Custom Crafter

Quickstart

1. Craft the Custom Crafter block using the recipe below and place it in the world — it faces the direction you place it.
2. Right-click the block to open the recipe creator UI.
3. In the Crafting tab, fill the 3×3 input grid with your desired ingredients, place the result item in the output slot, choose Shaped or Shapeless with the toggle above the grid, then press Confirm Recipe.
4. Head to any regular crafting table and place those ingredients — your custom recipe will produce the result you set.

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Overview

Custom Crafter adds a placeable 3D workstation that lets you define your own recipes for three types of vanilla stations: crafting tables, furnaces, and stonecutters. Recipes are registered for your current play session and work seamlessly alongside vanilla recipes in their respective blocks.

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What It Adds

The block is found in the Tools & Utilities creative tab and stacks to 1.

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How To Use

Opening the UI

Place the Custom Crafter block and right-click it. The UI opens on whichever tab (Crafting, Furnace, or Stonecutter) you last used. Click the tab buttons at the top to switch modes — switching reopens the UI in the new mode.

Crafting Tab

• Fill the 3×3 input grid with ingredients in the pattern you want.
• Place the desired result item in the output slot (to the right of the grid).
• Use the Shaped / Shapeless toggle (the knob button above the grid) to choose the recipe type:
  • Shaped [●| ] — ingredient positions in the grid must match exactly.
  • Shapeless [ |●] — only the set of ingredients matters, not their positions.
• Press Confirm Recipe to register the recipe.
• Press Delete Recipe to remove a matching recipe (respects the current Shaped/Shapeless setting).

Furnace Tab

• Place one input item in the input slot and your desired output item in the output slot.
• The fuel slot is decorative and automatically cycles through valid fuel items — you don't need to manage it.
• Press Confirm Recipe to register the smelting recipe.
• Your custom recipe will then function in any vanilla furnace, blast furnace, or smoker.

Stonecutter Tab

• Place one input item and one output item, then press Confirm Recipe to define the recipe.
• Note: Stonecutter recipes defined here are stored but are not yet active inside the stonecutter block itself.

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Crafting And Obtaining

Craft the Custom Crafter block at a regular crafting table:

The recipe unlocks automatically when you join a world — no advancements required.

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Abilities And Mechanics

• Directional placement — the block rotates to face you when placed, like a furnace or loom.
• Session-only storage — all custom recipes are stored in memory for the current session and are cleared when the server restarts. Re-register your recipes each session.
• Non-destructive — custom recipes only activate if vanilla finds no matching recipe first, so they never override existing vanilla results.
• Per-player modes — each player's last-used tab (Crafting, Furnace, Stonecutter) and Shaped/Shapeless preference are tracked individually.
• Shift-click support — items in the recipe slots can be shift-clicked to move them to your inventory.

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Progression And Strategy

• Register your most-used custom shortcuts early in a session, since recipes reset on server restart.
• Use Shapeless mode for simple ingredient combinations where placement doesn't matter, reducing setup effort.
• Define furnace recipes to smelt unusual items or create custom smelting shortcuts for resources you process often.
• The Custom Crafter itself requires diamonds and comparators to craft, making it a mid-to-late-game tool — plan your ingredient setups accordingly.