Betweenlands’ Tinker

A Tinkers’ Construct addon bridging the dark swamps of The Betweenlands with your smeltery and tool forge.

Overview

Betweenlands’ Tinker integrates 7 new materials, 5 tools, 5 unique traits, and full smeltery support while preserving the dimension's core mechanics—weakness immunity and corrosion.

All tools are obtained via Animator conversion from vanilla Tinkers’ tools, retaining stats, modifiers, and durability.

Important Note

If you encounter issues with Weedwood or Slimy Bone materials not working correctly, please consider using Tinkers’ Antique – an actively maintained fork of Tinkers’ Construct 2 that resolves many compatibility and stability issues.

New Materials

Material	Tool Stats (Durability / Speed / Attack)	Castable	Traits
Weedwood	40 / 2.0 / 2.0	❌	Between, Weed Shield
Slimy Bone	200 / 4.0 / 2.0	❌	Between, Splintering / Splinters
Octine	700 / 6.0 / 4.0	✅	Between, Ignition
Syrmorite	900 / 8.0 / 3.0	✅	Between, Stacking
Valonite	1300 / 8.0 / 6.0	❌	Between, Valor

Bowstring materials: Reed Rope and Silk Thread, both carrying the Between trait.

New Tools

Convert existing Tinkers’ tools in the Animator (input: tool + Life Crystal + Sulfur):

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Pickaxe → Betweenlands Pickaxe
Shovel → Betweenlands Shovel
Hatchet → Betweenlands Hatchet
Broadsword → Betweenlands Broadsword
Shortbow → Betweenlands Shortbow

All stats, modifiers, and durability transfer exactly. Tools are immune to the Betweenlands weakness and support the dimension's corrosion system. Broken tools can be repaired in the Animator.

Parts can also be converted (Tool Rod → Handle, Binding → Extra, Blade/Head → Tool Head). Parts are for replacing components in existing Betweenlands tools and cannot be used to craft tools directly.

Smeltery, Casting & Sulfur

Syrmorite Casts: Pour molten Syrmorite over tool parts to create permanent casts.
Sulfur Distiller: Extract Molten Sulfur from Sulfur Blocks by charging and releasing on them. Repairable in the Animator.
Molten Sulfur serves as an early-game smeltery fuel and unlocks Molten Octine, a lava-tier fuel.

New Traits

Trait	Effect
Between	Bypasses weakness; non-Between tools suffer -25% damage/speed.
Weed Shield	Absorbs durability loss (max 100); regenerates every 20s (10s in Betweenlands).
Valor	Deals +20% damage to mobs targeting you and inflicts Slowness and Weakness.
Ignition	Every third hit ignites the target, or deals bonus damage to burning targets.
Stacking	Repairs are 80% less effective. Every 1000 durability consumed grants +1 stacking point (max 100); each point reduces future durability loss by 1%.

Core Mechanics

Weakness Immunity: All Betweenlands tools ignore the dimension's weakness. Non-Interloper tools can gain immunity via the Between trait at a 25% penalty.
Corrosion: Tools accumulate corrosion (0–255) over use, reducing damage and speed. Tooltips show the current stage; cleaned tools restore full strength instantly.
Animator Conversion: Convert tools or parts as described above (excludes Hammer and Excavator).

Dependencies

Mantle (1.12-1.3.3+)
Tinkers’ Construct (1.12.2-2.13.0+)
The Betweenlands (3.9.6+)

Minecraft 1.12.2 · Forge 14.23.5.2847+

Compatibilities

Construct’s Armory – Adds Betweenlands armor materials and traits.
JEI – Adds Animator conversion recipe viewer support.