Get your sticks back. Send everything else flying
StickBack does two things with sticks. Stick weapons deal almost no damage but send whatever they hit flying, with a chargeable shove, an upward launch and a pole vault. And a Salvage Bench breaks any tool, weapon or armor piece back down into sticks and material scrap, so nothing you craft is ever a dead end.
You keep a stick next to your sword now. A creeper gets too close and instead of trading hits you wind up a shove and send it cartwheeling off the cliff for exactly half a heart of damage. A zombie blocks a doorway; the quarterstaff jabs it three blocks into the air and you walk through underneath. And that chest of worn-out iron pickaxes you could never bring yourself to throw away finally has somewhere to go: the bench takes each one, counts the durability, and hands you back sticks and scrap like it has been waiting for you to stop hoarding.
Fine on servers with the mod on both sides; shoving mobs off ledges is a spectator sport
New to this mod? Do these in order and you will have seen the point of it.
Hold right-click to charge, bow-style, for up to one second. Your next melee hit within two seconds is the shove: exactly one damage, half a heart, regardless of your gear, with charge-scaled knockback that peaks around Knockback IV. It is a repositioning tool for moving mobs off ledges, out of doorways and away from you. Three-second cooldown, one durability per shove.
Hold left-click for at least 0.6 seconds and release: a short forward thrust with about four blocks of reach that deals 3 damage and launches the first mob hit roughly three blocks straight up. Four-second cooldown, three durability.
Right-click a block while on the ground to plant the staff and hop about two blocks up with a little forward carry. Fall damage from the vault itself is negated. Two-second cooldown, two durability.
Four sticks, a stone slab and an iron nugget. Drop any tool, weapon or armor piece in the input slot and it is salvaged the instant it lands: sticks come back scaled by remaining durability and are never taxed, materials come back as quarter-unit scrap minus a configurable 25% tax. If the six output slots cannot hold the full result the salvage is simply refused; items are never voided, and hoppers cannot automate the bench.
Four Iron Scrap craft back into an iron ingot, and the same goes for Gold Scrap, Diamond Fragments and Netherite Flecks. Netherite gear returns Diamond Fragments and Netherite Flecks both, because the upgrade was two materials. Enchantments are not recovered, ever: no books, no XP, no extraction. The bench is a material recycler and the GUI says so to your face.
A full armor set craftable from sticks alone, in the standard shapes, totalling 6 defense: just under leather, for the price of 24 sticks. The full-set bonus is Driftwood: wood floats, so you do. In water, gentle buoyancy holds you at the surface and eases your swim speed, and sneaking dives. No fall protection, no thorns; the float is the whole bonus.
Both weapons are wood-tier, repair with sticks, and are fully enchantable; Knockback stacks on top of the built-in bonus, which is the point. Total knockback is capped at 4.0 so mobs get moved, not fired through walls. No stick ever out-damages the same-tier sword, also the point.
A wood-tier weapon: 4 damage, fast, +1.5 knockback built in, and the chargeable Shove.
Where: Two sticks placed diagonally.
The long one: 5 damage, slow, +2.5 knockback, with the Jab Launch and the Pole Vault.
Where: Three sticks placed diagonally.
Breaks any tool, weapon or armor piece back into sticks and scrap, scaled by durability. Auto-salvages on input, refuses rather than voids, ignores hoppers.
Where: Four sticks, one stone slab, one iron nugget.
Helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots made of nothing but sticks, 6 defense total. Wearing all four grants Driftwood buoyancy in water.
Where: Standard armor shapes, sticks only: 5, 8, 7 and 4 sticks respectively.
Quarter-unit salvage returns. Four of a kind craft back into the full ingot.
Where: Salvaging iron or gold gear at the bench.
A quarter of a diamond. Four craft back into the real thing.
Where: Salvaging diamond or netherite gear.
A quarter of a netherite ingot, which is a sentence that would upset a blacksmith.
Where: Salvaging netherite gear, alongside its Diamond Fragments.
Flavour, not rules. None of this changes how the mod behaves.
Between the crafting table and the furnace there was always a missing station: the place where old tools go. The Salvage Bench is that place. It does not judge what you bring it. It counts what is left of the thing, takes its quarter, and hands you back the sticks you started with. The enchantments it keeps for itself, and it has never once explained why.
No. Every round-trip loses about 25% of the material value (configurable), sticks scale with remaining durability, and salvage never out-yields crafting. You get value back, never profit.
No. No books, no XP refund, no extraction. The bench recycles materials; the enchantments are simply lost, and the GUI warns you.
No, by design. Stick weapons never out-damage the same-tier sword. They are crowd control: you carry one next to the sword, not instead of it.
No. The bench refuses hopper input, and if the output slots are full it refuses the salvage entirely rather than eat your item.
Yes, via datapack tags: drop items into #stickback:salvage/swords, /tools, /armor or /stickback_gear and yields are computed from the vanilla item classes.
On CurseForge, under the author bulletpies: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/stickback
Status: Published or running on a live server. Safe to try.
.jar file into your mods folder.This wiki documents the mods; it does
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Stickback/build/libs/.
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