Fabrication Mod (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – A Huge Collection of Vanilla Tweaks

Fabrication Mod is a huge collection of vanilla tweaks and small features for Minecraft.

Features:

General – Broad features and global settings

• Balance – Changes to vanilla balance
• Experiments – Bad ideas given form
• Fixes – Fixes for bugs and weird behavior
• Mechanics – New mechanics and powerful additions
• Minor Mechanics – Small additions to vanilla mechanics
• Pedantry – Fixes for non-problems
• Tweaks – Minor changes that fit with vanilla
• Unsafe – QoL changes that make cheating easier
• Utility – Useful tidbits that don’t modify gameplay
• Weird Tweaks – Opinionated changes
• What’s Old Is New Again – Forward ports of forgotten tidbits
• Dark Mode – Makes the config screen darker
• Data Upload – Enables submitting anonymous data to a self-hosted privacy-respecting Matomo instance run by unascribed
• Limit Runtime Configs – Makes the game a teensy bit faster, but requires a restart to change features
• Reduced Motion – Disables high-motion animations in the Fabrication config screen

Fixes – Fixes for bugs and weird behavior

• Adventure Tags In Survival – Makes CanDestroy/CanPlaceOn work in Survival
• Better Pause Freezing – Makes textures not tick while the game is paused
• Boundless Levels – Fixes enchantment.level.27
• Colored Crack Particles – Makes “crack” particles honor item coloration, such as leather armor dye
• Bubble Column Pop – Re-adds bubble columns having a bubble pop particle and sound at the top
• Stable Cacti Break Vanilla Compat – Stable cacti but it will break some existing vanilla farms
• Fix Charm Amethyst Dupe – Fixes a bug in Charm caused by bad assumptions that allows generating amethyst shards.
• Fix End Portal Render – End portal block will render from all sides
• Fix Nether Portal Nausea – Render the nether portal UI texture even if player has nausea
• Furnace Minecart Pushing – Right-clicking a furnace minecart pushes it; silently removed around 17w46a
• Ghast Charging – Brings back the ghast “charging” animation that broke in 1.3
• Inanimates Can Be Invisible – Makes inanimate entities honor the “invisible” tag sent by the server
• Melee Mobs Keep Attacking – Through some mystical mojank reasoning mobs would normally stop looking for the player after reaching the players last known location, this fixes that
• Multiline Sign Paste – Allows pasting multiple lines of text into a sign
• No Night Vision Flashing – Disables the flashing effect when Night Vision is about to run out
• Omniscent Player – The player render in the inventory always follows your cursor
• Open Inventories in Nether Portals – Allows players to open inventories while in a nether portal
• Silverfish Step – Fixes an oversight that prevents silverfish from playing their step sound
• Stable Cacti – Makes cacti less afraid
• Sync Attacker Yaw – Correctly sync the last attacker yaw for damage tilt; fixes MC-26678
• Uncap Menu FPS – Removes the hardcoded 60 FPS cap in menu screens
• Use Player List Name In Tag – Changes player name tags to match names in the player list

Utility – Useful tidbits that don’t modify gameplay

• Books Show Enchants – Enchanted books show the first letter of their enchant
• CanHit – A CanHit tag for weapons in the same vein as CanDestroy/CanPlaceOn
• Despawning Items Blink – Makes items that are about to despawn blink
• All Damage Is Fatal – Any amount of damage done to an entity is unconditionally fatal
• Chat Markdown – Adds bold, strikethrough, underscore and italic markdown to chat
• Disable Bees – Disables bee nest generation and all bee sounds
• Disable Villagers – Prevents villages from generating and zombie villagers from spawning
• Enter Selects Highlighted Suggestion – Pressing enter selects the highlighted suggestion
• Item Frames Don’t Display Name Tags – Item frames will not display the names of the item inside them
• No Guardian Jumpscare – Disables the elder guardian appearance effect upon being inflicted with Mining Fatigue
• Show Bee Count on Items – Makes bee hive items show amount of contained bees
• Weapons Accept Silk – Weapons can be enchanted with Silk Touch, and Silk Touch becomes incompatible with Looting
• Extract Furnace Experience – Allows clicking on the empty output slot of a furnace to extract the experience, instead of needing to break it
• Hide Armor – Adds /hidearmor and /showarmor commands to hide and show your armor
• /i And More – Adds /i, /item, /more, and /fenchant commands
• Item Despawn Control – Allows fine-grained control over item despawn times
• KillMessage – Allows customizing kill messages for summoned entities and spawned items
• Legacy Command Syntax – Brings back various kinds of old command syntax; old habits die hard
• Lenient Command Suggestions – Command suggestions for modded ids will still appear even if the id namespace is not explicitly specified
• Linkify Urls – Links in chat are clickable
• Mob IDs – Makes entities show their entity ID as a nametag in Creative when F3 is up
• /mods Command – Adds a /mods command in the same vein as Bukkit’s /plugins
• Ping Privacy – Sends no ping data to IPs that have not successfully logged in in the last 7 days
• RMB Clears Text Fields – Right Mouse Button will clear text fields
• Show Bee Count in Tooltip – Makes bee hive tooltips show amount of contained bees
• Show Map ID – Makes filled maps show their ID
• Taggable Players – Allows assigning various “tags” to players, such as no_hunger or invisible_to_mobs
• Toggle Sprint – Adds a “Toggle/Hold Sprint” keybind
• Toggle Stance – Adds a “Toggle Stance” keybind to switch between standing and sneaking
• Tools Show Important Enchant – Tools show the first letter of their “important” enchant
• Yeet Recipes – Adds a yeet_recipes.ini that can be used to completely remove any recipe

Tweaks – Minor changes that fit with vanilla

• Alt Absorption Sound – Taking damage that is completely absorbed by Absorption plays a different (custom) sound
• Arrows Work In Water – Reduces arrow drag in water by a fair bit to make bows useful underwater
• Bush Walk Doesn’t Hurt – Makes walking through berry bushes not deal damage
• Bush Walk Doesn’t Hurt When Sneaking – Makes walking through berry bushes when sneaking not deal damage
• Bush Walk Doesn’t Hurt With Armor – Walking through berry bushes with both legging and boots equipped doesn’t hurt
• Cactus Brush Doesn’t Hurt With Chest – Touching the side of a cactus with a chestplate on doesn’t hurt
• Cactus Walk Doesn’t Hurt With Boots – Walking on top of a cactus with boots on doesn’t hurt
• Campfires Cook Entities – Campfires will cook entities without setting them on fire
• Campfires Ignite Entities – Campfires will set fire to mobs standing on them, therefore also cooking them
• Campfires Place Unlit – Campfires are unlit when placed and must be lit with a Flint and Steel
• Cracking Spawn Eggs – Spawn eggs spawn cracking particles and play a sound when used
• Ender Pearl Sound – Ender pearls play enderman teleport sound when breaking
• Can Breathe Water – Players will not lose air while underwater
• Fireproof – Players cannot take fire damage
• Invisible To Mobs – Players cannot be targeted by mobs at all
• No Hunger – Players never lose food, and when they eat food it instead heals them directly
• No Phantoms – Prevents phantoms from spawning
• No Wandering Trader – Prevents wandering traders from spawning
• Permanent Conduit Power – Players always have Conduit Power
• Permanent Dolphins Grace – Players always have Dolphins Grace
• Scares Creepers – Players will scare creepers
• Feather Falling No Trample – Farmland will not get trampled when wearing feather falling
• Flammable Cobwebs – Cobwebs can burn
• Fullres Banner Shields – Makes shields use the full-res banner patterns instead of weird smaller versions
• Ghast Panic – Makes ghasts randomly play the unused “scream” sound when outside of the Nether
• Legible Signs – Adjusts sign text colors to be less garbage
• Less Annoying Fire – Shortens the fire overlay and hides it when you have Fire Resistance
• Less Restrictive Note Blocks – Makes note blocks work with blocks above them
• Long Level Up Sound At 30 – Plays the old longer level up sound when you reach level 30
• Nether Cauldron – Water evaporates when being placed inside a cauldron in the nether
• No Dinnerlava – Disables the generation of 1 block hidden lava pockets in the Nether
• No Heavy Minecarts – Chest and hopper minecarts will not be slowed down proportionally to the number of items in them
• No Sneak Bypass – Blocks which would normally not affect players when sneaking will
• No Trample – Farmland will not get trampled
• Normal Fog With Night Vision – Disables the fog brightening effect with Night Vision
• Play Note Blocks In Creative – Allows sneaking when punching note blocks to play them in Creative mode
• Rainbow Experience – Makes experience random colors instead of just lime green
• Recipe Book Auto Craft – Recipe book crafts items instead of moving them to the crafting area
• Reverse Note Block Tuning – Sneaking while tuning a note block reduces its pitch rather than increases
• See Held Items While Riding – Allows players to see held items while riding entities like boats
• Shulker Bullets Despawn On Death – Makes shulker bullets despawn when the shulker that shot them is killed
• Silent Minecarts – Makes minecarts silent
• Tridents In Void Return – Loyalty tridents return when falling into the Void

Minor Mechanics – Small additions to vanilla mechanics

• Cactus Punching Hurts – Breaking cactus with your hand will damage you the same as hugging it
• Channeling Two – Makes Channeling II a valid enchant that works while raining as well
• Crawling – Adds a key to explicitly enter the “crawling” stance
• Exact Note Block Tuning – Right-clicking a note block with a stack of sticks sets its pitch to the size of the stack minus one
• Collision Based Landing Pos – More accurately determines what the player is standing on
• Launching Pistons – Pistons launch players up as if they were pushing slime blocks
• Observers See Entities – Observers detect when entities move in front of them if they have no block in front of them
• Observers See Entities – Living Only – Observers only detect living entities, and not e.g. item entities
• Spiders Can’t Climb While Wet – Makes spiders unable to climb while wet
• Water Fills On Break Strict – Requires water_fills_on_break to have at least 2 water sources
• Feather Falling V – Makes Feather Falling V a valid enchant that completely negates fall damage
• Feather Falling V Damages Boots – Makes absorbing fall damage with Feather Falling V cause damage to the boots
• Fire Aspect Is Flint And Steel – Makes Fire Aspect tools act like Flint and Steel
• Fire Protection On Any Item – Fire Protection can be applied to any enchantable item, and makes the item immune to fire and lava damage
• Furnace Minecart Accepts Any Fuel – Allows furnace minecarts to accept any furnace fuel, rather than just coal and charcoal
• Gradual Block Breaking – Snow layers and slabs will be mined a layer at a time
• InfiBows – Makes Infinity bows not require an arrow in your inventory to fire
• Invisibility Splash On Inanimates – Invisibility splash potions affect inanimates (minecarts, arrows, etc) making them invisible
• Mechanism Muffling – Placing a block of wool adjacent to a dispenser, dropper, or piston makes it silent
• Note Block Notes – Tells you the note the note block has been tuned to when tuning it or playing it manually above your hotbar
• Note Blocks Play On Landing – Makes note blocks play when landed on
• Protection On Any Item – Protection can be applied to any enchantable item
• Spiders Can’t Climb Glazed Terracotta – Makes spiders unable to climb glazed terracotta
• Spreadable Moss – Using bone meal on a stone block with a moss block nearby grows moss to that block, to make it a bit easier to work with for building
• Tridents Activate Levers – When a trident hits a lever it will toggle it
• Unsaddle Creatures – Shift right click with an empty hand to retrieve a saddle from a pig/strider
• Water Fills On Break – Water source blocks fill in broken blocks instead of air under some conditions

Mechanics – New mechanics and powerful additions

• Anvil Repair – Allows right-clicking on an anvil with a Block of Iron to repair it one stage
• Bottled Air – Filling a glass bottle underwater refills 1 air bubble
• Broken Gear Drops Components – Makes gear drop its consituent items when broken
• Detecting Powered Rails – Allows using a comparator on a powered rail just like a detector rail
• Directional Detector Rails – Placing magenta glazed terracotta under a detector rail makes it only detect minecarts moving in the direction of the arrow
• Directional Powered Rails – Placing magenta glazed terracotta under a powered rail makes it push minecarts in the direction of the arrow, even from a stop
• Enhanced Moistness – Entities are considered “wet” for 5 seconds after leaving a source of wetness
• Colorful Redstone – Redstone on top of wool will not connect to redstone on top of a different color of wool
• Swap Conflicting Enchants – When adding enchants that would normally not be compatible it will instead get added in an inactive state
• Weaponized Pearls – Pearls will teleport entities they hit and pull nearby ones
• Grindstone Disenchanting – Placing a book in the bottom slot of a Grindstone when disenchanting an item will transfer the enchantments onto the book
• Obsidian Tears – Lets you set your spawn at a Crying Obsidian block; automatable
• Pursurvers – Adds “Pursurvers”, observers with a Purpur block next to them, that can detect left-clicks on their watched block
• Slow Fall Splash On Inanimates – Slow fall splash potions affect inanimates (minecarts, arrows, etc) making them unaffected by gravity
• Toggleable Furnace Carts – Powered rails stop furnace carts when appropriate and conserve their fuel
• Wool Protected Sheep – Sheep wool slightly reduces some types of damage

Balance – Changes to vanilla balance

• Anvil No Level Limit – Anvils don’t become “Too Expensive”
• Anvil Rename Always Costs One – Makes renaming an item on an anvil always cost one level
• Bedrock-Like Impaling – Makes the Impaling enchantment act like it does in Bedrock Edition and Combat Test 4
• Disable Prior Work Penalty – Disables the anvil prior work penalty when an item has been worked multiple times
• Drop More Experience On Death – Players drop 80% of their experience when dying instead of basically nothing
• Environmentally Friendly Creepers – Creeper explosions deal entity damage, but not block damage, even if mobGriefing is true
• Anvils Take Damage Only When Falling – Anvils only take damage when falling from a height rather than randomly after being used
• Anvil Fully Repairs – Any item repair in the anvil will restore item durability
• Anvil No Xp Cost – Anvils don’t cost any xp
• Brittle Shields – Causes explosions to always break shields
• Disable Elytra – Prevents using Elytra
• Disable Elytra Boost – Prevent Elytra boosting using firework rockets
• Disable Mending – Stops the mending enchantment from working
• Disable Mending Trade – Stops new villagers from offering mending
• Disable Storing Thrown Ender Pearls – Ender pearls forget who threw them when being unloaded
• Ender Dragon Always Spawns Dragon Egg – Ender dragon always spawn a dragon egg when killed
• Full Ender Dragon XP – Ender dragon always gives the same xp amount as it would the first time
• Faulty Shields – Shields half non-projectile damage instead of blocking it
• Food Always Edible – Allows players to eat unconditionally
• Infinity & Mending – Makes Mending and Infinity compatible enchantments
• Interrupting Damage – Taking more then a heart of damage interrupts the current action of any mob / player
• Lava Causes Fall Damage – New in v3.0.3 Lava halves fall damage instead of removing it
• ChunkLoading Furnace Minecart – Makes furnace minecarts load chunks if they have fuel
• Mobs Drop Less Metal – All ingot mob drops are converted to nuggets where possible, otherwise voided
• No Filled Inventories In Shulkers – New in v3.0.3 Shulker boxes will only allow inserting items which don’t store other items this also allows empty shulker boxes to be stored inside a shulker box
• Pickup Skeleton Arrows – Arrows shot by skeletons can be picked up
• Player Free Spawners – Mob spawners don’t require a player nearby to spawn
• Static Dragon Egg – Prevents dragon egg from teleporting
• Tools in Bundles – Allows storing up to 8 nonstackable items in a bundle, as long as nothing else is stored
• Faster Obsidian – Makes obsidian and obsidian-related blocks break 3× faster
• Hyperspeed Furnace Minecart – Makes furnace minecarts very fast and burn fuel more quickly
• Infinity Crossbows – Allow putting Infinity on crossbows
• Soul Speed Doesn’t Damage Boots – Makes running on soul blocks with Soul Speed not deal damage to your boots
• Spawners Always Tick – Spawners always count down their spawn timers, even if no player is nearby
• Tridents Accept Power – Allows tridents to accept the Power enchantment, increasing their ranged damage
• Tridents Accept Sharpness – Allows tridents to accept the Sharpness enchantment, increasing their melee damage

Weird Tweaks – Opinionated changes

• Blaze Powder Grows Nether Wart – Blaze powder behaves as bone meal for nether wart
• Chaining Creepers – Creepers explode after taking explosion damage
• Dimensional Tools – Completely configurable dimensional tool bonuses/penalties
• Disable Equip Sound – Disables the unnecessary “Gear equips” sound that plays when your hands change, and is often glitchily played every tick
• Disable Nether Fog – Removes thick nether fog
• Drop Experience With keepInventory – If keepInventory is enabled, players still drop their experience when dying, but do so losslessly
• Endermen Don’t Grief – Endermen no longer place or pickup blocks
• Endermen Don’t Squeal – Makes Endermen not make their growling or screeching sounds when angry
• Creepers Explode When On Fire – Causes creepers to light their fuses when lit on fire
• Curable Piglins – Piglins and hoglins can be made immune with a golden apple or cured if they also have weakness
• Disable Lightning Fire – Prevents lightning from creating fire
• Disable Night Skip – Prevents beds from skipping the night
• Encroaching Emeralds – Emeralds spawn in all biomes which have ores
• Flimsy Tripwire – Tripwire breaks after being activated
• Foliage Creepers – Creepers will take on the foliage color of the biome they’re in
• No Dolphin Theft – Prevents dolphins from picking up items
• Photoallergic Creepers – Creepers burn in sunlight
• Photoresistant Mobs – Mobs don’t burn in sunlight
• Source Dependent Invulnerability Frames – Allows entities to take damage multiple times if it’s from multiple sources
• Thrown Buckets Empty Lava Cauldrons – Throwing an bucket at a lava cauldron will pickup the lava
• Underwater Explosions – TNT and other explosives do block damage even underwater
• Villager Trades Reset – Instead of restocking villagers will completely reset their trades
• Villagers Follow Emerald Blocks – Villagers will follow players holding emerald blocks
• Instant Pickup – Drops from blocks and entities are instantly placed in your inventory if there’s room
• Item Safe Cactus – Items don’t get destroyed by cactus blocks
• Leaves Grow Grass – Grass and tall grass can be placed on leaves
• Déjà Void – Players falling into the void teleports them back to the last place they were on the ground and deals 6 hearts of unblockable void damage
• Use Items While Riding – Allows players to use items and attack while riding entities like boats

What’s Old Is New Again – Forward ports of forgotten tidbits

• Blinking Drops – Drops blink white like they did in Survival Test
• Block Logo – Resurrects the Beta 1.2-era animated falling block logo
• Classic Block Drops – Draws block drops with a mipmapped or small portion of the texture
• Dropped Items Don’t Stack – When dropping items of the same type they don’t merge into a bigger stack
• End Portal Parallax – Old end portal texture, may not be entirely accurate
• Billboard Drops – Brings back billboarded flat item drops like on Fast graphics prior to 1.8 or like always prior to 1.4
• Dirt Screen – Replaces the panorama background of the title screen with the old dirt one
• Flat Items – Brings back Indev flat first-person item models
• Full Enchanting Cost – Enchanting consumes all of the xp required for an enchant
• Instant Bow – Bow fires arrows instantly upon clicking
• Instant Eat – Eating food is instant
• Janky Arm – Brings back Survival Test arm rotation
• No Experience – Removes experience
• No Hand Sway – Prevents first-person hands from gradually transitioning from the last camera position
• No Player Death Animation – Players stay upright when killed
• No Sprint – Disable sprinting
• No Stance Transition – Removes the gradual crouch / crawl camera transition
• No Swim – Disable swimming
• Old Sheep Shear – Sheep drop wool when punched
• Old Tooltip – Ressurects the old inventory tooltip from the beta days
• Oof – Brings back the old “Oof” hurt sound
• Void Fog – Returns void fog from pre 1.8
• More Explosion Particles – Adds smoke and poof particles to explosions
• Old Armor – All armor has the same protection
• Old Armor Scale – Armor value is reduced with durability
• Old Background Shade – Inventories, pause and other menus will have a blue gradient
• Old Lava – Resurrects the old procedural lava texture from 1.4
• Void Fog Particles – Returns void fog particles from pre 1.8
• Yellow Button Hover – Hovered buttons will have yellow text

Unsafe – QoL changes that make cheating easier

• Disable Breaking Check – Server will not check if the client is cheating, when breaking blocks faster then expected
• Disable Moved Too Quickly – Server will not check if the client is cheating, when traveling faster then expected

Pedantry – Fixes for non-problems

• Creepers Can’t climb – Creepers can no longer climb climbable blocks
• Entities Can’t Climb – Entities can no longer climb climbable blocks (mostly applies to ladders)
• Oak Is Apple – Oak trees become apple trees
• TNT Is Dynamite – TNT is renamed to Dynamite and doesn’t say TNT on it

Experiments – Bad ideas given form

• No Set Window Pos – Prevents the game from manually modifying the window position
• Packed Atlases – Disables rounding of atlases to the next power-of-two

Forgery & Fabrication Download Links

For Minecraft 1.16.5

Fabric version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2

For Minecraft 1.17.1

Fabric version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2

For Minecraft 1.18.1

Fabric version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2

For Minecraft 1.18.2

Fabric version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2

For Minecraft 1.19

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For Minecraft 1.19.2, 1.19.1

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For Minecraft 1.19.3

Fabric version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2

For Minecraft 1.19.4

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For Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20

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For Minecraft 1.20.2

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For Minecraft 1.20.4, 1.20.3

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For Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21

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