Crafting Alterations
Crafting Alterations adds new crafting recipes for blocks and items that vanilla leaves uncraftable, such as turning rotten flesh into leather and crafting spawners.
What it does
The mod extends the existing crafting recipes so that some blocks and items which cannot be made in survival become craftable. Its recipes also cover smelting rotten flesh into leather. The author describes the mod as aimed at enhancing the vanilla experience and making modded play easier through added crafting options. It runs on Forge for Minecraft 1.20.1 and needs to be installed on both the client and the server, so every player who joins a server running it needs the mod too.
Key features
Uncraftable items made craftable
Recipes are added for blocks and items that vanilla does not let players craft.
Crafting spawners
Spawner recipes are included, giving players a route to a block normally found only in dungeons.
Smelting rotten flesh
Rotten flesh can be smelted into leather, a substitute for the usual hunting route.
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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.
How it compares
R`s Crafts is server-side only and released under All rights reserved, so players can join without installing it. Craftable Nether Star is a client and server mod under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, covering only one item. Crafting Alterations is client and server and is released under the MIT License, but it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafting Alterations | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-24 |
| R`s Crafts | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2026-05-14 |
| Craftable Nether Star | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-05-16 |
Questions
Does Crafting Alterations need to be installed on the server?
In the catalog
Crafting Alterations is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,316 Game mechanics mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Adding new crafting Recipes for existing things in the game Crafting Alterations is the New and Improved "GemShrooms Re-crafted". This Mod aims to enhance the vanilla experience or make the modded experience easier with new crafting recipes from Smelting Rotten flesh into Leather all the way to Crafting Spawners.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/crafting-alterations
- Owner
- TheGemShroom26
- Published
- 2026-04-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15