Improved Vanilla Recipes
Improved Vanilla Recipes adds multiple quality of life recipes for Smelting, Blasting, Crafting and Stonecutting such as being able to convert slabs back into blocks, smelting raw ore blocks, uncraft certain items, craftable Name Tags and Saddles, etc.
Additonally, check out Goat Horn Sound Conversion, which lets you exchange any Goat Horn variant into a desired one!
Features
This datapack is compatible with JEI and similar recipe-lookup mods.
Crafting patterns are also displayed in the in-game recipe book.
Crafting
All of the following items can now be crafted. If an item was already craftable, an alternative crafting recipe has been added.
- Amethyst Cluster
- Brown Dye (With Dye mixing or with Brown Mushroom Block + Brown Mushroom)
- Brown Mushroom Block
- Chainmail Armor
- Cobweb
- Glow Lichen
- Green Dye (With Dye mixing or with Moss Block)
- Lead (With Strings and Iron Nugget)
- Moss Block
- Mossy Blocks (With Moss Carpets)
- Mycelium
- Name Tag (Respects version 26.1 recipe)
- Nether Brick
- Red Mushroom Block
- Saddle (Respects version 1.21.6 recipe)
- Warped Wart Block
!Chainmail Crafting !Nametag Crafting !Saddle Crafting
Uncrafting
Uncrafting items can be done by simply putting the singular item in any crafting table.
The following items return partial materials, for example one door will only return 2 planks, but 3 doors will return the whole material used to craft those doors.
- Any type of doors
- Any type of walls
- Any type of trapdoors
- Any type of slabs
- Any type of books (Returns leather only)
!Partial Material Return !Slab to Block !Slab to Block (alt)
The following items return full materials, for example wool will return 4 string, therefore returns the whole material.
- Amethyst Block
- Blue Ice
- Bricks
- Brown Mushroom Block
- Clay
- Cobweb
- Dead Bush
- Filled Map
- Glowstone
- Honeycomb Block
- Magma Block
- Nether Bricks
- Nether Wart Block
- Packed Ice
- Polished Blocks
- Purpur Block
- Quartz Block
- Red Mushroom Block
- Saplings
- Snow Block
- Turtle Shell
- Warped Wart Block
- Wolf Armor
- Wool
!Full Material Return (4) !Full Material Return (9)
Smelting & Blasting
Certain blocks can be now smelted to maintain material continuity, such as Stone Slabs being smelted into Smooth Stone Slabs.
The following items can only be smelted.
- Cobblestone Slab
- Cobblestone Stairs
- Quartz Slab
- Quartz Stairs
- Red Sandstone Slab
- Red Sandstone Stairs
- Sandstone Slab
- Sandstone Stairs
- Stone Slab
!Stone Slab Smelting !Sandstone Stairs Smelting
The following items can be smelted and blasted.
- Raw Copper Block
- Raw Gold Block
- Raw Iron Block
!Raw Iron Blasting !Raw Iron Smelting
Stonecutting
The following recipes have been added to stonecutters, these will only work with stonecutter compatible blocks.
- Bamboo Block to x9 Bamboo
- Stone to Cobblestone & Other Variants
- Deepslate to Cobbled Deepslate & Other Variants
- Stairs to Slabs
!Deepslate Stonecutting !Stone Stonecutting !Cobblestone to other variants
Copper Oxidization
Any non-waxed copper block can now have their oxidization increased by one stage by combining the desired block with a Water Bucket.
!Oxidization Showcase
Due to technical limitations, this process will consume the water inside the bucket and increase the oxidization stage to only one block.
Coral Reviving
Any Coral block, Coral and Coral Fans can now be revived by combining the desired coral with a Water Bucket.
!Tube Coral Block Revival
!Bubble Coral Revival
!Fire Coral Fan Revival
Due to technical limitations, this process will consume the water inside the bucket and revive only one block.
Sherd Duping
Every single obtainable sherd can now be duplicated by combining a desired sherd with bricks.
!Sherd Duplication Showcase
This datapack was only tested for 1.21.1 and is likely only compatible with 1.21.1 and 1.21
Licensing
This Datapack is licensed under MIT, feel free to use this in your modpacks.
Donations for development support are accepted through ko-fi. Thank you! 💚