Useless Items

Useless Items

A simple mod aimed at making some items less useless.

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Screenshots

Dead bush craft
lily of the valley
Enchanted Heart recipe
Zombification potion
Compass
broken disc

About this Mod

Mechanics and Recipes:

Wandering Trader

  •  Break discs on cobblestone to obtain broken discs
    -  Broken discs can be traded with a Wandering Trader for a Trident.

Rotten Flesh

  • Restores maximum health to dogs and cats
  • Can be converted into bones
  • Using it at a Brewing Stand makes a zombification potion

Zombification Potion

  • When drunk, it provides effects of strength, health boost, and hunger for 5 minutes 
  • By left-clicking on a villager with this potion, you transform them into a zombie

Feather

  • They can be used to repair elytra

Wet Sponge

  • Right-clicking on a cursed item removes the curse

 Dead Bush

  • If placed on a block of dirt, it becomes a sapling
  • Can be crafted using sticks

Oil Bottle

  • A oil bottle made from seeds lasts three times longer than coal

Honey 

  • Honey bottle complete recovery saturation
  • Click on a beehive with a pot to fill it with honey
  • Having a pot of honey in your inventory, by right-clicking with a glass bottle you can fill it with honey the pot's uses vary from 1 to 50 uses

Lily of the valley

  • Crafting an immunity option makes you immune to negative effects for 10 minutes

Compass

  • Right-clicking on it reveals the location of nearby mobs

Eggfication Potion

  • When thrown at a turtle, chicken, or villager, it turns into an egg

  • There is a 1% chance of a chicken turning into a Golden egg

  • The golden egg spawns a hen that lays gold nuggets

Emerald Pickaxe

  • When crafted, it receives a Fortune enchantment

Dog Treat

  • Grants a damage buff to your wolf for 1 minute

Poisoned Potato: Paralyzation potion

  • Applies a weakness, slowness, and blindness effect to the target for 30 seconds

Enchanted Bottle

  • Holding a book in your off-hand and a bottle in your main hand, you can make enchanted bottles

  • Use a book in your main hand to transfer your experience levels to another player by right-clicking on it

  • Using 9 Bottles o’ Enchanting and a Heart of the Sea, you can craft an Enchanted Heart

Filters

  • Automatically deletes unwanted items from your inventory (It doesn't work in creative mode)

  • Mob filter: bones, rotten flesh, arrow, feathers

  • Miner filter: andesite, diorite, gravel, granite

MinerMan Potion

  • Apply the haste and speed for 5 minutes
  • It can be found in loot

Enchanted Heart

  • Right-click to activate

  • It provides regeneration, health boost, and stamina effects that become stronger with each heart level gained

  • To increase the heart level, you need to kill the mobs required in the item description

  • Hearts can regress in level if you die

  • The hearts have alternative options that guarantee a 100% chance of upgrade

  • Killing a skeleton horse while having any heart in your inventory will advance you to the max level

  • Enchanted hearts do not burn in lava

LVL1 | Regression chance: 0% | Upgrade chance: 5% | Alt: Witch
LVL2 | Regression chance: 50% | Upgrade chance: 0,5% | Alt: Endermite
LVL3 | Regression chance: 5% | Upgrade chance: 50% | Alt: Ender dragon
LVL4 | Regression chance: 0,5% | Upgrade chance: 100% | Alt: Skeleton Horse

  • A enchanted heart level 5 can become a disenchanted heart to recover it, it needs to be placed on a Smithing Table along with an enchanted bottle

Available Versions

Useless Items 0.10release
MC 1.18.2forge
April 21, 2026
Useless Items 0.10release
MC 1.20.4neoforge
April 21, 2026
Useless Items 0.11release
MC 1.16.5forge
April 21, 2026
Useless Items 0.10release
MC 1.21.8neoforge
April 21, 2026
Useless Items 0.10release
MC 1.21.1neoforge
April 4, 2026

How to Install Useless Items on Your Server

1

Order Server

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

2

Set forge Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.8).

3

Install Mod

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

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forgeneoforge

Minecraft Versions

1.21.8, 1.21.1, 1.20.4 (+3 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Useless Items 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 (1.21.8). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Useless Items compatible with forge and neoforge?

Useless Items officially supports forge, neoforge for Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.21.1, 1.20.4. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Useless Items – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Useless Items 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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Details

License
LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved
Server-side
Required

Supported Versions

1.21.81.21.11.20.41.20.11.18.21.16.5