Harder Tools
This data pack reworks Minecraft's progression, making tool and weapon crafting more complex, logical, and resource-intensive. The goal is to add depth to the early and mid-game without disrupting balance.
Crafting Changes:
The early game has been made more difficult:
Wooden and stone tools now require string, which is crafted from wool, making early tools and other items dependent on sheep hunting.
Tools and weapons require more resources:
Recipes for all swords, axes, pickaxes, shovels, hoes, and spears have been reworked.
Crafting iron, diamond, and netherite tools now requires additional nugget, slightly slowing down the progression to new equipment levels.
Added a new endgame craft:
The Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template duplication crafting has been changed and made more difficult. This makes the transition to endgame gear more difficult and time-consuming.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7
- 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 Harder Tools.zip
- Download size: 19 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.