Client Tweaks Usage Guide: Step Assist, Auto-Climb Ladders, and Accidental Mining Prevention

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Client Tweaks is a utility mod whose options are turned on or off through its interface, with a few toggles also reachable by hotkey. This guide covers the movement, building, and protection tweaks, plus the offhand rules that keep you from wasting items.

Movement and Climbing

Disable Step Assist turns off the step assist that other mods add. Use it when you want to walk without being lifted over single blocks.

Auto-climb ladders is a toggle: when it is on, you climb ladders by looking upward instead of holding a key down. No key needs to be pressed while the option is active.

Reactive Sprint Key changes how sprinting ends. With it enabled, sprinting stops the moment you release the sprint key, or when you toggle sprint off.

Building Tweaks

Disable Log Stripping stops logs from being stripped when you use an axe on them. Log Stripping Requires Shift is a narrower version: stripping only happens while you hold shift, so a normal axe swing leaves the log intact.

Disable Paving with Block in Offhand stops the paving behaviour that occurs while a block sits in your offhand.

Berry Placement Requires Shift keeps sweet berries from being planted unless you are holding shift.

Pane Building Support gives iron fences and glass panes a larger hitbox while you are placing them, which makes aiming easier. Chain Building Support does the same for chains.

Prevent Accidental Mining stops you from breaking fragile blocks such as budding amethysts by mistake.

Offhand Torch and Item Rules

These options control when items in your offhand get used.

Do Not Use Last Torch prevents the final torch in your offhand from being placed.
No Offhand Torch At All blocks torch placement from the offhand entirely.
No Offhand Torch With Block blocks it while a block is in your main hand.
No Offhand Torch With Food blocks it while food is in your main hand.
No Offhand Torch With Empty Hand blocks it while your main hand is empty.
Offhand Torch With Tool Only allows offhand torch placement only when a tool is in your main hand.
No Offhand Use With Food stops any offhand item from being used while food is in your main hand.
Do Not Use Last Durability (Mending) prevents the last point of durability from being consumed.
No Offhand Fireworks With Elytra Unless Airborne stops firework launches from the offhand while you wear an Elytra, except when you are actually flying.

Hiding Items and Effects

Hide Offhand Item hides the item in your offhand, and it can be toggled with an optional key binding. Hide Empty Main Hand hides your empty main hand in first person. Another option hides both first person hands and can also be toggled with an optional key binding.

Hide Own Particle Effects hides your own potion particles on your client; other players still see them.

Hide Shield Unless Holding Weapon hides your shield unless a weapon is held. Hide Shield Unless Blocking hides it unless you are actively blocking.

Interface Conveniences

The mod restores the Master Volume Slider and the Music Volume Slider to the options screen.

No Recipe Book Shifting keeps the recipe book from shifting your inventory when it opens, which works best at smaller GUI scales or larger resolutions. Retain Recipe Book Search keeps your search text when you reopen the recipe book, and Clear Recipe Book Search clears it when you right click the search bar. Retain Creative Menu Search keeps creative search text when you reopen that tab, while Clear Creative Menu Search clears it on right click. Navigate to Ghost Ingredients makes clicking a ghost ingredient in the crafting grid jump to it in the recipe book.

Creative Breaking Support enlarges the hitbox of random-offset blocks in creative mode so they break faster.

Several options let you define which items count for these rules, including what counts as a torch, what may place torches from the offhand, and what counts as a weapon, shield, firework, or food. A further list sets which blocks Prevent Accidental Mining protects.