Better Crafting
With Better Crafting installed, smelting and crafting recipes change in several places, from stairs and slabs to blasting raw ore and clay.
What it does
Better Crafting edits a set of crafting and smelting recipes rather than adding new blocks. Stairs are craftable in a larger batch, so one craft yields six stairs where vanilla yields four. Slabs can be reused in recipes for longer. Blackstone or endstone can be used as materials for stone tools, and nether wart blocks can be crafted from nether warts.
Several blast furnace recipes are added or changed. Netherrack gives nether bricks, raw iron, copper and gold blocks smelt into metal blocks, clay and terracotta blocks smelt into clay balls and bricks, and cobblestone and stone can be blasted into cobbled deepslate or deepslate. Sand and red sand smelt into glass in the blast furnace, and cooked carrots are made from carrots so that eating them restores more hunger.
A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. Builds exist for 1.16.5 – 1.21.4, and the license is CC0 1.0 Universal, which places the mod in the public domain and makes it not open source.
Key features
Six stairs per craft
Stairs are crafted at a higher yield, so one craft gives six instead of four, and the stonecutter route keeps the same output.
Blast furnace recipes
Raw metal blocks, clay, netherrack and cobblestone gain blasting recipes that the vanilla game lacks.
Sand to glass in blast furnaces
Sand and red sand can be smelted into glass inside a blast furnace.
Blackstone and endstone materials
Blackstone and endstone can be used as materials for stone tools.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Blasting Plus is a server-side mod under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, not open source, published for 1.14 – 26.2. Blasting Smelts Glass is server-side as well, open source under the MIT License, for 1.20 – 26.2. Both focus mainly on blasting, while Better Crafting also changes stairs, slabs and several crafting recipes, and it runs on client and server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Crafting | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.16.5 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2024-12-07 |
| Blasting Plus | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.14 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-05-30 |
| Blasting Smelts Glass [PurpurPack] | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-24 |
Questions
Does Better Crafting need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Better Crafting support?
Are the recipe changes applied to existing worlds?
In the catalog
Better Crafting is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.
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What the author says
This mod changes and adds a few crafting recipes to be more balanced and practical. Smelting sand in blast furnaces - smelting Sand and Red Sand into Glass in Blast Furnace
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/better-crafting
- Owner
- MarsThePlanet
- Published
- 2022-11-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-12-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15