Features:
- Vector Plates are flat rotatable blocks that push mobs and other entities along
- Mobs can still spawn on top of vector plates which makes them popular in mob farms
- Mob Filters only let certain types of mob move through the block
- The hostile mob filter passes hostile mobs and blocks everything else
- Sleep Charm wards off insomnia while it sits in your inventory and stops phantoms from spawning
- You fall asleep instantly when entering a bed with the Sleep Charm
- Redstone Randomizer toggles on and off at random and emits a signal while on
- Player Damage Plate deals player damage to any mob that steps on it
- Every block and item has a tooltip with a short summary of what it does
- Requires the Bookshelf library plus Runelic and Pig Pen Cipher on 1.16 and newer
- Fabric support for Minecraft 1.21.1
- Made by Darkhax
Dark Utilities is a broad content mod that adds a little of everything on top of the vanilla game. Rather than building one deep system, it drops a collection of blocks and items meant to be useful in a wide range of situations while introducing mechanics that are fun to play with, and each one carries a tooltip explaining in a sentence what it actually does.
Vector Plates are the headline block: flat, rotatable plates that push mobs and other entities in the direction they face. Mobs can still spawn on top of them, which is exactly why they became a favourite for moving spawns through a mob farm. Mob Filters pair with them neatly, since these blocks only let certain mob types pass through, so a hostile filter lets a zombie through and stops everything else. The Player Damage Plate completes the setup by dealing player damage to anything that walks onto it.
Away from farms, the Sleep Charm quietly cancels insomnia while it stays in your inventory, which keeps phantoms from spawning and puts you to sleep the moment you climb into a bed. The Redstone Randomizer brings unpredictability to circuits, switching itself on and off at random and emitting a redstone signal while it is on. These are only a small sample of what is included, as the mod adds many more blocks and items than the highlights suggest.
