v1.6.1 "Groundskeeping"

A maintenance release for the Push Tiller: a log-spam fix reported from the community,
a couple of smaller fixes, and one refinement to how the drag blade wears. **Nothing
new to craft, nothing broken for existing builds** — mowers, snowblowers, and tillers
already in your world are untouched.

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## Fixes

**No more recipe errors in the log.**
The head- and drag-blade **repair** recipes were written with a metal wildcard that tried
to generate a variant for every metal in the game — including the many those parts don't
come in — so each world load spat out a stack of harmless-but-noisy recipe errors. The
repair recipes and the drag-blade crafting recipe are now spelled out explicitly for the
seven metals those parts actually support, so the log stays clean. **The recipes
themselves are unchanged** — same ingredients, same results.
*(Thanks to Vulkanic_J for the report.)*

**The assembly hammer now wears while you build.**
Hammering the shaft onto the frame was doing its work for free — the hammer took no
durability across the three swings. It now ticks down like any other hammer job, so
assembly costs a little tool wear the way it should.

**Push Tiller sits flush on the Dowels rack.**
Displayed on the mod's own Dowels rack, a Push Tiller's drag blade poked back through the
wall. The tiller is now flipped 180° on the Dowels rack so it hangs flush — the same fix
the snowblower's chute already got. (Only affects the Dowels rack; vanilla tool racks are
unchanged.)

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## Refinement

**The drag blade wears on its own track now.**
Previously the drag blade rode along on the drum's durability. It keeps its **own**
durability, separate from the drum — draining only as it lays farmland, one point per
tile it converts. When it wears out, the **drum keeps breaking ground** stage by stage,
but no farmland trails behind until you re-sharpen the blade — so a spent drag blade
never silently stops the whole machine. The deployed Push Tiller shows **both** numbers
when you look at it (drum and drag blade on their own lines), and pulling the blade off
hands it back at its true remaining wear — no free reset by refitting. Sharpen it on a
**Grinding Wheel** the same as the drum ([Grinding Wheel Rework](https://mods.vintagestory.at/grindingwheelrework)
sharpens it in place), or re-forge it in the grid.

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## Notes

- **Non-breaking.** Any drag blade already fitted to a tiller from 1.6.0 simply starts its
  independent durability at full — nothing to re-craft.
- Requires Cartwright's Caravan (unchanged). Vintage Story 1.22+.

v1.6.0 "Break New Ground"

The same hand-built machine gains a **third interchangeable head**: seat a tiller drum
instead of a reel blade or snow auger and the mower becomes a **Push Tiller** that works
grassy soil into farmland as you walk it.

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## New content

**The Tiller Drum (new head).**
A rotary tine drum, forged from the same blade blank the reel blade and snow auger come
from. Seat it into a bladeless mower exactly like the other heads and the machine becomes
a Push Tiller. Pushed over grassy soil, the drum works the ground down one coverage stage
at a time — full grass → sparse → bare — and chews out tallgrass and horsetail as it goes.
Clearing that growth costs extra durability, so it pays to **mow an area first, then till**.

**The Drag Blade (new companion).**
The tiller's rear finisher — its counterpart to the reel blade's bed knife or the auger's
chute. The drum only breaks ground *down* to bare soil; the drag blade riding behind it is
what turns that bare soil into **farmland**, with the soil's fertility carried straight over
(medium soil → medium farmland; never barren unless the soil itself was). A copper mounting
frame carries three tines in the metal of your choice.

**Nothing is harvested.** Grass, horsetail, and worked soil are all mulched back into the
ground — the tiller and drag blade produce no keepable drops, ever.

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## Controls & handling

- **F-key toggle** — the cut-mode key now switches the Push Tiller between **Tilling** and
  **Disengaged**, so you can wheel it across finished fields (or home) without churning up
  the ground. The drum still spins; it just does no work.
- **Movement** — a deliberate speed penalty while the drum is engaged paces the tilling to
  a walk, so a single pass works cleanly instead of skipping or re-working tiles.

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## Visuals

- The **drum renders on the assembled machine** — held, placed, and ridden — spinning off
  the wheels just like the reel and auger. The **drag blade** shows trailing behind the
  wheels when fitted.
- Correct per-metal textures throughout: the drum and tines take the machine's / drag
  blade's metal, the drum axle and frame hardware stay dark, and the drag blade's frame is
  **always copper** with only its three tines taking your chosen metal.
- **Chunky dirt particles** — clods of soil and torn grass are flung up and arc back down
  under gravity as the drum works, kept sparse and heavy rather than a fine spray. Toggle
  with the new `EnableTillFlingParticles` config option.

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## Crafting & repair

- **Tiller drum** — forge from a blade blank with a hammer and chisel, with the **chisel in
  the top-left** grid corner (reel = bottom-left, auger = bottom-right).
- **Drag blade** — 3 rods of your chosen metal (the tines) over 5 copper rods (the frame);
  a copper drag blade therefore uses 8 copper rods.
- **Keeping them keen** — the drum and drag blade wear as they work. Grind them back to
  sharp on a **Grinding Wheel** — with [Grinding Wheel Rework](https://mods.vintagestory.at/grindingwheelrework)
  installed, every wearable head now sharpens in place: reel blade, snow auger, tiller
  drum, and drag blade alike.

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## In-world assembly

- Seat the drum by holding it and attacking a placed bladeless mower — the same swing used
  for every other head.
- Fit the drag blade onto a placed Push Tiller the same way; remove it (or the drum) with
  an empty-hand sneak + right-click. The drag blade always comes off before the drum.
- Hover prompts, the "Some Assembly Required" guide, and the in-game handbook all cover the
  new head and companion end to end.
- Assembled tillers now read **"Push Tiller"** in hand and as the deployed cart (all three
  machine types name correctly).

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## Notes

- **Non-breaking** — existing reel mowers and snowblowers are completely unaffected; the new
  parts are stripped from every non-tiller build.
- Requires Cartwright's Caravan (unchanged). Vintage Story 1.22+.

v1.5.10 — "Count Again"

Something new gets built by hand and fitted to every mower — and we're not going to tell you what it is. What we will tell you: it takes the number of visually distinct mowers from just over 9,000 to more than 120,000 (and north of 1.7 million once you count the metal you nailed it together with). Go build one and see if you can spot what changed. 👀

Fully non-breaking — every mower already in your world keeps working and looks exactly the same.

Also: refined Art of Growing compatibility — mowing its dry grass now leaves the very same eaten patch its own scythe does (only applies with Art of Growing installed).

Patch notes (v1.5.9 — Growing Pains)

More grass/flora mod compatibility. Added cut-list hitches for Floral Zones, Biodiversity: Flowers and Grass, and Wild Farming - Revival — the mower now cuts their flowers, ferns, and grasses. Each patch only applies when that mod is installed.

Art of Growing grass drops now follow Art of Growing's own pattern (only when that mod is installed): cutting live grass drops their fresh grass instead of vanilla dry grass, drop amounts scale with the plant's length (1–6) instead of a flat one, and mowing their dry grass leaves the eaten stub behind the way their scythe does. Players without Art of Growing see no change at all.

Tool-rack display flipped 180° so a mower with a snow auger and chute hangs flush instead of poking the chute through the wall.

A couple of notes on my linking choices: Floral Zones is a 7-region series with no single hub page, so I pointed it at the Cosmopolitan region (the "plants from all over" one) as the representative link. Biodiversity is also a suite — I linked the specific sub-mod your hitch actually targets, Biodiversity: Flowers and Grass (modid bdflower), rather than the core. Swap either if you'd rather point somewhere else.

v1.5.8 — "Knobs for the Owner"

• Three new server-config options: EnableSnowFlingParticles (toggle the snowblower's snow-throw plume — the heaviest particle effect), ConserveSnow (pile cleared snow to the side vs. just clear it), and GrassCutDurabilityCost (tune or zero out the blade's per-cut wear). They land in reelmower.json next to the existing options; existing configs pick up the defaults automatically.
• Fixed: a plain reel mower was drawing the snow auger and chute in-hand and in its tooltip — it now always renders the correct reel-only model.
• Display polish: every item's inventory icon, dropped-item, and in-hand model now centers on its own true model center, so previews sit right and finally match the hover tooltip. The loose snow-chute item was re-synced to match the assembled snowblower exactly.
• Removed an old leftover prototype item that was cluttering the creative menu.
• No gameplay changes unless you touch the config — fully non-breaking.
  
  hitch put in for the fallowing mod : Ecosystem — Flora

v1.5.7 — Chute Hotfix — Fixes a crash (IndexOutOfRangeException) when interacting with a snow-auger mower, caused by the chute item losing its texture map. Chute materials restored. Recommended for anyone using the snowblower.

added some compatiblity with the mod Art Of Growing forked

v1.5.6 — Fit and Finish — Bed knife moved to its realistic spot behind the reel (held tool, placed mower, and cart). Removed some unneeded frame struts. Minor chute shape tweaks. Model-only, fully non-breaking.

UNSAFE USE 1.5.7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

v1.5.5 — Snow Business — the head that goes in the frame no longer has to be a reel blade. Seat a snow auger and the machine becomes a snowblower: push it through snow to carve a path and hurl the snow out a chute you aim left or right on the fly (snow is piled a few blocks over, not deleted). The auger is forged from the same blade blank — just move the chisel to the other grid corner; the chute is a 3×3 of oak boards, copper bits, a straight chute, and iron plates. Renders on the cart, placed, and in-hand with the auger spinning; full handbook coverage. Cutting behavior now lives on the head itself, so grass and snow each bring their own. Non-breaking — every existing mower is untouched.

v1.5.4 — Point and Mow
Every placeable part now tells you what to do with it. Look at a mower you've set on the
ground and you'll get the usual Vintage Story interaction prompts on your crosshair — seat a
blade, fit a bed knife, detach the shaft, remove parts — the same overlay you get on a firewood
pile or a chest. The blade and bed-knife prompts even show their item icons and only pop up
while you're actually holding one, so it reads cleanly.

The push cart's hover text is informative now too: it says "Push the mower" and "Pack up"
instead of a bare "Sit."

And every prompt reads your actual keybinds, not the defaults — rebind crouch to Ctrl, or the
cut-mode key off of F, and the help shows your key, not mine. (The mower's controls always
respected your bindings under the hood; this just makes the on-screen text honest about it.)

this is a what the hell does this do, patch. If your lost just turn back on your interaction prompts in settings.

v1.5.3 — Left-click to seat (mod compatibility)
You can now seat the reel blade and install a bed knife with LEFT-click / attack — the same
swing you use to hammer the frame together — on top of the usual right-click. Both work.

Why: with some pet/creature mods running (Pet AI and its companions), a tamed animal that
follows you around can end up standing between you and a mower you've set on the ground, and
it grabs your right-click before the mower does — so instead of seating the blade you pet the
animal. That's the game's normal "whatever's under your crosshair gets the click" behavior,
not anything specific to this mod, but the attack action gives you a second path that doesn't
compete with it. If a pet's ever in the way, moving it (or using that mod's "stay" command)
sorts it out too. Right-click is unchanged for everyone else.

Thanks to Mr_Posey for the suggestion.

v1.5.2 — Push Comes to Mow

The mower's grown wheels. It no longer cuts in your hands — instead you right-click to set it down as a rideable push cart and mow the way a reel mower was actually meant to be used: by pushing it. The wagon wheels roll, the reel cage spins faster than the wheels (properly geared), turns give it a little roll, and it shears whatever's in front of it going forward or back — draining the blade exactly like the hand tool did. Every part, dye, and the blade's remaining durability carry through setting it down and packing it back up. Pick your cut mode on the tool wheel before you deploy, or tap the cut-mode key (F by default) to cycle Trim → Remove → Clear while you're pushing. It looks after itself, too. Run the blade down to nothing and it stops cutting and pops you off the seat so you notice the dull edge — the cart stays put, so you can read the tooltip and then repair, re-blade, or pack it up. And it refuses to go for a swim: steer it into water and it packs itself back into the held mower and sets you down on the bank instead of doing anything it shouldn't. Pack it back up any time with Sneak + empty-hand right-click. Recipe change: the shaft now also takes 6 iron bits (the wishbone yoke and the metal banding on the handle) and 2 plain cloth (the grip wraps) alongside the log — the wood type still carries all the way through to the finished mower. The in-game "Reel Mower: Some Assembly Required" guide is updated to match, and every step now lists a little shopping-list of exactly what it needs. New dependency: this update is built on Cartwright's Caravan — its push animations are what make the cart come alive as you walk. Big thanks to its author for such a clean, reusable foundation. Under the hood: a full server-compatibility pass (verified clean on a real dedicated server) and a solid dead-code cleanup. Non-breaking — every mower you already own keeps working; just right-click to roll it out.

A Cut Above — a full visual rebuild plus two new ways to make the mower your own.

• The whole mower was rebuilt to match the concept art: a wishbone yoke, spoked wagon wheels with hubs, and a hollow twisted helical reel cage with braced end discs instead of the old solid block. Every component — shaft, frame, reel blade — was re-modeled to match, so what you smith is what ends up on the finished tool.
• Textures are true-pixel now. The old stretched/"compacting" look on the shaft, frame rods, and bed knife is gone, all mapped at one consistent density. The cloth grips use the real vanilla plain-linen texture in every state, with a little wood showing at the T-grip tips.
• New: a bed knife accessory. Smith one from a single ingot of any metal and Shift + right-click a placed mower to fit it. Its metal is fully independent of the reel — a copper bed knife on a steel-reel mower keeps its own color — and it shows in every view, including the spinning animation. Take it off empty-handed; it always comes off before the reel blade.
• New: dyeable cloth grips. Craft a shaft together with any of the 13 vanilla cloth colors (dye plain cloth in a barrel first) and the grip wraps take that color, carried all the way through to the finished mower. Re-dye or reset to plain any time.
• All of this adds up: 7 reel metals × 13 woods was 91 mowers; the 13 grip colors take it to 1,183; the bed knife (none or any of 7 metals) brings it to 9,464 visually distinct finished mowers, plus 169 bladeless variants. Fully non-breaking — every mower you already own keeps working.

v1.5.0 — Details Details Details

Remember that secret from 1.4.9? It has a name now: Pain and Atonement.

Running over a loose stone, flint, or ore lump while mowing now breaks it, drops whatever's inside, and costs a bonus chunk of blade durability on top of normal wear — because clipping actual rock is harder on the blade than cutting grass. It also flings a bit of damage back at you, because it's basically a rock bouncing off your shin and that's funny. The stone drop, player damage, and blade penalty are all independently togglable via the new server config.

Also fixed for real this time: the stuck animation when attacking with the bare blade. 1.4.9's fix narrowed it down but didn't fully solve it — the actual culprit was the blade being tagged as a knife-type tool, which routes attacks through a skinning animation that expects class-side support to finish. Removed the knife designation and replaced the stab animation with a plain swing. Nothing else changed — durability, attack power, tool tier all untouched.

Other things in this update:

- Dowels now only accepts the mower (bladed or bladeless). If you're updating from an older version, break and replace any existing Dowels for the restriction to take effect.
- New server config at VintagestoryData/ModConfig/reelmower.json — seven settings covering Pain and Atonement tuning, grass fling particles, and dry grass auto-collection.
- The blade now flings flecks of grass while you mow. Purely decorative, toggleable off.
- Dry grass now goes straight into your inventory instead of dropping behind you. Falls back to dropping nearby if your inventory is full.
- Movement penalty while pushing is fixed at -25% and intentionally not configurable — it's tied directly to how fast the wheels and blade visually spin, so changing it would silently break the animation.
- Polished the mower's positioning transforms across the board — Dowels mount offsets individually calibrated per facing direction (east/west pegs no longer float off the wall), and general display position refinements throughout.

Update v1.4.9 — Bug fixes (and something else)

Fixed: holding the bare blade and attacking a creature could lock you in a stuck animation — couldn't attack again, couldn't even switch hotbar slots, only fixable by dropping the item or dying. Thanks to Findal_Falum for catching and reporting this one — still not entirely sure why you were swinging a lawn mower blade at a mob instead of running, but I respect the commitment. Took two tries to actually nail down (the first attempt didn't fully fix it), but it's properly sorted now.

...also snuck something else into this update. Not saying what it is. You'll figure it out. 👀 watch you head!

Update v1.4.8 — Durability rebalance

Big thanks to Findal_Falum for the detailed feedback on durability and resource cost. Two real changes came out of it:

Durability raised 4x across every metal tier, for the assembled mower, the standalone blade, and the blade blank. The mower's pool was meaningfully behind the vanilla scythe at every tier before this — copper was under half the scythe's durability, and the gap got worse going up in tiers (steel was under 40%). This pushes every tier comfortably past the scythe instead of trailing behind it.

A worn-out blade no longer just disappears when it snaps mid-mow. Previously the blade material was gone for good the moment durability hit zero — now the spent blade gets handed back to you at 0 durability instead, ready to take to a Grinding Wheel (with Grinding Wheel Rework installed) and sharpen back up, rather than smithing a brand new one from scratch.

Also fixed a small inconsistency: black bronze durability didn't match between the assembled mower and the standalone blade. Now they agree.

Update v1.4.7 — A real crash fix, and a recipe rebalance

Fixed a server crash that could kick a player just for swinging a hammer at a placed frame. Confirmed via an actual crash report with a full stack trace — thank you to Sparklingtips for that. The nail-finding helper searched every one of a player's inventories, including their creative inventory, and that inventory's own internal check can throw an exception that was never handled, taking the whole interaction (and the player's connection) down with it. Now wrapped so one bad inventory can't crash the rest.

Also fixed: the blade blank actually needed 4 ingots to smith, not the 2 every version of the guide has ever advertised. The old smithing pattern was sized for 4 ingots' worth of material by the game's own voxel math — reshaped it down to actually cost 2, matching the documented recipe instead of quietly doubling the material cost.

Also fixed: the frame recipe needs two metal plates, but the guide said "a metal plate" — just a wording fix, the recipe itself was always correct.

Update v1.4.6 — Multiplayer audit + a recipe fix

Went looking specifically for what this mod needs to behave correctly on a real dedicated server, not from a bug report this time. Found and fixed: land claims weren't being respected. Swapping a blade, detaching a shaft, or hammer-assembling a frame all worked even inside someone else's protected claim, since those interactions fully replace vanilla's own logic for those specific cases — fixed for the mower and the Dowels peg, all five interaction points now check claim access properly.

Also fixed: a recipe error that's been quietly showing up in the logs since v1.4.0. Vanilla actually has a 13th "aged" wood state on logs that this mod's shaft recipe was unintentionally matching but never supporting — fixed properly across the whole chain (shaft, bladeless frame, finished mower) instead of just patching around it.

Spun up my own local dedicated server this time specifically to test real client-server multiplayer instead of just the integrated singleplayer server — assembled a frame, mowed, swapped blades back and forth, all clean over an actual network connection, not just locally.

Big thanks to Zeriz for sticking with the Linux investigation through several rounds of log digging back on v1.4.5 — confirmed working there now, items and the handbook guide both showing up correctly and a successful test mow. That fix wouldn't have happened without a clean, reproducible report.

v1.4.5 — The actual Linux fix

Turns out 1.4.4 didn't fix anything — confirmed by a Linux user retesting it, and by me directly opening the deployed zip and checking. My previous fix relied on a .NET API I assumed always wrote forward-slash paths; it doesn't, reliably, under the specific PowerShell setup that builds this mod. Replaced it with a packaging step that builds every file path manually and forces the correct format explicitly. This time I actually opened the resulting zip and checked every entry before calling it done — zero backslash paths, confirmed.

Sorry for the runaround on this one. If you're on Linux and items still don't show up after updating to 1.4.5, please let me know — at that point I'd want fresh logs again.

Update v1.4.4 — Linux fix

Found and fixed a real one: the mod could silently load with zero items, zero blocks, no handbook guide — on Linux specifically, every version back to the first release. Root cause was in how the release zip itself was being built, not the mod's code or content: it was packaged with Windows-style file paths internally, which Windows never minds but Linux's stricter zip reader couldn't read correctly, so every single JSON file in the mod silently failed to load while the bare code loaded fine. Should now work identically on both platforms.

Also added: a dedicated "Reel Mower" tab in the creative inventory, so every part of the mod groups together instead of being scattered across General/Items/Tools. Plus two more small correctness fixes found during testing (not bug reports): a hold-vs-tap edge case on frame assembly, and a nail-tracking gap when a blade snaps mid-mow.

v1.4.3: Hammering it home

Assembling the frame now uses a real hammer swing — turns out the swing animation only plays on an attack action (left-click), not an interact one (right-click), same as hitting an anvil. So: tap left-click on the placed frame, hammer in main hand, shaft in offhand, three times. No sneak needed anymore for this step.

Also fixed: every interaction in this mod (assembly, blade install/removal, shaft detach) was silently pointing at a sound effect that never actually existed — fixed with the real vanilla anvil-hit sounds. And shaft detach now correctly gives back the same metal of nails you used (copper stays copper, steel stays steel) instead of always defaulting to iron.

v1.4.2: Hotfix (Multiplayer Crash)

Found the real cause behind the mowing crashes that have been reported. The blade-spin network packet was crashing the server every single time anyone mowed with another player nearby — fixed by making its data format explicit instead of relying on automatic serialization that doesn't hold up in a dedicated server setup. If you've been crashing on right-click while holding the mower, this should fix it.

Still chasing a second, separate crash (failed to assemble as a non-host player) — investigating, no fix yet.

v1.4.1: Hotfix

Two bugs caught right after the Some Assembly Required update:
- The shaft crafting recipe (log + chisel + hammer) wasn't actually registering — same kind of mistake as the old Dowels bug, a missing domain prefix on the log ingredient. Fixed.
- The wood texture would revert to a generic look the moment you started mowing, even though it looked right while just holding the mower. The spin animation uses its own separate texture data that didn't get updated along with everything else — fixed now too

[Update v1.4.0 — Some Assembly Required] The mower is now built entirely by hand. Full walkthrough is in-game: Handbook → Guides → "Reel Mower: Some Assembly Required." Sorry — mowers from before this update won't carry over; you'll need to rebuild.

v1.3.9
- What the mower can cut is now extensible — other grass-variety mods can add compatibility via a small patch instead of needing changes to this mod.
- Added (inert unless installed) compatibility for "Wildgrass Continued" — switchgrass, bermuda grass, bluegrass, and the rest of its grass types should now be mowable.

v1.3.8 — Hotfix
- Fixed: the Dowels crafting recipe didn't actually work (stick ingredient was misconfigured, so it silently failed to load). 2 sticks now correctly crafts a Dowels block.

v1.3.7

The mower can now be stored on

New block: Dowels — a simple wall/tree-mounted peg pair. Craft from 2 sticks, place against any vertical surface or a tree trunk, then right-click with the mower in hand to hang it up (right-click again to take it back). One slot, oak-textured, a much smaller footprint than a full Tool Rack. The mower is not intended to hang on a vanilla Tool Rack — Dowels is a new, separate block, not a replacement for it.

Fixed the mounted mower not sitting flush on the pegs from every facing, and tuned its position/angle on the Dowels for a cleaner, properly-seated look.

v1.3.6 — Hotfix
- Fixed: mow sound could play forever after the blade broke mid-mow, even after releasing the mouse button. Added a watchdog that catches and stops any orphaned sound within a fraction of a second.

v1.3.5 — The Sound Update is live!

The mower now plays a real looping sound while you mow. Starts the moment you push forward, cuts off the instant you stop or let go. Sound sits right at ground level where the blade meets the grass. Nearby players hear it too, coming from your position as you move — fully multiplayer. Blade breaking mid-mow correctly silences it for everyone. Cut width tightened by one block on each side.

Multiplayer is in active testing — if anything sounds off (pun intended) on a server, drop a comment or send logs from %APPDATA%\VintagestoryData\Logs\.

v1.3.4 — Multiplayer Update

• Other players watching you mow can now see the blade spinning
• Fixed a bug where your walking speed stayed slowed down permanently if your blade broke while you were mid-mow — previously required a relog to fix
• General under-the-hood multiplayer improvements
• This is the first multiplayer build — please test and report any issues

v1.3.3 — Hotfix

Critical fix: mower no longer destroyed when blade wears out.

When the blade's durability reached zero, the entire mower was consumed — frame, wheels, shaft, all of it gone. This was unintended. The blade now snaps off instead, the bladeless frame stays in your hand, and the tool break sound plays so you know it happened. Seat a new blade with Sneak + right-click and you're back to work

v1.3.2

• Three cut modes — Trim (leaves short grass, no drops), Remove (full break, drops dry grass), and Clear (removes flowers, mushrooms, and ferns). Toggle with the tool mode selector wheel.
• Blade removal from placed mower — Sneak + right-click on a placed assembled mower with an empty hand pops the blade off as a drop. The bladeless mower stays in place.
• Blade installation on placed mower — Sneak + right-click on a placed bladeless mower while holding a reel blade seats it back in. Converts to the matching metal variant in place.
• Durability carries over both ways — blade ↔ mower ratio is preserved on removal and reinstallation.
• Ground placement — both the assembled and bladeless mower can be set down as storage items.
• Removed the crafting grid assembly recipe (blade + bladeless mower → assembled mower). Assembly is now done in-world via sneak + right-click.

Changelog — v1.3.1

• Reel blades and blade blanks now have custom 3D models. The finished blade is a flat strip with a beveled edge; the blank is a thick unworked bar — you can tell at a glance which is which.
• Smithing a blade blank now requires two ingots. The pattern on the anvil matches the blade's actual shape — a wide, flat bar.
• Finishing a blade blank no longer uses a stick. You now need a hammer and chisel — the hammer is returned to your inventory, the chisel loses one point of durability.
• The assembled mower can now be placed on the ground. Sneak + right-click to set it down, same as any other placeable item.
• Blade removal has moved to Sneak + Ctrl + right-click to avoid conflicting with ground placement.
• Fixed a durability mismatch where tin bronze was incorrectly higher than bismuth bronze.

Reel Mower v1.3.0 — The Blade Update

This update overhauls the crafting system, fixes durability, and adds full grinding wheel support. If you're coming from an older version, your existing mowers will still work but we recommend crafting a fresh one to take advantage of the new system.

New Features

• Seven metal blade variants — Blades now come in copper, tin bronze, bismuth bronze, black bronze, iron, meteoric iron, and steel. Each blade is textured in its actual metal color, so your mower looks as good as it performs. Higher tier metals give better durability and faster mowing speed.
• Overhauled crafting chain — The mower is now built in stages. Smith a blade blank on the anvil, add a stick handle to finish the blade, craft the wooden shaft and iron frame separately, then assemble everything together. It takes a little more work, but it feels right.
• Blade removal — Sneak + right-click your mower to pop the blade off. Swap it out for a better one when you've got the metal for it.
• Grinding Wheel support — If you have Grinding Wheel Rework installed, you can bring your blade to the grinding wheel to repair and sharpen it — full animation and sparks, just like a knife. Fully automatic, no config changes needed.
• Realistic reel animation — The blade reel spins faster than the wheels as you push, just like the real thing. Small detail, big payoff.

Fixes

• Durability now works correctly across all metal tiers.
• Fixed a progression issue where tin bronze blades were incorrectly more durable than bismuth and black bronze.

.Fixed the sound to only play when moving and holding right mouse