Just Better Recipes
by Sashiro
With Just Better Recipes installed on a server, players gain a large set of added vanilla crafting recipes, along with recolorable, cuttable and automated variants of familiar blocks and items.
What it does
The mod is a datapack-style set of recipes that adds many useful vanilla crafting options. Recipes cover dye production from smelting or smoking flowers, wood that can be cut into alternate forms, beds, wool carpets, banners, glass, glass panes, glazed terracotta, concrete, concrete powder and candles that can be recolored, plus dead and living coral conversions using bone meal and water buckets. Slabs and carpets can be made from slimeballs, and wart blocks can be cut. A command lists the recipes that are available in a given world.
The server must run the mod, while players may leave it out and still connect. Just Better Recipes is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and also as a data pack. Files cover 1.13 – 1.21.1, with 1.3.2 for 1.21.1 as the latest release, and snapshot builds are published too. Required dependencies are none. The code is not open source; it is released under All rights reserved, though its source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Recolorable blocks
Beds, wool carpets, banners, glass, terracotta, concrete and candles can be recolored with dyes through added recipes.
Cuttable wood and wart blocks
Wood and nether wart blocks gain recipes that turn them into alternate forms, including cut variants.
Automated dye production
Flowers can be processed by smelting or smoking to produce dye without manual harvesting of every color.
Coral conversion recipes
Dead coral can be turned into living coral with bone meal and a water bucket, widening coral building options.
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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
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.17.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.15.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.14.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.13.x3 of 3 versions with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
How it compares
QoL Crafting adds its own crafting conveniences, is published under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 and is not open source; it targets 1.14.1 – 1.21.4 and is needed on the server, with the client optional. Coral Revitalization focuses on coral and is licensed as All rights reserved for 1.13 – 1.20.6, where the server must run it while players may leave it out. LeadRecipeBackport is open source under the MIT License and covers 1.15 – 1.21.5, and the server must run it while players may leave it out.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Just Better Recipes | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.13 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2024-08-18 |
| QoL Crafting | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.14.1 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2025-01-07 |
| Coral Revitalization | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.13 – 1.20.6 | Server required, client optional | 2024-09-29 |
| LeadRecipeBackport | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.15 – 1.21.5 | Server required, client optional | 2025-04-30 |
Questions
Does Just Better Recipes need a loader library?
Do players need the mod to join a server?
Which game versions are supported?
In the catalog
Just Better Recipes is one of 8,016 Management mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,930 Management mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/just-better-recipes
- Owner
- Sashiro
- Published
- 2023-05-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-08-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15