Thoughtful Recipes

Thoughtful Recipes

Not just your avarage recipe tweaks datapack.

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Pottery sherd duplication
Better woodworking
Bulk crafting and optimizations
New recipes for stone and unpacking bricks
New dye crafting and minor tweaks

About this Mod

Archive

Project has been archived indefinetely. Ill try and work on it asap but can't promise anything.

Overview

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Thoughtful Recipes is a datapack that aims to add recipes that fit into the vanilla game, and adding consistency, fixes, and more to the vanilla ones, while not giving the player any unfair advantage or making things that are meant to be uncraftable obtainable through crafting.

List of changes:

You can copy pottery sherd with bricks and other items, similarly to trims.

sherds

You can craft minecarts with hoppers, chests, furnaces, TNTs and boats with chests directly in one single recipe or use 2 logs instead of a chest in the hopper recipe.

Some recipes now have "Bulk" versions. For example, you can craft 32 sticks with two logs, you can smelt raw ore blocks directly into blocks, and more.

optimizations

Woodcutting: all woods can be turned into slabs, stairs and trapdoors with a stonecutter.

4 logs now make 4 Woods, 6 Planks now craft 12 trapdoors, not 2. Iron and copper trapdoor are also crafted the same way. but only give 4.

woodcutting

Diorite, calcite and tuff recipes have been added or tweaked. Dripstone blocks can be broke down into pointed dripstone in a stonecutter.

You can use a crafting table to turn grass blocks into dirt, deepslate into cobbled deepslate, stone into cobblestone, and more.
You can now "unpack" various blocks, like wool, clay, bricks, quartz blocks and blue or packed ice.

unpacking

Flowers now give you the correct dye color and dyes can be mixed more easily or obtained from different materials or plants.

Dead bushes and dry grass can be turned into normal grass and bushes with bone meal and vice versa with smelting. Dead bushes can also be turned into a stick.

dyes

Detailed recipe list

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Backports:

  • (1.20-1.21.5 only) backported saddle and lead recipes.

Bulk:

  • Iron blocks and ingots make 9 chains at once
  • Bamboo blocks, logs and planks instead of sticks to make more ladders at once
  • Raw ore blocks can be smelted directly into their metal block variant (9x the time, 9x the XP)

Dyes:

  • Coal or charcoal into black dye

  • Nether sprouts, twisting vines and warped roots to cyan dye

  • Flowering azaleas and spore blossoms to pink dye

  • Crimson roots, redstone and weeping vines to red dye

  • Oxeye daisy and white tulip to light gray dye

  • Torchflowers to orange dye

  • Brown dye from: blue + orange, red + green, yellow + purple or yellow + red + blue

  • Green dye from: lime + black or yellow + blue

Grass:

  • Bushes, grass and tall grass can be smelted into dead/dry variants
  • The opposite is true with bonemeal in a crafting table

"Optimized" recipes:

  • Chest boats can be crafted directly with 5 planks and a chest or two logs
  • Tnt, furnace, hopper and chest minecarts can be crafted directly with 5 ingots and the respective item
  • Hoppers and hopper minecarts can be crafted with 2 logs instead of a chest

Sherds:

Sherds can be duplicated (like trims) with the original sherd, 3 bricks, and a special item:

  • Angler -> Any fish
  • Archer -> Any arrow
  • Arms Up -> Apple
  • Blade -> Iron ingot
  • Brewer -> Any potion
  • Burn -> Netherrack
  • Danger -> Gunpowder
  • Explorer -> Any boat
  • Flow -> Breeze rod
  • Friend -> Emerald
  • Guster -> Wind charge
  • Heart -> Glistering melon
  • Heartbreak -> Fermented spider eye
  • Howl -> Bone
  • Miner -> Cobblestone
  • Mourner -> Echo shard
  • Plenty -> Chest
  • Prize -> Diamond
  • Scrape -> Honeycomb
  • Sheaf -> Wheat
  • Shelter -> Any sapling
  • Skull -> bone
  • Snort -> Torchflower or pitcher plant

Stones:

  • Diorite can be crafted with cobblestone and quartz
  • Calcite can be crafted with cobblestone and 2 quartz or diorite and quartz
  • Andesite can be crafted with cobblestone and diorite
  • Tuff can be crafted with 3 cobblestone and 3 quartz or calcite and andesite

Unpacking:

  • Blue to 9 packed ice
  • Carpet and wool to strings
  • Bricks, nether bricks, prismarine bricks, resin bricks and quartz blocks to their respective bricks
  • Deepslate and grass to cobbled deepslate and dirt

Woodcutting:

  • Planks and logs to buttons, slabs, stairs and trapdoors in the stonecutter

  • Planks and logs to sticks and doors in the stonecutter

  • 4 logs make 4 wood

  • Trapdoors go from 2 to 6

  • Polished blackstone and stone buttons from the stonecutter

(Strikethroughs are planned but not yet implemented)

Other

If you want, you can join the discord server to report bugs or make suggestions.

Available Versions

1.4release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
August 14, 2025
1.4release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8datapack
August 14, 2025
1.3release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6-pre1fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
May 30, 2025
1.3release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6-pre1datapack
May 30, 2025
1.2release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
April 30, 2025

How to Install Thoughtful Recipes on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set datapack Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.8).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Thoughtful Recipes". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

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Minecraft Versions

1.21.8, 1.21.7, 1.21.6 (+14 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Thoughtful Recipes server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.8). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Thoughtful Recipes compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?

Thoughtful Recipes officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.21.7, 1.21.6. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Thoughtful Recipes – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Thoughtful Recipes consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
MIT License
Server-side
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Supported Versions

1.21.81.21.71.21.61.21.6-pre11.21.51.21.41.21.31.21.21.21.11.21+7 more