Elytra Recipe

The mod gives the elytra a crafting recipe built from new items, so players can make one without finding it in the world. Its main purpose is as a proof of concept, and the author is willing to rebalance the recipe later. A separate Vanilla Edition build uses only vanilla items in its recipe.

Two new items support the recipe. Kevlar is a synthetic fabric woven as the closest thing the game has to leather, and it is used to craft the elytra. Copper is treated as abundant with few uses, so the mod adds a copper ingot as an extra use. A single Kevlar placed in a crafting table returns the leather and copper ingots that went into it, though those cannot be recovered. The Superb Eye Ender is crafted from nine Eye of Ender and is also used in the elytra recipe; like Kevlar, placing it in a crafting table returns the nine Eyes.

Elytra Recipe runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. It is built for Fabric only, with files for 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.21.10 and 1.21.11, and the latest file is 1.1.0 for 1.21.11, published 2025-12-26. The code is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, and the mod is open source.