Iron Lodestones Backport is a simple datapack that replaces changes the lodestone crafting recipe to use iron rather than netherite. This is a backport of a change in 1.21.5.
It is intended to support every version that contains lodestones until the vanilla change. It has been tested on these versions:
20w13a
1.16
1.20.4
24w07a
24w09a
1.20.6
24w20a
24w21a
1.21
1.21.1
24w33a
1.21.4
These versions were selected on account of being before or after relevant datapack changes, so it should cover all versions in between, but I can't promise 100% certainty to work with every version. Note: Some of these versions will indicate that the pack is made for a newer version of Minecraft; that is known to occur on some working versions, so it is not a sufficient indicator of failure.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16, 1.21.4
- 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 iron-lodestones-backport.zip
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.