ChainCraft — Chain Crafting Table

Craft anything through its entire recipe tree in one click.

ChainCraft adds a single new block: the Chain Crafting Table. Instead of crafting planks, then sticks, then a pickaxe, you open the Chain Crafting Table and just click the pickaxe — the mod works out the whole chain of intermediate crafts for you and performs them all at once, using only what is in your inventory.

How it works

Right-click the Chain Crafting Table to open its UI. The grid at the top shows every item you can currently craft, directly or indirectly, from the materials you are carrying:

• Left-click an item to craft it once.
• Shift-click to craft up to a full stack.
• Hover over an item to see exactly what will be consumed, what leftovers you will get back, and how many crafting steps are involved — before you commit.
• Use the search box to filter the grid, and the mouse wheel to scroll.

The resolver is smart about your materials:

• Intermediates you already own are used first — if you carry sticks, it won't waste logs making new ones.
• Surplus intermediates are returned (make 1 stick and the 2 spare planks from the log go back to you).
• Container items are handled properly — recipes that use a water bucket give you the empty bucket back.
• Recipe loops (like gold blocks ↔ gold ingots) are detected and never cause problems.

Crafting the table

Diamond + Crafting Table + Diamond in a row:

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Honest notes & limitations

• Multiplayer-safe by design: all crafting logic runs on the server. The client only ever asks "craft this recipe"; the server independently verifies every material before anything is consumed, so item duplication through lag or modified clients is not possible.
• Works only with regular crafting-table recipes (including those added by other mods and datapacks). Smelting, smithing, stonecutting, and "special" recipes such as firework or dyeing recipes are not chained.
• Enchanted, renamed, or otherwise customized items are never consumed as materials — your enchanted diamond pickaxe cannot be eaten by a recipe that wants a plain one.
• The craftable list refreshes automatically when your inventory changes; the recipe index is cached per world load, so there is no ongoing performance cost.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.3.0 or newer
• No other dependencies — no library mods needed.

For servers: install the mod on both the server and all clients.

Compatibility

ChainCraft adds no world generation and stores no data in your world — the block is a normal block, and removing the mod later simply removes the block. Recipes from other mods appear in the chain crafting grid automatically as long as they are standard crafting recipes.