Crafting Improved
Crafting Improved changes a set of vanilla recipes and adds several new ones, mostly for armor, horse gear, and a few special items.
What it does
The mod targets the way certain items are crafted in survival. It adds recipes for chainmail armor, several kinds of horse armor, a heavy core, a name tag, a totem of undying and a trident, and it changes the leather horse armor recipe. An old recipe for the enchanted golden apple is brought back, and the mod's recipes are meant to fit the recipe book so they can be found there.
Crafting Improved is published for Forge only, for the game versions 1.20.1 – 26.1.1, with four release versions in total. Its latest Forge file is 2.0 for 1.20.1, released 2026-01-04. Only the server needs the mod: players can join without installing it, while the server runs it and the client may skip it. The license is All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Chainmail armor recipe
Adds a crafting recipe for chainmail armor, so the pieces can be made at a crafting table instead of only found.
Horse armor recipes
Adds recipes for several kinds of horse armor and changes the recipe for leather horse armor.
Restored golden apple recipe
Brings back an older crafting recipe for the enchanted golden apple.
Special item recipes
Adds crafting recipes for the heavy core, the name tag, the totem of undying and the trident.
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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.
Use cases
Survival progression
Players who want armor and horse gear earlier in a world can craft them from materials they already gather.
Who it’s for: Server owners who want craftable access to chainmail, horse armor and the other added items, and players who prefer recipes that appear in the recipe book.
How it compares
Heavy Core Recipe is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21 – 26.3, and is not open source under All rights reserved. Horse Armor Craftings covers the same kind of horse armor recipes on those loaders for 1.21 – 26.2. Craftable Items is Forge-only for 1.20.1 under the MIT License, so it is the closer match for this game version.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafting Improved | Forge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-04-04 |
| Heavy Core Recipe | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-21 |
| Horse Armor Craftings | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2025-12-26 |
| Craftable Items | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2024-06-04 |
Questions
Does Crafting Improved need to be installed on the client?
Which game versions does Crafting Improved support?
Are the new recipes available in the recipe book?
In the catalog
Crafting Improved is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,478 Adventure mods for Forge. 11,522 mods support Minecraft 26.1.1.
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What the author says
As of version 2.1 - Adds recipes for chainmail armor.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/crafting-improved
- Owner
- thecoolguy62aws
- Published
- 2025-12-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15