Macaw's Holidays in All the Mods 10

Macaw's Holidays is a pure decoration mod. It adds Christmas and Halloween decorations, including a Christmas tree, lights, garland and candy canes. If you like building seasonal scenes, this is the mod for you.^[1]

The project page says version 1.1.0 added around 250+ Christmas-themed decorations, with more planned, and that the mod also covers Halloween. This pack ships version 1.1.2 for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1. I can't confirm from the sources how many decorations that exact version has.^[1][2]

Who it's for

It's for builders and base decorators. The project page says everything can be crafted in vanilla with simple recipes, so you don't need any other mod's machines or materials to start decorating.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack

The mod has no progression role. It has no quests in this pack, it isn't on the ATM Star path, and I found no in-jar guidebook for it. You can use it whenever you want to decorate, without unlocking anything first. It has been in the pack since version 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

Unverified I couldn't confirm whether this pack changes any of the mod's recipes or configs. Check the in-game recipe viewer for the exact crafting recipe of any decoration you want. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Macaw's Holidays is a decoration mod: it adds Christmas and Halloween decorations, including a Christmas tree, lights, garland and candy canes. The project page mentions around 250+ Christmas themed decorations and says everything can be crafted in vanilla with simple recipes. The recipes in the pack dump are all crafting table recipes. Here's the order I'd make things in.^[1][3]

Start with a candy cane

The Candy Cane is a simple recipe and a good way to see how the mod's crafting works.^[3]

4× Candy CaneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Sugar

Recipe id: mcwholidays:candy_cane

The blue candy cane set builds on the Red Candy Cane Block and comes as a Blue Candy Cane Block, a Blue Candy Cane Slab, a Blue Candy Cane Slim and Blue Candy Cane Stairs. The recipe below shows the block, which is the one the other three shapes start from.^[3]

8× Blue Candy Cane BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block
Red Candy Cane Block	Blue Dye	Red Candy Cane Block
Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_candy_cane_block

Build a Christmas tree

The tree is made of four separate pieces: Christmas Tree Base, Christmas Tree Bottom, Christmas Tree Middle and Christmas Tree Top. Each piece has its own recipe, and the base is shown below.^[3]

Christmas Tree BaseMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Spruce Leaves	Empty slot
Spruce Leaves	Spruce Leaves	Spruce Leaves
Empty slot	Spruce Log	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:christmas_tree_base

To decorate the tree, each plain piece has a matching decorated version, made by crafting the plain piece with dye. There are blue decorated pieces and colorful decorated pieces. Do it for every piece so the tree matches.^[3]

Blue Decorated Christmas Tree BaseMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Christmas Tree Base
• Blue Dye

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_decorated_christmas_tree_base

Add lights

Blue String Lights are the starting point for the lighting set, which also has Blue Cube String Lights and Blue Tiny String Lights variants. The colorful lights follow the same pattern, including Colorful Cube String Lights.^[3]

4× Blue String LightsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	String	Empty slot
Glowstone Dust	Blue Dye	Glowstone Dust
Empty slot	Glowstone Dust	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_string_lights

2× Blue Cube String LightsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot

Blue String Lights

Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_cube_string_lights

Wall decorations and Halloween

The bat, cat and bell wall decorations all have simple crafting recipes, so they work well for filling out a build. Some come in pairs where the second variant is crafted from the first, like Bells Wall Deco 1 from Bell Wall Deco 1.^[3]

Bat Wall DecoMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Black Dye	Empty slot	Black Dye
Empty slot	Paper	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:bat_wall_deco_1

For Halloween, each carved pumpkin face has its own recipe. Start with the Carved Evil Pumpkin and work through the rest from there.^[3]

8× Carved Evil PumpkinMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Pumpkin	Pumpkin	Pumpkin
Pumpkin	Wooden Sword	Pumpkin
Pumpkin	Pumpkin	Pumpkin

Recipe id: mcwholidays:carved_evil_pumpkin

Unverified No quests in this pack involve this mod, and the sources here show no guidebook or official documentation for it. That means there is no confirmed progression order, so the order above is just my suggestion.

Here's the honest picture: Macaw's Holidays is a decoration mod. It adds Christmas and Halloween decorations, a Christmas tree, lights, garland and candy canes. It's built for making your base look festive, so this section is about how the decorations are crafted and used rather than about machines.^[1]

Unverified The sources here show no settings for this mod: no config file for it is available in the pack, and no in-jar guidebook was found. Anything beyond crafting and the right-click toggle below is not confirmed.

Right-click to switch variations

The one interactive mechanic the sources confirm is a tooltip: right click to toggle between variations.^[4]

How crafting works

Everything in the mod is made in a normal crafting grid with simple recipes. The pack's recipe dump lists them as shaped or shapeless crafting recipes, and all the ones shown are tagged as the mod's own recipes. Nothing in the sources shows the pack changing them.^[1][3]

Candy canes

Candy canes come as a block plus matching shapes. The blue set has the Blue Candy Cane Block, the Blue Candy Cane Slab, the Blue Candy Cane Slim and the Blue Candy Cane Stairs, and the Red Candy Cane Block is part of the same chain. The recipes below show exactly how they are made in the pack.^[3]

8× Blue Candy Cane BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block
Red Candy Cane Block	Blue Dye	Red Candy Cane Block
Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_candy_cane_block

The blue block starts from the red candy cane block.

4× Blue Candy Cane StairsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

6 × Blue Candy Cane Block

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_candy_cane_stairs

The slab and slim variants are made from the same blue block.

Christmas trees

The tree comes as four separate pieces: Christmas Tree Base, Christmas Tree Bottom, Christmas Tree Middle and Christmas Tree Top. Each piece also has a blue decorated version, and the recipe below shows how the base is made.^[3]

Blue Decorated Christmas Tree BaseMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Christmas Tree Base
• Blue Dye

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_decorated_christmas_tree_base

The bottom, middle and top pieces follow the same pattern.

Decorations crafted from other decorations

Some decorations come in related pairs, such as Bell Wall Deco 1 with Bells Wall Deco 1, and Blue String Lights with Blue Cube String Lights. The recipes below show how the second item in each pair is made.^[3]

Bells Wall Deco 1Mod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Bell Wall Deco 1

Recipe id: mcwholidays:bells_wall_deco_1

2× Blue Cube String LightsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot

Blue String Lights

Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_cube_string_lights

Macaw's Holidays is a decoration mod, and the recipes shown for it in this pack are all shaped or shapeless crafting recipes built from vanilla items and other pieces of the mod. So there is no tier ladder here. Instead you get short crafting chains where a basic piece is upgraded into a variant, and this section follows those chains.^[3]

Unverified The sources here show no quest chapter that involves this mod, and no in-mod guidebook was found, so there is no confirmed quest-driven order for unlocking anything. Check the pack's quest book yourself if you want to be sure.

Step 1: the base pieces

The Christmas tree pieces (Christmas Tree Base, Christmas Tree Bottom, Christmas Tree Middle and Christmas Tree Top) and the Garland are your plain starting points. You can build a whole plain tree before you touch any dyes.^[3]

Christmas Tree BaseMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Spruce Leaves	Empty slot
Spruce Leaves	Spruce Leaves	Spruce Leaves
Empty slot	Spruce Log	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:christmas_tree_base

The bottom, middle and top pieces are listed with the same two vanilla ingredients as the base.

The Halloween pumpkins work the same way. Each carved pumpkin is made from a vanilla pumpkin plus a different wooden tool, so the tool decides the face. For example, Carved Evil Pumpkin and Carved Friendly Pumpkin come from different tools.^[3]

Step 2: upgrade into variants

Most of the mod is built on this step. You take a finished piece and combine it with a dye or another item to get a new version.^[3]

• Decorated trees: each tree piece becomes a decorated version in a shapeless recipe. Blue Decorated Christmas Tree Base is made from the plain base piece plus blue dye, and Colorful Decorated Christmas Tree Base takes the plain base piece plus three different dyes. The bottom, middle and top pieces follow the same pattern.^[3]
• Candy canes: the blue family has a block (Blue Candy Cane Block), a slab (Blue Candy Cane Slab), a slim (Blue Candy Cane Slim) and stairs (Blue Candy Cane Stairs). The block recipe is shown below, and it starts from Red Candy Cane Block.^[3]
• Presents: they come in big, regular and couple sizes, for example Big Blue Present, Blue Present and Couple Blue Presents. Each size is converted into the next one in a shapeless recipe.^[3]
• Bells: Single Bell converts into Couple Bells, and Bell Wall Deco 1 converts into Bells Wall Deco 1.^[3]

Blue Decorated Christmas Tree BaseMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Christmas Tree Base
• Blue Dye

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_decorated_christmas_tree_base

A plain tree piece plus a dye gives the decorated version.

8× Blue Candy Cane BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block
Red Candy Cane Block	Blue Dye	Red Candy Cane Block
Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block	Red Candy Cane Block

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_candy_cane_block

The blue candy cane block starts from the red one.

Big Blue PresentMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Yellow Dye	Empty slot
Paper	Light Blue Dye	Paper
Paper	Paper	Paper

Recipe id: mcwholidays:big_blue_present

Big presents are where the present chain starts.

Step 3: the lights chain

The string lights are the longest chain in the recipes shown. Single colours such as Blue String Lights lead to Colorful String Lights, then to the cube version (Colorful Cube String Lights) and the tiny version (Colorful Tiny String Lights). The blue line has its own cube and tiny steps.^[3]

4× Blue String LightsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	String	Empty slot
Glowstone Dust	Blue Dye	Glowstone Dust
Empty slot	Glowstone Dust	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwholidays:blue_string_lights

The single-colour lights are the start of the chain.

4× Colorful String LightsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Red String Lights	Blue String Lights
Yellow String Lights	Green String Lights

Recipe id: mcwholidays:colorful_string_lights

This recipe uses the blue, green, red and yellow string lights.

In this pack the mod shows up in one chapter of the quest book: Building Tips. Its quest is "Macaw's Holidays" quest, and the chapter has 91 quests in total.^[5]

How you get there

1. Start with "Building Tips!" quest, the opening quest of the chapter.^[5]
2. Next comes "Decoration!" quest, which follows the opening quest and introduces the many mods that add decoration.^[5]
3. After that is "Decor Mods!" quest, a quest about mods the author picked for decorating your house or base.^[5]
4. Then you reach "Macaw's Holidays" quest, which unlocks once Decor Mods! is done.^[5]

What the Macaw's Holidays quest covers

This quest is an item quest, and its text is an introduction to the mod. It tells you the mod adds plenty of decorations for Christmas and Halloween. For Christmas that means Christmas Trees, Presents and Lights, and for Halloween it means Pumpkins, Spiders and Witch Hats. The book does not name the exact item the task asks for in the text I have, so check the quest in-game.^[5]

"Macaw's Holidays" quest sits in the same group as several other Decor Mods! follow-ups, such as "Macaw's Mods" quest and "Macaw's Furniture" quest. It is not placed after Macaw's Mods in the book. The other Macaw door, trapdoor, fence, roof and path quests do follow Macaw's Mods.^[5]

The Macaw wrap-up quest

"Completed Macaw" quest is a checkmark quest that comes after the Macaw quests, including Macaw's Holidays. Its text says you got one of everything from Macaw's Mods, so finishing the Holidays quest is part of getting there.^[5]

Macaw's Holidays was already in the pack in All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier, and All the Mods 10 8.1 ships version 1.1.2 of the mod.^[2]

Pack release changes

• All the Mods 10 4.11: Macaw's Holidays updated from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 5.5: Macaw's Holidays updated from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2.^[7]

Those are the version bumps recorded in the pack changelogs available here, and 1.1.2 is still the version in 8.1.^[2][6][7]

Unverified What actually changed inside the mod between 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 (new blocks, fixes, or recipe changes) is unverified, because there are no stored mod changelogs for the shipped jars. Check the mod's own release notes if you want the details.