Crafty
by dwnsdp
Crafty changes a handful of recipes so that common crafting steps take fewer inputs or use different ones, such as dyes made from roots and chests made from logs.
What it does
Crafty adds recipes that make some crafting steps shorter. Black dye can be made from coal charcoal, green dye from yellow and blue dye, and lime dye from yellow and light blue. Crimson roots yield red dye and warped roots yield cyan dye.
Minecart recipes accept a chest or a furnace in the middle slot to produce a chest minecart or a furnace minecart. Chests can also be built from logs in place of planks. Because these are alternative recipes, the vanilla ones keep working.
The mod is server required and client optional: the server needs it, while players may add it. Crafty is published for Fabric, Forge and Quilt, with files for 1.19 – 1.21.1, and is released under the MIT License, but it is not open source. Its latest file targets 1.21.1, dated 2024-06-14, and also applies on Fabric, Forge and Quilt.
Key features
Dye from coal and charcoal
Coal or charcoal combined with an ink-based item gives black dye through an added recipe.
Mixed-color dyes
Yellow with blue gives green dye, and yellow with light blue gives lime dye, so fewer separate dye sources are needed.
Dye from plants
Crimson roots produce red dye and warped roots produce cyan dye.
Minecart upgrades
A chest or furnace placed in the middle slot of the minecart recipe yields a chest minecart or furnace minecart.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Cheaper chests
Logs can replace planks in chest recipes, which helps when wood is scarce early in a survival world.
Who it’s for: Survival players who want shorter crafting routes for dyes, minecarts and chests, and server owners who want these shortcuts on a multiplayer world without requiring players to install anything extra.
How it compares
Crafted Tweaks is a Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt mod with files for 1.20 – 1.20.2, released under All rights reserved and not open source. Wool to Dye is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.19.4 – 1.21, under the MIT License, not open source. Charcoal Plus is the one alternative that runs on both client and server, with files for 1.17.1 – 1.21.8 under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafty | Fabric, Forge and Quilt | 1.19 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2024-06-14 |
| Crafted Tweaks | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 1.20.2 | Server required, client optional | 2024-08-19 |
| Wool to Dye | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.4 – 1.21 | Server required, client optional | 2024-07-20 |
| Charcoal Plus | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.17.1 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2026-02-15 |
Questions
Does Crafty need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Crafty support?
Do the vanilla recipes still work?
In the catalog
Crafty is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Currently adds: - Black dye from coal and charcoal - Combine yellow and blue to make green dye - Combine yellow and light blue to make lime dye - Crimson roots to red dye - Warped roots to cyan dye - Put chest in the the middle slot of minecart recipe to make chest minecart - Put furnace in the the middle slot of…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/crafty
- Owner
- dwnsdp
- Published
- 2023-02-10
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-06-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15