RLCraft Flint Shards and Starter Tool Guide

RLCraft makes the opening minutes of Minecraft much less forgiving. Even basic tools require extra steps, and flint shards are one of the first materials needed to escape the early-game struggle.

Making Flint Shards in RLCraft

Flint shards are made from regular flint, but not through the normal crafting grid. First, gather flint by punching gravel blocks. Once you have flint, hold it in your hand and right-click the top of a stone block.

That action breaks the flint into flint shards. Those shards can then be used with sticks and plant string to craft early tools and weapons.

Crafting Early Flint Tools

RLCraft flint tools use three main starter materials: sticks, flint shards, and plant string. Sticks can be gathered by punching leaves, but plant string takes a little more work.

To get plant string, craft a flint knife first. Then find short grass and break it with the flint knife to collect plant fiber. Plant fiber can be crafted into plant string.

Once you have a stick, a flint shard, and plant string, craft a flint hatchet in your inventory. The hatchet lets you collect logs, which finally opens the path toward a crafting table and more familiar tool progression.

RLCraft also changes how wood processing works. Place logs in the world and right-click them with the hatchet to make planks. Planks are turned into sticks the same way. The usual vanilla crafting recipes for logs into planks and planks into sticks will not work here, because RLCraft enjoys making the tutorial stage spicy.

Flint Shard Recipes

Flint Knife

Flint Hatchet

Flint Pickaxe

Flint Shovel

Flint Hoe

These recipes form the basic RLCraft starter kit. Once the hatchet is made and wood processing is unlocked, progression becomes more manageable, at least by RLCraft standards.