In Tough Environment, Minecraft becomes a true survival challenge. Forget the ease of crafting wooden tools and quickly mining; this mod removes wooden tools entirely and alters stone tool recipes, demanding more strategic effort from players.

At the start, your only mining tools are wooden and stone chisels. The wooden chisel helps you gather small stones, which can be crafted into sharp stones (stone chisels). Stone tools now require string to craft, and using lesser tools results in stone blocks breaking in layers. The stone chisel, faster and more durable than its wooden counterpart, lets you collect more rocks and obtain lesser drops from ores like coal and iron, which appear as dust. These dusts must be combined to form ore chunks.

Additionally, all loose blocks have slab alternatives, and blocks like dirt, sand, and gravel break into piles if harvested with improper tools. Gravity affects these loose blocks, but the new "Mortaring" mechanic lets you hold stone blocks in place.

Tough Environment adds a layer of complexity, making resource gathering and construction more demanding and rewarding, transforming your Minecraft experience into a test of skill and strategy.

Full List of Features:

Added:

Chisel Items.
Loose Blocks variants for most stone blocks & Loose Dirt. Slab block variants for those blocks as well.
Mortaring mechanic for loose stone type blocks.

Configuration Settings in mod mod menu for:

Hardcore Mining Speed (slower speed)

Changed:

Most blocks in the world drop lesser loot instead of full blocks when harvested with an improper tool.
Stone Blocks in the world break in layers when mined with a primitive tool.
Farmland is now made by breaking Grass Blocks twice(first grass, then dirt) with a hoe.
Primitive tools (stone & wooden types) have reduced durability.
Ores now drop "Ore Chunks" which smelt into nuggets instead of full bars.
Changed recipes for all stone tools to require string or hemp fiber.
Changed Clay block's texture & it's drops.
Flint and Steel recipe now requires iron nuggets instead of ingots.
Bucket & Compass recipes also changed to require iron nuggets.
Clock recipe changed to require gold nuggets instead of ingots & quartz instead of redstone.

Removed:

All vanilla wooden tools.
Stone sword & stone hoe recipes.
The ability to repair items by combining them together.