Quality of Recipes [QoR]

✨ Quality of Recipes ✨

Tired of endless grinding for a single item? Want Minecraft’s crafting system to feel more logical, rewarding, and smooth? Quality of Recipes is a vanilla-friendly datapack designed to remove annoying routine and add common-sense recipes without breaking the game’s balance!

🚀 Key Features

• Logical Alternatives: Craft rare, uncraftable, or hard-to-get vanilla items using realistic component combinations.
• Recycling & Deconstruction: Uncraft or smelt some of the items back into their base ingredients!
• Campfire Mechanics: Utilize the campfire and smoker for fuel-free drying, baking, and eco-friendly processing.

🛠️ What Inside?

Here is all of the recipes that this datapack adds and changes:

• 🌱 Nature and Farming:

1. Green Dye: Smelt Sapplings, Leaves or Wheat, or craft with Lilypad.
2. String: Craft with 3 Grass or use Smoker using Vines.
3. Leather: Cook Rotten flesh on Campfire
4. Grass block, Podzol, Mycelium: Crafted with Dirt, Bonemeal and Wheat seeds; Brown mushroom; Spruce leaves respectively
5. Bread: Can now be made with any position of 3 Wheat, even in 2×2 grid
6. Glow Berry: Crafted with a Sweet berry, surrounded by 8 Gold nuggets
7. Budding Amethyst: Crafted with an Amethyst block, surrounded by 8 Amethyst
8. Cookie: Now player is given 16 instead of 8. Same recipe
9. Spore Blossom: Crafted with 3 Moss blocks, 2 Glow lychen and a Pink dye
10. Sea pickle: Crafted with a Seagrass and Glowing ink sack
11. Dead bush: Cook Grass or Fern on a Campfire

• ✨ Craft Uncraftable!:

1. Totem of Undying: Crafted with 2 Emerald blocks, 1 Gold Ingot, 3 Gold Blocks and a Golden apple
2. Trident: Crafted with 3 Prismarine shards, a Heart of Sea, 2 Prismarine blocks and with an Iron block
3. Player, Skeleton, Zombie, Creeper, Piglin head: Would be too much to write in here, see recipes in Knowledge book or JEI
4. Nametag: Crafted with a Paper and a Gold nugget or Iron nugget
5. Saddle: Crafted with 3 Leather and an Iron ingot
6. Bell: Crafted with 3 Wood, 4 Sticks and a Gold block
7. Elytra: Crafted with 4 Phantom membrane, a Netherite ingot, Iron chestplate, Dragon’s breath
8. Slimeball: Crafted with 2 Lime dyes, a Magma cream and Water bucket
9. Flint: Crafted with 3 Gravel in any position
10. Cobbled deepslate: Crafted with 2 Coal and a Cobblestone
11. Ice: crafted with a Snow
12. Chainmail armor: Crafted with Iron nuggets in a shape like an armor with combining Leather armor
13. Iron, Gold, Diamond Horse armor: Crafted with 6 Iron, Gold Ingots; Diamonds and with a Leather Horse armor
14. Sponge: Crafted with a Seagrass, surrounded by 8 Yellow dyes
15. Cobweb: Crafted with 5 String in a cross shape
16. Crying obsidian: Crafted with an Obsidian and Amethyst

• 🔧 Tweaks and Changes:

1. Map: Now easier, craft it with a Black dye instead of Compass
2. Quartz from Diorite: Smelt Diorite to get Quartz
3. Redstone from Granite: Smelt Granite to get Redstone
4. Iron nugget from Andesite: Smelt Andesite to get Iron nugget
5. Ender chest: Now the recipes makes 2 of them in order to make it easier to connect and use
6. Any Moss stone block variant: Combine Cobblestone stairs, walls and etc. with Vines
7. Trapdoors: Now cheaper in price, 6 planks now give 4 Trapdoors instead of 2
8. Spyglass: Spyglass now has more accurate recipe, crafted with 2 Amethyst, a Glass pane, Copper and Gold ingot. Yes, it’s more expensive but has common-sense
9. Netherite ingot: Easier to craft, combine 3 Gold ingots and 3 Netherite scrap
10. Netherite upgrade: Now you need 3 Diamonds to dupe it instead of 7
11. Jukebox: Much more common-sense, Iron ingot instead of a valuable Diamond
12. Coal: Cook any log on a campfire, or use a primitive way — combine 6 Sticks with a Cobblestone
13. Glass: Can be made in Blast furnace. Faster that in an ordinary Furnace!
14. Packed and Blue ice: Now takes 4 Ice/Packed ice to craft Packed/Blue ice instead of 9
15. Sponge: You can dry Wet sponge by cooking it on a Campfire
16. Brick, Bricks block, Nether brick: Cook Clay, Clay block, Netherrack on a Campfire
17. Easier Compass and Clock: Both recipes use Iron nugget instead of Compass
18. Red dye: Crafted with a Redstone or a Red mushroom
19. Clay: Crafted with a Mud with Any Sand

• ♻️ Recycling:

1. Any 2 Slab: Combine 2 slabs together to get a full Planks
2. String: Can be crafted with a Wool
3. Brick: 4 Bricks can be crafted using a Bricks block

🗺️ Compatibility

• Minecraft Versions: Optimized for 1.21 and 1.21.1 versions of Minecraft.
• Mod Compatibility: May cause problems with identical recipes from modpacks or datapacks, but can be fixed by downloading Polymorth.