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PCA·PreCraft Accelerator

by Sheralle

PCA·PreCraft Accelerator adds a prerequisite-crafting button to JEI recipe pages, so a player can prepare the ingredients a recipe needs in one action.

FabricForgeNeoForgeClient-side onlyAll rights reserved1.20.1 – 1.20.4

What it does

Left-clicking the button crafts whatever a single crafting step of the chosen recipe depends on. Holding Shift while clicking prepares the largest batch the available materials allow. Before anything is crafted, the mod counts what the inventory already holds, consumes existing ingredients and intermediate items first, and recursively makes only the quantities that are truly absent.

Materials that directly satisfy the final recipe are reserved, so valid logs or planks needed elsewhere are not converted into other intermediate items unnecessarily. Recipes with several valid ingredient alternatives or item tags are supported. The prerequisite steps run through normal crafting interactions, and unsupported containers are left untouched.

Just Enough Items (JEI) is required. The mod is client-side only, so a server does not need it installed for the client-side features to work, although the server still validates the actual inventory crafting operations. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, covering 1.20.1 – 1.20.4 across three release versions, and the code is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.

Key features

  1. Prerequisite button in JEI

    A dedicated button on supported JEI recipe pages starts the preparation of every missing ingredient.

  2. Single and maximum batch crafting

    Left-click prepares one crafting step's worth, while Shift plus left-click prepares as much as the materials allow.

  3. Reuse of existing items

    Intermediate items already in the inventory are consumed before new ones are crafted, so only missing quantities are made.

  4. Container handling

    Vanilla and supported modded containers are handled by separate logic, and unsupported containers are not changed.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.20.4Not availableNot available1.0.3.0
1.20.21.0.1.01.0.1.0Not available
1.20.11.0.0.11.0.0.2Not available
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 1

Just Enough Items (JEI)View Items and Recipes
Required

Questions

Does PCA·PreCraft Accelerator need Just Enough Items?

Yes. Just Enough Items (JEI) is a required dependency, because the prerequisite button is added to its recipe pages.

Does the server need PCA·PreCraft Accelerator installed?

No. The mod is client-side only, and supported configurations work with the mod installed on the client alone.

Which loaders and versions does PCA·PreCraft Accelerator support?

Files exist for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. Game versions 1.20.1, 1.20.2 and 1.20.4 have files, with the latest Fabric build for 1.20.2, the latest Forge build for 1.20.1 in the alpha channel, and the latest NeoForge build for 1.20.4 in the beta channel.

What the author says

PreCraft Accelerator, abbreviated as PCA, adds a prerequisite-crafting button to supported JEI recipe displays. Instead of manually crafting every intermediate ingredient, PCA checks the materials you already have, determines which prerequisites are actually missing, and prepares them through normal crafting…
Sheralle, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
Sheralle
Published
2026-07-22
Updated on Modrinth
2026-07-26
Facts verified
2026-10-15
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