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Recipes Plus

Common sense recipe additions such as dye mixing, slab and stair conversion, and extra stonecutting. It ships as a plain data pack and as loader mods.

MinecraftHub-generated cover art for Recipes Plus: a floating snowy block island with a workshop of crafting tables and furnaces and a chest, under a day sky

Screenshot 1 of 1. MinecraftHub-generated cover art for Recipes Plus: a floating snowy block island with a workshop of crafting tables and furnaces and a chest, under a day sky

What Recipes Plus works with.

PlatformJava Edition
LoadersFabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
Minecraft versions1.15, 1.16.5, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, 1.19.4, 1.20.6, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2, 26.3
EnvironmentClient, Server

Recipes Plus is a recipes plus data pack for players who think vanilla crafting is missing obvious shortcuts. GenMode ships it as a plain data pack and as mods for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. It is required on the multiplayer host and optional for players who join.

Loaders and versions

  • Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt: Minecraft 1.15 to 26.3. The newest build requires Fabric API; some builds for 1.21.5 to 26.1.2 need no dependencies.

What it changes

  • Stairs to slabs, slabs to blocks, and woodcutting
  • Chain armor, horse armor and nautilus armor recipes
  • Coral bleaching and rejuvenating, flower duplicating, pottery sherd copying
  • Elytra fortifying, resource salvaging and an ice recipe
  • Changes to the armor stand, painting and shelf recipes

Installation

You have two routes, and you only need one. The mod files suit anyone already running a loader.

  1. 1.The newest mod files also need Fabric API in the same folder.
  2. 2.On a multiplayer host, install it there. Players joining do not need it.

Questions about Recipes Plus.

4 questions

Is Recipes Plus a mod or a data pack?

Both. GenMode publishes it as a plain data pack and as mod files for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Do players need Recipes Plus to join a multiplayer world?

No. It is required on the host and optional for players who join. Install it where the world runs, and players can connect without adding it to their own setup.

Which loaders does Recipes Plus support?

It supports Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the data pack needs no loader. All of them are current, with the newest release published on 2026-10-24.

What recipes does Recipes Plus add?

It adds dye mixing, many stonecutting recipes, stairs to slabs and slabs to blocks, chain and horse armor recipes, coral bleaching, flower duplicating, pottery sherd copying, elytra fortifying and resource salvaging. Many more recipes are not listed.

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