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The Forged Catalogue

Every item the forge can make: 34 types across weapons, tools and armour, the metal each one is built on, and the 32 abilities they carry.

What the catalogue holds

The forge builds 34 different items. They are declared once, in one list, and every surface reads from that list: the tab completion on /forge start, the catalogue screen, the lore printed on the finished piece. Four further entries exist as internal fallbacks and are never offered to you, which is why the number quoted everywhere is 34 rather than 38.

Two things are worth fixing in your head before the tables. First, the ability belongs to the type and never to the metal: a longsword sweeps whether it is copper or netherite. Second, the metal decides which vanilla item the piece is built on and scales every number on it, but it cannot change what the weapon is.

The eleven melee weapons

Cost is the number of ingots you must be holding to start the session. Base durability is the iron-tier reference figure; the metal multiplies it, so a diamond piece carries roughly 1.65 times the listed number and a netherite piece twice it. The modifier column lists only the values the catalogue actually prints. A modifier of zero is absent rather than shown as zero.

The speed column is a small delta folded into a per-type base swing speed, not the whole attack speed. The dagger and the rapier start from a base of 2.4, the warhammer, battleaxe, halberd and mace from 0.9, everything else from 1.6. The combined figure is floored at 0.6, so a fully charged swing can never take longer than about 1.67 seconds to come back.

The mace is the one melee type with an extra entry requirement: you must be holding a Gravity Core to start the session, and it is consumed at the quench. It is also never re-tiered. A netherite mace is still a vanilla Mace item, because there is no netherite mace to build it on.

Bows, crossbows and tridents

Ten of the 21 weapons shoot or are thrown. None of them is re-tiered: a bow is a Bow, a crossbow is a Crossbow and a trident variant is a Trident at every metal, because vanilla has no iron or diamond family for those three. The metal still scales every stat. The damage column below is the weapon's melee damage in hand, deliberately small on the bows and crossbows; the arrow damage stays vanilla's, and the ability is the whole difference.

The trident gate, which runs twice

The three trident variants are the only types with entry conditions beyond metal and ingots. Both are checked before anything at all is consumed, so a refusal costs you nothing.

• Alloy only. The material must be an alloy. Plain iron, copper, gold, diamond and netherite are refused, and so is tungsten, which is a registry entry that is simply not flagged as an alloy. The refusal message lists the alloys that would work, read from the live registry at the moment it prints, so what you are told is always what the gate is enforcing.
• A vanilla trident as catalyst. You supply one ordinary Trident, and it is consumed with the metal. It rides the same refund path the metal does, so cancelling, timing out, disconnecting or a restart returns both.

What the shots actually do

No ranged or thrown ability breaks a block. Every blast is fired with block breaking and fire spread both switched off and with you named as the source, which means the damage arrives as ordinary combat damage that faction claims, WorldGuard regions and the claim-protection buff each get to refuse. The ember bow is the single exception to the fire rule, and it places fire only where a real ignition is allowed.

Tools and armour

Nine tools and four armour pieces. The four picks came first; the five utility tools were added later and have their own section below. Armour is the only group whose abilities are passive, and the only one whose modifiers include armour points, toughness, knockback resistance, safe fall distance and oxygen.

A full forged set costs 24 ingots, which is by some distance the most expensive thing in the catalogue. The chestplate alone costs 8.

The three pick abilities differ in shape rather than in size. Vein Mine only fires on ore and takes up to 3 face-adjacent blocks of the same ore. Tunnel ignores what it hit and clears the block above, the block ahead and the block above that, which is a walkable 1 by 2 corridor. Crush takes a volume around the struck block, bounded at 27 blocks a swing, and skips anything the base tool could not have broken anyway, so it does not turn into a universal excavator. The ability text printed on a heavy hammer still describes the older straight-line version.

Fine Edge is the odd one out because it never breaks anything. It grants one level of effective Fortune per two quality tiers, so a Crude or Common piece grants none to one, a Superior or Masterwork piece grants two, and a Legendary or Ancient Resonant piece grants three. On ore, that bonus is folded into the single stamped drop the ore system produces rather than dropping a second set. On everything else, the drop is re-rolled with the higher of your own Fortune enchantment and the tool's bonus, so the ability can only add.

The five utility tools up close

Two shovels, two hoes and an axe. They forge through exactly the same pipeline as the picks, with the same alloys, ore regions, quality, quench, sockets and runes, and they take enchantments the same way. What sets them apart is that four of the five affect an area, and an area effect needs bounds.

The four rules they share

• Sneak switches the area off. Hold sneak and the tool behaves like the vanilla item it is built on, one block at a time. The older picks have no such handling.
• Every extra block fires a real break event. Nothing is deleted quietly. Each additional block goes back through the same event a normal break raises, which is why a faction claim, a WorldGuard region, a dungeon world and the claim-protection buff can each refuse it block by block, and why an ore reached at the edge of a swing still drops its stamped, region-correct item. The harvest and till abilities do not break anything, so they are gated separately by a check that mirrors the same four rules and refuses outright when it cannot reach the faction data.
• Durability costs one point per extra block. It respects Unbreaking exactly as vanilla does, and the operation stops before the tool would break, reserving the point the primary break needs for itself. A forged tool cannot destroy itself with its own ability. The four picks do not charge for their extra blocks at all, which is an inconsistency rather than a design.
• Every sweep is bounded and finishes in one tick. The plane and the area are bounded by radius, the tree by a 3,840 log cap and a leaf budget that stops at 30,720. There is no background task and no per-tick work.

The Lumber Axe does not require the Lumberjack profession and does not care whether you have one. Because it fells each log through a real break event, Lumberjack bonuses stack on top of it rather than being bypassed.

All 32 abilities

An ability binds to a type in exactly one place, and the description below is the same string the item in your hand carries. The names print in English in game, so they are left in English here.

Weapon abilities

Ranged and thrown abilities

Tool and armour abilities

Metal, and the item underneath

The metal you forge with does two separate things. It scales every stat on the finished piece through its own hardness, weight and durability figures, and it decides which vanilla item the piece is built on. The second is easier to see: a diamond longsword is a real Diamond Sword, not an iron one wearing a name.

Five types are never re-tiered, because vanilla has no family for them: the mace, the three bow and crossbow bases, and the trident. They stay a Mace, a Bow, a Crossbow and a Trident at every metal, and the metal still changes every number on them.

Base durability works the same way. The figure listed in the tables above is a fixed iron-tier reference deliberately not taken from the vanilla item, so that moving from iron to diamond to netherite scales the number cleanly instead of inheriting vanilla's uneven jumps. Diamond multiplies it by roughly 1.65 and netherite by 2.0.

Reading the catalogue in game

The catalogue is a command before it is a screen, so it works the same whether you play on Java or Bedrock.

Three details are worth knowing about what you are reading.

• The rows are derived, not typed. Every row is built from the same list the forge itself uses, and the ability text is the same string printed on the item. The catalogue and the thing in your hand cannot disagree.
• A stat of zero is left out. If a line is missing, that stat is not modified. A modifier is always printed with its sign, so a penalty reads as a penalty and no card reads as upside only.
• 34 types do not fit on one screen. The screen holds 28, so the catalogue is paged, and the page buttons are real buttons rather than a line of text telling you which page you are on.

A name the completer did not offer is answered as a typo rather than with the whole list, so a mistyped type does not look like it worked. The command also stays available when forging is switched off, on the grounds that refusing to explain a system while telling you it is unavailable helps nobody.

The forge's own walkthrough is separate: /forge tutorial covers 10 paths across 19 steps and teaches the process rather than the catalogue. Neither is a prerequisite for the other.