Primitive Start FAQ

Spawn in and immediately hunt nearby animals to collect bones—don't try to chop trees first. You need bones to craft your first tools, so focus on finding cows, sheep, or other mobs and defeating them.

Most passive mobs drop bones when killed. You'll need several bones to craft a full set of bone tools, so hunt multiple animals before you start crafting.

Break leaf blocks by hand or with any tool—they drop sticks naturally. This is the intended way to gather sticks early game before you have a bone axe.

No, stone tools cannot mine iron ore in this mod. You must progress to iron or better tools before you can collect iron.

Look for naturally generated wooden structures like village huts or other plank-based buildings. You can break and collect wood planks from these structures without needing a tool.

Bone tools are crafted using bones combined with sticks in a crafting table. Check your crafting recipes in-game for the exact layout, as it follows standard tool patterns.

Yes, you need a crafting table. You can obtain wood planks from natural structures to build one before you can craft bone tools.

Once you have stone tools, you can mine iron ore and progress to iron tools normally. Stone tools work for all blocks except iron ore.

Primitive Start Mod should work with most other mods, but compatibility depends on whether other mods override early-game mechanics. Test it in your modpack to be sure.

Bone tools are wood-tier, so they work like wooden tools. Make sure you're using a bone axe on wood blocks—if it's not working, verify the tool is actually equipped and the block is wood.