All it's missing is some good grips, to protect your poor little hands from the heat transfer.

Will there be a compatibility update with Item Rarity?

Sergs Here is the full translation into two languages Russian and Ukrainian link

@BradassMofo just switched to that version friend says he crashes in startup now...

Bigblock0118 What version of Smithing plus are you using, and are you using Toolsmith? I found that updating to 1.6.2 for Smithing plus fixed the crashing. 

Game keeps crashing, looks to be related to Smithing plus, was hoping to try and figure it out but without source code I'm stumped 

Thank you for the config option :D
The durability aspect was honestly what was holding me back from grabbing this one, while the wooden ones make sense to eventually burn through and be unusable, the metal ones didn't make sense to me. Since even antique iron* metal tongs used by blacksmiths in reality are still functional to date by current blacksmiths with proper storage or maintenance. (Though, those are riveted with iron instead of rope lol)

Hello everyone, I was very surprised to see so many metal tong fans! I have updated to the latest version as well as adding a config to turn off the durability loss. I will work on rewriting the durability loss mechanic to avoid this issue others have mentioned but for now it should be easy to disable it entirely by changing the value located within VintagestoryData/ModConfig/TongData to false. 

I'm sorry, I can't find a config file for this, am I to disable the durability by altering the mod's files? How does that work with auto-download for servers?

maybe just turn the durability off or make it configurable, id love to have the metal tongs but i dont want to keep wasting metal on them.. id make them just because you made them look really cool haha

I had an issue with the mod where suddenly when holding hot items, the tong's durabilty would drain incredibly fast, like steel tongs lasting maybe 5 seconds, but it doesnt always trigger? was curious what might have caused it to suddenly get busted?

Sergs I really like this mod, how the tongs look & think the durability is fine. I changed the rope to nails as that made sense to me. I also noticed that you don't have meteoriciron listed. Is there a reason for this or was it just missed? If I add 'meteoriciron' to the json files with it work with your code?

Donovar You can do this easily yourself. Just go into the zip folder & rumage around looking at files. I'll even give you a hint. The 2 files you want are, 'tongWoodenPatch.json' in the folder path, (assets/metaltongsdurability/patches) you want to change the "value" & 'metaltong.json' in the folder path, (assets/metaltongsdurability/itemtypes/tool) you want to change the numbers for each metal type under "durabilitybytype".

I dont know why but the durability of the tongs in my game drains obcenely quick, could you release a version without durability or durability drain.

Hello everyone! I have introduced durability and durability damage while holding hot metal items. I have also finally added the ability to place metal tongs on toolracks. I don't currently plan on adding more to this mod but I'd love to get feedback on the metal durability levels so that I can tweak it as its currently on the stricter side.

I like these tongs so much, I cant put them down!
No really, I cant put these tongs down on anything. They wont be placed on tables, shelves nor can I put them in the rack to store.
Please consider adding this feature. thank you.

Anyone else unable to put this mod's tongs into tool racks?

Looks like metal tongs updated, but i like the models and animation on this more, assuming it gets durability

Durability +1

Maybe have a durability and non-durability version?

I am also +1 for durability. Durability for stick tongs with the mods is laughably strong, and the previous version of this mod was also a bit strong.

So, not just durability, but maybe make copper tongs only good for like...100 uses, and stick tongs only 10.

I honestly am not familiar with item properties yet. If you can add durability (maybe make it optional for those that don't want it), definately yes! btw good work on the transforms!

Cool, let me know if you need me to add durability. Its pretty easy to add.

So I was looking last night and found this mod that supposedly introduces durability for tongs and any variants added by mods. Haven't tested them together yet, but in theory this should work together with your mod flawlessly. I'm gonna test this out soon. You won't have to worry about porting the durability if it does work.

@BraniyaKz 
I did port the durability over, however I dont think it can actually degrade. Im probably going to recreate the tong to better fit the proportations of the vanilla one so that it will better fit the animations provided by the ItemTongs class. Just wanted to upload this early so I can have a cosy sunday playing vintage story :)

As far as I know, the older tong mod was the only one that adds durability, as well as variants, for tongs. Did you happen to port that over as well?