BlacksmithCraft

BlacksmithCraft

Every weapon, tool and piece of armor is forged by your own hands.

Blacksmithcraft is a blacksmithing overhaul for Minecraft. It replaces vanilla crafting of metal gear with a full smithing progression: from knapped flint and native copper to alloys, blast furnaces and water- and steam-driven machinery.

> ⚠️ This project is in active development. Expect bugs and balance changes between versions.

⚒️ Hand Forging

• Draw your own **blueprints** on the drafting table: free-form shapes for weapons, fixed templates for tools and armor.
• Heat metal in the forge and **hammer it on the anvil** in a minigame: stretch, flatten, cut and bend the piece to match the blueprint.
• Watch the temperature: work it too cold and it cracks, overheat it and it burns.
• Your score sets the **quality**: Crude, Common, Fine, Master or Legendary.
• The shape you forge **is** the item's texture.

🔥 Smelting & Alloys

• Pit furnaces, clay crucibles, molds and molten metal measured in mB.
• Mix metals by percentage to make **bronze, electrum, orichalcum** and more. Get the ratio wrong and you get impure metal.
• Co-smelt ores with flux, deal with slag and purity, and beware of **arsenical fumes**.
• Forge-weld different metals into pattern steel.

⚔️ Combat & Equipment

• Stats come from **metal × shape × quality**: damage, speed, reach, weight, edge and penetration.
• Three damage types: **slashing, piercing and blunt**.
• Edges dull with use: sharpen them on the grindstone.
• Quench in water, ice water or oil.
• Assemble grips from a core and a wrap.
• Chainmail, scale, lamellar, brigandine and plate armor, worn over a padded gambeson.
• Shields, bows, crossbows, javelins and early firearms.

💎 Gems & Settings

• Cut raw gems with templates and **set them into your gear** on the anvil.
• Each gem rolls a random bonus based on the item's quality.

🌊 Water, Steam & Machines

• Water wheels, shafts, gearboxes and belts carry mechanical energy across your workshop.
• Boilers and steam engines power stronger machines: trip hammers, bellows, grinders, wire drawers, pumps and crushers.
• Machine tier depends on the metal it is built from.

🧍 Player Progression

• Numeric health (100 base), with vanilla damage and healing scaled accordingly.
• Five skills: **Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Vitality and Temper**, bought with experience.
• Heavier weapons demand more Strength and finer ones more Dexterity.
• Dying leaves a **leather satchel** with your belongings and costs you some skill points, but you get some back when you recover it.
• Mobs scale with player level and can spawn with randomly generated gear.

🌍 Vanilla Changes

• The vanilla furnace no longer smelts metals, and vanilla metal tools must be forged.
• Diamond and netherite are replaced by this mod's own metals.
• The enchanting table is removed: gems are your enchantments.
• Leather must be tanned from raw hides.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 26.1.2, Fabric Loader
• Fabric API
• GeckoLib
• Patchouli(for the in-game *Blacksmith's Manual*)
• *Optional:* Mod Menu, JEI, Chisels & Bits

⚠️ Compatibility
Mods that change the health bar, enchanting or vanilla crafting of metal gear may conflict with Blacksmithcraft.

Made by IzanagiSTG.