Tool smithing upgrades is a datadriven recipe generation mod. In short if you make a smithingupgrades/smithing_table_materials folder and put files with the following the same formate example json from the wiki in you can generate smithing recipes between your material and any existing material.
It's entirely server side, but can also be used in single player worlds
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.18, 1.18.1-pre1, 1.18.1-rc1
- 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.
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- Ships as smithingupgrades-1.5.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 42 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.