ReelMower

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By the numbers

7 reel metals 13 woods 13 grip colors 8 bed-knife options 7 snow augers

7 × 13 × 13 × 8 = 9,464 visually distinct finished mowers, plus 169 bladeless variants.

And seat a snow auger instead: 7 × 13 × 13 × 2 = 2,366 snowblower configurations (auger metal × wood × grip × chute on/off). Built, not bought — every one of them.

New in 1.5.10 — a new made-by-hand part joins the build and multiplies all of this again, past 120,000 visually distinct mowers (and north of 1.7 million once you count the metal you nailed it together with). We're not going to tell you what it is — go build one and spot the difference. 👀

Some assembly required

Built by hand; full step-by-step in-game — press H, then Guides → "Reel Mower: Some Assembly Required."

1. Smith the blade. A blank at the anvil from two ingots of the same metal, finished in the grid with hammer and chisel. Seven tiers — copper cuts fine; steel outlasts your grandchildren.

2. Build the frame. Two iron plates, an ingot, and two rusty gears in the grid. Iron only — rigid enough to carry the blade.

3. Carve the shaft. Any log (twelve woods, plus aged) with chisel and hammer, plus six iron bits and two plain cloth. The wood you pick is the wood you'll see on the finished mower.

4. Hammer it together. Set the frame down, hold a hammer with the shaft in your offhand, and tap it three times like an anvil. Three nails, one bladeless mower.

5. Seat the blade. Hold your finished blade and swing at the placed mower — the same tap that hammered the frame. Your wood, your metal, built from a log and some ingots.

Want a different wood later? Pop the blade off (empty hand), then chisel-in-hand + hammer-in-offhand right-click the bladeless mower — the shaft comes back in one piece, same wood it always was. Most nails come back too.

Set it down & push

The finished mower doesn't cut in your hands — it mows as a rideable push cart. Right-click the ground to set it down, then walk: the wagon wheels roll, the reel cage spins faster than the wheels (geared), and it shears whatever's in front of it, forward or back, draining the blade like the hand tool did. Cycle Trim → Remove → Clear with the cut-mode key while pushing — no need to pick one before you set it down. Sneak + empty-hand right-click packs it back into the held mower. It looks after itself, too — run the blade to nothing and it stops and pops you off the seat; steer it into water and it packs itself up rather than swimming. Push animations use Cartwright's Caravan (see Requirements).

☉ Not sure what a placed part does? Look at it. Every mower piece you set down shows its interactions on your crosshair (seat a blade, fit a bed knife, remove parts, detach the shaft), and the cart tells you how to push it and pack it up. Every prompt reads your own keybinds.

Three ways to cut

Swapping blades & bed knives

Sneak + right-click (empty hand) on a placed mower pops the blade off; the bladeless frame and its wood stay put, and the blade drops at your feet. Durability carries over both ways. A fitted bed knife comes off first. Left-click works too: seat a blade or fit a bed knife with left-click (attack) — handy if a pet/creature mod's animal keeps grabbing your right-click.

New head: Tiller Drum New companion: Drag Blade F-key: Till on / off Sharpen on the wheel

Same machine, a third head. Seat a tiller drum in place of a reel blade or snow auger and your mower becomes a Push Tiller. Walk it over grassy ground and the drum works the soil down a stage at a time — full grass → sparse → bare — ripping out tallgrass and horsetail as it goes. Everything is mulched back in; the tiller keeps nothing. Mow an area first and the pre-cleared ground tills cheaper.

Server config

On first launch the mod writes reelmower.json to your ModConfig folder. Every value has a sensible default:

Requirements & credits

⚠ Requires Cartwright's Caravan — its push animations bring the cart to life. Huge thanks to its author.

Optional, not required: Grinding Wheel Rework — sharpen worn blades Wildgrass Fork — extra grasses — both wire in automatically.

Spoiler!

v1.3.4 Multiplayer — first MP build; others can see the blade spinning when you mow.
v1.3.5 The Sound Update — a real looping mow sound at ground level; nearby players hear it too.
v1.3.6 — fixed the sound looping forever after a blade snap.
v1.3.7 Dowels! — a lightweight 2-stick wall/tree peg to hang the mower on.
v1.3.8 — fixed the Dowels recipe (2 sticks).
v1.3.9 — extensible grass-cutting for other mods; Wildgrass included.

v1.4.0 Some Assembly Required — build the whole mower by hand, log to tool, with 12 shaft woods that show on the finished mower. (Old mowers must be rebuilt.)
v1.4.1 — shaft recipe now registers; wood texture no longer reverts while mowing.
v1.4.2 — fixed the long-standing multiplayer mowing crash.
v1.4.3 — real hammer swing on frame assembly (left-click); mod sounds fixed; nail refunds return the right metal.
v1.4.4 / v1.4.5 Linux fix — the release zip was packaged with Windows paths, silently breaking asset loading on Linux; fixed and verified. Big thanks to Zeriz. Added a creative "Reel Mower" tab.
v1.4.6 — land claims now respected across all five interactions; aged-wood recipe fixed; tested on a real dedicated server.
v1.4.7 — fixed a hammer-swing server crash (thanks Sparklingtips); blade blank costs 2 ingots as documented.
v1.4.8 — durability sits ahead of the scythe; worn blades come back at 0 to sharpen on a Grinding Wheel.
v1.4.9 — bare-blade stuck-animation first fix (thanks Findal_Falum); Pain & Atonement quietly added.
v1.5.0 Details Details Details — loose stones break for loot + a little damage (configurable); stuck animation truly fixed; 7-setting server config; grass-fling particles; dry-grass auto-collect; Dowels mower-only.
v1.5.1 — "A Cut Above" — the mower rebuilt to its concept art (wishbone yoke, spoked wagon wheels, twisted reel cage), plus a smith-and-fit bed knife and dyeable grips in all 13 colors. Over 9,400 distinct mowers now. Non-breaking.
v1.5.2 — "Push Comes to Mow" — the mower grew wheels. Right-click to set it down as a rideable push cart and mow by pushing; wheels roll, the reel spins (geared), the blade drains like before. Everything carries through deploy/pack-up. Runs dry → stops and dismounts you; hits water → packs itself up. Shaft now also takes 6 iron bits + 2 plain cloth. New dependency: Cartwright's Caravan. Full server-compat pass + cleanup. Non-breaking.
v1.5.3 — Left-click to seat — seat a blade or fit a bed knife with left-click (attack) as well as right-click. Helps when a pet/creature mod's tamed animal stands between you and a placed mower and grabs the right-click. Right-click unchanged. Thanks to Mr_Posey.
v1.5.4 — Point and Mow — every placed part shows crosshair interaction prompts (seat/fit/remove/detach), blade & bed-knife prompts show their icon while held, and the cart reads "Push the mower" / "Pack up" instead of "Sit." Every prompt shows your actual keybind, not a hardcoded default.
v1.5.5 — Snow Business — the head that goes in the frame no longer has to be a reel blade. Seat a snow auger and the machine becomes a snowblower: push it through snow to carve a path and hurl the snow out a chute you aim left or right on the fly (snow is piled a few blocks over, not deleted). The auger is forged from the same blade blank — just move the chisel to the other grid corner; the chute is a 3×3 of oak boards, copper bits, a straight chute, and iron plates. Renders on the cart, placed, and in-hand with the auger spinning; full handbook coverage. Cutting behavior now lives on the head itself, so grass and snow each bring their own. Non-breaking — every existing mower is untouched.
v1.5.6 — "Fit and Finish" — a model-accuracy pass. The bed knife moved to the rear of the reel, where a real push mower's sits — it shears against the bottom-back of the blade's arc — corrected on the held tool, the placed mower, and the cart. Trimmed a few frame struts that weren't earning their keep, and tuned the snow chute's shape. Model-only, fully non-breaking.
v1.5.7 — "Chute Hotfix" — fixed a client crash when interacting with a snow-auger mower (the chute's icon had lost its texture map). Also added compatibility for two more mods: Art of Growing (the mower now mows its grass) and Ecosystem — Flora (mows its plants and grasses through every growth stage). Each applies only when that mod is installed.
v1.5.8 — "Knobs for the Owner" — three new server-config options: toggle the snowblower's snow-throw particles, choose whether the auger piles cleared snow or just clears it, and tune (or zero out) the blade's per-cut wear. Plus a display-polish pass — fixed a plain reel mower drawing the auger and chute in-hand and in its tooltip, re-centered every item's inventory / dropped / held model on its own true center so previews sit right and finally match the hover tooltip, re-synced the loose snow-chute item to match the assembled snowblower exactly, and removed a stray old prototype item that was cluttering the creative menu. No gameplay changes unless you touch the config.
v1.5.9 — "Growing Pains" — grass & plant compatibility for three more mods: Floral Zones, Biodiversity, and Wild Farming - Revival (each applies only when installed). Art of Growing grass drops now follow its own pattern — live grass yields fresh grass, already-dry grass yields hay, and the amount scales with the grass's length. Also flipped the tool-rack display 180° so a snow-auger mower hangs flush against the wall instead of poking through it.
v1.5.10 — "Count Again" — something new gets built by hand and fitted to every mower, and we're not going to tell you what it is — but it pushes the count past 120,000 visually distinct mowers (north of 1.7 million once you count the metal you nailed it together with). Go build one and spot the difference. 👀 Fully non-breaking — every mower already in your world is untouched. Also refined Art of Growing compatibility: mowing its dry grass now leaves the very same eaten patch its own scythe does.

Built, not bought. Grow it, forge it, push it.

Conductor: RpCharly · developed with ClaudeAI (Anthropic)

Please give feedback 🧡 — and by all means, send sexy photos of your grass in the comments.

Layout inspired by YourCreator's Ecosystem — Flora — thanks for the blueprint. · ▶ ...for the LOL