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Loupieur
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Materials Alternatives is a mod for 1.20.1 Forge that adds alternatives to collect some materials.


New items

Rock
Can be crafted with 1 Gravel to obtain 4 Rocks or 1 Cobblestone to obtain 9 Rocks or can be pickup when destroy dirt with a pourcent of chance.

Can be used to craft Gravel with 4 Rocks/Flints, or Cobblestone with 9 Rocks/Flints.

You can destroy Gravel to pickup Rock.


You can make a right click on a stone/cobblestone block (Cobblestone, Stone, Netherrack, Blackstone, Deepslate, Cobbled Deepslate, Basalt) with the Rock in your hand to break it and have a little pourcent of chance to have an Overworld's ore.
Fiber
You can find Fibers when destroying Short Grass or Tall Grass with a sword (that loose durability with a little pourcent of chance) with a pourcent of chance.

Use 3 Fibers to craft a Fibers String.

Can be used to craft arrows instead of Feather and Torches instead of Coal/Charcoal and can be used as a combustible in furnaces.
Fibers String
Is used in crafts instead of String.

Can craft a Green Wool with 4 Fibers Strings.
Leaf
There a Leaf (as an individual item) with each tree (instead of Nether trees) when a leaves block is destroyed.

You can craft a leaves block with 4 leaf items, but for the Flowering Azalea Leaves you have to put 2 Azalea Leaf items and 2 Azalea Flowers.

You can use leaf items as a combustible in furnaces.
Cotton
You can pickup Cotton when right click on a mature Coton Plant.

Used to craft 2 Strings with 1 Cotton.

Can be used to craft Torch instead of Coal/Charcoal.
Piece of Gunpowder
Craft it with 1 Coal/Charcoal, 1 Flint and 1 Blaze Powder to obtain 2 Pieces of Gunpowder.

Use 4 Pieces of Gunpowder to craft 1 Gunpowder.
Fluorite Powder
Crafted with Fluroite.

Used to craft Fluorite Powder Block with 9 Fluorite Powders and Fluorite with 1 Fluorite, Two Fluorites with 2 Fluorites, Three Fluorites with 3 Fluorites and Four Fluorites with 4 Fluorites.

Can be used to craft Cyan Dye.
Nether Flint
Like the normal Flint but you have to destroy Nether Gravel to pickup it.

Can be used to craft 1 Nether Gravel with 4 Nether Flints.
Nether Rock
Like normal Rock but you have to destroy Nether Gravel to pickup it or use 1 Nether Gravel to craft 4 Nether Rocks or 1 Netherrack to craft 9 Nether Rocks.

If you break the Nether Rock on a stone/cobblestone block (Cobblestone, Stone, Netherrack, Blackstone, Deepslate, Cobbled Deepslate, Basalt) you can have Nether's ore with a little pourcent of chance.
Obsidian Chunk
Picked up when destroyed Netherrack Obsidian Chunk in The Nether.

Used to craft 1 Obsidian with 4 Obsidian Chunks.
Netherrack tools and sword
There is Netherrack Sword, Netherrack Pickaxe, Netherrack Axe, Netherrack Shovel and Netherrack Hoe crafted with Netherrack, are like Stone tools and sword but has less durability (Netherrack is less hard)
End Stone tools and sword
There is End Stone Sword, End Stone Pickaxe, End Stone Axe, End Stone Shovel and End Stone Hoe crafted with End Stone , are like Stone tools and sword but has more durability (End Stone is more hard).


Blocks added :

Fluorites
Fluorite is a block that can be picked by destroying Fluorite Ore/Deepslate Fluorite Ore between 1 and 4 Fluorites.

There is 4 forms of Fluorite :
  • Fluorite
  • Two Fluorites
  • Three Fluorites
  • Four Fluorites
You can add 1 Fluorite to each of these blocks with 1 Fluorite when right click (max 4)

You can pick up each fully block when sneaking or if you use Silk Touch, or just pick up Fluorites (1 Fluorite when destroy Fluorite, 2 Fluorites when destroy Two Fluorites, 3 Fluorites when destroy Three Fluorites and 4 Fluorites when destroy Four Fluorites) if you are not sneaking or don't use Silk Touch.

Can be crafted with 2 Fluorite Powders

You can craft 2 Fluorite Powders with 1 Fluorite.

You can combine each form on Fluorite to make another form of Fluorite (example : 1 Fluorite + Three Fluorites = Four Fluorites)

Emit light around and have a little hitbox to allow you to place it on the walls or the ceilling without bothering you, so you can use it instead of torches in caves if you want.
Fluorite Ores
You can find underground Fluorite Ore or Deepslate Fluorite Ore to pick up Fluorite between 1 and 4.
Fluorite Block
Crafted with 9 Fluorites.

Can be uncrafted to have 9 Fluorites.

Emit light around.
Fluorite Powder Block
Like Fluorite Block but is crafted with 9 Fluorite Powders and can be uncrafted to have 9 Fluorite Powders and have gravity like Sand or Gravel.
Clean Dirt
Is picked when destroying normal Dirt with a pourcent of chance and pickup Rock in the same time.

Can be crafted with 1 normal Dirt and 2 Rocks.
Nether Iron Ore
Can be found in The Nether like Nether Gold Ore.

You can pick up Iron Nuggets.
Netherrack Obsidian Chunk
As a ore can be found in The Nether to pickup Obsidian Chunks to craft Obsidian, can only be mined with Iron Pickaxe or better.
Nether Gravel
Can be found in The Nether like Gravel, but have Nether Rock and Nether Flint.
Ender Wood
You can craft Ender Planks with 4 normal Chorus.

There is all the set of blocks for this wood.
Azalea Flowers
Can be picked up when destroy Flowering Azalea Leaves.

Can be placed like a block and be used to craft Mangeta Dye.
Cotton Plant
Can be found in Overworld and can growth on Grass Block to have Cotton.


Crafts added/alternatives :

Arrows
Can be crafted also with Iron Ingot instead of Flint, with Nether Flint insteat of normal Flint and Fiber instead of Feather.
Crying Obsidian
Can be crafted by 8 with 1 Ghast Tear and 8 Obsidians around.
Torches
Can be crafted with Fiber/Wheat/Cotton instead of Coal/Charcoal.
Gunpowder
Can be crafted with 4 Pieces of Gunpowder (crafted with Coal (not Charcoal)).
Leather
Can be crafted with 4 Rotten Fleshes.
Gravel
Can be crafted with 4 Flints/Rocks.
Cobblestone
Can be crafted with 9 Rocks.
Netherrack
Can be crafted with 9 Nether Rocks.
Leaves
Leaves can be crafted with 4 Leaf items of their tree type (you have to use 4 Pink Petals for Cherry Leaves and use 2 Azalea Leaf items and 2 Azalea Flowers for Flowering Azalea Leaves).
Saddle
Saddle can be crafted with 3 Leathers on the top, 2 Strings/Fibers Strings in the center on the sides and 2 Iron Nuggets in the bottom on the sides.
Glass
Glass can be crafted with 9 Quartz.
Glass Bottle
Glass Bottle can be crafted with 3 Quartz but you pickup only 1 Glass Bottle.
Flowering Azalea Leaves
Can be crafted also with 1 Azalea Leaves surrounded by 4 Azalea Flowers as well that use 2 Azalea Leaf items and 2 Azalea Flowers.
Cyan Dye
Can also be crafted with 1 Fluorite Powder.
Magenta Dye
Can also be crafted with 1 Azalea Flowers.
Stick
Stick is now crafted by 8 instead of 4.
Slime Ball
Can be crafted with 1 Water Bucket, 1 Kelp/Cactus and 1 Wheat/Clay Ball/Fibers


Other Thing :

Crying Obsidian
Can be turned into a normal Obidian when right clicked with Shears.
Progress100% complete
Game VersionMinecraft 1.20.1
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1 Update Logs

Update #1 : by Loupieur 07/21/2025 12:54:23 pmJuly 21, 2025 @ 4:54 pm UTC

Modification of craft :
  • Modified Piece of Gunpowder craft that needs now 1 Flint and 1 Blaze Powder and can use 1 Charcoal instead of Coal

Added craft :
  • Added Slime Ball craft with 1 Water Bucket, 1 Cactus/Kelp and 1 Wheat/Clay Ball/Fibers

Modification of textures :
  • Modified all fluorite items (one, two, three and four), there doesn't have transparent pixels anymore and for the two, three and four, they are more round

Modification of craft :
  • Modified Piece of Gunpowder craft that also needs now 1 Flint and 1 Blaze Powder and can use 1 Charcoal instead of Coal

Added craft :
  • Added Slime Ball craft with 1 Water Bucket, 1 Cactus/Kelp and 1 Wheat/Clay Ball/Fibers

Problem solved :
  • Rocks and Nether Rocks can now be used on Stone, Cobblestone, Netherrack, Blackstone, Basalt, Deepslate and Cobbled Deepslate, not only Cobblestone and Stone for the Rock and only Netherrack and Blackstone for the Nether Rock

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