✨ AuraLite Realistic Crafting — Minecraft 1.20.1

Copyright © 2026 AlexanderNyr · License: CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0

1258 reworked recipes — almost every vanilla craft is now more realistic. Ships in 3 formats: vanilla datapack, Fabric mod, Forge mod.

📜 TL;DR license: You may freely use, modify and redistribute this mod with credit to AlexanderNyr and only for non‑commercial purposes; derivative works must use the same license. Full text in LICENSE.txt. Monetized YouTube/Twitch videos are fine — see the Rules & Permissions section below.

📦 Downloads (build/ folder)

File Where to put it Requires AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-datapack-0.1.1.zip <world>/datapacks/ nothing — vanilla 1.20.1 client AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-fabric-0.1.1.jar .minecraft/mods/ Fabric Loader 0.14+ AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-forge-0.1.1.jar .minecraft/mods/ Forge 47+

The datapack is a .zip (Minecraft data packs require this), while Fabric/Forge mods must be .jar files — the loaders ignore anything else in the mods/ folder. All three files contain the same JSON recipes; only the manifest differs.

🚀 Installation

Datapack (no mods needed, any 1.20.1 client)

1. Put AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-datapack-0.1.1.zip into <world_folder>/datapacks/.
2. Enter the world and run /reload. Verify with /datapack list.

Fabric

1. Install Fabric Loader 0.14+ for 1.20.1.
2. Drop AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-fabric-0.1.1.jar into .minecraft/mods/.
3. Launch the Fabric profile.

Forge

1. Install Forge 47.x for 1.20.1.
2. Drop AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-forge-0.1.1.jar into .minecraft/mods/.
3. Launch. The mod registers via lowcodefml (pure data — no Java code).

Works on servers too — same file goes into the server's mods/ folder or world datapacks/ folder.

🛠 What changed (1258 recipes)

🪵 Wood (11 types: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark_oak, mangrove, cherry, crimson, warped, bamboo)

• 1 log → 6 planks (realistic sawmilling)
• 3 planks → 9 slabs (a slab is half a block — more makes sense)
• 6 planks → 8 stairs
• Doors, trapdoors, fences, gates, buttons, pressure plates, signs, boats, chest‑boats — all rebalanced
• Hanging signs (1.20+) for every wood type
• Bark stripping by crafting: log + stick → stripped log

⛏ Tools (6 materials: wood, stone, iron, gold, diamond, netherite)

• All tools use a stick handle
• Metal/diamond/netherite tools also require leather for a grip wrap on the handle
• Pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, swords
• Netherite upgrades via smithing transform (vanilla path)

🛡 Armor

• Leather — classic, unchanged
• Iron, gold, diamond — require leather padding (gambeson) inside the metal frame
• Diamond — extra iron fittings on helmet & chestplate
• Chainmail — now craftable from chains (vanilla can't!)
• Horse armor (iron, gold, diamond) — now craftable (vanilla can't!)
• Shield — leather + iron rim
• Turtle helmet, recovery compass — full pipelines

🎨 16 colors — full coverage

For each of the 16 vanilla colors:

• Concrete powder (8 sand + dye → 8)
• Dyed terracotta (8 terracotta + dye → 8)
• Glazed terracotta via furnace + blast furnace
• Stained glass + panes (multiple paths)
• Dyed wool, carpets, candles, beds, banners
• Shulker boxes in all colors (and reset back to plain)
• Candle cakes for every color
• Banner patterns (Creeper, Flower, Skull, Mojang, Globe)

🌸 Dyes — every source

35+ recipes: flowers (single + tall), color mixing, bone meal, lapis lazuli, cocoa, ink sac, beetroot, dried kelp, etc.

🟧 Copper — every oxidation stage

• cut_copper in all 4 stages + slabs + stairs
• Waxing (12 recipes using honeycomb)
• Lightning rod

🧱 Stone (40+ blocks)

• All slabs: 3 → 9 (was 6)
• All stairs: 6 → 8 (was 4)
• All walls: 6 → 9
• Chiseled variants via 2 stacked slabs
• Cracked variants via smelting normal bricks
• Polished, smooth, cut variants rebalanced
• Mossy variants via moss block OR vine
• Stonecutter support: 100+ recipes across 17 stone families

🔥 Lighting & fire

• Torch: coal on top of stick → 2 torches (was 4)
• Soul torch (2 paths), redstone torch, soul lantern
• Campfire: sticks + log + coal
• Lantern / soul lantern: 8 nuggets around a torch
• Candle: string + honeycomb
• TNT: gunpowder cross + sand corners
• Charcoal from all 11 wood types (smelting)

🏠 Utility blocks

• Crafting table: 4 planks + 2 sticks (legs)
• Furnace: 8 cobblestone + clay ball (mortar) in the center
• Blast furnace, smoker, smithing/cartography/fletching tables, loom, stonecutter — realistic builds
• Chest with iron‑nugget hinges
• Ender chest, shulker box, hopper, bucket, bowl (clay-ceramic, not wood)
• Barrel, lectern, bookshelf (with actual books), armor stand
• Decorated pot (1.20+)
• Chiseled bookshelf (1.20+)

⚙ Redstone

• Piston, sticky piston, observer
• Repeater, comparator rebuilt with real torches
• Redstone lamp, daylight detector
• Rails: 24 per craft (was 16)
• Activator, detector, powered rails balanced for transport

🚂 Transport

• Minecart: 5 iron
• All variants (chest/furnace/hopper/TNT) — combined with the cart
• Saddle: leather + string + iron (2 different recipes)

⚔ Weapons

• Bow: sticks + string + leather grip
• Crossbow: sticks + iron + string + hook
• Arrows: flint + stick + feather → 8 arrows (was 4)
• Spectral arrows: + glowstone dust
• Fishing rod, flint and steel, shears

🍞 Food

• Bread: 3 wheat + egg + water bucket → 2 bread
• Cookie: wheat + cocoa → 16 (bulk pattern)
• Cake, pumpkin pie with alternative recipes
• Pumpkin pie, rabbit stew, mushroom/beetroot/suspicious stew — ingredients revised
• Golden apple/carrot, glistering melon balanced
• Hay ↔ wheat both directions
• Cooking via furnace, smoker, and campfire for every meat/fish/potato

🪄 Magic / enchanting

• Enchanting table: book + 4 diamonds + 4 obsidian
• Anvil, beacon, end crystal, conduit, brewing stand
• Reinforced deepslate — now craftable from deepslate + echo + netherite!
• Froglights (all 3 colors) — glowstone + magma cream
• Tinted glass, calibrated sculk sensor, recovery compass

💎 Ingots ↔ blocks

• 9 materials (iron, gold, diamond, emerald, lapis, redstone, coal, netherite, copper) — block ↔ ingot, both ways
• Iron/gold nuggets — convertible both ways
• Netherite ingot craftable from 4 scrap + 4 gold
• Amethyst block ↔ amethyst shard both ways

♻️ Recycling

• Blasting iron/gold/chainmail armor and tools → nuggets
• Diamond gear → diamonds back
• Netherite gear → scrap back
• Wool (all 16 colors) → string

🎆 Fireworks

• Rockets of flight 1/2/3 with adjustable gunpowder
• Firework star base + all 16 colors

🪟 Glass, bars, chains

• Glass pane, iron bars with bulk recipes
• Chain (single + bulk)
• Iron door in bulk

🌿 Nature & extras

• Packed/blue ice craftable
• Clay block, mud, packed mud, mud bricks
• Sculk and sculk vein craftable
• Pointed dripstone ↔ dripstone block both ways
• Soul soil from soul sand
• Cobweb → string (9), nether wart block decompose

⚖️ Rules & Permissions (FAQ)

Copyright © 2026 AlexanderNyr — licensed under CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0.

• Videos & Streams: You are free to showcase, stream, and use this datapack/mod in your videos — including monetized channels on YouTube, Twitch, Kick, TikTok, etc. Showing the mod in monetized content does not count as "commercial use" under this license. A mention/credit in the description is appreciated but not required.
• Modpacks: You are free to include this datapack/mod in your free modpacks on CurseForge, Modrinth, Technic, or any other platform. Please keep the original credit to AlexanderNyr in the modpack description.
• Personal Tweaks: You can freely modify the recipes / code for your own personal use, your own server, or your community.
• No Re‑hosting: Do not upload the raw files to third‑party download sites (especially behind ad‑links like AdFly, Linkvertise, and similar). Always link to the official authorized source.
• Derivative Works: If you modify this mod/datapack and distribute your version publicly, your release must be free, open‑source, and licensed under the exact same CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0 license, with clear attribution to the original author AlexanderNyr.
• Commercial use: Selling the mod, paywalling access to it, including it in paid modpacks/servers, or any other direct commercialization is not allowed without explicit written permission from the author.

License at a glance

• ✅ BY — give credit: AlexanderNyr + a link to the project.
• 🚫 NC — non‑commercial use. Monetized video content is allowed; selling the mod/datapack itself is not.
• 🔁 SA — derivative works must be released under this same CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0 license.

Full legal text: see LICENSE.txt or https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode. Human‑readable summary: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

📁 Project structure

AuraLiteRealisticCrafting/ ├── src/data/minecraft/recipes/ ← 1258 JSON recipe sources ├── scripts/ │ └── package.sh ← builds all 3 archives ├── formats/ │ ├── datapack/ ← unpacked datapack contents │ ├── fabric/ ← unpacked Fabric mod contents │ └── forge/ ← unpacked Forge mod contents ├── build/ │ ├── AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-datapack-0.1.1.zip │ ├── AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-fabric-0.1.1.jar │ └── AuraLiteRealisticCrafting-forge-0.1.1.jar ├── pack.png ← 128×128 pixel-art "A" icon with aura ├── LICENSE.txt ← full CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 text └── README.md

📝 Changelog

v0.1.1

• New recipes:
  • Brush (1.20) — realistic archaeological brush: feather/stick/copper + alternate rabbit-hide variant
  • Calibrated Sculk Sensor — enhanced recipe requiring redstone tuning
  • Recycle Brush — dismantle brushes back into copper nuggets
  • Recycle Spyglass — dismantle spyglasses back into copper nuggets
  • Recycle Compass / Clock — dismantle back into iron/gold nuggets
  • Recycle Saddle / Crossbow / Bow / Shears / Bucket / Flint & Steel — smelting returns materials
  • Recycle Lead — unravel back into string
  • Beehive — realistic woodworking recipe with honeycomb
• Build system:
  • Added JSON validation and duplicate-ID detection in scripts/package.sh
  • Updated Fabric & Forge manifests with links, issue tracker and better metadata
  • CHANGELOG.md now ships inside every archive
• Bug Fixes:
  • Enchanted Golden Apple — corrected result item (was golden_apple, now enchanted_golden_apple)
  • Anvil — fixed recipe cost (was 7 iron blocks / 63 ingots, now 3 blocks + 4 ingots)
  • Removed duplicate recipes: locator_map, white_wool_alt, empty_map_v2
  • Removed misleading apple_pie recipe (produced pumpkin_pie under wrong filename)
• Quality:
  • All 1258 recipes validated for JSON correctness before packaging

v0.1.0-beta

• Initial release with 1247 realistic recipes covering tools, armor, dyes, stone, redstone, food, transport, magic, recycling and more.

🔧 Rebuild from source

Want to tweak a recipe?

1. Edit a JSON file in src/data/minecraft/recipes/.
2. Run: bash scripts/package.sh
3. The built archives appear in build/.

⚙ Compatibility

• ✅ Minecraft 1.20.1 (pack_format 15)
• ✅ Fabric Loader 0.14+ / Forge 47+
• ✅ Server + client (sided = BOTH)
• ⚠️ Will conflict with other mods that override the same recipe IDs
• ℹ️ The in‑game recipe book picks up the new formulas automatically