Minecraft Jewish Mod

[jewishmod]

(re)Introducing - the minecraft jewish mod!

hello jumblr & mineblr! this is a passion project that has been on hiatus for over 2 years, originally started at @jewishmod-remade (same team, just changed blogs) and we are FINALLY blowing the dust off of it to bring it back to life!

this blog will be used to share works in progress, updates for the mod, announcements for releases, playtesting, etc - basically just sharing info on the mod for anyone interested! we're excited to share with you!

this mod is primarily made by @jewpaw using MCreator, with some additional programming help from my gf (who does not have social media) !

We aim for a full release for Forge 1.21 (or 1.22, if possible) by Summer of 2025! We also plan to back-port (unsure how far back) and will hopefully also make the mod available for Fabric, but at the moment we are limited to the abilities of MCreator ^^

Our goals for this mod:

add over 70+ new jewish foods from all around the world!

add over 30+ (each) unique tallitot & kippot , one for each color of minecraft dyes, jewish cultures from around the world, and a pride collection!

add at least 5 new mobs - more info on this soon!

adding several usuable items for holidays, including a shofar (which will be similar but different from the existing ram's horn), a dreidel, etrog & lulav, etc....

redesigning the villagers - we intend to do *something* about the unfortunate design of our villager friends, but we don't have a specific plan yet & would love feedback from our communities!

and more!

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Here are a few examples of the items that we have done so far (:

[jewishmod-remade]

i know you said this is on hiatus but I have a question, will yarmulke/kippot be included in this mod /are there plans to include them? much love

Hi anon! This mod is still very much on hiatus , but whenever get back to work on it, there are absolutely plans to include several different colors of kippot , including different variations from around the world aside from the common skullcap.

Unfortunately, the biggest thing keeping this mod on hiatus is that my (the artist doing all the sprites) laptop, which had almost 50 completed unique sprites, seemingly died unexpectedly and wont turn back on. I dont have the money to fix this right now and ive been trying to see if i can recover the storage/memory on it, but so far, no luck. We’ll see how it goes in the coming months. I’m moving this summer, so hopefully once i have my own space in a new apartment I’ll be able to focus on starting the mod from scratch if i cant fix the computer.

[jewishmod-remade]

when publish?

not sure yet, unfortunately. this mod is currently on a hiatus while i get things figured out with our coder-- potentially moving to a coding team, depending on how things go-- and continue working on sprites and texture stuff behind the scenes. unfortunately, due to chaos in our personal lives, i can't give an estimate... sorry! however, as i continue to work on textures and sprites, i will continue to post here whenever i have time. thanks for asking!

[jewishmod-remade]

As promised, here are all of the sprites I've completed so far! Some of them will either be edited to look better or completely redone later, but for now I like them enough to include them in the reveal.

Big long list for what each item is under the cut!

For the food sprites:

Apple cake, Bagel, Toasted Bagel, Bagel with Lox, Boureka, Challah Raw Brisket, Cooked Brisket, Gelt, Grapes, Hamantaschen (fruity, chocolate, and poppyseed) Latke, Matzoh, Matzoh balls, Matzoh Ball Soup, Pomegranate, Shakshuka, Sufganiyah

For the Tallis:

Black Stripes + Silver atarah, Black and gold stripes + silver atarah, Blue and gold stripes + gold atarah, White stripes + Silver atarah All of the Pride/LGBT Tallis include a lavendar atarah -- Lesbian, Gay/Rainbow, Bisexual, Transgender, Nonbinary, Pansexual, Asexual

Bonus: A shofar that I wasn't sure where to include, haha

[jewishmod-remade]

hello! i just wanted to say this project is taking a slight hiatus-- I just started a new job, and im trying to learn how to properly create 3d models that will be funcional as mobs within the mod. it takes a while to learn both proper modeling and javascript to make the mobs work, but i am definitely working on it! for the time being, i think we're at almost 40 completed sprites for foods and some clothing items, and we'll probably get back up to pace on regular updates in about 2 months (my job is a temp position and shouldnt be more than that).

Take care!

[jewishmod-remade]

apologies for gaps in activity, been occupied with other projects and continuing to work on sprites that are difficult to share, but now i finally have something i CAN share! this is the first rough draft/concept art for a potential new mob to be added in our mod: Cuttlefish!

Cuttlefish, along with another new mob, blue Murex Trunculus snails, and a new plant, Kala Ilan* , will be added as new means of creating blue dyes to craft a royal blue tekhelet! tekhelet will be a special dye on its own and may have more uses in the future, but for now all thats planned for certain is that it will be used in the crafting recipe for tzitzit.

*i understand kala ilan is usually referencing the dye, not the plant, but sources on this information are often vague and unhelpful as to what the plant itself is actually called-- if i can find it, or if anyone has suggestions, the name of the plant may change but its function will stay the same!

[jewishmod-remade]

Good news: Today we hit 30 completed sprites! Also, as 1.17 gets closer to its release, we can start figuring out the best ways to implement the mod into this newest update of the game. As of right now, the initial mod release will be for 1.17, but we will work on backlogging in the future.

Depending on when 1.17 is set to release, and when all of the sprites are completed, we have considered doing a 1.16 release first so that A. people don't have to wait as long for us to code & beta test it/updating it will (hopefully) be easier, and B. So that there's already a release ready to go for people who's computers can't handle 1.17. I still have to figure out a plan with our coder first, but if this ends up being the route we take, I'll make sure to post an update here. Until then, we should assume that shortly after 1.17 is when the mod is released!

[jewishmod-remade]

Ohhhh, new mods! I am goyim, so I don't know a bunch about Jewish stuff, but I love hearing about people's modding processes. Here's my questions! 1: You said 23 out of 100+ -- Is 100-ish the estimate? How many things are you adding? 2: How long has this mod been in the making? 3: With all respect, I'm surprised this mod hasn't been done already! or... has it? Do you have any inspirations for this mod?

thank you, dear my dear goy, I appreciate your curiosity! Having anything at all to answer helps a dead blog, lol.

1. For now, all I can say is I’ve barely started listing out things that I plan to add into the mod, and it’s already at nearly a hundred, so I imagine even after cutting some out and reorganizing, we will have well over 100 new items for our mod. HOWEVER, this is including variants of items, like different colors of kippot, tallitot, etc; not necessarily over 100 individual unique items (although there will be plenty of those, too). We’re mostly adding food and armor/clothing items, but we’re working on modeling physical blocks, too.

2. We’ve been mulling over the concept for at least a few months now, since around November 2020 or so, but we finally decided it was time to get started. I was working on the sprites occasionally in random bursts, but now I’ve set aside time every week specifically to work on them to make as much progress as possible.

3. You’re right, actually! This isn’t the first time someone has made a specifically “Jewish” mod. The first one-- that I know of, at least-- is Doctorgrass’ Shabbat Mod . This is the main inspiration for our mod! Obviously we won’t be directly ripping his texture/sprite designs since that would be just blatant plagiarism, but I really liked some of the actual features of his mod (full armor tallit, etc) so we will be incorporating a lot of the same or similar features in our mod.

However, this mod was only released for 1.12, and hasn’t been updated since it was released 2 and a half years years ago. This makes it considered a “dead mod” by a lot of server hosts and modpack makers, so it makes it hard to actually use anywhere else unless you manually run your own server or are playing singleplayer. We aim to have this as a longterm project that will be regularly updated in order to make it as accessible as possible.

Also, just due to the sheer amount of foods we will be adding, I think it’d be plain insulting if I excluded Pam’s HarvestCraft from the list of inspirations. We will be using a lot of similar crafting recipes to PHC (specifically for saplings and similar foods), but again, no explicit ripping or stealing. However, I have personally only played PHC 1 up to 1.12.2, so I actually have no clue what new foods and recipes lie past that. If there happens to be any overlap, I apologize! Our sprites, at least, will be 100% our own and original.