Better Crafting Recipes
by TheBlueAllay
Better Crafting Recipes gates ten vanilla items behind progression requirements, so shulker boxes, tridents and totems can be crafted once a player meets a set goal.
What it does
Each recipe in the mod is tied to a specific requirement: killing a number of Blazes for a shulker box, defeating Drowned for a trident, or taming a horse for a saddle. The mod was built around items whose vanilla acquisition is either very random, locked to a rare structure, or unusually tedious for how often they are used. Recipes keep normal progression in place instead of bypassing it.
The mod runs in singleplayer and on dedicated servers, and Fabric API is required on either loader. Only the server needs the mod for the recipe gates to apply, while a client installation adds an in-game screen with recipe progress. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge, covering game versions 1.20 – 26.2, under All rights reserved; the code is not open source.
Key features
Ten gated recipes
Each craftable item has its own requirement, such as a kill count or a tame, rather than a free recipe.
Shared horse taming
Diamond horse armor uses the same taming progress as the saddle, so one tamed horse counts for both.
Wet sponge from Elder Guardians
Wet sponge crafting requires defeating six Elder Guardians, mirroring how the item is found in Ocean Monuments.
Recipe progress screen
With the mod on the client, players can open a screen that lists recipe progress and requirements.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Saddle craft mod is server-side only and covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Forge and NeoForge, under All rights reserved. Crafting Saddles targets only 1.21.4 on NeoForge, also server-side only and under All rights reserved. More Crafting Recipes and Marxx's_Recipes_Plus both run on client and server; More Crafting Recipes is licensed under the MIT License for 1.21.4 – 1.21.6, while Marxx's_Recipes_Plus is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later for 1.20.1 – 26.1.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Crafting Recipes | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.20 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-08-01 |
| Saddle craft mod | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-03-01 |
| Crafting Saddles | NeoForge | 1.21.4 | Server-side only | 2025-07-21 |
| More Crafting Recipes | NeoForge | 1.21.4 – 1.21.6 | Client and server | 2025-06-21 |
| Marxx's_Recipes_Plus | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-06-29 |
Questions
Does Better Crafting Recipes need Fabric API?
Does a dedicated server need the mod for the recipe gates?
Do the saddle recipes still matter on newer builds?
In the catalog
Better Crafting Recipes is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
This is not a "make everything craftable" mod. Each recipe was chosen because the vanilla acquisition path is either extremely RNG-heavy (tridents), loot-locked to a rare structure (crying obsidian, spore blossoms), or otherwise disproportionately frustrating relative to how common the item is used — and each one is…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bettercraftingrecipes
- Owner
- TheBlueAllay
- Published
- 2023-09-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15