Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life
Minecraft Java mod. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
A fork of a mod that aims to add earthen and ancient and prehistoric inspired building materials to Minecraft.
⬇ Download on CurseForgeThis is a Fork of "Earthworks" since it didn't receive an update in forever, and is only here due to modpack makers complaining about issues with CurseForges non-CurseForge mods needing manual approval even with this mod being shown on the list.
Original Description:
Earthworks aims to add earthen and ancient and prehistoric inspired building materials to Minecraft.
Taking cues from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, Earthworks adds some of the first materials mankind used to craft. Materials like wattle and daub, wicker, rammed earth, and adobe bricks. These are crude materials, fashioned out of what was at hand, and easily accessible, but prove to be as strong as stone when fashioned properly. Utilizing these in an early build will provide some excellent shelters.
Some materials you will have to work harder for, such as concrete, cinder blocks, or cordwood, but these materials will prove expansive, and help you to forge a great empire like our Roman ancestors. These materials will yield more when crafted, pushing your roads and aqueducts further and further.
Link to the original mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/earthworks
Materials
- Adobe
- Chalk
- Cinder Blocks
- Cob
- Concrete
- Cordwood
- Dry Fitted Stone
- Gabions - Dirt, Sand, and Gravel filled
- Lath and Plaster
- Mud
- Rammed Earth
- Reed
- Slate - Blue, Purple, and Green
- Slate Tiles - Blue, Purple, and Green
- Slate Shingles - Blue, Purple, and Green
- Thatch
- Timber
- Vertical Planks
- Wattle and Daub
- Wicker
- Wood Shakes
Features:
- Low Cost/Early Game - Blocks like wattle and daub, rammed earth, and adobe offer stone like protection a cheap cost.
- Walls, Slabs, Stairs - Every block comes with walls, slabs, and stairs for all sorts of building options!
- Blast Resistance - Dry fitted stone offers blast resistance just shy of that of obsidian.
- Timber Framing - Fully customizable set of timber framed wattle & daub and plaster blocks. Each infill type comes with 39 separate, fully rotatable pattern, for hundreds if not thousands of possible designs.
- Carpenters Tools - To rotate your timber framed blocks around in world with a shift right click.
- Wicker Gabions - These blocks will collapse like gravel or sand when shift right clicked with an empty hand, or on a redstone impulse.
Credits:
- Alsender - Original Author of the Mod
- FreneticScribbler - for creating a pull request 3 years ago, that was implemented in this version
This mod is published under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). (Same license Alsender originally choose.)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- 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 earthworks_extended_life-1.3.8.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 670 KB
- Download link checked 24 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.