Convenient Crafting

Convenient Crafting is a lightweight quality-of-life mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. It focuses on making everyday crafting, recipe lookup, storage cleanup, and small survival chores faster while keeping the vanilla feel intact.

Press G to open a compact crafting assistant anywhere, then craft directly from the materials in your inventory, the container you are currently using, and supported storage bags.

中文简介：便捷合成是一个轻量级生存辅助模组，提供随身合成助手、配方搜索、背包整理、容器整理、分类袋和一键合成，让日常冒险、建造和整理物品更顺手。

中文关键词：便捷合成，快捷合成，随身合成，一键合成，配方搜索，背包整理，容器整理，箱子整理，木桶整理，潜影盒整理，分类袋，矿物袋，种子袋，染料袋。

What It Does

Convenient Crafting is built around a portable crafting panel that stays quick, compact, and useful during normal play:

Craft without placing a workstation first
Search recipes by name, id, mod, tooltip, tag, ingredient, or creative tab
Filter to only recipes you can currently craft
Click or press hotkeys on displayed items to look up recipes and usages
Craft once, batch craft, or try nested crafting for missing intermediate parts
Use materials from your inventory, opened containers, and supported category bags
Sort inventories and containers with a compact one-click sort button

It is especially useful while mining, building, exploring, organizing storage rooms, or playing larger modpacks where recipe lists can get noisy.

Supported Recipe Types

The convenient crafting panel supports several vanilla workstation recipe types out of the box:

Crafting table recipes
Smithing table recipes
Brewing stand recipes
Stonecutter recipes

Recipe types are handled separately, so a stonecutter recipe and a crafting table recipe with similar ingredients will not hide each other in the recipe list.

Modpack authors can also enable compatible custom recipe types through the config when those recipes are safe to craft directly from ingredients and a fixed result.

Search and Recipe Lookup

The search box supports JEI-style advanced filters:

@modid for mod id filters
-term for exclusions
"quoted text" for exact phrases
#term for tooltip text
$tag for item tags
%tab for creative tabs
~ingredient for ingredient searches
| for multi-search

You can also interact with items directly in the recipe list:

Hover an item and press R, or left-click it, to search for recipes that make it
Hover an item and press U, or right-click it, to search for recipes that use it
Press Backspace to return through recipe and usage search history when the search box is not focused

Batch and Nested Crafting

Convenient Crafting can do more than single-click crafting:

Click > to craft once
Shift-click > to batch craft
Alt-click > to try nested crafting

Nested crafting simulates the required crafting chain before it starts. If the final item cannot be made, the mod shows a scrollable missing-material tree so you can see which raw materials are still missing.

The nested crafting search includes safety limits for recursion depth, search steps, candidate recipes, and missing-material rows, helping it stay responsive in large modpacks.

Brewing and Stonecutting

Brewing recipes follow vanilla brewing behavior: one brewing ingredient can process up to three matching input potions in one convenient crafting action.

Stonecutter recipes are supported as their own workstation type, with separate config defaults, unlock handling, craftability checks, direct crafting, and nested crafting candidates.

Category Bags

Convenient Crafting includes three small category-limited bags:

Seed Bag
Dye Bag
Mineral Bag

Each bag provides 9 slots for its category. Bag contents can be used by convenient crafting, nested crafting checks, brewing, smithing, configured simple recipes, automatic pickup, and inventory sorting.

The Mineral Bag also supports a convenientcrafting:minerals item tag so modpacks can extend which ore and mineral items it accepts.

Inventory Sorting

The mod includes a compact inventory sort button for inventory and container screens. Sorting can merge stackable items, group similar items, preserve item component data, and work with supported bag contents.

Middle-click sorting is also supported from the player inventory screen.

Performance

Convenient Crafting is designed to stay responsive in large modpacks:

Incremental recipe loading
Reusable recipe indexes
Cached material and craftability checks
Current-page rendering
Cached page navigation views
Background recipe index preloading during normal gameplay
Cached nested-crafting candidate lookups

Recipe index caches are kept across ordinary screen changes and cleared when leaving a world.

Modpack Configuration

The common config file is located at:

.minecraft/config/convenientcrafting-common.toml

Useful options include:

enabledBuiltinRecipeTypes for vanilla workstation recipe types
additionalRecipeTypes for compatible custom recipe types
recipeTypeUnlockItems for workstation unlock rules

Server-side unlock syncing keeps multiplayer clients aligned with the server config. Administrators can also unlock recipe types for players with:

/convenientcrafting unlock <targets> all
/convenientcrafting unlock <targets> <recipe_type_id>

Controls

Key / Action Function G Open the convenient crafting panel Click > Craft once Shift-click > Batch craft Alt-click > Try nested crafting Hover item + R Search recipes for the item Hover item + U Search usages for the item Left-click recipe-list item Search recipes for the item Right-click recipe-list item Search usages for the item Middle-click inventory Sort inventory