Quark extends the Minecraft toolset with a focused set of new items — each one purpose-built, toggleable, and designed to feel at home in the base game. From the satisfying boomerang-pickaxe of the Pickarang to the ambient atmosphere of the new music discs, every addition in this category adds real utility or discovery without bloating the progression curve.Documentation Index
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Pickarang & Flamerang
A throwable pickaxe that returns to your hand, mining blocks along the way.
Color Runes
Smithing templates that recolor the enchantment glint on any enchanted item.
Ancient Tomes
Rare enchanted books that push enchantments one level beyond their normal cap.
Seed Pouch
A portable bag that holds up to 640 seeds and auto-collects matching items.
Pathfinder Maps
Cartographer and Wandering Trader maps that locate specific biomes.
Bottled Cloud
Capture a cloud in a glass bottle at cloud height and place it as a soft block.
Trowel
Places a random block from your hotbar — perfect for organic terrain building.
Abacus
Counts the blocks between two points and displays the distance on your HUD.
Torch Arrow
An arrow that places a torch where it lands, lighting dark passages from afar.
Skull Pikes
Place a mob head on a fence post to create a menacing spike that scares monsters.
Slime in a Bucket
Right-click a small slime with an empty bucket to capture it for transport.
Beacon Redirection
Use amethyst clusters (or Corundum) to bend a beacon beam around corners.
Parrot Eggs
Feed your tamed parrot to give it a chance to lay a breed-specific egg over time.
Ambient Discs
Eight new music discs with looping ambient sounds: drips, ocean, rain, and more.
Endermosh Disc
A rare music disc found in End Cities, with an optional Ender Dragon fight trigger.
Pickarang & Flamerang
The Pickarang is a diamond-tier throwable pickaxe. Right-click to hurl it and it will mine any blocks it passes through before returning to your hand. It has 800 durability by default and deals 2 attack damage when used as a melee weapon. The Flamerang is the Netherite upgrade — fire-resistant, immune to lava, and stronger (1040 durability, Netherite harvest level). It also sets blocks and mobs alight. Both items are crafted via recipes — if the Heart of Diamond module is enabled, the Pickarang recipe will involve it instead (setpickarang_never_uses_heart = true to opt out).
Color Runes
Color Runes are Smithing Templates that change the enchantment glint color of any enchanted item. Apply them via the smithing table — no materials consumed, just the rune. The rainbow rune produces an animated cycling glint. Obtaining: Runes drop from dungeon, Nether fortress, jungle temple, and desert temple loot chests. Drop weights are configurable. Available colors: white, orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime, pink, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, black, and rainbow. Runes can also be applied to a Lodestone Compass. Overleveled Enchanted Books from Ancient Tomes glow with a rainbow rune automatically.Ancient Tomes
Ancient Tomes are rare loot items that upgrade an enchantment by one level beyond its vanilla maximum (e.g., Sharpness VI, Efficiency VI). Combine a Tome with an enchanted book or tool in an anvil. Loot sources (default weights): Stronghold Library (20), Dungeon (20), Bastion Treasure (25), Woodland Mansion (15), Ancient City (4), Monster Boxes (5). Mechanics:- Each tome carries a specific enchantment and a single over-level.
- The anvil cost for the initial upgrade is
normalUpgradeCost(default 10 levels). Additional limit-break levels costlimitBreakUpgradeExtraCost(default 20) each extra level. - Master Librarian villagers can exchange a blank tome for one bearing a specific enchantment — trade them the max-level enchanted book of that enchantment.
- Overleveled books show with a rainbow glow and EPIC rarity by default.
- With
deepslateTweakenabled, an Efficiency VI diamond or netherite pickaxe can instant-mine Deepslate under Haste II.
Seed Pouch
The Seed Pouch stores up to 640 seeds (or any item in thequark:seed_pouch_holdable tag). While held in either hand, it automatically vacuums up matching seeds from the ground.
Key features:
- Shift-right-click to open and view contents; left-click seeds while the pouch is open to load/unload them.
- Hold the pouch and right-click farmland to plant seeds in a configurable radius (default 3 blocks,
shiftRange). - Bone meal and other fertilizers in the
quark:seed_pouch_fertilizerstag can also be stored (allowFertilizermust be enabled). - The pouch’s texture visually fills up as it accumulates seeds.
Pathfinder Maps
Pathfinder Maps are special maps sold by Cartographer villagers (and optionally Wandering Traders) that locate specific biomes. Each map is tinted with a unique color matching its target biome. How to obtain a map: Purchase from a Cartographer at the appropriate villager level (4 or 5), paying emeralds (and a compass for cartographers). A Wandering Trader always carries one random map. Built-in biomes include: Snowy Plains, Windswept Hills, Dark Forest, Desert, Savanna, Swamp, Mangrove Swamp, Old Growth Pine Taiga, Flower Forest, Jungle, Bamboo Jungle, Badlands, Mushroom Fields, Ice Spikes, and Cherry Grove. Custom maps for any biome (vanilla or modded) can be defined in the config using the format:biome_id, villager_level, min_price, max_price, ARGB_hex_color.
The Pathfinder’s Quill is an intermediate item given during the search. Its HUD indicator animates while it locates the biome. Reaching the biome center triggers an advancement.
Bottled Cloud
Right-click with an empty glass bottle while flying at cloud height (between Y=191 and Y=196 by default) to capture a Bottled Cloud. Right-click a surface to place it as a soft, walkable cloud block. Cloud blocks are translucent, produce a wispy particle effect, and can be stacked to create floating platforms. They do not drop when broken without Silk Touch.Trowel
The Trowel places a random block from your hotbar each right-click. It cycles through all valid block items in your hotbar slots. By default, the Trowel has infinite durability (maxDamage = 0). Set maxDamage to any positive integer to limit its uses. Blocks can be excluded with the quark:trowel_blacklist item tag, or restricted to a set with quark:trowel_whitelist.
Abacus
The Abacus measures the distance (in blocks) between two points. Hold the Abacus and right-click a block to set the origin. The HUD then shows a count of blocks between the origin and wherever you’re currently looking, displayed next to the crosshair. A colored path is drawn as a 3D line from origin to target, highlighting the measured route. The color is configurable viahighlightColor (default dark translucent).
Torch Arrow
Torch Arrows are craftable arrows that, upon hitting a solid block, place a torch at the impact point. They work like normal arrows in a bow or crossbow and can be dispensed from a dispenser. SetextinguishOnMiss = true (default false) to make torch arrows that miss their target (hitting air) not place anything.
Skull Pikes
Place any mob head on top of a fence post to automatically create a Skull Pike — an entity that projects a menacing aura in a configurable radius (default 5 blocks). Non-boss hostile mobs (excluding Wardens and patrolling monsters) within range will flee from the pike. Any block in thequark:pike_trophies block tag can be used as the head. Wither Skeleton Skulls, Creeper Heads, and other vanilla mob heads all work out of the box.
Slime in a Bucket
Right-click a size-1 (tiny) Slime with an empty bucket to capture it as a Slime in a Bucket item — the same way you capture fish or axolotls. Right-click to release it back into the world. The captured Slime retains its full NBT data. If the Variant Animal Textures module is enabled and the slime is shiny, its bucket item will visually reflect that.Beacon Redirection
Place an Amethyst Cluster (or a Corundum Cluster if the Corundum module is enabled) facing a direction in the path of a beacon beam to redirect that beam. The cluster’s facing direction determines where the beam turns.- The beam can travel up to 64 blocks horizontally between redirections (configurable via
horizontalMoveLimit). - Tinted Glass in the beam path reduces beam opacity rather than blocking it (
allowTintedGlassTransparency). - The beam color mixes with the cluster’s hue at each redirection.
- Loop detection prevents infinite cycles.
Parrot Eggs
When you feed a tamed parrot an item from thequark:parrot_feed tag, there is a configurable chance (default 5%) it starts an egg timer (default 12,000 ticks — 10 minutes). When the timer expires, the parrot lays a Parrot Egg matching its variant.
Throwing the egg has a chance to hatch a new parrot of the same color. There’s a small mutation chance during hatching.
Egg colors: Red, Blue, Green, Cyan, and Gray — one per vanilla Parrot variant.
Ambient Discs
Eight new music discs with looping ambient soundscapes can be placed in jukeboxes like normal discs. Unlike standard music discs, ambient tracks loop indefinitely.| Disc | Sound |
|---|---|
| Drips | Cave dripping water |
| Ocean | Waves and water ambience |
| Rain | Rainfall atmosphere |
| Wind | Blustery wind |
| Fire | Crackling fire |
| Clock | Ticking mechanical clock |
| Crickets | Night insect sounds |
| Chatter | Distant crowd murmur |
Endermosh Music Disc
The Endermosh disc is a rare find in End City treasure chests (weight 5, quality 1 by default). It plays an energetic, End-themed track composed specifically for Quark. WithplayEndermoshDuringEnderdragonFight = true, the track also automatically plays while the Ender Dragon is alive and the player is within the End island (within ~55 blocks of the island center), starting after a short 50-tick delay.