Wooden Tools Are Dumb FAQ

You can't punch wood in this mod. Find flint on the ground (usually near water or in gravel), craft a flint hatchet with flint and sticks, then use it to chop wood from trees.

In hard mode, you need to find a way to break stone without a stone pickaxe—the mod expects you to figure this out, but the guide "Progress Past Flint Tools in Hard Mode" has hints if you're stuck. In simple mode, just craft a flint pickaxe and mine stone normally.

The mod doesn't have a config option to re-enable wooden tools, but you can switch to Simple Mode in the mod settings, which removes the challenge while keeping flint tools as the realistic alternative.

Yes—if another mod provides cobblestone or stone tools, you can enable "Nothing Mode" in the mod's settings to make Wooden Tools Are Dumb only replace wooden tools with flint and then step back.

Flint tools have limited durability and will eventually break; the exact number of uses depends on the tool type, but they're meant to be temporary stepping stones, not permanent solutions.

Flint spawns naturally in the world, most commonly in gravel blocks, near water, or in certain biomes; you may need to explore or break gravel to collect enough for your first hatchet.

Hard mode is designed to create a puzzle and a sense of progression rather than artificial tedium; the challenge is figuring out the intended path forward, not grinding or waiting.

Yes—you can still craft a crafting table and chest with flint tools, and they're just as useful as in vanilla Minecraft for organizing your inventory and accessing more recipes.

No, Wooden Tools Are Dumb is a lightweight mod that only changes crafting recipes and tool behavior; it has no performance impact.

Yes, the mod works on servers and in multiplayer worlds as long as all players have it installed (or the server has it installed for server-side mods, depending on the mod loader).