Getting Started

Getting Started

Applies to Utility Core across both lines. Which one you have changes the install — see below.

Requirements

Minecraft	26.1.2 or 26.2
Loader	NeoForge
Java	25
Required mods	none

Pick your line first

This is the one thing to establish before anything else, because the answer changes the install.

26.2 — four separate mods

The monolith was split in 2.0.0-beta.1. On this line you install only the modules you want:

Module	Mod id
Utility Core Admin	utility_core_admin
Utility Core Fixes	utility_core_fixes
Utility Core QoL	utility_core_qol
Utility Core HUD	utility_core_hud

Each is independent. Take Admin on a server and Fixes on a client and you have exactly that. See The Four Modules.

26.1.2 — one mod

The original monolith, utility_core, containing everything: recipe resolution, the safety fixes, chunk generation, spawn protection, server rules, and biome/dimension titles.

There is no 1.x build for 26.2. If you need the old single-mod experience on 26.2, that combination does not exist — use the modules.

Install it

Drop the JARs in mods/. No dependencies, no configuration required, nothing to set up.

Almost everything here is server-side. Installing a module on a dedicated server does the work; installing it on a client is only needed for the parts you see, like the recipe selector and the titles.

Which modules are worth having where:

Module	Server	Client
utility_core_admin	yes	no
utility_core_fixes	yes — the crash guards	no
utility_core_qol	partly	yes — the recipe selector
utility_core_hud	no	yes

Config

Two ways, and both work:

• the in-game config menu, or
• config/utility_core-common.toml directly.

See Configuration.

The two opt-in features

Two features do nothing until you provide something, and neither will tell you at startup:

• Spawn Schematic needs your own .schem file. It is not bundled. Put it at <game-directory>/utility_core/spawn_schem/schematic_spawn.schem or the feature stays inert.
• Data Pack Folder needs a <game-directory>/datapacks folder with packs in it.

Both are off unless you set them up. See Features.

Nothing to clean up

Utility Core adds no items, blocks or recipes, and stores no world data of its own. Removing the JARs leaves saves untouched.

Upgrading from the monolith

Nothing to migrate — there is no world data. But note that on 26.2 you will be installing several JARs instead of one, and that the licence is MIT rather than All Rights Reserved.