True Stone Tools

TrueStoneTools

A small data pack that makes stone tools require real stone instead of cobblestone.

Every stone tool keeps its exact vanilla shape. Only the material changes:

Before	After
Cobblestone	Stone
Cobbled Deepslate	Deepslate
Blackstone	Blackstone (unchanged)

Why?

Going from wooden tools to stone tools is almost instant in vanilla: break a few blocks with a wooden pickaxe and you already have everything you need. With this pack, you first have to smelt cobblestone into stone, which means building a furnace and finding fuel before your first stone pickaxe.

Blackstone is left untouched: it only appears in the Nether, and by the time you get there, early progression no longer needs to be slowed down.

Affected items

Vanilla: stone sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe and spear (spear on 1.21.11+ only).

Mod compatibility (only loaded when the mod is present, on Fabric or NeoForge):

• More Delight: moredelight:stone_knife
• Basic Weapons: basicweapons:stone_dagger, stone_hammer, stone_club (both patterns), stone_quarterstaff, stone_glaive, stone_pike

The Basic Weapons dagger keeps both of its original recipes: stone above a stick normally, and stone diagonal to a stick when Farmer's Delight is installed (so it doesn't clash with the Farmer's Delight knife).

The furnace and the brewing stand still accept cobblestone, and stone tools can still be repaired with cobblestone in an anvil.

Customizing the materials

All recipes use one shared item tag: truestonetools:stone_tool_materials

{
  "values": ["minecraft:stone", "minecraft:blackstone", "minecraft:deepslate"]
}

Another data pack (or a modpack) can add items to it, for example a modded stone variant.

Compatibility

Minecraft version	Data pack format	Status
1.21 – 1.21.1	48	Supported (via the legacy_1_21 overlay)
1.21.2 – 1.21.10	57 – 88.0	Supported
1.21.11	94.1	Main target
26.1 – 26.3	101.1 – 121.0	Supported

Installation

1. Download TrueStoneTools.zip.
2. Put the zip (do not extract it) in your world's datapacks folder, or add it from the "Data Packs" screen when creating a world.
3. Run /reload if the world is already open.