Leo's Craftable Sponges

Sponges are not craftable in vanilla Minecraft, and the mod fills that gap with a crafting path built for that single purpose. Players first make a paper base by placing one string in the center of a crafting grid surrounded by paper. Next they build an absorber base from three dried kelp and a diorite block, arranged in four slots the way a crafting table is made. The final step places the paper base in the middle, four absorber bases at the corners and sugar cane in the remaining slots of the 3x3 grid.

Only the Forge loader is supported, and the mod is published for Minecraft 1.20.1 alone, in the file dated 2025-10-27. Installation covers the server and each player's game. The code is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, which means it is not open source. The author notes that the recipe was created because no existing option produced sponges by crafting, and that wet sponges are a separate concern the recipe does not address.