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Minecraft: Java Edition
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📁 About Kefaku’s Extended Vanilla
Kefaku’s Extended Vanilla (KEV) is a project that tries to add new features to Minecraft without losing too much of that classic Minecraft feeling we all know and love. You can view all datapacks from this project in the collection.
📝 About This Datapack
The KEV – Recipe Pack adds 350+ new recipes, that just make your life a little easier or just make sense to have. Recipes will be unlocked and appear in your recipe book over time, when you collect required materials or if they provide an alternative/shortcut to something you just crafted. If you want to get to know them faster, you can also find a list of many recipes or find out how to unlock them below.
📕 List Of Recipes
Amethyst
You can turn amethyst back into shards:
Bamboo Mosaic
You can turn bamboo mosaic back into slabs:
Banner
You can reset all banner patterns and colors like this:
Beacon
You can craft beacons with any combination of colored glass and crying obsidian:
Bed
You can directly dye a bed while crafting it, by using the normal bed recipe with any combination of planks and wool and putting dye on top:
Bell
You can craft a bell like this using any combination of planks:
Candles
The candle recipe is shapeless and you can directly dye a candle while crafting it like this:
Cobble Stonecutting
You can turn stone into cobblestone and deepslate into cobbled deepslate using a stonecutter:
Cobweb
You can craft cobweb from strings and reverse:
Comparator
Comparators can also be crafted using basalt, instead of stone (or using a combination of basalt and stone):
Chainmail Armor
You can craft chainmail armor from chains in the normal armor shape:
Chest / Trapped Chest / Chest Boat
You can directly craft any combination of (stripped) wood and (stripped) logs into 4 chests, instead of turning them into planks first:
There also is a shortcut for trapped chests, using any combination of planks:
These 2 also work combined:
Furthermore, there is a shortcut for all chest boat types, like in this example:
Clay
You can turn clay back into 4 clay balls:
Colormix Recipes
These include:
🔵 Blue Dye
🟤 Brown Dye
🟢 Green Dye
⚪ Gray Dye
Corals
You can combine 4 corals or coral fans (you can also mix them) to get a coral block of that type. This also works with dead coral.
You can dry coral, coral fans and coral blocks in a furnace to create dead coral, like in the examples below. It takes 10 seconds to dry a coral block and 5 seconds to dry coral fans or coral.
You can exchange any type of coral for the corresponding coral fan and vice versa. This also works with dead coral.
Crying Obsidian
You can infuse obsidian with ghast tears, to get crying obsidian:
Dispenser
Dispensers can now be crafted easier from a dropper:
lso, a dispenser can be crafted using any combination blacktone, cobblestone, and cobbled deepslate, instead of just using cobblestone:
Dripstone
Dripstone blocks can be turned back into dripstone:
Dropper
Droppers can also be crafted using cobbled deepslate or blackstone, instead of stone (or using any combination of those three):
Experience Bottle
Craft experience from rotten flesh and fermented spider eyes:
Glowstone
You can crush glow berries into glowstone dust:
Also, glowstone can be turned into glowstone dust:
Grass
Put short grass, tall grass or moss carpet on top of dirt, to create grass:
Honey
Get honeycombs from honeycomb blocks:
Horse Armor
You can craft all other types of horse armor just like the leather variant:
You can also craft all horse armor variants using this pattern:
Ice
You can turn blue ice back into packed ice and packed ice into normal ice:
Infested Stone
You can turn infested (cracked/mossy/chiseled) stone bricks, infested cobblestone, infested deepslate and infested stone into their regular variant in a stonecutter:
Jack o'Lanter
You can craft a Jack o'Lantern with various light emitting items: candles, glow berries, glowstone, glowstone (dust), sealantern, (soul) lantern, (redstone/soul) torch and any froglight. Crafting is shapeless:
Ladder
You can directly craft any combination planks into 6 ladders, instead of turning them into sticks first:
You can also use any combination of (stripped) wood and (stripped) logs, instead of turning them into planks first. That way you'll get 24 ladders:
Leather
Rotten flesh can now be dried into leather. This takes 5 seconds:
Lever
Levers can be crafted using cobbled deepslate or blackstone, instead of cobblestone:
Map
Filled maps can be emptied and reused:
Minecart
There is a shortcut to craft tnt, hopper, furnace and chest minecarts in one step:
Mushroom Block
Combine 4 mushrooms to create a mushroom block and reverse:
Name Tag
A name tag can be crafted like this:
Nether Bricks
Get 4 nether bricks from nether brick blocks and 2 from red nether brick blocks:
This also works in a stonecutter:
Piston
Pistons can now be crafted using any combination of cobblestone, cobbled deepslate, and blackstone:
Purpur
Purpur blocks can be turned back into popped chorus fruits:
Quartz
Quartz blocks can be crushed into quartz:
Redye
You can redye many already colored items with any dye, to give them a new color. These include:
Candle
Concrete / Concrete Powder
Glass / Glass Pane
Terracotta
Repeater
There is a shortcut for crafting repeaters:
In addition to that, repeaters can also be crafted using basalt, instead of stone (or using a combination of basalt and stone):
Saddle
A saddle is craftable like this:
Slab To Block
Most slabs can be crafted into their corresponding blocks like in these examples:
Snow
Snow blocks can be split into 4 snowballs:
Spectral Arrow
Spectral arrows can also be crafted using glow berries:
Stick
You can directly craft any combination logs into 16 sticks, instead of turning them into planks first:
Trident
A trident is craftable like this:
Wart Block
A warped wart block can also be crafted:
Warped and nether wart blocks can be crafted back into their material:
Wool
You can get 4 strings from any color wool:
🔓 Unlocking The Recipes
You can always use all recipes, however they will not show up in your recipe book from the beginning. You'll unlock the recipes under certain conditions.
If you want to unlock all recipes, you can use /advancement grant <player> from kevr:recipes/root
.
To unlock only the recipes from a specific category, you can use /advancement grant <player> from kevr:recipes/<category>
.
If you unlock a new recipe you will be notified, just like for vanilla recipes.
Now, here's how you can unlock the recipes:
Category | Recipe | Condition | Trigger |
---|---|---|---|
Colormix | any | obtained any dye used in the recipe | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Dry | any | obtained the item that can be dried | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Exchange | any | obtained one of the items that can be exchanged (always unlocks exchange recipes for both directions at once) | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Infested | any | obtained the infested stone type | minecraft:inventory_changed |
New | any | obtained a specific item required in the recipe or the item, that is the result of the recipe | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Redye | any | obtained any color of the item that can be redyed | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Reverse | any | obtained the item that can be reversed | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Shortcuts | any | obtained the item or the recipe of the item the shortcut is for | minecraft:inventory_changed |
Slab To Block | any | obtained a slab of the corresponding type | minecraft:inventory_changed |