Random's Early Progression - Early Game Overhaul

This mod offers an elegant solution for updating the tool system in the early stages of the game. Instead of traditional wooden tools, flint alternatives are now available, while stone tools are replaced with copper ones. Crafting them requires the appropriate materials.

Key Features:

Players can still break trees by hand to obtain wood. Copper ore can now be mined with a flint pickaxe. Flint rocks spawn in certain biomes, making it much easier to find this material. Unlike wooden tools, flint tools cannot be used as furnace fuel.

Technical Details:

Blocks that can be mined with flint tools are marked with the needs_flint_tool tag. This tag works in a special way - it overrides other tool requirements for a particular block. If you need to make a block unavailable for hand mining, you'll need to add an additional tag with a tool tier requirement.

Items capable of mining such blocks are marked with the flint_tools tag, which by default includes the entire set of flint tools.

Biomes with flint rocks are marked with the has_rocks tag. This tag can be modified to configure rock spawning in different biomes, while the mod maintains compatibility with most other modifications.