Picture this: you are wandering through a desert. Your hunger bar is almost empty but you have some wheat in your inventory, so you place down your crafting table to prepare yourself some delicious bread... and then BAM! A huge chasm opens below your feet: it's Satan himself dragging you straight to Hell! You fall in lava and die, losing all of your items.
If you have found yourself in a similar situation (minus the Satan part, I guess) then this mod might be what you are looking for!
How it works
Sand Fix makes sand, gravel, and their variants not react to block updates coming from above or from the sides. Other blocks that can fall are left unfixed to avoid potentially breaking some redstone contraptions or advanced technical stuff. This mod does not fix sand/gravel generating mid-air without blocks below it.
Mod compatibility
Mods that implement blocks that can fall in the same way Minecraft does should have their blocks fixed by default unless said blocks have the "concrete_powder" or "anvil" block tags. If you are a mod develeper and want your blocks to work with this mod you can assign them the "has_sand_fix_prioritized" or "no_sand_fix" block tag to define whether they have the fix or not. If a block ends up having both tags, the "has_sand_fix_prioritized" tag will prevail, as the name might suggest.
Notes
It has been only a few days since I made my first mod, so you can expect the same (lack of) code quality in this one.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- 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 sandfix-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 26 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
