Just Hammers FAQ

Craft a basic hammer from a common material like stone or iron using the mod's hammer recipe, then use it to mine normally. Once you have a hammer, you can start collecting the cores needed to upgrade it into reinforced, impact, or destructor variants.

Reinforced hammers trade some mining speed for extra durability, impact hammers focus on breaking blocks faster, and destructor hammers have the largest area of effect for clearing wide swaths of terrain. Pick based on whether you want longevity, speed, or maximum coverage.

Combine your hammer with the appropriate core in a crafting grid or anvil-style recipe to convert it into the next variant. Reinforced Core, Impact Core, Destruction Core, and Reinforced Impact Core each unlock a different upgrade path.

Base hammers mine a single block; area-of-effect mining comes from impact and destructor variants, or from hammers that have been upgraded with the right core. Check that you're using an upgraded hammer and not a plain one.

Stone is a cheap starter, iron is a solid all-rounder, diamond offers better speed and durability, gold mines fast but wears out quickly, and netherite gives the best durability and mining performance. Match the tier to how much you plan to mine.

Yes — the Reinforced Impact Core exists specifically to give you both durability and impact-style mining in one hammer. Craft or obtain that core and apply it to get the combined variant.

Upgrade to a reinforced variant using a Reinforced Core, or move up to a higher material tier like diamond or netherite. Enchanting with Unbreaking and Mending also helps if your setup supports it.

Yes, AoE hammers mine in a radius, so they can destroy crops, decorative blocks, or builds if you're not careful. Aim away from anything you want to keep, or switch to a single-block hammer for precision work.

It's a lightweight mod that adds items and recipes, so it generally plays well with other mods and won't noticeably affect performance. Conflicts are rare and usually only occur if another mod overrides the same recipes or materials.

Hammers follow normal tool rules, so they mine blocks appropriate to their material tier and harvest level. If a hammer won't break a block, you likely need a higher-tier hammer or a different tool entirely.

It adds hammers that mine multiple blocks at once, in areas from 3x3x1 up to 5x5x5 depending on the hammer's tier. Hammers come in iron, gold, diamond, and netherite.

Iron, gold, diamond, and netherite. Each material has several tiers, including impact, reinforced, reinforced impact, and destructor variants.

Mining areas range from 3x3x1 up to 5x5x5, scaling with the hammer's tier. For example, a stone hammer breaks a 3x3x1 area while a netherite hammer can break 5x5x5.

No, hammers will not break. When durability reaches 1 they can no longer be used until repaired on an anvil.

Repair it on an anvil once its durability reaches 1. Until repaired, the hammer cannot be used.

It supports Minecraft 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2, and 26.3.

It is available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.

The mod registers 29 hammer-related items, including stone, iron, gold, diamond, and netherite hammers in base, impact, reinforced, reinforced impact, and destructor variants, plus destruction cores, impact cores, and reinforced cores.