About
A vanilla-friendly overhaul to the early game progression that makes getting stone tools take longer than 30 seconds. Instead of punching trees, you need to explore and gather a few resources such as sticks and flint to craft an axe, coal samples to make a campfire, baking clay into bricks on a campfire to build a furnace, and raw copper samples to craft your first pickaxe. When you first spawn in, you'll be given the Survival Manual, which you can read below.
Your First Tool
Starting a Campfire
Building a Furnace
Upgrading to Copper Tools
Post Mortem
Once you've crafted your set of copper tools, you are now at the same position as having stone tools in vanilla Minecraft.
Supported Languages
- Brazilian Portuguese (Kett)
- Chilean Spanish (Mudkip)
- English
- Polish (Eggmanplant)
- Guide book missing
- Romanian (David050707)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- 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 Modrinth — 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 early_game_overhaul-1.0.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 77 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.