Metal Tongs

Could leather be a required crafting ingredient (and leather handles added to the model). To make it worth the extra crafting ingredient, allow these tongs to pick up any cast item from its mold as long as it's cooled enough to be solid (instead of stick tongs 200 degree limit) That way cast ingots can be directly forged instead of requiring reheat.

22.11.2025 10:14:00 [Client Warning] Texture asset 'metaltongs:textures/block/metal/ingot/bismuthbronze.png' not found (defined in Shape file metaltongs:item/toolhead/tongarm).

misreferenced texture should be game:textures/block/metal/ingot/bismuthbronze

Works on 1.21.0 (stable) with the exception that the models are no longer positioned correctly in my hands when holding hot objects.

If you know how to change that in the JSON files, and with .tfedit, you can fix that in your own copy of the files.

Zach2039 I'll beg on my hands and knees for a 1.21 update to this.

UselessAqua - I'm a moron, I see we were already agreeing with each other.  You were saying copper tongs were terrible because of their thermal conductivity. XD

Vinter_Nacht

Yes, this is what good thermal conductivity means.

UselessAqua - Wouldn't good thermal conductivity make them worse for moving hot objects? That means they transfer heat quickly, if I'm correct?  Not a winning prospect in a tool meant for handling hot metal.

Vinter_Nacht
Not only the gloves, but metal tongs themselfs have the same problem.

The mod has copper tongs! Copper is one of the best metal when it comes to good thermal conductivity.

when i hold copper ingots it bugs out a bit im useing the 1.2.3 version of the mod and im on 1.20.4 vintage. the ingot is floting in the air

and some othere stuff to when its heated

Wait so, what does it actually do different? Is it just wooden tongs but has durability?
Is it essentially just 'make tongs costlier to use'?

The gloves mod makes me twitch... You do *NOT* handle hot metal with gloves, you're basically turning those leather gloves into an oven that will cook your hands.  Bad juju.

DecaByte

This is a vanilla issue. Originally, wooden tongs were animated to hold crucibles properly but some other heated items did not look correct. There was a recent change to get hot metal items looking correct in the game, but now crucibles look funky when held. This mod's tongs will look proper when holding a crucible, but the aforementioned issue in vanilla will cause hot items to look wrong. I am waiting to see how VS changes items first before trying to lock into either animation setting.

Here is the bug report on the VS Discord, for posterity.

Item such as bits are not being held correctly by the tongs. Is this a known bug?

Hello, I have a translation of es-419, how can I send it to you?

Ded_Mazai

I am using this mod on my server for v1.19.7 and it works. Can you describe the issue you are seeing and file an issue ticket with your client and server logs?

metaltongs_1.1.3.zip not work for v 1.19.1

Zach2039

Awesome, thank you! :)

Stratateles

Sure, just launch the game with the new version and check your ModConfig directory for MetalTongs.json; you should be able to set TongsUsageConsumesDurability to false.

Hey, I'm still playing on version 1.1.0 and before I update I want to ask a question - is there a config where I can completely remove the durability of the tongs? I quite like them just acting like cosmetic versions of the primitive tongs

Venusgate

Fixed now with version 1.1.2.

Let me know if it breaks again after updating. I am going to run new version on our server and try it out; did testing in singleplayer.

Venusgate

I'll get it fixed here in the next hour or so. I see how Dana is handling it with events; I need to drop the patching and do similar with damage over time to tongs.

It appears this is incompatible with No Heat Resistant Inventory, as it just breaks the tongs as soon as you pick up a crucible

TeacupAngel Thanks, fair enough.

mj_outlaw

They do if you use this mod. From the latest change log: "Patch vanilla tongs to have durability of 125"

You can turn durability usage off if you want to, but why else upgrade to better tongs?

Cool addition, but why durability? Wooden tongs doesnt have that..Not logical for me.

I could see these having utility beyond holding hot items, perhaps a very slight reach and/or item magnetization range bonus while in off hand based on the tier of the item?

May we have the option of defining a base time for wooden tongs to expire due to wear from use over time, and assign a multiplier for different tool tiers based on that? Otherwise from a functional perspective, these are only aesthetic.

JeeHost

Sorry about that, should be fixed now for v1.0.1.

Hey, thanks for the mod.

I've ran into an issue though: there seems to be no smithing recipe for iron tong arms. Only iron, cause there is one for arms from other metals. Perhaps it's an issue with my set of mods, but I thought I'd mention it here anyway.

Good luck.