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Simply Steel [Forge]
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.18. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
Adds steel tools as an early-game durability fix, some decorative steel building blocks, and a few other things.
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A simple Vanilla+ style mod that adds steel.
NOTE: I will not be updating this mod further, as I no longer have the time to do so. The code is available on GitHub, feel free to do with it what you like.
Purpose:
Adds steel as an early-game durability fix. No more crafting four iron pickaxes when searching for your first diamonds! Also it adds cool new block textures and some other miscellaneous things.
Feature List:
Steelmaking
- Craft an Iron Ingot with Coal into Crude Iron.
- Smelt Crude Iron in a Blast Furnace to make a Steel Ingot (costs 6x more fuel than normal)
Steel Tools and Armor
- Compared to iron, durability is improved with steel tools (250 -> 484) and armor (240 -> 320)
- Steel tools are slightly more efficient (6.0 -> 6.5), and steel armor has +1 Armor Toughness.
- Steel has slightly higher enchantability (14 -> 16)
Steel Anvil
- Has half the chance of cracking from being used or dropped, allowing it to last much longer on average.
Steel Doors, Trapdoors, Bars, and Blocks
- Harder and more blast resistance than their iron counterparts, these come with new textures great for brutalist or industrial builds.
More Firestarters (Flint and Steel variants)
- Quartz can be used in place of Flint to create a firestarter with more durability.
- Steel is now used to craft firestarters. Using Iron in the crafting recipe now results in a 50% sparking failure chance.
Steel Golem
- Created similarly to an Iron Golem, it has 50% more health and heals 50% more from ingots.
Advancements! - Acquire Harder-ware - Blast a Steel Ingot
- Heavy Duty - Place a Steel Anvil
- Real Steel - Summon a Steel Golem to help defend a village
- Watch the World Burn - Completely use up every firestarter, then reevaluate your sanity
Images
Changelog:
Version 2.2.0
- Added Steel Shears
- Added Tetra support
- Added more forge tags for compatibility purposes
Version 2.1.1:
- Fixed modded firestarter items not lighting Candles or Cakes with Candles (must be crouching for the latter)
Version 2.1.0
- Updated to 1.18.1
- Added recipe unlocking
- Added 4 Advancements:
- Acquire Harder-ware - Blast a Steel Ingot
- Heavy Duty - Place a Steel Anvil
- Real Steel - Summon a Steel Golem to help defend a village
- Watch the World Burn - Completely use up every firestarter, then reevaluate your sanity
Version 2.0.0:
- Updated to 1.17.1
- Re-textured everything
- Added Steel Anvil
- Added Steel Golem
- Increased cost of blasting Crude Iron
- Slightly reduced Steel blast resistance
- Iron firestarters can now be made from Raw Iron (other modders, use forge:iron_firestarter_materials to add your items)
- Fixed Steel Trapdoors not having the correct blast resistance
- Removed unnecessary vanilla Forge tags
Version 1.1.0:
- Increased Steel Tool durability from 343 to 484
- Smelting Crude Iron now requires a Blast Furnace
- Added Steel Nuggets
- Fixed Steel Block to Steel Ingot recipe
Known Issues:
- Cakes with Candles can only be lit by modded firestarters while crouching. Mojang hardcoded the use behavior to always attempt to eat the cake unless holding specifically a vanilla firestarter item.
Feel free to use this pack in modpacks. Please include credit.
Note: Should be compatible with other mods' steels, if they use the proper forge tags.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.18.2, 1.18.1, 1.17.1
- 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 CurseForge — 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 Simply Steel 1.17.1-2.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 93 KB
- Download link checked 14 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.