Silent Gear: Building Custom Tools and Armor

Silent Gear is a mod focused on customizable tools, weapons and armor — collectively "gear" — built from any material. This guide covers how it works.

Gear from any material

Gear can be made from any material vanilla uses for tools and armor, plus many more the mod adds, including new ores and metals. Each material contributes its own stats and traits, so the same tool performs differently depending on what you build it from.

Tool types

Beyond the vanilla set, Silent Gear adds useful tool types: the Paxel (pickaxe, axe and shovel in one), the Prospector Hammer (searches for nearby ores), the Hammer (an area-of-effect pickaxe), the Excavator (an AOE shovel), the Sickle and Mattock, and a Saw that fells whole trees.

Getting started

Craft gear from parts — a main part sets the core stats, with rods, tips and other components adding to it. Start with a simple material to learn the system, then combine better materials and traits as you progress. Because gear is fully customizable and upgradable, Silent Gear rewards mixing materials to build exactly the tool you want.

Covers the mod's in-game guide topics: