Tinkers' Construct
A mod for crafting your own custom tools and weapons. Endless possibilities through material trait combinations.
📦 Modpacks With This Mod
All the Mods 10
The latest in the ATM series. A massive kitchen-sink modpack with over 400 mods to freely explore. Built on 1.21 NeoForge for the newest content available.
🎯 Best for A good fit if you want automation, magic, and exploration all in one pack.
All the Mods 10: To the Sky (ATM10SKY)
ATM10's massive mod lineup reimagined as a skyblock progression challenge. Start from a single tree and build infinite possibilities through tech and magic.
🎯 Best for Best for players who enjoy fitting factory lines into tight, vertical space — automation as design puzzle.
📖 Introduction
Tinkers' Construct is a mod that completely redesigns Minecraft's tool crafting system. Instead of the traditional crafting table method, you smelt metals in a Smeltery, pour them into casts to make parts, then assemble tools at a Tool Station.
Each material has unique traits, so the performance and effects of a tool change depending on what materials you combine. Tools level up through use, and you can add Modifiers to make them even stronger.
🕒 When to Use This Mod
The right window opens around the time you'd otherwise be making iron tools — that's when starting a Smeltery actually pays off. Go in too early and you'll just bleed hours collecting Seared Bricks; go in too late and other tool mods will already have filled the slot. The sweet spot is the moment you think 'I need a tool upgrade soon,' before you commit to any other path.
📦 Where It Matters Most
In ATM10 and ATM10 Sky it holds one of the late-game weapon pillars. ATM10 Sky in particular forces tighter material choices because of the skyblock setup, which makes Modifier planning a real puzzle, and the act of designing your own tool from scratch breaks up the otherwise template-heavy feel of a kitchen-sink pack better than most other tools-focused mods manage.
🎮 How It Changes Your Playthrough
Tools start feeling like yours for the first time. Two pickaxes made from different materials behave noticeably differently, and watching one of them level up through use and accept a Modifier scratches the same itch as raising a character. After hours of throwing away broken vanilla tools, holding onto a single self-designed pickaxe across an entire save creates an attachment that's hard to explain until you've felt it.
💡 Gameplay Tips
- Building a Smeltery is your first goal. Start by crafting Seared Bricks.
- Check material traits in JEI and plan your desired combinations in advance.
- Tools don't break—they become 'unusable' instead. Don't panic, they can be repaired.
- Modifier slots are limited, so choose your modifiers carefully.
- Tinkers tools can't be enchanted normally — opening an enchanting table just refuses to accept them, and that's working as intended. Instead, you slot Modifiers like books, diamonds, and golden apples to upgrade them, and that 'wait, all my saved enchantment books are useless on these?' moment is basically a rite of passage for first-time Tinkers users.
⚠️ Common Confusing Points
- • The Smeltery requires lava to function.
- • Vanilla tool recipes may be disabled (depends on modpack settings).