Convenient Crafting

Convenient Crafting is a lightweight quality-of-life mod for Minecraft 1.21.1, focused on making everyday crafting faster without changing the vanilla survival feel.

Press G to open a compact crafting assistant anywhere, then craft directly from the materials you already have in your inventory or in the container you are currently using.

Portable Crafting Assistant

The main feature of this mod is the convenient crafting panel.

Instead of placing a crafting table, searching through your inventory, counting materials, and manually moving items around, you can open the panel and craft what you need immediately.

The panel supports:

• Vanilla crafting table recipes
• Smithing table recipes
• Brewing stand recipes
• Recipes from datapacks and compatible mods
• Materials from your player inventory
• Materials from opened containers, such as chests

This is especially useful while mining, building, exploring, sorting storage rooms, or working with large modpacks.

Smart Recipe List

The convenient crafting panel is designed to stay small and quick to use.

It includes:

• Recipe search by item name or id
• Craftable-only filtering
• Available craft count display
• Mouse wheel page navigation
• Ingredient and result item tooltips
• Compact adaptive layout for different window sizes

The recipe list automatically groups similar recipes and cycles through valid variants, so alternative ingredients and multiple recipe outputs stay readable without making the UI huge.

Batch and Nested Crafting

Convenient Crafting supports faster crafting when you need more than one item:

• Click > to craft once
• Shift-click > to craft in batches
• Alt-click → to try nested crafting

Nested crafting can automatically work through intermediate materials before crafting the final item. For example, if a recipe needs sticks and you only have logs, the mod can pre-check whether the required intermediate materials can be crafted first.

Before nested crafting starts, the mod simulates the full crafting chain. If the target item cannot be crafted, it shows a scrollable tree-style missing-material popup so you can quickly see which raw materials are still missing.

Brewing Support

Brewing stand recipes are handled with vanilla brewing behavior in mind.

One brewing ingredient can process up to three matching input potions at the same time, producing up to three result potions from one convenient crafting action.

Modpack-Friendly Config

Modpack users can configure which built-in vanilla workstation recipe types are enabled in the convenient crafting panel.

By default, vanilla crafting, smithing, and brewing recipe types are enabled.

The config also supports additional recipe type ids for pack authors who want to expose compatible custom recipe types through the convenient crafting panel.

Extra Quality-of-Life Feature

Convenient Crafting also includes a simple one-click inventory sorting button for inventory and container screens.

It can merge stackable items and group similar items together, but the mod's main focus is the portable convenient crafting experience.

Controls

Key / Action	Function
G	Open the convenient crafting panel
Click >	Craft once
Shift-click >	Batch craft
Alt-click →	Try nested crafting

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.220+
• Multiplayer friendly
• Datapack compatible
• Designed to stay lightweight and vanilla-friendly

Convenient Crafting helps reduce repetitive crafting steps so you can spend more time building, exploring, and actually playing.