Crafting QOL – Datapack

Crafting QOL is a basic quality-of-life datapack that adds crafting recipes that make crafting a bit less annoying. As it certainly is at times.

Mod Versions of the datapack are available to download here.

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/crafting-qol-fabric-forge

The features included in this datapack are:

• Universal dying of wool, carpet, terracotta, glass, candles and banners
• The ability to smelt raw blocks of iron, gold and copper in a blast furnace with a 33.3% speed increase compared to smelting the raw ores individually
• A recipe for shulker boxes, paper and bread that are compatible with the inventories 2×2 grid
• A 2×2 grid-compatible recipe to craft coloured shulker boxes by including a dye in the initial recipe
• Ability to unpack blue and packed ice
• Craftable nametags using 2 paper, 2 string and an iron ingot
• Craftable gravel using sand and 4 flints surrounding it
• Blackstone-compatible recipes for the piston, observer, repeater, comparator, dispenser, dropper and detector rail
• Craftable red sand and sandstone using 2 sand and a red dye
• Easy to craft dispensers using sting and sticks in a bow recipe shape with a dropper in the middle
• Crafting recipe to instantly smelt 4 ancient debris to netherite scrap with a lava bucket
• Bulk craftable chains using 2 iron ingots and 1 block
• Easier to craft minecarts using iron blocks instead of ingots
• Easier to craft minecarts with, TNT, hopper, chest and furnace
• Craftable rooted dirt using hanging roots under dirt blocks
• Craftable cobwebs by placing string in an X-shape
• Unpackable clay blocks into balls
• Unpackable normal and red sandstone into their respectable sands
• Unpackable quartz blocks into nether quartz
• Both types of nylium are craftable using warped or crimson roots above netherrack
• Unpackable honeycomb blocks into honeycomb
• Unpackable melon blocks into melon slices
• Skeleton skulls can be crafted into 9 bones
• Flint can be crafted by placing 3 gravel in a backward L
• Any wool colour can be crafted into string
• Sculk blocks can be crafted from 9 sculk veins
• Weeping and twisting vines can be crafted from 3 of their respective roots placed in a downward line
• Any sapling can be smelted into a dead bush in a smoker
• Beacons can be crafted using any glass colour (this won’t affect the colour of the beacon beam)
• 4 brown and red mushrooms placed in a square can be used to craft their block variants
• Bulk crafting of iron and gold pressure plates using blocks instead of ingots
• Bulk crafting of cauldrons using iron blocks
• Unpackable nether and warped wart blocks to fungus
• Craftable nether and warped wart blocks from 4 fungi in a square
• Stone variants such as diorite can be used to craft furnaces and all of the stone tools and weapons.

This is just a little hobby that I’ve made with MCreator so don’t expect many updates or support.