Horse Powered in FTB Evolution 2
FTB Evolution 2 1.4.0 ships version 3.11.5 · First seen in 1.0.2
Horse Powered is a mod in FTB Evolution 2 1.4.0, where it is version 3.11.5. Hand-cranked and animal-powered machinery focusing on early game grinding, chopping, pressing, drying, and crushing. Leash horses, donkeys, or llamas to automate the line or generate Forge Energy. Data-driven recipes with full JEI, EMI, and Jade support. (Summary from the mod's Modrinth page.)
Horse Powered guide for FTB Evolution 2
Last verified for FTB Evolution 2 v1.4.0 on Oct 15, 2026 · text last changed Oct 15, 2026
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Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Evolution 2 1.4.0, read from the running game on Oct 17, 2026.
What is Horse Powered?
3 parts
Horse Powered is pre-industrial machinery for the early game. You grind, chop, press, dry and crush things by hand first, then hand the work to leashed animals. Horses, donkeys and llamas walk in circles around a machine to power it, and they can also generate Forge Energy for the rest of your tech.[1]
This pack includes Horse Powered 3.11.5.[2]
What you get
- Grindstones: a Hand Grindstone for manual milling and a Horse Grindstone for continuous milling. Think grain to flour, bone to bonemeal and ore to dust.[1]
- Chopping: the Chopping Block is for splitting logs with an axe, and the Horse Chopper does bulk processing for you.[1][3]
- Horse Press: extracts fluids from items, for example seeds to seed oil or honeycomb to honey.[1]
- Drying Rack: a passive rack that holds 8 items at once and needs no power, fuel or worker. Hoppers and pipes can feed it from any side.[4]
- Granite Anvil: a stone-tier crushing station for rock-cycle conversions. You right-click a valid input with a stone-or-better pickaxe.[1]
- Generator: turns worker labor into Forge Energy when it gets a redstone signal. A lever inside the walking area works fine.[1]
- Animal Trap: a passive cage that captures passive animals with bait and produces their drops over time.[5][6]
- Work Saddle: captures a leashable worker so you can move it somewhere else without leads and fences.[1]
- Flint and Tinder: a slower fire starter that you hold to use, like drawing a bow.[7]
- Creative Battery: a creative-only energy block for testing setups. It is not craftable.[8]
Getting started
- Craft a Hand Grindstone or a Chopping Block and start processing by hand.[1]
- Build a Horse Grindstone, Horse Chopper or Horse Press when you want automation.[1]
- Clear the working area around the powered machine and give it a sturdy floor.[1][5]
- Attach a horse, donkey, mule, llama or other leashable mob with a lead.[1]
- Insert items, pull the outputs (or let a Wooden Hopper do it) and scale up.[1]
Where it sits in the quest book
Unverified The sources here do not show a quest chapter, group or position for this mod, or whether the ATM Star path uses it. Check the pack's quest book for any placement.
How do you get started with Horse Powered?
4 parts
Horse Powered is about hand-cranked machines first, then animal-powered upgrades once you have a herd. So you start with the manual blocks and move to horses later. Here is the order I'd go in.[1][9]
Start with the Hand Grindstone
The Hand Grindstone is a great early-game option before you have horses. Insert an item, then right-click with an empty hand to turn it. The output shows up on the grinding surface and you right-click it to collect.[9]
Crafting Shaped
| Stone | Empty slot | Stone |
| Stone | Stone | Stone |
| Stick | Empty slot | Stick |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/hand_grindstone
Grain to Flour is the headline job, and the pack has a wheat to flour recipe for it. Each turn costs a little hunger. In this pack the exhaustion is general.grindstoneExhaustion at 0.1, which is the mod default.[1][10][11]
Next, the Chopping Block
Next comes the Chopping Block for splitting logs. Place a log on it, right-click with an axe to chop it, then right-click again to collect the output.[3]
Crafting Shapeless
- any log
- any wooden slab
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/chopping_block
Your axe takes damage in this pack (general.shouldDamageAxe is true). Manual chopping takes more strikes than horse chopping by a multiplier, general.choppingMultiplier, which is 4 here (the mod default). JEI shows the real chop count for each recipe.[3][11]
Then the Granite Anvil
The Granite Anvil crushes stone into cobblestone, cobblestone into gravel, and so on. You strike with a stone-tier or better pickaxe, and a wooden pickaxe is not strong enough. The pickaxe takes durability damage on every strike.[11][12]
Crafting Shaped
| Granite | Granite | Granite |
| Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/granite_anvil
The crushing time multiplier (general.crushingMultiplier) is 4 in this pack, and finished items drop at the anvil because general.graniteAnvilDrop is true.[11]
Going horse-powered
Once you have a horse, donkey, mule or llama, craft the Horse Grindstone to automate your grinding. The Horse Chopper works the same way for logs.[13][14]
Crafting Shaped
| Stone | Empty slot | Stone |
| Stone | Stone | Stone |
| any log | any log | any log |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/grindstone
- Place the machine with at least a 7x7 clear space around it.[13]
- Lead your animal, then right-click the machine while holding the lead.[13]
- Shift+right-click with an empty hand to check the area: green is clear, red is obstructed.[13]
- Right-click the machine with items to insert them, and right-click again to take the output.[13]
The Work Saddle lets you capture a leashable worker and release it somewhere else, so you can move your animals around without leashes and fences.[1]
How does Horse Powered work?
7 parts
Horse Powered gives most machines two tiers: a hand-cranked starter block and an animal-powered upgrade. You work the manual blocks yourself, then hand the job to a leashed horse once you have a herd. This section covers how the working area, workers, fluids and hopper automation behave in this pack.[1][5]
Workers and the working area
The Horse Grindstone, Horse Chopper, Horse Press and Horse Powered Generator all need a 7x7 working area. The worker walks a circular path on the outer ring of that area, and the blocks under that path can speed it up or slow it down.[13][14][15][16][17]
- Place the machine in a clear 7x7 area.[13][15]
- Lead a horse (or another valid creature) with a lead.[13]
- Right-click the machine while holding the lead to attach the creature. It then walks in circles and powers the machine.[13]
- Shift+Right-click the machine with an empty hand to see the required area. Green means clear, red means obstructed.[13][15]
- The ring must be clear at the machine's level and one block above. The 7x7 square one block below must be sturdy floor. Dirt paths and any block listed in the path speed config also count as floor.[15]
- Levers placed inside the ring are always allowed, which is handy for toggling the generator from the floor.[15][17]
- Valid workers are horses, donkeys, mules, llamas and trader llamas.[18][19]
- Right-click the machine with an empty hand to release the attached creature.[13][14][16]
- The worker is stored on the block as a virtual ghost render. It cannot be killed, despawned or wander off, and breaking the block respawns the original entity with its full NBT.[1]
A few blocks such as chests, hoppers, pipes and gears may sit inside the ring without breaking validation. The pack keeps the default tolerance of 2 blocks, set by horse_path.pathObstructionTolerance.[11][15]
Path speed
Each unique floor block under the path contributes a multiplier, and the worker's speed is the average of them. That speed directly scales how fast recipes run. The pack uses the mod defaults in horse_path.pathSpeedEntries: grass block, dirt, coarse dirt and rooted dirt run at 0.5x, dirt paths at 1.0x, and packed ice at 2.0x. Any other block uses horse_path.pathSpeedDefault, which is 1.[11][15]
Manual stations
The Hand Grindstone is the early-game way to grind. Insert an item, then right-click with an empty hand to turn it. The grindstone processes the item over several turns, and you collect the output from its right side. Sneak + right-click pulls un-milled input back out. Each turn gives general.pointsPerRotation points, which is 2 in this pack.[9][11]
The Chopping Block works with a placed item and an axe. The Granite Anvil works the same way with a stone-tier or better pickaxe. A wooden pickaxe is not strong enough. Manual chopping takes more strikes than horse chopping, and the pack sets general.choppingMultiplier to 4. The anvil's crushing time uses general.crushingMultiplier, also 4.[3][11][12]
- Manual stations cost hunger. In this pack the exhaustion is 0.1 for the chopping block, 0.15 for the granite anvil and 0.1 for the hand grindstone. Some recipes add their own extra hunger cost, and JEI shows a Hunger line on those.[3][9][11][12]
- Axes and pickaxes take durability damage. Both general.shouldDamageAxe and general.shouldDamageGraniteAnvilPickaxe are true in this pack.[3][11][12]
- With general.choppingBlockDrop and general.graniteAnvilDrop both true, results drop out of the block instead of staying in its internal inventory.[11]
- The hunger cost is paid only by the manual station. The Horse Chopper and Horse Grindstone ignore it.[3][9]
- Manual stations use the same recipes as their horse versions unless a recipe is tagged horse-only.[3][9]
Horse Chopper and Horse Grindstone
Both machines take items by right-click, process them automatically and give output by right-click. The chopper is two blocks tall and needs no axe. For hoppers, the chopper accepts items from the top or sides and gives finished items out the bottom. The chopper uses general.pointsForWindup points (8 in this pack) for its windup and chop.[11][13][14]
Horse Press and fluids
The Horse Press is two blocks tall and has an internal fluid tank. Pressing seeds produces Seed Oil, and other recipes can consume a fluid instead. A full press takes general.pointsForPress points (16 in this pack). The tank holds 3,000 mB in this pack, set by general.pressFluidTankSize.[10][11][16]
- Right-click with a filled bucket to fill the tank, or an empty bucket to drain it.[16]
- You can connect a fluid pipe or tank for automated transfer. The press has separate input and output tanks, so pipes can feed one fluid in and drain another without contamination.[1][16]
- Glass bottles cannot take fluid from a tank on their own, so the press uses a bottling recipe list. Right-click with the container to drain that recipe's fluid and get the filled item back. Right-click with the filled item to reverse it.[16]
- One bottling recipe ships by default: a glass bottle takes 250 mB of water and becomes a water bottle. Press ice, snow or dripstone first to get the water.[16]
One of several pressing recipes that turn seeds into oil.
Generator
The Horse Powered Generator turns worker labor into Forge Energy. It only runs while it has a redstone signal and its buffer is below capacity. The redstone torch on top lights red while it produces power. Connect any side, top or bottom to an FE-compatible cable or machine to extract power. The buffer holds 100,000 FE and pushes to adjacent FE consumers, and mining the generator keeps its stored charge.[1][17]
Crafting Shaped
| Polished Deepslate Slab | Lightning Rod | Polished Deepslate Slab |
| Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate | |
| Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/generator
Passive blocks and hopper automation
The Drying Rack needs no power, fuel or worker. It holds 8 items, and each slot ticks its own timer, so you can load it one slot at a time. Hoppers and pipes work from any side. Insertion accepts only items with a drying recipe, one per empty slot. Extraction gives only finished items, so partial dries are protected.[1][4]
The Animal Trap holds a caught animal as stored NBT and rolls its death loot every 2.5 minutes into five output slots. Once the trap's minimum time has passed, it has a 5% chance per second to capture the target. Bait is consumed on capture. Each drop cycle then has a small chance to use one bait, and the drop timer pauses while the bait slot is empty.[6]
- Hoppers feeding the trap can only insert valid bait into the bait slot.[6]
- Hoppers below the trap pull only from the five drop slots. The bait slot is extraction-locked.[6]
- If the output slots fill up, the next roll's items pop out on top of the trap.[6]
- Recipes with a biome or waterlog requirement only count rolls when the condition is met. Jade shows Wrong biome or Needs water when bait is loaded but the conditions are not satisfied.[6][20]
The Wooden Hopper is a single-slot early-game hopper. It runs at half the speed of a vanilla hopper and has the same insertion and extraction behavior.[1]
Crafting Shaped
| Stick | Empty slot | Stick |
| Stick | Chest | Stick |
| Empty slot | Stick | Empty slot |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/wooden_hopper
How do you progress through Horse Powered?
3 parts
Horse Powered does not have a formal tier ladder in the pack's data. What the sources do show is a natural progression by how the work gets done: first you do it by hand, then you set up stations that run passively, then you put a worker animal on the job. Here is the path, stage by stage.[4][9][18]
Unverified The sources here show no quest chapter covering Horse Powered, so the order below follows the mod's in-game guide and the in-pack recipes, not a quest path. Check the pack's quest book in game to see whether it mentions the mod. This site does hold FTB Evolution 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Stage 1: hand-powered stations
The Hand Grindstone is described as a great early-game option before you have horses for automation. You place it, insert an item, then right-click with an empty hand to turn it over several turns.[9]
Crafting Shaped
| Stone | Empty slot | Stone |
| Stone | Stone | Stone |
| Stick | Empty slot | Stick |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/hand_grindstone
The Chopping Block is a manual station for chopping logs and other items with an axe. You put the item on the block, strike it with an axe, then collect the output. Axes may take durability damage, and every strike costs a little hunger. Both are configurable.[3]
Crafting Shapeless
- any log
- any wooden slab
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/chopping_block
The Granite Anvil does the same job for harder materials: you strike placed items with a stone-tier or better pickaxe to crush stone into cobblestone, cobblestone into gravel, and so on. A wooden pickaxe is not strong enough.[12]
Crafting Shaped
| Granite | Granite | Granite |
| Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/granite_anvil
While you are here, the Flint and Tinder is a slower, cheaper fire starter. You hold right-click for about two seconds, like drawing a bow, and it has 8 uses.[7]
Crafting Shaped
| Dead Bush | Dead Bush | Dead Bush |
| Dead Bush | Flint | Dead Bush |
| Dead Bush | Dead Bush | Dead Bush |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/flint_and_tinder
Stage 2: passive stations
The Drying Rack needs no power, fuel or worker. It holds 8 items at once, each slot with its own timer, and hoppers can feed it and empty it. Only finished items can be pulled out.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| Stick | Stick | Stick |
| any plank | Empty slot | any plank |
| Stick | Stick | Stick |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/drying_rack
The Animal Trap lures and captures passive animals with bait, then produces that animal's normal drops every 2.5 minutes into its own inventory. A hopper below it pulls the drops out, and another feeding bait keeps it running unattended. Mine it with a stone-tier or better axe and it keeps its captured animal and contents.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any wooden slab | Smooth Stone | any wooden slab |
| Iron Chain | any wooden pressure plate | Iron Chain |
| any wooden slab | Smooth Stone | any wooden slab |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/animal_trap
Stage 3: putting animals to work
The horse-driven machines are the Horse Chopper, the Horse Grindstone and the Horse Press. The animals that count as valid workers are horses, donkeys, mules, llamas and trader llamas.[10][18]
The Horse Chopper uses the same recipes as the Chopping Block unless a recipe is tagged horse-only, and it ignores the extra hunger cost that some recipes add, since you are no longer the one swinging the axe. The Chopping Block also takes more strikes per recipe than horse chopping, by a configurable multiplier.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| Iron Ingot | Empty slot | Iron Ingot |
| any log | any log | any log |
| any log | any log | any log |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/chopper
Crafting Shaped
| Stone | Empty slot | Stone |
| Stone | Stone | Stone |
| any log | any log | any log |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/grindstone
Crafting Shaped
| any plank | any plank | any plank |
| any plank | Piston | any plank |
| any plank | any plank | any plank |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/press
The pack also has a grinding recipe that turns wheat into Flour, a shapeless crafting recipe for Dough, and several pressing recipes that make Seed Oil from seeds.[10]
The remaining craftable pieces are the Work Saddle, the Wooden Hopper and the Horse Powered Generator. The sources here give their recipes but no usage details, so check them in JEI or EMI.[10]
Crafting Shaped
| Stick | Empty slot | Stick |
| Stick | Chest | Stick |
| Empty slot | Stick | Empty slot |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/wooden_hopper
Crafting Shaped
| Polished Deepslate Slab | Lightning Rod | Polished Deepslate Slab |
| Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate | |
| Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate | Polished Deepslate |
Recipe id: horsepowered:crafting/generator
Which Horse Powered config options matter?
3 parts
Good news for planning: every option in Horse Powered's config that lists a mod default is set to exactly that default in this pack, so none of those values has been rebalanced. All of it lives in config/horsepowered-common.toml.[11]
Horse path and floor speed
This is the group you will probably touch first. The speed of a worker's circular path depends on the floor blocks under it. The final path speed is the average of the multipliers of every unique floor block the path crosses. Values below 1.0 slow the worker and values above 1.0 speed it up.[11]
- horse_path.pathSpeedEntries sets per-block multipliers in this pack: grass block, dirt, coarse dirt and rooted dirt are all 0.5, Dirt Path is 1.0 and Packed Ice is 2.0. Any block listed here also counts as valid floor, even if its top is not a full block, like dirt paths.[11]
- horse_path.pathSpeedDefault is 1, the multiplier for any floor block not in that list. This matches the mod default.[11]
- horse_path.pathObstructionTolerance is 2, which is the mod default. It is how many non-replaceable blocks (chests, hoppers, gears and so on) are tolerated in the horse's 7x7 working ring before validation fails. Levers are always allowed.[11]
Manual work and tool wear
- general.shouldDamageAxe is true, so the axe you use on the chopping block takes damage.[11]
- general.shouldDamageGraniteAnvilPickaxe is true, so the pickaxe you use on the granite anvil is damaged too.[11]
- general.choppingBlockDrop and general.graniteAnvilDrop are both true, so the chopping block and the granite anvil drop their results. If they were false, the results would go into the internal inventory instead.[11]
- Hunger cost: general.choppingBlockExhaustion is 0.1, general.graniteAnvilExhaustion is 0.15 and general.grindstoneExhaustion is 0.1. These all match the mod defaults, and setting one to 0 disables that cost.[11]
Timing and capacity
- general.choppingMultiplier and general.crushingMultiplier are both 4, the mod default. They are the multiplier for manual chopping time when recipes aren't separated, and for granite anvil crushing time.[11]
- general.pointsForWindup is 8, the mod default. It is the number of points the chopper needs to wind up and chop, and one lap around the chopping block is 8 points.[11]
- general.pointsPerRotation is 2, the mod default, for each rotation of the hand grindstone.[11]
- general.pointsForPress is 16, the mod default, for a full press.[11]
- general.pressFluidTankSize is 3000 mb (1000 mb is one bucket). This is the mod default.[11]
What changed in Horse Powered between versions?
1 part
FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 ships Horse Powered 3.11.5. The pack's mod list shows it was already in the pack in 1.0.2 or earlier, so you will not see a version jump from this mod when you update to 1.1.0.[2]
3.11.5
This release is mostly fixes: the Creative Battery and worker leads get repaired, and flour and dough get common tags.[21]
- Flour is now tagged c:flours and c:flours/wheat, and Dough is tagged c:doughs and c:doughs/wheat. That lets other mods' recipes and Almost Unified treat them like Create's flour.[21]
- The Creative Battery now supplies unlimited power to adjacent blocks and to anything that pulls energy from it. Before this fix it started empty and never output anything.[21]
- Workers led with a lead through the valid_worker tag can now be tied to fence posts, moved onto an existing lead knot, and taken back from one, the same as normal leashable animals.[21]
Unverified The sources here include no pack changelog entries for Horse Powered, so any changes to it between FTB Evolution 2 releases are not shown. Check the pack's own changelogs for those.
Sources
- Horse Powered project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 mod list · pack file
- In-game guide: Chopping Block (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Drying Rack (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Horse Powered (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Animal Trap (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Flint and Tinder (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Creative Battery (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Hand Grindstone (horsepowered) · official docs
- FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 recipe dump: recipes making Horse Powered items · pack recipe dump
- FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 config: config/horsepowered-common.toml · pack file
- In-game guide: Granite Anvil (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Horse Grindstone (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Horse Chopper (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Horse Path & Speed (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Horse Press (horsepowered) · official docs
- In-game guide: Horse Powered Generator (horsepowered) · official docs
- data/horsepowered/tags/entity_type/valid_worker.json (horsepowered's jar) · official mod data
- In-game guide: Work Saddle (horsepowered) · official docs
- horsepowered names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- Horse Powered 3.11.5 changelog · changelog
Where this guide comes from
Written from what FTB Evolution 2 itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 15, 2026.
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Version in each release
9 releases, first in 1.0.2
| FTB Evolution 2 | Version | Jar | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 Oct 17, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.3.2 Oct 16, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.3.1 Oct 15, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.3.0 Oct 14, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.2.2 Oct 13, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.2.1 Oct 12, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.2.0 Oct 12, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.1.0 Oct 10, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
| 1.0.2 Oct 8, 2026 | 3.11.5 | horsepowered-26.1.2-3.11.5.jar | From the published release |
"From pack files" means the list came from the pack's own files; "from the published release" means ForgeBase read the jars of the release itself.
Items and blocks
Config options (how FTB Evolution 2 sets them)
16 settings shipped in the pack's config files; 0 differ from the mod's documented default.
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| Setting | FTB Evolution 2 value | Mod default |
|---|---|---|
general.choppingBlockDrop If true the manual chopping block will drop the result items. If false it will put them in internal inventory. config/horsepowered-common.toml | true | not documented |
general.graniteAnvilDrop If true the granite anvil will drop the result items. If false it will put them in internal inventory. config/horsepowered-common.toml | true | not documented |
general.shouldDamageAxe If the item used as an axe for the manual chopping block should be damaged config/horsepowered-common.toml | true | not documented |
general.shouldDamageGraniteAnvilPickaxe If the pickaxe used on the granite anvil should be damaged config/horsepowered-common.toml | true | not documented |
horse_path.pathSpeedEntries Per-block speed multipliers for the floor blocks under the horse's circular path. Format: "namespace:block_id=multiplier". Multipliers below 1.0 slow the worker, above 1.0 speed it up. The final path speed is the average of the multipliers of every unique floor block the path crosses. Any block listed here also counts as valid floor, even if its top is not a full block (such as dirt paths). config/horsepowered-common.toml | ["minecraft:grass_block=0.5","minecraft:dirt=0.5","minecraft:coarse_dirt=0.5","minecraft:rooted_dirt=0.5","minecraft:dirt_path=1.0","minecraft:packed_ice=2.0"] | not documented |
general.choppingBlockExhaustion The exhaustion amount added to the player when using the chopping block (0 to disable) config/horsepowered-common.toml | 0.1 | 0.1 |
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