Useful Tools

Added

• Per-tool server autotests (/usefultools autotest, or headless with USEFULTOOLS_AUTOTEST=1) now also cover ground tools (path, till, rake and extended versions), farming tools (planter, harvester, watering can, snow scoop), chopping axe, multi-block pickaxe and the locators. See testing.md.
• Survival-mode durability regression tests: path/till tools and the chopping axe / multi-block pickaxe lose durability as expected, and the pickaxe breaks at 0 durability.

Changed

• Snow scoop, multi-block pickaxe, chopping axe no longer require a connected network player lookup, so they work for fake players too.

Fixed

• Recipe advancements used dead forge: item tags and never auto-unlocked recipes; they now use the c: convention tags.
• Chest loot injection works again: mod tools are added to vanilla simple dungeon, abandoned mineshaft and village (fisher, plains, savanna, snowy, toolsmith) chests on Fabric and NeoForge.
• Multi shears now only shear nearby entities of the same type as the targeted one, and also work when only one other entity is nearby.
• Grass scythe can now be used without targeting a block.

Status

• The local multiloader project targets Minecraft 1.21.4 with mod version 1.21.4-7.3.0.
• No matching published file was found in the CurseForge catalogue reviewed for this changelog. Changes and validation for this port still require review before publication.
• The published 1.21.3-7.0.1 notes belong to the previous Minecraft target and have not been relabeled as verified 1.21.4 changes.

Fixed

• Multi shears now only shear nearby entities of the same type as the targeted one, and work when only one other entity is nearby.
• Grass scythe can now be used without targeting a block.
• Added Minecraft 1.21.4 item definitions for all 21 registered tools, linking them to their existing models and textures. These shared resources apply to Fabric and NeoForge.
• Migrated all 20 recipes to the 1.21.4 ingredient format (plain strings, c: convention tags instead of forge: tags). Not yet verified in-game.

Validation

• All 160 item-model/resource tests passed, including checks that every registered tool has an item definition, model, and texture file.
• In-game visual confirmation: item textures display correctly on Fabric 1.21.4.

Known Issues

• Crafting recipes still use outdated ingredient definitions and are rejected during Fabric 1.21.4 resource loading. This is separate from the item-texture fix.