Recipe-search
by uxine
Recipe-search helps players gather crafting ingredients by highlighting matching items in opened chests, cached inventory slots and on the ground.
What it does
Pressing Z tracks the ingredients of a recipe, and the mod then marks matching items wherever they are already known to be: inside chests the player has opened, in inventory slots and as item entities on the ground. Opened containers are remembered only after they have been opened, so the tracker does not reveal the contents of unopened chests. The highlight can also be used from the vanilla recipe book, from hovering an inventory slot, and from the recipe viewers EMI, REI and JEI, which get soft support.
Craft Search is a separate screen opened with Right Shift. It finds a survival craft by item name and lists every recipe for an item, limited to recipes the player has already gained access to. When an item has several recipes, a picker lets the player choose one to track, and tracking then covers all of its ingredients. Pause and clear controls are bound to P and X and can be rebound. The mod is client-side only, so it installs on the player's game and needs nothing on the server, and it is published for Fabric and NeoForge under the MIT License.
Key features
Ingredient tracking
Tracked ingredients are highlighted in opened chests, cached inventory slots and dropped item entities.
Craft Search screen
Items can be looked up by name, and the screen lists the recipes the player has already gained access to.
Multi-recipe picker
When an item has several recipes, a picker lets the player choose which one to track.
Recipe viewer support
Hovering over a recipe in the vanilla recipe book or an inventory slot tracks it, with soft support for EMI, REI and JEI.
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: Players of survival worlds who keep a lot of storage and want to find ingredients for crafts without searching every container by hand.
How it compares
Noob's Container Searcher is Client-side only, published for Fabric and NeoForge across 1.21.1 – 26.3 and under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. OmniSum is also client-side only, under the MIT License, and covers 1.21.1 – 26.2 on Fabric and NeoForge. ChestNet is Fabric only, under the MIT License, and its files cover just 26.1.2 – 26.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe-search | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-07-26 |
| Noob's Container Searcher | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-10-15 |
| OmniSum | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-09-25 |
| ChestNet | Fabric | 26.1.2 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-08-09 |
Questions
Does Recipe-search need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Recipe-search support?
Why do unopened chests not show matching items?
In the catalog
Recipe-search is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Recipe Search Highlight is a client-only QoL mod that helps you gather crafting ingredients without digging through every chest by hand. Hover a recipe in the vanilla recipe book, an inventory slot, or a recipe viewer (EMI / REI / JEI soft support), then press Z to track its ingredients. Matching items on the ground…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/recipe-search
- Owner
- uxine
- Published
- 2026-07-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15