Custom Recipe

Create, edit, organize, and manage Minecraft crafting recipes directly in-game — without writing datapacks or JSON files.

Custom Recipe is a visual recipe editor for singleplayer worlds, modpacks, and dedicated servers. Build shaped or shapeless recipes, use exact vanilla or modded items, manage existing Minecraft recipes, and reuse your creations across worlds.

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✨ Features

• Create shaped and shapeless crafting recipes
• Use items from Minecraft and installed mods
• Require multiple items inside a single ingredient slot
• Configure ingredient and output quantities
• Save exact custom items, including their durability and custom data
• Maintain independent recipes for each world
• Reuse recipes and custom items through the Global Library
• Browse and control vanilla or modded crafting recipes
• Disable complete recipes or individual material variants
• Integrate custom recipes with Minecraft’s recipe book
• Support normal crafting and Shift-crafting
• Manage recipes securely on dedicated servers
• Preserve recipes affected by missing mods
• Import and export recipe configurations

🛠️ Visual recipe editor

Creating a recipe works similarly to using a normal crafting table.

The editor lets you:

• Arrange ingredients inside a visual crafting grid
• Create shaped recipes that can be positioned anywhere in the crafting table
• Create shapeless recipes where ingredient position does not matter
• Search items by displayed name, identifier, ingredient, recipe ID, or mod namespace
• Browse every item accepted by an ingredient tag
• Set the required quantity for each ingredient
• Respect the real stack limit of every item
• Choose the recipe output and its quantity
• Enable, disable, duplicate, edit, or remove recipes
• Mark recipes as Known by default

The editor can automatically use a recommended GUI scale while open and restore your exact previous setting when you leave.

💎 Custom Items

Custom Recipe can save the exact item held by a player to the Custom Items Library.

This preserves supported item properties such as:

• Custom names
• Enchantments
• Durability
• Mod-added data
• Other custom item properties

Use /customrecipe_item save [name] while holding an item to save it.

Saved custom items can be used as recipe ingredients or outputs. They can also be renamed directly from the library, including their identifier. Recipes referencing a renamed item are updated automatically.

Custom item commands also support listing, giving, and removing saved entries.

📚 Recipe collections

Target	Purpose
Global Library	Reusable recipes and custom items shared between your local worlds
World configuration	Recipes that belong only to one specific singleplayer world
Dedicated server	Shared server recipes managed by authorized operators

Recipes copied from the Global Library become independent copies. Editing a recipe inside one world does not unexpectedly change another world or the original library entry.

🔍 Default Recipes and Quick Add

The Default Recipes browser lets you inspect crafting recipes provided by Minecraft and installed mods.

You can:

• Search recipes by output, ingredient, identifier, or namespace
• Preview their real crafting-grid layout
• Browse vanilla and modded recipes
• Inspect ingredient tags and accepted material variants
• Disable an entire recipe
• Disable only one material variant
• Replace existing recipes while keeping unrelated crafting behaviour intact

Quick Add provides optional ready-made templates and user-created shortcuts. Adding one creates an independent recipe that can be freely edited or removed.

🎁 Included optional templates

Available templates depend on the Minecraft version and may include:

• Elytra
• Totem of Undying
• Enchanted Golden Apple
• Bottle o’ Enchanting
• Heavy Core

These templates are never activated automatically. Add only the ones you want through Quick Add.

📖 Recipe book and crafting

Custom recipes can appear in Minecraft’s normal recipe book.

Recipes marked Known by default are automatically available without requiring manual discovery. The recipe book can place complete ingredient stacks when a recipe requires several items in one slot.

Custom Recipe also handles:

• Ingredient quantities larger than one
• Items with different maximum stack sizes
• Non-stackable ingredients
• Exact custom items with matching durability and custom data
• Shift-clicking and repeated crafting
• Multiple recipes using similar crafting layouts
• Compact shaped recipes placed anywhere in the crafting grid

🖥️ Singleplayer and server access

Context	How to open the editor
Singleplayer	Use the Custom Recipe pause-menu button or /customrecipe_solo
Dedicated server	Use /customrecipe_server as an authorized operator

On dedicated servers:

• Recipe management is restricted to authorized operators
• Changes remain drafts until Save is pressed
• The server validates changes before applying them
• Failed saves keep the editor open and preserve unsaved work
• Client and server recipe catalogs remain separate
• A compatible Custom Recipe installation is required on the server and the operator’s client

💾 Configuration safety

Custom Recipe is designed for worlds and modpacks that evolve over time.

If a recipe references an item from a missing mod:

• The unavailable item is detected
• The recipe is preserved instead of silently deleted
• The affected recipe can be marked as unavailable
• It can recover when the missing mod is installed again

Configurations support:

• Full configuration export
• Global Library export
• Global Library import
• Migration from older Custom Recipe formats
• Protection against unsupported newer formats
• Conflict handling during library imports

Backing up a world before making major recipe or modpack changes is still recommended.

📦 Supported versions

Minecraft	Fabric	NeoForge	Forge
1.20.1	✅	—	✅
1.21.1	✅	✅	—
1.21.8	✅	—	—
1.21.10	✅	—	—
1.21.11	✅	✅	—
26.1.x	✅	—	—
26.2	✅	—	—
26.3	✅	—	—

Always download the file matching both your exact Minecraft version and mod loader. Required dependencies are listed on each Modrinth version page.

💚 Made for players, modpacks, and servers

Custom Recipe can be used for anything from adding one missing crafting recipe to building a completely customized progression system.

It is suitable for:

• Singleplayer worlds
• Modded survival
• Custom modpacks
• Multiplayer servers
• Server administrators
• Players who want an easier alternative to datapacks

Found a bug or compatibility problem? Report it on GitHub.