SmartUtility

Smart Utility

Ten quality-of-life features in one mod, each with its own switch. Everything runs on the server, so your players connect with a plain vanilla client and it just works.

Most of these you would otherwise install as ten separate mods, each with its own config file and its own update schedule. This is one jar, one config, and anything you do not want stays off.

Features

Feature	What it does
Death Coordinates	A private message with the position you died at. Click the coordinates to copy them, paste them into /tp.
Cobblestone Generator	Lava-and-water generators produce ore instead of cobblestone, at a chance and from a list you define. Any block works, modded ones included.
Auto Replant	Harvesting a mature crop replants it from one seed out of the harvest. Sneak to clear a field instead.
Keep Inventory	Keep your items on death, in the slots they were in, without touching the vanilla gamerule. Off by default.
Keep XP	Keep a configurable share of your levels on death. Off by default.
XP Multiplier	Separate multipliers for mob kills and block breaking. Both start at 1.0, so nothing changes until you set a number.
Mob Heads	Killed mobs can drop their own head. Six vanilla mobs, players optional.
Fast Leaf Decay	Leaves come down with the tree instead of over the next few minutes. Same leaves vanilla would have removed, just sooner.
Vein Miner	Break one block of an ore vein, mine the whole vein. Tool wear per block.
Tree Capitator	Break one log, fell the tree above it. Never downwards, so log builds stay standing.
Portable Crafting	/crafting opens a crafting grid wherever you are. With the mod on the client, a key does the same.
Portable Ender Chest	/enderchest opens your own ender chest, no chest to place. Same 27 slots, not a second storage. Off by default.
Armor Durability HUD	What your armor and tools have left, on screen, one row per piece. Drag it where you want it with H. Drawn by the client, so it needs the mod there.

More Features are coming soon!

The feature menu

Players do not have to read this page to find out what a server runs. With the mod installed on the client, K opens an in-game menu listing every feature: what it does, how it is used, and the settings that are actually in force on the server you are on, read live rather than printed from the defaults. Features the server has switched off are greyed out and say so.

Everything is optional

Every feature has its own toggle. Change it in the config, or in-game:

/smartutility feature list
/smartutility feature enable <feature>
/smartutility feature disable <feature>

Changes apply immediately, no restart. /su works as a shorthand, and the feature menu described above shows the same states with the reasoning next to them.

Two features add a command of their own, because a player invokes them rather than triggering them by playing:

/crafting          open a crafting grid where you stand
/enderchest        open your own ender chest

Both are open to every player, and both work from a vanilla client.

One feature is not the server's to switch. The Armor Durability HUD is drawn on the client and never reaches the server, so its toggle sits in the client's own config and /smartutility feature enable armorDurabilityHud is refused rather than writing a value the server does not own. Each player decides whether they want it.

Configuration

Two files are written on first start:

• config/smartutility-common.toml: logging
• config/smartutility-server.toml: everything about gameplay

You can also edit all of it in-game under Mods → Smart Utility → Config. No extra config library needed. A single world can override the server config with its own copy in <world>/serverconfig/.

Built for servers

• Every gameplay decision is made on the server. Clients cannot set their own multipliers or limits.
• Modded crops, logs, leaves and ores are picked up through tags and vanilla's own block types, not through hardcoded lists, so there are no config entries for content from other mods.
• Mob head drops go through NeoForge's Global Loot Modifiers, so they stack with other loot mods instead of overwriting them.
• Multi-block features respect cancelled break events, spawn protection and the world border, and they check every block, not just the one that was clicked.
• No mixins anywhere. Only official NeoForge events.
• English and German translations included.

Installation

1. Install NeoForge 26.1.2.87 or newer for Minecraft 26.1.2.
2. Drop smartutility-<version>.jar into your server's mods folder.
3. Start the server once, then edit config/smartutility-server.toml.

Installing it on the client is optional and only adds the config screen.

FAQ

Do my players need to install anything? No. All ten features work for players on a plain vanilla client.

Does it set the keepInventory gamerule? No, and it does not read it either. A gamerule is written into your world and outlives the mod; this switch is per instance and leaves nothing behind.

Does it conflict with other vein miner, tree feller or auto replant mods? Yes, but run only one of each kind. They react to the same event and would both fire. Smart Utility's own features are safe together.