Golden Apple Cross Recipe

An alternative crafting recipe for the Golden Apple: instead of the vanilla 8 gold ingots, you only need 4, arranged in a cross pattern around the apple.

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A cheaper, more balanced way to craft golden apples in survival, without needing a full gold block.

Features

Overwrites the vanilla recipe directly — no new items, no dependencies Compatible with every version from 1.13 to 26.2 (separate zips for each version range) No mods required: works on vanilla, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt — any loader, since it's a pure data pack

Installation

Download the zip matching your Minecraft version Copy it (or its contents) into

.minecraft/saves/<world name>/datapacks/

Run /reload in-game, or reopen the world