwood Alloy via Infusion

Wood Dust

• New in v2.0: Fine wood powder
• Creation: Crush Wood Sheets in Crusher
• Purpose: Intermediate for advanced alloys

Hardwood Alloy

• Crafting: Metallurgic Infuser (Hard Wood + Carbon)
• v3.0 Feature: Cross-mod recipe support via datapacks

Chisel

• v3.5.0 Update: Chisel
• Uses:
  • Turn set blocks into its counterpart

Transformer Block

• v4.0.0 Update: Transformer
• Uses:
  • Turns entities thrown ontop to their upgraded versions
  • Wood dust into hardwood alloys
  • Hardwood into hardwood block
  • Works for single items and stacks of items

Changelog

[9.0.0] - WoodMek updated to 1.21.1

• Added Chemical Oxidizer recipe for hardwood alloy into wood essence gas

[8.8.0] - Converted wood essence into a gas

• Liquid: Liquid Sap (Gold)
• Gas: Wood Essence (Brown)
• Infuse type (Chemical): Enriched wood essence (purple)

[8.7.0] - WoodMek updated to 1.21.1

• Gradle properties and Mekanism API updated for 1.21.1
• Bug tested and all functionality working

[8.5.0] - Mekanism Custom Fluid Functionality

• Liquid Sap (Texture update pending)
• Fluid has lava functionality with no burning effects etc (eg can be placed next to water)

[8.2.0] - Mekanism Custom infuse_type Functionality (Chemicals)

• A while after adding Wood Essence, the Wood Essence inside the Metallurgic Infuser now works/displays properly. It will be the primary fluid for WoodMek, with more planned in the future.
• Added documentation for others trying to figure this out:
  \src\main\resources\assets\woodmek\pics\Mekanism_API_1.21.txt

[8.0.0] - Mekanism Wood Essence Infusion Type

• Returning to WoodMek's roots! Thought it would be a good time to take another shot at integrating with Mekanism, this time with something bigger, a custom infuse-type fluid.
• Wood Essence and its tank counterpart are now in the game/JEI (added after an hour of debugging).
• Added Mekanism API and dependencies to Gradle.

[7.5.0] - Sound Events

• Added sounds to the Flare (for both shooting and locking).
• Added a full DeferredSoundType for the Transformer block, including break, step, place, hit, and fall sounds.

[7.0.0] - Flaregun, Hardwood tools and hammer

• Added Hardwood set of tools (Slightly better than Iron), added Azalea tool set which is slightly better than netherite tools.
• Added a Hardwood Hammer which mines a 3x3 area (only of the same type of block

• Added a temporary cooldown to the chisel and change to the texture (which changes back after the cooldown)

• Added a Flare gun for testing which branches of the chisel cool down. Custom cooldown bar (coloured), with partical trail when shot.
• At the moment it has no recipe.

[6.5.0] - Mini hazard block

• Added a new mini hazardblock

[6.4.0] - Polished hardwood Block (2 varients)

• Added a new polished hardwood blcok to go with the new lamp with 2 varients, dented and undented

[6.3.0] - Retexture

• Rextured the base hardwood items and added hardwood bricks

[6.0.0] - Now a standalone mod! - Recipes, Hazard Blocks and ModID Changes

• Added a second hazard block: Half Hazard Block

  • Both hazard blocks now have recipes:

  4x Stone + 1x Yellow Dye

• Both blocks support directional movement with the chisel
  (rotate 90° back and forth)
  • Added a new Blockstate Lamp
• Reacts to click inputs and uses blockstates for toggling on/off

• Rewrote and restructured the entire project
  
  • Renamed mod from blockmod to woodmek
  • New Mod ID: woodmek / WoodMek
• Mekanism recipes now built-in
  
  • No datapack required
  • Recipes are loaded automatically through mod data
  • Fully functional integration with Mekanism

[5.5.0] - DataGen

• Added stairs, buttons, doors, fences and fence gates, slabs, walls, pressure plates and trapdoors

[5.0.0] - DataGen

• Converted all loot tables, block states, block/item tags, data maps, item models, and recipes to data generators for easier maintenance and future updates.

[4.6.0] - Tool Tips

• Added a Tool tips to complex items such as the Chisel and the Transformer block

[4.2.0] - Burn Rates

• Added a burn time to all wooden items with all values based on the level on compactness and difficulty

[4.0.0] - Custom Block (Transformer)

• Added a Transformer block that can turn items (non modded and modded) into their upgraded counterparts
• Example of transformations include wood dust into hardwood alloy. hardwood into hardwood_block
• Added recipe for the transformer

[3.8.0] - Custom Items (Chisel)

• Added a building Chisel that can turn basic blocks into their building block counterparts

[3.4.0] - Cross-Mod Compatibility & Recipes

• Full Mekanism recipe integration via datapacks
• Custom processing GUIs (see Processing Workflows)
• Compact machine workflows
• Added pics folder for this repo documentation and assets
• FTB Quest integration (shown in quests)
• Backend support for modpack recipe overrides

[2.0.0] - Loot tables, Recipes & New Content

• Texture updates for Hard Wood/Wood Sheets
• Wood Dust item + crusher recipes
• Loot table fixes for block drops
• Sound type additions for blocks

[1.5.1] - Modpack compatible with NeoForge Mods (Mekanism, Create, FTB Ultimine and JEI)

• Modpack WoodMek on CurseForge with Mekanism, JEI, FTB Ultimine (Forge) and Create (Version 6)
• Arguably most important version and proof the swap to NeoForge from Forge was for the best

[1.0.5] - Blocks

• Added blocks: Hazard and Hardwood Blocks alongside their inventory counterpart items (rendering on minecraft:block/cube_all)
• Created building blocks category for the creative tab

[1.0.0] - Initial Release + Items

• Added base items: Wood Sheets, Hard Wood and Hardwood Alloy
• Added two creative inventory tabs for wood items and another for building blocks
• Backend for future releases (e.g., loot tables, recipes, textures)

[0.0.1] - Pre-Release

• Base foundation porting all previous code from Forge to NeoForge for future compatibility, performance and more
• Setting up directories, Minecraft documentation, build files etc.
• Established gradle.properties for mod name (now officially WoodMek)
• Mod_id=blockmod + MIT license + mod_group_id=net.umf.blockmod