Crafting Refinements: Six Stairs

This pack is part of a series meant to refine the various recipes found in Minecraft to be balanced, consistent, and convenient.

This pack should work on the latest version of Minecraft, even if I haven’t updated the metadata yet. Please report an issue if it doesn’t function in the latest update.

Why Does This Exist?

While there are many data packs that tweak recipes, none provided a cohesive set of changes that prioritized balance, convenience, and consistency at the time Crafting Refinements was created. This pack has been split off to allow for greater modularity.

Design Philosophy

There are some general rules that Minecraft recipes generally follow (and which this datapack seeks to remove exceptions to)

1. Recipes should resemble the final product
2. Similar outputs should have similar recipes (minor differences are allowed for different material types)
3. Crafting results should be proportional to their input (some loss is acceptable, and often expected)
4. Specialized stations (stonecutter, blast furnace, etc.) should have equal or better rates
5. Crafting results should not grant an overabundance of materials
6. A block created with a 3×3 of the same material should be unpackable
7. A block created with a 2×2 of the same material should not be unpackable
8. Brewing recipes should not use full blocks, tools, or armor as ingredients
9. Time is an important resource and should be spent on fun gameplay
10. Impact on inventory clutter should be kept in mind
11. Recipes with the same output should be grouped in the recipe book

What Are the Changes?

The crafting recipe in Vanilla Minecraft is an utter ripoff! Six solid blocks should really give you more stairs. While eight stairs are mathematically possible, I opted to take a different route than Vanilla Tweaks as that just seemed a step too far (pun intended). Instead, all stair recipes now grant six stairs! That includes concrete stairs, wool stairs, copper stairs, resin stairs, all wood types and the many types of stone stairs.

These recipe changes seek to follow rules 3 and 5.

Related

For the same great rates for wood on the stonecutter: Crafting Refinements: Stonecutter Solutions

For better rates for wood fence gates, wood, and trapdoors: Crafting Refinements: Wasteless Wood

For copper and iron recipe balance and consistency changes: Crafting Refinements: Copper Consistency

For more recipe changes, check out the original pack: Crafting Refinements

Some recipes were inspired by Vanilla Tweaks. They are a great resource for data and resource packs. Check them out: https://vanillatweaks.net/