Better Recycle
Better Recycle lets you smelt or blast tools, armor, and utility items into their base materials. Diamond and netherite gear, clocks, compasses, brushes, and more become valuable resources, giving XP and making every item useful in vanilla Minecraft.
♻️ Better Recycle – Minecraft Datapack
📦 Overview
Better Recycle is a quality-of-life datapack designed to make your survival experience more efficient, rewarding, and realistic. Instead of letting old or unwanted tools and armor sit uselessly in chests, this datapack allows you to recycle them back into valuable resources using smelting and blasting.
Whether you're upgrading gear or cleaning your inventory, Better Recycle ensures that nothing goes to waste.
🔥 Core Features
🛠️ Recycling System
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Recycle tools and armor into their base materials
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Works with both furnaces and blast furnaces
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Supports a wide variety of items including:
- Tools
- Armor
- Utility items
⏱️ Cooking Methods
Every recipe comes in two versions:
| Method | Cooking Time | XP Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Smelting | 200 ticks | 1.5 XP |
| Blasting | 100 ticks | 1.5 XP |
🔁 Full Recycling List
💎 Diamond Gear
All diamond tools and armor recycle into 1 Diamond:
- Axe
- Sword
- Hoe
- Pickaxe
- Shovel
- Spear
- Helmet
- Chestplate
- Leggings
- Boots
🔥 Netherite Gear
All netherite tools and armor recycle into 1 Netherite Ingot:
- Axe
- Sword
- Hoe
- Pickaxe
- Shovel
- Spear
- Helmet
- Chestplate
- Leggings
- Boots
🧰 Utility & Misc Items
| Item | Output |
|---|---|
| Brush | 1 Copper Ingot |
| Bundle (normal) | 1 Leather |
| Bundle (colored) | Corresponding Dye: white, orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime, pink, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, black |
| Clock | 2 Gold Ingots |
| Compass | 2 Iron Ingots |
| Fishing Rod | 1 String |
| Flint and Steel | 1 Iron Ingot |
| Recovery Compass | 4 Echo Shards |
| Shears | 1 Iron Ingot |
| Spyglass | 1 Copper Ingot |
Note: Normal bundles return 1 leather, while colored bundles return a dye matching their color.
⚖️ Balance & Gameplay
- Carefully balanced to avoid overpowered resource generation
- Encourages resource management and sustainability
- Makes exploration and looting more rewarding
- Reduces frustration from unused or damaged gear
🎯 Why Use Better Recycle?
✔ Clean up your inventory efficiently ✔ Recover valuable materials from old gear ✔ Add realism to your Minecraft world ✔ Enhance survival gameplay without breaking balance
🧩 Compatibility
- Works in vanilla Minecraft (Java Edition)
- No mods required
- Compatible with most other datapacks
