Macaw's Paths and Pavings in All the Mods 10

Macaw's Paths and Pavings is a building-decoration mod that adds vanilla-styled paths and pavings. If you like making your bases, roads and gardens look good, this one is for you.^[1]

The first version of the mod added wooden paths in all the wooden variations, plus 6 pavings with 11 texture variations. Update 1.0.3 then added Running Bond paths, along with slabs and blocks, because they also look good for building.^[1]

It belongs to the Macaw's mod series, so if you've used other Macaw's mods the style will feel familiar.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships Macaw's Paths and Pavings 1.1.1 for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. The mod was already in the pack by version 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

Unverified The sources don't say where the mod fits in the pack's progression, and they don't confirm any quests or an ATM Star path for it. Treat it as a purely decorative building mod with no progression role. The in-pack crafting recipes are also not confirmed here.

Macaw's Paths and Pavings adds vanilla-styled paths and pavings, so this is all about building. The first things to make are a wooden path, then a few stonecutter pavings, and then you can try the engrave and flatten tricks.^[1]

Step 1: Make a wooden path

Start with a wooden path. In this pack each wood type has its own path block, crafted with a shapeless crafting recipe. Oak Planks Path is a good example. The other wood types follow the same pattern, including Bamboo Planks Path, Cherry Planks Path, Crimson Planks Path and Warped Planks Path.^[3]

3× Oak Planks PathMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Oak Slab

Recipe id: mcwpaths:oak_planks_path

The oak slab becomes an oak path, and the other wood types work the same way.

Step 2: Use the stonecutter for pavings

The stone-style pavings are made in a stonecutter. In this pack the recipes start from andesite, blackstone or bricks, and each material gets its own set of patterns, such as flagstone, running bond, windmill weave and crystal floor. The base block of the material is the input for each pattern.^[3]

Many patterns also come as matching path, slab and stairs variants. Andesite Flagstone comes with Andesite Flagstone Path, Andesite Flagstone Slab and Andesite Flagstone Stairs. That lets you build a full walkway with edges and steps from one material.^[3]

Andesite FlagstoneMod recipe

Stonecutting

• Andesite

Recipe id: mcwpaths:andesite_flagstone

This is a stonecutter recipe that starts from andesite.

Brick Running BondMod recipe

Stonecutting

• Bricks

Recipe id: mcwpaths:brick_running_bond

Bricks use the same stonecutter approach.

Engrave and flatten

The mod's tooltips mention extra interactions. Engraving is done by right-clicking with a pickaxe, and flattening is done by right-clicking with a shovel. Give both a try on your first few blocks to see what they do.^[4]

This one is a short section, and that's by design. Macaw's Paths and Pavings adds vanilla-styled paths and pavings. Nothing in the sources describes machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or automation for it, so there's nothing to set up or wire together.^[1]

Right-click shaping

The mod's tooltips describe two hands-on interactions. You engrave a block by right-clicking it with a pickaxe, and you flatten a block by right-clicking it with a shovel.^[4]

Wooden paths

In this pack, each wooden path is a shapeless crafting recipe that takes a single matching wood slab. For example, the Oak Planks Path comes from an oak slab. The same pattern covers acacia, bamboo, birch, cherry, crimson, dark oak, jungle, mangrove, spruce and warped, such as the Warped Planks Path.^[3]

3× Oak Planks PathMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Oak Slab

Recipe id: mcwpaths:oak_planks_path

The other wood types follow the same one-slab pattern.

Stone pavings

The stone pavings are made in a stonecutter, not a crafting grid. A single andesite block can become a pattern such as the Andesite Clover Paving. Blackstone works the same way for its patterns, for example the Blackstone Clover Paving.^[3]

4× Andesite Clover PavingMod recipe

Stonecutting

• Andesite

Recipe id: mcwpaths:andesite_clover_paving

Some patterns come in several shapes. The Crystal Floor, Flagstone, Running Bond and Windmill Weave patterns each have a full block, a path, a slab and stairs, all cut from andesite. Examples are Andesite Running Bond, Andesite Running Bond Slab and Andesite Running Bond Stairs. The mod's project page says Running Bond paths, slabs and blocks arrived in update 1.0.3, because they look good for building too.^[1][3]

Unverified This mod has no config files in the pack, so the sources here show no settings you can tune for it.

Macaw's Paths and Pavings has no tier ladder in this pack. Every recipe shown in the pack's recipe dump turns one base item into the finished piece, so you can build with the set as soon as you can get the base material.^[3]

Unverified The sources here show no quests that involve this mod, and it is not on the ATM Star quest path. There is no quest checklist to follow for it, so pick it up whenever you want some decoration.

Wood paths: the crafting table route

Each wooden path is a shapeless crafting recipe that turns the matching wood slab into a path. The recipes cover oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, bamboo, crimson and warped. Examples are Oak Planks Path, Cherry Planks Path and Warped Planks Path.^[3]

3× Oak Planks PathMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Oak Slab

Recipe id: mcwpaths:oak_planks_path

Shapeless crafting from the matching slab. The other wood paths use the same pattern with their own slab.

Stone pavings: the stonecutter route

The stone-based pieces are stonecutting recipes. The recipes shown use andesite, blackstone, bricks and cobbled deepslate, and each one takes a single base block. Put the block in a stonecutter and pick the style you want.^[3]

For andesite, blackstone and bricks, the recipes shown cover basket weave paving, clover paving, diamond paving, dumble paving, square paving, honeycomb paving and strewn rocky path. Flagstone, running bond, windmill weave and crystal floor each come as a full block, a path, a slab and stairs. For andesite that means pieces like Andesite Basket Weave Paving, Andesite Flagstone and Andesite Windmill Weave Stairs.^[3]

Andesite FlagstoneMod recipe

Stonecutting

• Andesite

Recipe id: mcwpaths:andesite_flagstone

Stonecutting from a single andesite block. The blackstone and brick versions use the same pattern with their own base block.

Macaw's Paths and Pavings has one quest in the pack, and it sits in the Building Tips chapter of the quest book. That chapter is a big tour of building and decoration mods, with 91 quests in total.^[5]

The path to the quest

The route is a straight line of unlocks. You start at "Building Tips!" quest, the opening quest of the chapter. From there "Decoration!" quest opens up, and it leads on to "Decor Mods!" quest, which is the hub for decoration mods. "Macaw's Mods" quest comes after that one, and it is the quest that introduces Macaw's mods as a group.^[5]

1. "Building Tips!" quest: the chapter opener.^[5]
2. "Decoration!" quest: the start of the decoration branch.^[5]
3. "Decor Mods!" quest: mods the book recommends for decorating your house or base.^[5]
4. "Macaw's Mods" quest: introduces Macaw Sketch as a popular mod developer known for decor mods, and asks if you can craft it all.^[5]
5. "Macaw's Paths and Pavings" quest: the Paths and Pavings quest itself.^[5]

What the Paths and Pavings quest says

"Macaw's Paths and Pavings" quest is an item task, and it unlocks after Macaw's Mods. The quest text describes the mod as adding tons of different carpet-like blocks, with full block and slab versions too. They are meant to be used as paths and look much nicer than the vanilla Path Block.^[5]

Its sibling quests and the finale

Four other Macaw quests also unlock straight after Macaw's Mods: "Macaw's Doors" quest, "Macaw's Roofs" quest, "Macaw's Fences and Walls" quest and "Macaw's Trapdoors" quest. The rest of the Macaw set hangs off other parts of the chapter. "Macaw's Holidays" quest and "Macaw's Furniture" quest come after Decor Mods. "Macaw's Lights and Lamps" quest comes after the light source quest, and "Macaw's Windows" quest comes after the glass quest.^[5]

"Completed Macaw" quest is the payoff. It is a checkmark quest that needs nine quests done: Doors, Fences and Walls, Roofs, Paths and Pavings, Trapdoors, Holidays, Lights and Lamps, Furniture and Windows. Its text says you got one of everything from Macaw's Mods, so Paths and Pavings is one of the quests you need to finish before you can complete it.^[5]

Here's how Macaw's Paths and Pavings has moved through the pack's releases. The sources only cover version bumps, so there's no detail on what changed inside the mod itself.^[2][6][7]

• All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier: the mod was already in the pack by this release.^[2]
• All the Mods 10 2.38: updated from 1.0.5 to 1.1.0.^[7]
• All the Mods 10 4.12: updated from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1.^[6]

All the Mods 10 8.1 ships version 1.1.1, the same version introduced in 4.12, using the file mcw-mcwpaths-1.1.1-mc1.21.1neoforge.jar. So there have been no further updates to this mod since 4.12.^[2][6]

Unverified What actually changed in the mod between 1.0.5, 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 (new blocks, fixes or recipe changes) is unverified, because no changelogs for the shipped jars are available.