Stonecutting Upgrade
The stonecutter has always been one of Minecraft's most underappreciated blocks. It saves you from crafting dozens of stairs by hand, but its interface has never been great. Cramped recipe grids, endless scrolling, and losing your place every time you add materials make stonecutting a chore. Stonecutting Upgrade fixes all of that with a cleaner, faster, and far more comfortable menu.
What Stonecutting Upgrade Does
This add-on rebuilds the stonecutter screen from the ground up. Instead of the vanilla limit of 12 visible recipes, the menu now shows up to 21 at once, so you spend less time flipping through pages and more time picking the block you actually want. The layout has been rearranged too, with inputs, outputs, and the recipe list positioned for a smoother workflow.
Scrolling through recipes feels noticeably smoother as well. If you have ever tried to find one specific slab among a wall of options, you know how much that matters. The mod also remembers your last selected recipe, so when you drop in more materials, the menu restores your previous choice automatically instead of resetting to the top of the list.
Quick Refill Controls
One of the most practical additions is the quick refill system. Press the space bar to refill a single item into the input slot, or hold any shift key to refill a full stack. This keeps long crafting sessions flowing without constant trips back to your inventory.
- Expanded recipe menu showing up to 21 recipes at once
- Improved layout for inputs, outputs, and recipe selection
- Smoother scrolling for faster browsing
- Automatic restoration of your last used recipe
- Space bar refill for one item, shift for a full stack
- Fully client side, so no server installation is required
Supported Versions and Loaders
Stonecutting Upgrade is built for modern Minecraft releases and supports both Fabric and NeoForge, covering the 1.20 and 1.21 era of the game. Because it is entirely client side, you can use it on any server, including vanilla ones, without asking the owner to install anything. That makes it a safe pick for players who jump between multiplayer worlds and singleplayer builds.
Installation does require a few dependencies. On both Fabric and NeoForge you need Puzzles Lib. Fabric users additionally need Fabric API, the Forge Config API Port, and optionally Mod Menu if they want to tweak settings in game. Manual configuration files live in the .minecraft/config folder and follow the usual MOD_ID-client.toml naming pattern.
How to Install
Getting started is straightforward. First, confirm you have the correct loader installed for your Minecraft version. Next, drop Puzzles Lib and the other required dependencies into your mods folder. Then place Stonecutting Upgrade alongside them and launch the game. If you want an even simpler route, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process in one click, pulling Stonecutting Upgrade and every dependency from its catalog automatically and keeping them updated as new versions release.
Once in game, open any stonecutter and the difference is immediate. The wider recipe grid, the remembered selection, and the refill hotkeys all work together to remove the small frustrations that added up over years of play.
Why It Belongs in Your Modpack
Quality of life mods are often the ones you notice most, and this is a perfect example. It does not change balance, add new blocks, or alter recipes. It simply makes an existing vanilla feature pleasant to use. For builders who mass produce stairs, walls, and slabs, the time saved adds up quickly.
If you are putting together a client side modpack, Stonecutting Upgrade slots in without conflicts and without server requirements. Download Stonecutting Upgrade for Minecraft, pair it with its dependencies, and stonecutting finally feels the way it always should have.