Forging the Unthinkable is a mod that adds new tools, items, and blocks to Minecraft. Players can create a Nether Explorer by assigning a villager the new profession using the Nether Wracker block. This villager trades Primordial Powder, a unique item capable of cutting through Netherite, essential for transforming a Netherite Sword into the Broken Netherite Sword, which serves as the base for crafting powerful special weapons.
Key Items:
- Frozen Heart: Dropped by witches, used to craft weapons with ice effects.
- Melted Heart: Dropped by Master Piglin, who rarely spawns in the Nether, used to create weapons with fire powers.
- Wither Heart: Dropped by the Wither, essential for weapons that apply the wither effect.
- Nether Wracker: A new smithing table that allows you to craft the new swords and give the Nehter explorer profession to a villager. The Recipe is in the Screenshots
Tools Effects Melted Sword: Fire Resistance and Speed if you are in lava Melted Pickaxe: Fire Resistance and Haste if you are below Y:0
Frozen Sword: When underwater you have Conduit power and Strength Frozen Pickaxe: Same as the sword and Haste if you are below Y:0
Wither Sword: Immune to wither effect, Strength if you are in the Nether Wither Pickaxe: Immune to wither effect, Speed if you are in the Nether and Haste if you are below Y:0
Experience these new tools and weapons to enhance your Minecraft adventure!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 forging_the_unthinkable-1.1-forge-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 14.3 MB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.