Very Grindy Progression
Crafting recipes for most tools and armor are far more expensive. Also locks certain OP features until you craft all diamond or netherite equipment.
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Very Grindy Progression
This datapack changes recipes for most tools and armor to require ridiculous amount of resources to craft them, or just makes them more annoying to make. Normal crafting recipes are removed.
I really don't know why would anyone want to play with this, but i made it none the less. One of my friends thought of this dumb idea one time, and I finally made it.
Includes most materials except leather and netherite.
Features
Recipes Wooden recipes now use stripped wood instead of planks, except wooden axes which use normal wood. Showcase below.
Stone tools are now made of smooth stone, because everyone loves to smelt smooth stone, right?
Iron tools and armor are made of iron blocks instead of ingots. Buckets too.
Golden tools and armor are made of gold blocks. Very fun.
Diamond tools and armor are made of diamond blocks. Yes, that means that a chestplate costs 72 diamonds. full set costs 24*9=216 diamonds. Not including tools. But don't worry, netherite remains unchanged.
Feature Locks
End City Lock
Until you obtain all diamond armor and tools, you cannot visit end cities. Well, you can, but it will not end well. You thought you could just loot some end cities and not care about expensive crafting? Better luck next time.
Villager Lock
Until you get all netherite tools and armor (yes, even a netherite hoe), you cant trade with villagers. Again, you "can" but it will not end well for you, neither for the villager.
Spoiler for what will happenYou will explode when you enter an end city or interact with villagers. And that explosion will also destroy your items. You really got to be careful.
Other
If you have any suggestion or found any bugs, join my discord server (link in external sources)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.5, 1.20.6
- 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 Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Very Grindy Progression.zip
- Download size: 23 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.