Blocks You Need

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1.21.1
1.21.4

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This mod receives much more frequent updates on Curseforge & Modrinth, please go here if you want the latest version:

I don't check here as often as modrinth, curseforge & discord!

https://curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/blocks-you-need

https://modrinth.com/mod/blocks-you-need

 



# **Please update forge to the latest version on 1.20.1**

Blocks You Need is a Block-pack inspired by the likes of the Chisel mod of old, unlike other mods though BYN is built to be survival ready & gives each block their unique way to shine. Sometimes blocks are introduced like blobs of stone, as a geode, as a feature of a biome, or through old blocks getting a new way to shine.

This block mod has a heavy focus on Vanilla+, Industrial, Steampunk & Sci-fi themes, however there are still many blocks that work for magical builds, and plenty of unique decor options!

I highly suggest installing both the "JEI" OR "EMI" mods, this mod & its recipes have been built with those essential mods in mind.

While this mod makes small changes to worldgen, it will never add anything that will severely alter a seed. You can add this to an existing world just fine, naturally generated blocks will spawn in new chunks!

### More will be added with each update!
If you have ideas for blocks you'd like to see, or blocks needing to be tweaked, ask away!

### If you find bugs!
The best place to put them is either my discord or the curseforge issue tracker

Remember, I am a solo dev, updates take time, and won't be flawless, when you suggest something, or report a bug, give me a few weeks to work on it (assuming im not OOS for medical reasons.)

 

Minecraft mod files
blocksyouneed_luna-1.10.5-forge-1.20.1.jar - Blocks You Need - v1.10.5 - [1.20.1] - FORGE Uploaded on: 10/10/2025 - 22:51   File size: 10.9 MB
blocksyouneed_luna-1.10.5-neoforge-1.21.1.jar - Blocks You Need - v1.10.5 - [1.21.1] - NEOFORGE Uploaded on: 10/10/2025 - 22:52   File size: 10.4 MB
blocksyouneed_luna-1.10.5-neoforge-1.21.4.jar - Blocks You Need - v1.10.5 - [1.21.4] - NEOFORGE Uploaded on: 10/10/2025 - 22:54   File size: 10.86 MB
Changelog

# BYN v1.10 Changelog

### Changes
- Made the Book of Need more usable by making it now use the text chat rather than the action bar.
- Made the Book of Need much easier to make.
- Fixed the connected textures on the glass.
- Made all the features now only spawn in biomes tagged as "is_overworld", rather than spawn in biomes not tagged "is_nether" & "is_end", this prevents it from spawning in dimensions it shouldn't spawn it.
- Added a feature lock for Glance & Bismuth that prevent them from spawning anywhere but the Nether.
- Made the bluestone recipe more sensible, and cheaper.
- Changed recipe for the Corrugated Sheet Metals to make able to handle variations. 
- Increased the Sheet Metal yield per block from 3 to 4 (12 for every 3 blocks)
- Removed pitch rotation from Corrugated Sheet Metals to make them *much* easier to place
- Changed name of Antipanel Tiles to better match their panel counterparts.
- Changed Damaged Panel & Antipanel Tiles to Crushed Tile Panel & Antipanel (the non-fibreglass exposed one to handle discrepancy)
- Changed Labrat Tiles to require Fibreglass Blocks instead of Quartz in the recipe.
- Increased the spawnrate of Moonstone significantly in the colder biomes.
- Changed Book of Need Tip #10 to be more concise in wording.
- Moved Tip #1 to Tip #3 & moved Tip #3 to Tip #21
- Recoloured Wrought Iron Window blocks giving them an ever-so-slight blue tint
- Remade entire Victorian Wallpaper Textures
- Added Myosotis to the Bee Polinators Tag
- Entrapped Glass now blocks a small amount of light (1/5th
- Treated Wood Dock Tie is now named correctly
- Condensed entire mod into 1 Searchable Creative Tab

### Additions
- Added Slow blinking & Fast blinking Antiblocks
- Added Rainbow Antiblock
- Added Thatch & Hay Overhangs
- Added Central & Laid-Flat Corrugated Sheet Metal Blocks (the wavy ones).
- Added Chipped, Damaged & Exposed Panel & Antipanel Tiles
- Added a way to receive both Moonstone & Sunstone from Endstone
- Added Gelatinum Block
- Added Propulsion & Repulsion Gelatinum Blocks
- Added Propulsion, Repulsion & Conversion Fluid Gels
- Added Propulsion & Repulsion Stained Labrat Blocks
- Added "In-World Fluid Conversion" recipes to Labrat Panels, Tiles & Duotone Tiles
- Added Blood Fluid
- Added Barbed Wire, Barbed Damage Type, and Barbed-Damage Difficulty Scaling (no damage on peaceful, more damage on higher difficulties)
- Added Quarter, Half & Three-Quarter Mixed Sand
- Added "Spiced Sand", Mixed Spice Sand & Spice Particulate Item
- Added Natural Generation for Spiced Sand
- Added Potion Recipe from Spice Particulate
- Added Wheat Sand (Quicksand)
- Added Barbed & Wired Fences
- Added Rusted Iron Bars, ported from my deprecated modpack-aide mod Aftershock
- Added Wrought Iron Panes
- Added "In World Block Splitting" to the Antishard, it can now split Endstone into Sunstone & Moonstone, or Mixed sand into it's proponent sands. It also has a few hidden uses!
- Added Book of Need Tips for the Antishard Block Splitting, and Fluid Conversion recipes!
- Added Book of Need Tip for the Aqueducts
- Added Bone Lantern, imported from my deprecated mods Immersion/Reversion
- Added tips 15 through 24
- Added Coloured Timber Doors
- Added Paper Lantern
- Added Hanging Cable, Rope & Tape
- Added Bookshelf Door
- Added Iron, Wrought, Rusty, & Scorchstone Bollards
- Added Pale Oak Variants & Recipes



# BYN v1.8.1 Changelog

Changes
- Made the Antimetal Death return the proper amount of Crying Obsidian instead of just 1
- Reduced the Antimetal death explosion power even further to reduce chance of spontaneous loss of everything around you
- Fixed a broken interraction between the Paver tool & Red Sandstone
- Changed the placement rules of Ventilation Corners to make them easier to work with
- Made the texture of Carved Crimson Stem & Carved Warped Stem animated to match vanilla counterparts
- Made Cherry, Crimson & Warped Carved Logs match their vanilla counterpart's sounds
- Fixed recipes for Layers Variants to match
- Made the names for the Sandstone Layers more concise
- Fixed the name for the Iron Dock Tie
- Fixed the broken recipe for Soot Ash
- Made all Gemstone-Ornates a much more reasonable cost
- Renamed "?" Cobblestone Layers to Laid Cobblestones
- Updated the texture for the Laid "?" Cobblestones

Removed
- Original Cobblestone Layers Blocks, as they needed to be completely reworked

Additions
- Added the Book of Need, designed to guide you through the more hidden interractions in the mod
- Added a sound to the Tar-Blue Ice interraction
- Added Obsidia Charge & Projectile, aswell as it's interaction of turning Obsidian into it's Crying variant
- Added Smooth Sandstone Wall & Smooth Red Sandstone Wall
- Added Bismuth
- Added Elder Prismarine, Elder Lantern and variants
- Added Prismarine & Elder Prismarine Glass
- Added Awnings, which I guess can also be Wool Stairs
- Added Vertical Ventilation Corners to bridge the gap in the system
- Added Glance Stone & Variants
- Added Glance Geodes (Nether)
- Added Prismarine & Elder Prismarine to ocean world-gen
- Added Crimson & Warped Nylia
- Added Honeypuff, ported from my old Immersion/Reversion mod.
- Added Soul Sandstone, Soulcrust & Soulgrain, from my old Immersion/Reversion mod.
- Added Cracked Sandstone variants.
- Added Layers Slabs
- Added Heiroglyph & Banded Sandstones
- Added Smooth & Ornate Dripstone, to treat it like Sandstone
- Added Myosotis Flower, ported from my old Immersion/Reversion mod
- Added Laid Cobblestone Stairs, Slabs & Walls for all variants.



# BYN v1.6.4 Changelog
+ Fixed Recipe Conflict between Copper Pipes & Lightning Rod, also made all pipes cheaper.
+ Fixed Recipe Conflict between Wrought Pipes & Wrought Sheetmetal.

# BYN v1.6.3 Changelog
+ Added recipe for Echo-Shards to make bluestone less annoying to make, and also give a way for people to (mostly) avoid the deep dark
+ Fixed recipe loop with Meteoric Iron & Regalith

# BYN v1.6.2 Changelog
+ Removed forge:storage_blocks/bluestone as the recipe does not match that of a storage block
+ Fixed Log-Spam caused by custom models trying to call a parent model that did not exist.

# BYN v1.6.1 Changelog
+ Fixed Recipe for Cables
+ Fixed Recipe for Copper Dock Ties

# BYN v1.6 Changelog
Please see Gallery for update screenshots!
### Removals
+ Removed Bloomery **Please remove all items inside before updating, world will load just fine without it** - Was really buggy & ended up breaking with version 1.5, requires crafttweaker recipe changes or other mods that implement recipes for Steel, Brass & Bronze for those materials!

### Fixes & Changes
+ Fixed Meteoric Iron Block Forge Tag
+ Fixed Antimetal Interraction
+ Fixed Antimetal Death
+ Added Spyglass Recipe for Brass & Bronze
+ Plaster Recipe Changes
+ Updated Brambles to have a custom model
+ Gave Brambles a custom damage type

### Additions
+ Added Tool: Paver
+ Added Forge Tags for Antimetal (forge:ingots/antimetal & forge:storage_blocks/antimetal)
+ Added Crafting Materials: Copper Wire, Invisible Ink & Antishard
+ Added Anticrystal
+ Added 16 Balloons
+ Added 18 Paths
+ Added Console Infrastructure, Console Drives & Console Screens
+ Added 13 Console Drive Variations
+ Added 31 Console Screen Variations
+ Added 17 Dock Ties Variations
+ Added Aquatic Glass & Invisiglass
+ Added 10 Globes
+ Added Starcharts
+ Added Table Map
+ Added Wooden Plates
+ Added Slime Achoria Uses
+ Added Bluestone Powder & Bluestone blocks
+ Added Aquatrine forge:ores/ tag

 


v1.4

Additions:

+ Bloomery

+ Steel Ingots

+ Steel Blocks

+ Steel Pipes

+ Coal Chunks

+ Slag

+ Ornate Bricks

+ Tar Fluid

+ Ability to "dry" tar with Blue Ice

+ Unique Death Messages for Brambles & Tar

+ Bloomery Recipes

+ Brass (3 Copper, 1 Zinc),

+ Bronze (3 Copper, 1 Tin),

+ Steel (3 Coal Chunks, 1 Iron),

+ Netherite (3 Scrap, 1 Gold)

+ Exposed, Weathered, & Oxidised copper blocks

+ Exposed, Weathered, & Oxidised copper pipes

+ Waxed Copper Blocks

+ Ability to wax & unwax copper blocks in world

+ Recipes to wax copper blocks

+ 2 new Wrought Iron Windows

+ Wrought Iron Window Blocks

+ Brass & Bronze Blocks

+ Storage_Blocks forge tags

+ Illumina Blocks

 

Changes:

~ recipe for beams & cables have been switched to steel instead of iron & wrought iron

~ tar lake feature made slightly rarer, but can now generate in groups

~ tar lake feature now uses tar liquid with asphalt as its surround

~ Removed crafting recipes for original wrought iron window variants (they are only made in stonecutter now)


v1.3

Changes:
~ Slight texture tweak for ALL Brass Blocks
~ Retextured ALL Bronze & Wrought Iron blocks
~ Retextured Meteoric Iron Block
~ Retextured Bronze, Wrought Iron, Pig Iron & Meteoric Iron Ingots
~ Fixed Light Gray & Green Caution Wrap recipes to reflect new texture
~ Reworked Plexiglass texture
~ Retextured the Metal Beams
~ Retextured the Factory Blocks
~ Changes to Labrat Panel Recipes (Now uses Moonstone instead of Shale)

 

Additions:
+ ability to strip Slime Achoria for Slimeballs & Achoria (use axe)
+ Rockwool + 16 Dyed Variants, flame resistant wool
+ Iron, Wrought Iron, Pig Iron, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Aluminum & Silver Wools
+ Moonstone (Building Block & Variations)
+ Sunstone (Building Block & Variations)


v1.2.2 + v1.2.1


Additions: (1.2.2)
+ Mod Integrations (Planks Stack, Banded Planks Stack, Elegant Planks, Wood Panels)
+--Deeper & Darker
+--Aether
+--Blue Skies
+--Tropicraft
+--Twilight Forest
+--The Undergarden
+--Biome Backlog

 

Changes (1.2.1)

~ Changed recipe for Rope & Cable Catches to make them slightly cheaper

 

Additions (1.2.1)

+ forge:stone/??? tags for all the generated stones in the mod

+ forge:ores/aquatrine tags for the 2 aquatrine ores

+ Missing Recipe for Rope & Cable Ties has been resolved


v1.2


Changes:

~ Fixed Soot not being able to be broken by hand
~ Fixed Regalith, Sodalite & many other blocks that were not dropping when mined.
~ Fixed broken Photovolt panel recipes.

~ Fixed incorrect sounds for many blocks including the metal coils
~ Green & Light Gray caution wrap have been updated with a new texture

~ All Brass-based blocks have been updated with a new texture (Boilerplate, foil, coil, pipes, etc)

~ Aquatrine textures have been revamped

~ Photovolt panels now have a much nicer texture, and produce more FE/t
~ Scorched Blastmetal Barrier has a much more elaborate texture.

~ Recipe for Blastmetal was changed

~ Increased generation-rate of Aquatrine

~ Sodalite now generates in more biomes, all water-based biomes, and snow biomes instead of just specific few

~ Sterile & Starry Polyblocks have received a brand new texture

 

Additions:

+ New sodalite blocks & sodalite mend

+ Corrugated Mend Sheets

+ Andesite, Granite & Diorite block variations

+ Sandstone & Red Sandstone block variations

+ Achoria and 10 new blocks based from it

+ Red Cracked Nether Brick, Cracked Nether Brick fences, stairs, etc
+ Warped Nether Brick

+ Wood Block Panels

+ Calcite blocks

+ Dripstone blocks

+ Entrapped Glass (recipe not ready in this version)

+ Ornate & Smooth Sodalite

+ Cracked & Patchwork Bricks

+ 400+ recipes to make all of these blocks survival ready


v1.1 skipped - is on curseforge


v1.0


 

1.0 Release due to adding all blocks I had intended to add, making the mod "feature complete". Expect minor additions & updates going forward.

 

Changes/Fixes:

* Wall Blocks now correctly tagged & will connect to one another

* Recipe tweaks

* Minor Texture Tweaks to Ropes & a few other blocks

 

Additions:

+ Antimetal Block + Its unpredictable placement feature

+ Hedge Brambles

+ Iron & Wrought Iron I-Beam Blocks (Beams)

+ Fibreglass

+ Insulation Block & Insulated Blocks

+ Wood Plank Stacks & Banded Plank Stacks

+ Elegant Wood Planks

+ Coke & Tar

+ Coke Blocks & Bricks

+ Creosote & Treated Wood, with whole set of wooded blocks.

+ Chipped, Damaged & Exposed Labrat Panels (Strip with Axe)

+ Boilerplate Blocks of Iron, Wrought Iron, Copper, Bronze & Brass

+ Crossform Blocks

+ HVAC Blocks, Ventilation Shafts, Access Vents, a variety of Passage Blocks & HVAC Fan Blocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


v0.2.1


 

Tweaks:

* Bent Pipes have eased placement (they will always face towards you)

* Pipes can now be waterlogged

* Minor Texture Tweaks

* Removed Unused Textures
* Tweaked Factory Block tag

* Lots of crafting recipes

 

Additions:
+ Stairs, Slabs & Walls for all blocks it made sense (theres no blockcarpentry mod for this version, you're welcome)

+ Walls for Corrugated Sheet Metals

+ Caution Wrap Blocks, 16 variants for each dye colour, times 3 for Plain, Polished & Etched variations.

+ Ropes, Cables, Catches & Ties

+ Open & Passage Barrels (Strip an Open Barrel)

+ "Stuffs" Barrels (Apples, Beetroots, Carrots, Chorus, Glowstone, Gunpowder, Potatoes, Redstone, Rotten Flesh, Sugar Cane, Sugar)

+ Reinforced Crate & Metal Crates (Act like Silent Barrels)

+ Mesh & Mesh Sheets

+ Pipe Ends, & Side-Bent Pipes

+ Shale alternative Recipe

+ Shale pockets

+ Asphalt + Dried Tar Lakes + Crude Bitumen