
No Tree Punching
This mod adds a little more believability to your first few minutes of play, via the titular feature: Blocks don't drop anything if broken without the correct tool.
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About this Mod

This is a Minecraft mod meant to add a little more believability to your first few minutes of play. It was initially inspired by features from TerraFirmaCraft, but has since been refocused around the titular idea: Blocks don't drop anything if broken without the correct tool. In order to cope with this, there are several new features:
- Leaves can be harvested without a tool for sticks (this is a vanilla feature, but will be very important here.
- Gravel can be mined without a tool, and enables you to aquire flint.
- Flint can be knapped on an exposed stone surface, obtaining flint shards.
- A Flint Knife can now be crafted, allowing you to harvest plant materials for plant fibers and craft plant string.
- A Flint Axe can enable you to collect wood and build a crafting table.
- A Flint pickaxe, hoe and shovel will serve as early game tools, while you can create a Macuahutil for a good early game weapon.
Later on in the game, there are also a couple other additions and changes which fit the stylistic theme of this mod
- Vanilla recipes for wooden and stone tools have been removed.
- The vanilla campfire recipe as been removed, and instead it is crafted using a Fire Starter.
- Pottery can be created using a Clay Tool on a block of clay, forming it to shape before firing it in a campfire or a furnace.
- Knives are a new tool available in all vanilla tool materials, and can be used as weak swords, as a crafting tool, or a plant harvester.
- Saws are a weaker version of an axe which are used as crafting items, and are essential for converting wood into planks and planks into sticks.
- Mattocks are the ultimate all-in-one tool. They can mine blocks as if they were a shovel, axe, or hoe, and can strip wood like an axe, till grass like a hoe, and make paths like a shovel. (The latter two functions sometimes conflict and can be chosen by sneaking).

Credit
Thanks to EERussianGuy for spontaneously updating ALL my rubbish programmer art to beautiful new textures!
Hope you enjoy
~ AlcatrazEscapee
Available Versions
How to Install No Tree Punching on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "No Tree Punching". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.20.1, 1.20, 1.19.2 (+3 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
No Tree Punching server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is No Tree Punching compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge?
No Tree Punching officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge for Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20, 1.19.2. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with No Tree Punching – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if No Tree Punching consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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