Recipes Overhaul

Recipes Overhaul Datapack

Recipes Overhaul is a lightweight, multi-version datapack that fills the gaps in Minecraft’s vanilla crafting system.

Have you ever wondered why you can carry a village bell in your pocket but you can’t actually craft one? Or why you can smelt a Poisonous Potato into a Baked Potato, but a regular furnace somehow makes it worse? This datapack adds sensible, balanced recipes for items that have always been missing them, without breaking the game’s progression or changing existing vanilla recipes.

🛠️ What’s Included?

All recipes are designed to make logical, real-world sense and use materials that fit the item’s theme. Here is a taste of what you can craft:

• Chainmail Armor: Now craftable using standard armor shapes with a mix of Iron Nuggets and Iron Ingots.

• Horse Armor (Iron, Gold, Diamond, & Copper): Crafted using the classic “H” shape with their respective materials. (Leather Horse Armor is untouched, as vanilla added it in 1.14).

• Elytra: An end-game recipe requiring Phantom Membranes, a Nether Star, and Feathers.

• Trident: Crafted with Iron Ingots for the prongs and Prismarine Shards for the handle.

• Totem of Undying: A high-tier recipe using Emeralds, Golds, Gold Blocks and an Enchanted Golden Apple.

• Name Tag: A simple diagonal Paper + String.

• Saddle: Crafted with 3 Leather and 1 Iron Ingot.

• Bell: Crafted with smooth Stone, a Stick, and a Gold Block.

• Enchanted Golden Apple: Gold Blocks surrounding a regular Apple.

• Gunpowder: A shapeless mix of 7 Bone Meals, Glowstone Dust (or Sulfur in 26.2+), and Charcoal to get 8 gunpowder.

• Utility & Smelting: Cook Poisonous Potatoes into regular Potatoes, and turn/craft Wool back into String.

  • Poisonous Potato Detox: Smelt a Poisonous Potato in a Furnace (or Smoker, from 1.14+) to “cook out the toxins” and get a regular Potato.

   

• Nautilus Armor (1.21.11+): Crafted just like standard armor, using Copper, Iron, Gold, or Diamond.

📦 Version Support

This datapack is highly optimized and supports Minecraft 1.13 all the way up to 26.3+. Because Mojang frequently changes data pack formats and recipe syntaxes, this pack is separated into specific version files. Please make sure you download the correct file for your Minecraft version and place it in your world’s datapacks folder!

📖 Recommended:
It is highly recommended to use JEI (Just Enough Items) or REI (Roughly Enough Items) alongside this datapack. Because custom recipes do not automatically show up in the vanilla recipe book until you craft them once, JEI will let you easily look up all the new recipes in-game!

💬 Feedback & Suggestions

I want this datapack to be the best it can be, and I need your help to do it!

• Found a bug? If a recipe isn’t working or a datapack version is throwing errors, please let me know which Minecraft version you are on.

• Have a new idea? If there is an uncraftable item you think deserves a sensible recipe, leave a comment!

• Balance issues? Let me know if you think a recipe is too cheap or too expensive for what it gives you.

Install: put the zip (do not unzip) in saves/<world>/datapacks, then run /reload.

Recipe book: run  /recipe give @s recipes_overhaul:  to unlock them in the book. (use /recipe give @s * if you want every recipe.)
Crafting works either way.

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Thank you for downloading, and happy crafting!