CraftTools 🔗

A library for mod & game developers providing simple tools and reusable ingredients that automatically return and lose a bit of durability when crafted with, rather than disappearing like a normal ingredient. Also includes an API for registering new tools and consumables.

Optionally depends on default for recipes.

All tools and consumables and their recipes can be disabled by category or individually, and the durability of all tools can be changed in the settings.

Provided Items 🔗

The following hand tools are available:

• 'Small Hammer': Intended to be used for shaping metal and crushing fragile objects like stone and ores.
• 'Metal File': For working metal, wood, and other materials.
• 'Hand Drill': For making holes in various materials including stone, wood, metal, etc.
• 'Metal Cutters': For cutting sheet metal, wires, ropes & cables, and fabric.
• 'Wrench': For configuring, repairing, and dismantling mechanical devices.
• 'Knife': For any sort of slicing, carving, gouging, and stabbing. Also a fast, low damage melee weapon.
• 'Hand Saw': For cutting wood and metal.
• 'Chisel': For shaping wood and stone, and crafting variants of decorative nodes.

As well as the following reusable consumables:

• 'Glue': Specially formulated K-Brand kelp superglue for binding and adhering all sorts of things.
• 'Tape': Used to add tension and structural strength while also binding things together and sealing gaps.
• 'Sandpaper': Used for finer smoothing and on harder materials than the file. There are three kinds (in order of increasing grit): flint, mese, and diamond.

There is also a 'Toolbox', which combines the functionality of all the hand tools other than the knife and chisel while having a little more durability than all of them put together.

API 🔗

CraftTools has an extensive API for creating new tools and consumables, and overriding crafttool behaviour on a per-recipe basis. The mod API documentation can now be found in API.md in the mod/repository root directory.

Contributions 🔗

I will accept ideas for new tools/consumables to add to the mod and new functionality for the system itself via GitHub issues. Read .dev/TO DO.md and .dev/IDEAS LIST.md first to make sure your idea isn't already planned or being considered. Pull requests for translations and bug fixes can be made directly.

Licensing 🔗

(C) Shqug 2026

The source code and data files of CraftTools are licensed under Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.txt.

The media files of CraftTools are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. See MEDIA_LICENSE.txt.