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Beta Recipes

by Wilozyx

Beta Recipes restores the crafting and smelting recipes from the Minecraft Beta releases, replacing the modern ones on current versions.

FabricForgeNeoForgeQuiltServer required, client optionalCC0 1.0 Universal1.19 – 1.21.8

What it does

Recipes for wool, slabs, ladders, fences, doors, signs, books, dyes and golden apples are changed to match the Beta outputs. Dyed wool is crafted from white wool and a dye item, and wool colors such as blue, brown and black take lapis lazuli, cocoa beans or ink sacs. Spruce, birch and oak logs turn into four oak planks, and experience smelting is included. Smooth stone slabs are made from regular stone, and stone buttons come from two stacked stone blocks.

Several newer recipes are disabled so the Beta versions are the ones players can craft. Some outputs differ from vanilla: slab recipes yield three slabs instead of six, sign and wooden door recipes yield one item, and a fence built from six sticks gives two fences. Flint and steel, mushroom stew, chest minecarts and furnace minecarts keep their shaped recipes, and purple, light gray, gray, pink, lime, light blue and magenta dyes come from the combinations the Beta game used.

Beta Recipes is a server-side mod, so server owners install it and players can join without it. The data pack version covers the same recipe changes. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the 1.19 – 1.21.8 range is supported in 21 release versions. The mod is released under CC0 1.0 Universal and is not open source.

Key features

  1. Beta wool recipes

    Dyed wool is crafted from white wool and a dye item, with blue, brown and black wool using lapis lazuli, cocoa beans and ink sacs.

  2. Beta slab and stone recipes

    Slabs yield three items, smooth stone slabs come from regular stone, and stone buttons use two stacked stone blocks.

  3. Beta dye recipes

    Purple, light gray, gray, pink, lime, light blue and magenta dyes are crafted from the combinations the Beta game used.

  4. Experience smelting

    Smelting recipes grant experience as they did in Beta, and the logs-to-planks recipe yields four planks.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.x9 of 9 versions with builds
1.21.8base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.7base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.6base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.5base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.4base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.3base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.2base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21.1base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.21base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.20.6base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20.5base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20.4base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20.3base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20.2base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20.1base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.20base-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+modbase-1.0.3+mod
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.

Questions

Does Beta Recipes need to be installed on the client?

No. Only the server has to run the mod, and players can join without installing it.

Which loaders does Beta Recipes support?

Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. A data pack version is also available for servers.

Does Beta Recipes work on the latest version?

The latest file targets 1.21.8 and was published on 2025-07-02, and the mod supports 1.19 – 1.21.8.

In the catalog

Beta Recipes is one of 8,016 Management mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,930 Management mods for Fabric. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.

Management mods8,016Fabric modsMods for 1.21.817,695

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What the author says

Beta recipes aims to emulate the crafting and smelting recipes from beta 1.7.3 upon modern versions of minecraft! All recipes are returned 1:1 to how they were, and new, modern, recipes are disabled, making crafting and smelting equal to beta's
Wilozyx, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
Wilozyx
Published
2024-05-30
Updated on Modrinth
2025-07-02
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

Game mechanicsManagementUtilityEquipmentStorage
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