Turn honeycombs into hard wax (x3), smelt the hard wax to get a useable wax!
Requires Fabric API.
The usable wax can be used directly on coppper to wax it, or in a crafting table with copper blocks, just like honeycombs.
One honeycomb now yields two candles (when using wax as a replacement), with one wax leftover.
The candle recipe for wax is two wax stacked on top of each other, with a string on top of them, it yields two candles.
- String
- Wax
- Wax
Developers
Wax also introduces a few new tags: waxmod:waxes (all waxes in all of their states + honeycomb), waxmod:softwaxes (only smelted/soft waxes), waxmod:hardwaxes
Using tags is recommended for any mod adding compatibility as there will likely be new waxes added in the future.
All vanilla recipes for waxing accept the #waxmod:waxes tag.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 wax-instead-1.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 24 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.