Crafting+
Crafting+ adds recipes that turn raw ore blocks into smelted and blasted blocks, plus craftable horse armor and several new crafting shapes for vanilla items.
What it does
The mod registers extra crafting recipes on top of vanilla. Raw iron, raw gold and raw copper blocks can be smelted or blasted into their metal blocks, and netherrack, cobbled deepslate and clay blocks can be blasted into their finished forms. Nether bricks, brick blocks, mossy cobblestone and end stone are also craftable through new shapes.
Leather, iron, gold and diamond horse armor can be crafted directly, so players no longer depend on finding them in chests. Other recipes cover dispensers and droppers with a bow, enchanted golden apples surrounded by gold blocks, name tags from paper, iron and string, and a nether wart block. Stone pickaxe variants for several stone types are added as well.
Crafting+ is published for Fabric only, for Minecraft 1.20.4. The server needs the mod, while clients may leave it out. The code is open source under the MIT License, and the project has a public source repository, issue tracker and wiki.
Key features
Smelting and blasting raw ore blocks
Raw iron, gold and copper blocks can be smelted into their metal blocks or blasted in a furnace for quicker output.
Craftable horse armor
Leather, iron, gold and diamond horse armor each have a crafting recipe in place of loot-only sources.
Stone and brick variants
Netherrack, cobbled deepslate, clay, nether bricks and mossy cobblestone gain new blasting or crafting paths.
Utility recipes
Dispenser and dropper with a bow, enchanted golden apples in gold blocks, name tags and nether wart blocks can be crafted.
Stone pickaxe variants
Several stone types gain a pickaxe recipe, so early tools can be crafted from more materials.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Stone Drops Itself is server-side only and open source under the MIT License, but it supports only 1.20 – 1.20.2 on Fabric and changes mining drops rather than crafting. Simple Copper Armor and Tools is a Fabric mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 that needs both client and server and is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only. Craftable Horse Armor by ShadowedLeaves-style listings differs in that it is released as All rights reserved on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.20 – 1.21.1, and its environment is server required with the client optional.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafting+ | Fabric | 1.20.4 | Server required, client optional | 2025-01-22 |
| Stone Drops Itself | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.2 | Server-side only | 2023-11-29 |
| Simple Copper Armor and Tools | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2025-08-17 |
| Craftable Horse Armor | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-01-04 |
Questions
Does Crafting+ have to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Crafting+ support?
Are the crafting recipes available in other versions?
In the catalog
Crafting+ is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 13,907 mods support Minecraft 1.20.4.
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What the author says
This mod adds extra crafting recipes into the game! Craftable Horse Armor: - Leather Horse Armor - Iron Horse Armor - Gold Horse Armor - Diamond Horse Armor
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/shadowedleaves-crafting-plus
- Owner
- ShadowedLeaves
- Published
- 2024-09-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-01-22
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15