Tweaks Addon for MineColonies: More Control, More Convenience
If you love MineColonies for its colony-building mechanics, but you want finer control over how towns grow, how citizens work, and how farming and research behave, the Tweaks addon for MineColonies is designed to meet you where you play. This addon focuses on configurable improvements across multiple colony systems: crafting, research pacing, building behavior, food balancing, and quality-of-life UI adjustments.
Quick caution: This Tweaks addon is not an official addon from the MineColonies team. If you use it, you should not rely on MineColonies team support, and you should avoid submitting issues to their project while the Tweaks addon is installed.
What the Tweaks Addon Changes
At its core, Tweaks provides server and pack creators with practical configuration options that can reduce frustration and add variety. Many settings are meant to be adjusted during specific Minecraft versions, so you can keep the colony feel consistent across updates and modpacks.
- World generation colony probability: Adjust the likelihood of abandoned colonies when the world is generated, or turn the feature off.
- MineColonies timing fixes for newer versions: Revive and re-enable configurable block placement and block destruction delays for MineColonies setups above 1.20.1.
- Immersive realism tweaks: Options to disable mourn behavior and tune events that affect colony continuity.
- Crop configuration enhancements: Control crop planting rules on vanilla farmland, choose whether planting works by biome, decide whether players can plant, and allow bonemeal behavior.
- Combat and threat tuning: Disable raiders immunity and thorns behaviors.
- Resurrection chance: Modify how often resurrection-related outcomes can occur.
Commands for Governors and Admins
Sometimes you want to correct course without fully rewriting your colony progression. Tweaks adds command support under /minecolonies_tweaks and /tweaks_mc, letting you manage citizens, research, and colony progress more directly.
- Citizen saturation control: Set a citizen’s saturation to full or empty with
/tweaks_mc citizens saturation full <COLONY_ID> <CITIZEN_ID>and/tweaks_mc citizens saturation empty <COLONY_ID> <CITIZEN_ID>. - Research progression tools: Instantly complete or reset research progress for a specific colony and research branch using
/tweaks_mc researches complete <COLONY_ID> <BRANCH_ID>and/tweaks_mc researches reset <COLONY_ID> <BRANCH_ID>.
If you’re building a modpack or testing balancing changes, this command layer is especially handy for iterating on colony mechanics without waiting for long research chains or restarting your world.
New Items and Quality-of-Life Crafting Tools
The addon also expands how you interact with colony data. Expect more flexibility in scroll-based systems and better visibility into storage, universities, and linked building state.
- Colored Resource Scroll: Dye resource scrolls to make organization easier.
- Inventory Scroll: See a building’s inventory summary and dye the scroll for quick sorting.
- University Scroll: View the linked university’s research dashboard remotely.
- Copy Scroll: Copy and paste building data and config.
- Resource Scroll Book: Sneak + Use to insert scrolls and utilities (Resource Scroll, Inventory Scroll, Clipboard, Colony Map, Quest Log), then use the list to open what you need.
- Tool Type support: Create custom tool types and define which items count as tools.
- Crafting Recipes Tab customization: Create custom crafting recipe tabs that can be valuable when designing modpacks.
Food and Research Tweaks
MineColonies’ food balance is a big deal because it impacts how smoothly your citizens keep working. Tweaks includes food adjustments meant to remove or reduce the saturation nerf effect from Minecraft cooked foods. You can also use MineColonies-themed foods directly, with tiers like minecolonies_tweaks:fine_food, minecolonies_tweaks:decent_food, and minecolonies_tweaks:great_food.
Research mechanics get an extra layer of control too. Tweaks can change research speed, define actions that execute when research completes, and ignore certain constraints in creative mode. It can also pull research cost from a University building inventory, then request costs through the research GUI workflow—helping colonies progress without awkward manual steps.
For quick setup during testing, the mod can be installed easily via the foxygame.net launcher, a convenient, flexible, and modern Minecraft launcher where you can download mods right from the menu.
Building Behavior Improvements
Some of the most noticeable differences come from how buildings handle stock, deliveries, and farming cycles.
- Warehouse: Add “Maximum Stock” so workers continue operating while excess items are destroyed; also show empty slots in the hut GUI.
- Postbox (1.19.2): Introduce “Minimum Stock” and optionally notify you when deliveries complete.
- Field (1.19.2 and beyond): Expand range via server config, adjust side growth limits, and render selected seed items above fields (including updated behaviors for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1).
- Farmer: Plant crops immediately after hoeing and harvest more promptly for smoother labor flow.
- Forester: Enable cutting down and replanting chorus plants/flowers.
- Library: Add settings to toggle study items.
- Repair/Upgrade All Buildings: Townhall UI adds a button to list all repair needed or upgradable buildings, assign builders, and toggle “Mark as don’t repair/upgrade” via right-click.
- Visual feedback: Show a red dot on buildings where repair resources changed since the previous save.
Compatibility and Known Incompatibilities
Tweaks focuses heavily on Minecraft tags and modded crop support, adding Forge tags such as forge:crops, vegetables, fruits, water bottle and milk tags, and more. It can even treat “Durum Wheat” as “Wheat” for smoother recipe and farming logic.
However, there is a known incompatibility: Zackman634’s food tiered mods. The reason is a mixin conflict involving FoodUtils, and this applies to configurations like “MineColonies Basic Food Tiered” and related mods (including variants such as Pam’s HarvestCraft-based food tiered expansions).
Conclusion
Tweaks addon for MineColonies is all about giving you steering wheels: adjust colony probability, tune delays and events, reshape farming and field mechanics, improve stock handling, and enhance UI and admin control with practical commands. If you enjoy colony progression but want to reduce downtime and make systems feel more responsive across updates and versions, these tweaks can significantly improve day-to-day gameplay—especially when combined with careful server planning and a compatible mod stack.
--- **Update Apr 19, 2026:** Added 3 files for version 1.21.1, 1.20.1, 1.19.2 (NeoForge, Forge). --- **Update May 17, 2026:** Added 3 files for version 1.21.1, 1.20.1, 1.19.2 (NeoForge, Forge). --- **Update Aug 26, 2026:** Added 6 files for version 1.21.1, 1.20.1 (NeoForge, Forge).