Survivalist Mod (1.16.5, 1.15.2)— Ultimate Survival

Spice up the game’s early levels without making everything more tedious with the Survivalist mod by mod developer gigaherz.

What is the Mod About?

The mod aims to make the early game more interesting and realistic by overhauling basic recipes, expanding block chopping, and more. The mod features a new machine called a sawmill that can chop blocks. Early-level items like sticks are no longer craftable using the vanilla recipe, tools and armor have a drop in their crafting components, a new drying rack block for turning meat into jerky, and a lot of other features.

Should You Install it?

The mod is great if you have played Minecraft over and over again and want to make a few changes to how everything starts up. This is a great mod worth trying out.

Features

Everything listed below can be turned off on the config file:

• Sticks are no longer directly craftable from planks.
  • Get them by placing sheared leaves and saplings in a crafting grid.
  • Break planks into sticks in the Chopping Block.
• Rocks and Ore Rocks
  • Mining stone drops rocks (4) instead of cobble. In order to craft cobblestone, you’ll need clay.
    • Andesite, Diorite, and Granite drop rocks, too.
    • Any 4 will turn into gravel, which can be crafted again into 4 generic rocks. All the cobblestones!
    • The corresponding blocks are crafted by surrounding a ball of clay with 8 rocks.
  • Mining iron/gold now drops ore rocks (2..4), which smelt for one nugget each.
  • Mod Ore Rocks and their corresponding nuggets
    • Metals supported: Copper, Tin, Lead, Silver
    • Same rules as the gold and iron rocks
• Tools and armor drop one of their crafting components.
  • Enchant tools with Scraping I/II/III to increase the chances it’s the GOOD item.
  • Enchant armor with Scraping I/II/III to increase the chances it’s two instead.
• Craftable chainmail!
  • Iron nuggets in a diamond shape make chainmail pieces
  • Chainmail pieces are then materials for crafting the armor.
• Torches can set things on fire!
  • But they have a rather high chance of breaking in the process.
• Drying rack
  • Turn meat into jerky: not too nutritive, but highly saturating.
  • Turn leather (which really should be called hide), into tanned leather, for improved armor.
• Chopping block
  • Crafted from Logs
  • Click repeatedly until the placed block breaks (TODO: allow continuous holding)
  • Allows chopping logs into planks
  • Allows chopping planks into sticks
  • Yield depends on axe harvest level (be careful, using your hands has a high probability of not yielding any item!)
  • NEW: You can chop wool into strings (although it’s a rather inefficient process — and will never yield more string than needed to make a wool block)
• JEI Integration
  • Drying recipes show input, output, and drying time
  • Chopping recipes show input, output, and an average number of resulting items.