Preventer
A mod that prevents you from doing dumb things by accident.
- Loaders
- Fabric
- Downloads on Modrinth
- 30.9K
- Followers on Modrinth
- 145
- versions
- 40
- Updated
- September 29, 2026Sep 29
- Published
- in 2022
At a glance
Install in the game only; not needed on the server
Preventer
Preventer is a collection of over sixty modules who prevent you from doing certain actions (e.g. accidentally breaking budding amethyst or stripping logs). Each module can be enabled or disabled individually in game via a config screen (press I) or all modules can be temporarily disabled with the Override Key (hold R) .
If you want even more control over what actions are blocked, check out Action Regulator which allows you to create custom rules for blocking any action in the game based on a wide variety of conditions.
Modules (Latest version)
Interactions
Prevent log stripping
- Prevents you from stripping logs
Prevent path creation
- Prevents you from creating path blocks
Prevent farmland creation
- Prevents you from creating farmland
Prevent cake eating
- Prevents you from eating cakes
Prevent copper scraping
- Prevents scraping oxidation from copper
Prevent copper de-waxing
- Prevents de-waxing copper
Prevent trapped chest opening
- Prevents you from opening trapped chests
Prevent firework rocket use
- Prevents you from using firework rockets while not flying
Prevent bed use
- Prevents you using beds in the End or Nether dimension
Prevent dragon egg teleporting
- Prevents you from teleporting the dragon egg by using it
Prevent renamed item using
- Prevents you from placing, eating, using, ... items with a custom name (except tools, weapons, and armor)
Prevent note block editing
- Prevents you from changing the pitch of note blocks
Prevent respawn anchor use
- Prevents you from using respawn anchors in the overworld and the end
Prevent grass block bone mealing
- Prevents you from using bone meal on grass blocks (including (warped)nylium)
Prevent sign editing
- Prevents you from editing signs
Prevent chiseled bookshelf interacting
- Prevents you from accidentally placing books in chiseled bookshelves or removing them
Prevent item frame interacting
- Prevents from interacting with item frames
Prevent rocket spamming
- Prevents you from using firework rockets while flying with elytra when one is still active
Prevent Curse of Binding equipping
- Prevents equipping items with the curse of binding enchant
Plants
Prevent glow berry harvesting
- Prevents you from harvesting Glow Berries
Prevent sweet berry harvesting
- Prevents you from harvesting Sweet Berries
Prevent non-mature crop harvesting
- Prevents you from harvesting (breaking) non-mature crops
Prevent stem breaking
- Prevents you from breaking pumpkin/melon stems
Prevent sugar cane breaking
- Prevents you from breaking the lowest block of sugar cane/bamboo/cactus
Prevent farmland jumping
- Prevents you from jumping when on farmland. Note: Due to limitations this does not work when jumping from a non-farmland block to a farmland block
Breaking
Prevent budding amethyst block breaking
- Prevents you from breaking budding amethyst blocks
Prevent item frame breaking
- Prevents you from breaking item frames (and glowing item frames)
Prevent painting breaking
- Prevents you from breaking paintings
Prevent glass breaking
- Prevents you from breaking glass and glass panes
Prevent suspicious block breaking
- Prevents you from breaking suspicious sand and gravel
Prevent ender chest destruction
- Prevents you from breaking ender chests without a silk touch pickaxe
Prevent spawner breaking
- Prevents you from breaking monster spawners
Prevent chest breaking
- Prevents you from breaking chests with an axe
Prevent carpet breaking
- Prevents you from breaking carpets
Prevent sapling breaking
- Prevents you from breaking saplings
Prevent immature amethyst breaking
- Prevents you from breaking immature amethyst crystals
Prevent breaking with weapons
- Prevents you from breaking blocks with a sword, trident or mace
Placing
Prevent coral placing
- Prevents you from placing corals out of water
Prevent water placing
- Prevents you from placing water in the nether
Prevent lava placing
- Prevents you from placing lava
Prevent off-hand placing
- Prevents you from placing blocks in your off-hand
Prevent berrie planting
- Prevents you from planting berries while trying to eat them (Sweet Berries & Glow Berries)
Prevent block placing temporary after eating
- Temporary prevents you from accidentally placing blocks after eating food
Attacking
Prevent villager punching
- Prevents you from attacking villagers
Prevent zombified piglin punching
- Prevents you from attacking Zombified Piglins
Prevent end crystal hitting
- Prevents you from hitting end crystals
Prevent golem hitting
- Prevents you from attacking iron & snow golems
Prevent named mob hitting
- Prevents you from attacking mobs with a custom name
Prevent tamed animal hitting
- Prevents you from attacking animals that have been tamed by a player (e.g. dogs, cats, ...)
Prevent rare mob hitting
- Prevents you from attacking rare mobs (parrots, axolotls, allays)
Prevent horse hitting
- Prevents you from attacking horses and similar creatures (Horses (including Skeleton & Zombie Horses), Donkeys, Mules, Llamas, Camels)
Prevent neutral mob hitting
- Prevents you from hitting neutral mobs (as defined in the minecraft wiki, except Spiders and Endermen)
Prevent dolphin attacking
- Prevents you from attacking dolphins
Miscellaneous
Low durability protection
- Prevent tools & weapons from breaking due to low durability
Prevent tool dropping
- Prevents you from dropping tools out of your hotbar
Prevent renamed item dropping
- Prevents you from dropping items with a custom name
Prevent swimming
- Prevents you from sprinting while underwater
Hide shield
- Hides shields in the offhand
Hide totem
- Hides totems of undying in the offhand
Prevent enchanted item smelting
- Prevents you from quickmoving enchanted items into a furnace
Missing any features? Open an issue!
Compatibility
- Compatible with the latest version of Minecraft Fabric (26.1 Fabric)
- Compatible with most other client-side mods
- Compatible with most servers
Primarily made for survival gameplay
- Most modules work in creative but some may behave unexpectedly
- Forge support is currently not planned
Dependencies
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FAQ
How to install Preventer?
Install Fabric for your Minecraft version, download Preventer for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.
Which Minecraft versions does Preventer support?
Preventer has builds for Minecraft 1.18–1.21.1, 1.21.6–26.3.
Is Preventer needed on the server?
Client only — no need to install it on the server