Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life

A fork of a mod that aims to add earthen and ancient and prehistoric inspired building materials to Minecraft.

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About this Mod

This is a Fork of "Earthworks" since it didn't receive an update in forever.

Original Description:

Earthworks aims to add earthen and ancient and prehistoric inspired building materials to Minecraft.

Taking cues from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, Earthworks adds some of the first materials mankind used to craft. Materials like wattle and daub, wicker, rammed earth, and adobe bricks. These are crude materials, fashioned out of what was at hand, and easily accessible, but prove to be as strong as stone when fashioned properly. Utilizing these in an early build will provide some excellent shelters.

Some materials you will have to work harder for, such as concrete, cinder blocks, or cordwood, but these materials will prove expansive, and help you to forge a great empire like our Roman ancestors. These materials will yield more when crafted, pushing your roads and aqueducts further and further.

Link to the original mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/earthworks

Materials

Adobe
Chalk
Cinder Blocks
Cob
Concrete
Cordwood
Dry Fitted Stone
Gabions - Dirt, Sand, and Gravel filled
Lath and Plaster
Mud
Rammed Earth
Reed
Slate - Blue, Purple, and Green
Slate Tiles - Blue, Purple, and Green
Slate Shingles - Blue, Purple, and Green
Thatch
Timber
Vertical Planks
Wattle and Daub
Wicker
Wood Shakes

Features:

Low Cost/Early Game - Blocks like wattle and daub, rammed earth, and adobe offer stone like protection a cheap cost.
Walls, Slabs, Stairs - Every block comes with walls, slabs, and stairs for all sorts of building options!
Blast Resistance - Dry fitted stone offers blast resistance just shy of that of obsidian.
Timber Framing - Fully customizable set of timber framed wattle & daub and plaster blocks. Each infill type comes with 39 separate, fully rotatable pattern, for hundreds if not thousands of possible designs.
Carpenters Tools - To rotate your timber framed blocks around in world with a shift right click.
Wicker Gabions - These blocks will collapse like gravel or sand when shift right clicked with an empty hand, or on a redstone impulse.

Credits:

Alsender - Original Author of the Mod
FreneticScribbler - for creating a pull request 3 years ago, that was implemented in this version

This mod is published under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). (Same license Alsender originally choose.)

Available Versions

v1.3.8 - RFGrelease

MC 1.12.2forge

June 6, 2025

How to Install Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life on Your Server

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

Set forge Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.12.2).

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forge

Minecraft Versions

1.12.2

Server-side

✓ Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong forge 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 (1.12.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life compatible with forge?

Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.12.2. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Earthworks Unofficial Extended Life 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.