What is a tool?
A tool is an object used to extract certain blocks, deal more damage, and do special things like change certain blocks that the player's hand alone cannot do. Normally tools aren't stackable and have a durability bar (unless the tool is unbreakable) that indicate the remaining durability when the tool is used and warns the player when the tool is about to break. Tools can be repaired using one or multiple item in anvils or combining them in crafting table or in a grindstone.
Visual
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Tool texture: | The texture of your tool |
Item model: |
Select the model to be used with this item. The model only defines the visual look.
When making custom models, JSON is recommended due to vanilla support for this model type. |
Special information: | This will add text like how enchantments show. |
Enable glowing effect: | Checking this check box will always enable the glowing effect on your tool, the same way enchantments work. |
Glowing effect condition: | If a condition is specified, the item will only glow in case this condition is passed. This will be ignored if the glow effect is disabled. |
Tool property list
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Name in GUI: | The display name for the tool in the GUI. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creative inventory tab: | The tab in which the item is under in creative mode. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: |
The type of tool you wish to create.
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Harvest level: |
The tier of the tool. The tier can only break blocks with the same tier or below.
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Efficiency: |
How fast the tool can mine. You can add more levels. Example: Stone tools have lower efficiency than diamond tools.
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Enchantability: |
How common rare enchantments can be enchanted on this tool. The higher the enchantability, the better enchantments you will get when enchanting the tool.
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Attack speed: |
This is the speed of which the item has when using the attack mouse button. Some tools use different speeds such as axes vs. pickaxes.
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Damage vs. mob/animal: |
The level of damage dealt when attacking with this weapon. This is not the Shovels do exactly the amount of damage you put here.
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Number of uses: |
The durability of the tool:
The Minecraft wiki page can be found here. |
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Repair items: | The item(s) with which the tool can be repaired in an anvil. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blocks affected: | What blocks the tool can be used on. This is for the advanced tool types. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Is the tool immune to fire? |
This parameter controls if the item is immune to fire, like Netherite stuff. NOTE: Only available in Minecraft 1.16.x and higher |
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Does the item stay in the crafting grid when crafted? | Check this if you want the item to stay on the crafting table. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Damage the item instead, when crafting: | If "stay in the grid" is enabled, you can enable this parameter to deal damage to this tool instead of keeping it with its current durability. |
Triggers
On this page, you can find multiple triggers triggered with different actio0njs and execute a procedure to do more actions.
The itemstack
dependency will always be an instance of this tool.
It can notably be used to make a hammer using the "When block destroyed with tool" trigger.
Video tutorial
If you prefer to watch the video, you can find the wiki page above summarized in a video: