GrowthTools
A growth system plugin for paper-based games that adds tools that improve the more you use them. It adds a variety of growth elements, including level…
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GrowthTools is a customizable progression and ability system for Minecraft Paper servers.
Instead of replacing your tools as you progress, GrowthTools allows individual tools to gain experience, level up, and unlock new abilities as they are used.
Features
- Per-tool Level and EXP progression
- Unique UUID for every GrowthTool
- Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe, Fishing Rod, and Bow support
- Block breaking, fishing, and bow combat EXP
- Persistent tool data using PDC
- Configurable progression and EXP values
Abilities
- Vein Miner — Mine connected ore veins at once
- 3x3 Area Break — Break a 3x3 area while mining
- Auto Smelt — Automatically smelt supported block drops
- Experience Boost — Increase GrowthTools EXP gain
Abilities unlock as your tool levels up.
Vein Miner and Area Break can also work together with Auto Smelt.
Safety & Anti-Farming
GrowthTools includes several protections designed for survival servers:
- Player-placed blocks do not grant mining EXP
- Placed-block tracking persists across server restarts
- Additional blocks broken by abilities respect protection plugins
- Duplicate GrowthTool UUID detection
- SQLite-backed tool registry
- Administrative repair and UUID regeneration tools
Integrations
GrowthTools supports or provides compatibility with:
- PlaceholderAPI
- WorldGuard
- mcMMO
- Jobs Reborn
- Vault
- Geyser
- Floodgate
Java and Bedrock players can both use the core GrowthTools gameplay features.
Developer API
GrowthTools includes a public API for addon developers.
Other plugins can:
- Inspect GrowthTools
- Read tool levels and EXP
- Grant EXP safely
- Register custom abilities
- Listen to GrowthTools events
An example addon is included in the GitHub repository.
Requirements
- Java 21
- Paper 1.21.x
Paper 1.21.11 has received player gameplay QA.
Alpha Notice
GrowthTools is currently in alpha.
Core gameplay has been tested on a real Paper server, but some optional integration edge cases may still be untested.
Please back up:
plugins/GrowthTools/
before updating between alpha versions.
Bug reports and contributions are welcome on GitHub.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.4, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
- 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 GrowthTools-0.7.0-alpha.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 11.7 MB
- Download link checked 26 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.