Tinkers Construct
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.20. File opened and checked on 16 Oct 2026; downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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Requires Slimeknights Library Mod: Mantle
Recommended to include the a recipe viewer: Just Enough Items
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Discord: discord.gg/njGrvuh
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 We also do not take bug reports for outdated builds of Minecraft.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
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.19.2, 1.18.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as TConstruct-1.12-2.8.0.45.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 3.6 MB
- Download link checked 23 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
![Minecraft - Tinkers Construct 3 Mod Showcase [Forge 1.16.5]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YtieZECtImA/mqdefault.jpg)
