Lightweight Recipes
by Zoomll9833
Lightweight Recipes adds alternative crafting, smelting and blasting recipes for common blocks and items, such as name tags, saddles and sand glass, so obtaining them is less tied to one path.
What it does
The mod lets players get blocks and items through extra recipes, for example name tag crafting, repairing with an anvil, sand glass blasting, and smelting soul sand and tinted glass. Campfire-based crafting of soul campfires and saddle crafting are included, along with double tall grass and fern crafting. Natural generation of wet sponges and deep lukewarm oceans is also part of the set, as the author describes it.
Its recipes are intended not to change gameplay heavily, so the existing progression of the game stays much the same. Lightweight Recipes runs on the server only, so players join without installing anything. Files are published for Forge and NeoForge, with the 1.0.0 builds covering 1.20.1 and 1.20.4, and the license is All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Alternative recipes
Extra crafting routes for name tags, saddles and double tall grass or fern sit beside the vanilla ones.
Blasting and smelting
Sand glass, soul sand and tinted glass can be produced through blasting and smelting recipes added by the mod.
Anvil repairing
Items can be repaired by combining them with an anvil, offering another way to keep gear in use.
Soul campfire crafting
Soul campfires gain additional crafting options, giving another use for campfire blocks.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who want extra recipes for common blocks and items without changing the core feel of the game. The mod is most useful on a server where players depend on crafting for their supplies.
How it compares
Fast Sand Smelting is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 that players or servers may run on either side, and it is not open source. Tinted Sands covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Forge and NeoForge, needs the client and server, and is also not open source. CampfireOverhaul+ is Forge-only for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 and is open source under the MIT License, unlike Lightweight Recipes, which is server-side only and carries All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightweight Recipes | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 | Server-side only | 2024-07-08 |
| Fast Sand Smelting | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client or server, optional | 2024-11-30 |
| Tinted Sands | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-08-15 |
| CampfireOverhaul+ | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-04-03 |
Questions
Does Lightweight Recipes need to be installed on clients?
Which loaders does Lightweight Recipes support?
Does Lightweight Recipes change the vanilla recipes?
In the catalog
Lightweight Recipes is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,058 World generation mods for Forge. 13,907 mods support Minecraft 1.20.4.
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What the author says
This mod adds more ways of obtaining blocks or items that won't heavily affect gameplay! This mod will continue to update as time goes on!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/lightweight-recipes
- Owner
- Zoomll9833
- Published
- 2024-06-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-07-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15