🍬 Blocks & Items
Squish introduces a handful of candy-themed items and blocks that make up the sugary crafting progression. Below is a breakdown of what each one does, how to get it, and why it exists.
🍡 Squish Candy
The star of the mod.
This is the item used to permanently squish animals into their tiny form.

✅ How to Use
- Sneak + Right Click an animal
- Shrinks them permanently
- Consumes 1 candy (unless in Creative)
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✨ How to Craft
Squish Candy is crafted through the candy progression system by:
- Throwing Lollipops on the ground
- Splashing them with Squish Essence
🧪 Squish Essence
A distilled sugary concentrate used as an ingredient for more advanced candy.

How to Get
- Brewed using a Hardened Sugar Shard inside a Brewing Stand with Water Bottles
- Don’t forget Blaze Powder in your stand!
🔥 Melted Sugar
A gooey, translucent block/item.

How to Get
- Cook Sugar over a Campfire (not furnace!) to obtain Melted Sugar.
Uses
- Place in the world, wait 60 seconds, and watch it turn into Hardened Sugar
- Wax with Honeycomb to keep it from hardening and use it as a building block
(Unwax with any axe!)
🍬 Hardened Sugar
A cooled, crystallized version of Melted Sugar.

How to Get
- Place Melted Sugar down in the world, wait 60 seconds, and watch it turn into Hardened Sugar
Uses
- Can be picked up with Silk Touch to obtain the block (not the shards)
- Can be crafted into 4 Hardened Sugar Shards
- Break with hand to obtain Hardened Sugar Shards
✨ Hardened Sugar Shard
Hard sugar crystals used as the backbone for candy crafting.

How to Get
- Break Hardened Sugar with your hands to get a randomized 2–4 shards
- Break with a Silk Touch pickaxe to then craft into 4 shards (100% of the time)
- Break with a Fortune pickaxe to get more shards out of the Hardened Sugar
Uses
- Craft Lollipops
- Used to brew Squish Essence
🍭 Lollipop
A simple sweet treat.

How to Craft
- Hardened Sugar Shards + Stick
Uses
- Used in the recipe for Squish Candy