Description:-
Author: Fallen Toast
The Back to Basics Addon is a survival-focused expansion for Minecraft PE/Bedrock, designed to bring a more immersive, challenging, and realistic survival experience. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21 and 1.20, this mod rebalances gameplay mechanics, enhances crafting, tools, and survival features, and adds new resources to make the game feel more engaging and rewarding.
This addon removes overpowered mechanics, introduces more realistic crafting systems, and improves early-game survival by making progression more natural. Players must gather materials, refine resources, and craft items in a more immersive way, making survival feel authentic and rewarding. Whether you enjoy hardcore survival, roleplaying, or a back-to-nature challenge, this mod is perfect for those who want a classic yet fresh survival experience.
Key Features:
- Enhanced Crafting System – More realistic crafting and resource gathering.
- Balanced Progression – Slower, more engaging survival experience.
- New Tools & Items – Classic tools with improved mechanics.
- Hardcore Survival Features – Resource management is more challenging.
- Immersive Gameplay – Less automation, more hands-on survival.
- Compatible with Multiplayer – Play with friends in a balanced survival world.
Starting off, Sieves!
- Start with an Empty Sieve Frame
- Pick a Mesh
- Put it in:
Sieve Sand, Dirt, or Gravel!
- Each Mesh Level and Material Sieved have different outputs!
- And Biome Specific stuff, like seeds and others.
- Ignore any errors as it is intended, and will only pop up if you don’t have the extra add-ons.
- Sieve’s Flint and above will drop Copper Chunks
- When Sieving Sand Iron & above it’ll drop Geodes!
- Nether Specific Sieve
- Make a Crimson Sieve
- Only accepts gold and above.
- Only Crushed Netherrack is Accepted.
- You can get the following depending on the tier of sieve:
Sieve Recipes
(inside the Crafting Book)
Barrels
- Make Water, which requires 4 leaves
- Also makes Dirt, which requires 4 Saplings.
Lava Barrel
- Makes Lava out of 2 cobblestone
Mortar
- You need Both
- All initial dye recipes from flowers have been changed!
- Also Supports Bumble_Flowers!
- Put them in the mortar and crush them up
- Gives you hunger for 2 seconds because manual labor is hard
Dye
- Bread and Cookies Changed too!
- Make Flour and Cocoa Powder
- Put the Dough in the Furnace for Bread
Make Cookie Dough and put it in the Furnace:
Manual Crusher
- Pull it Back, Put Cobblestone, Gravel, or Netherrack to crush a block manually (Takes slightly less amount of Hunger as a Mortar and Pestle)
Drying Rack
- This block from Natural Structures works the same, (without the leaf recipe though)
- Accepts either Rotten Flesh into Leather or Kelp into Dried
If you have Natural Structures, put them on top for Leaf functions:
Functions:
Options
Optional Skyblock Recipes (Automatically off)
- Adds makeshift Sieve so you can get string early off using dirt (Very Overpowered in a normal world
Optional Toast’s Engineering (Automatically off)
- Adds the ability to get Tin and Silver Chunks through the Sieve, Iron & Better only
- Tin and Silver Recipes!
Mesh Recipes
String
Flint
Iron
Gold (String Mesh, For Crimson Sieve Only!)
Diamond (Iron Sieve)
Netherite Sieve (Doesn’t matter where the scraps go)
Installation Note:
- Make sure you activated all the following Experimental Gameplay Options:
