Crafting Refinements

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This pack refines and adds various crafting, blasting, and stonecutting recipes to provide a balanced, convenient, and consistent crafting experience.

This should work on the latest version of Minecraft, even though the pack says it's out of date. It's just complaining that I haven't updated the pack number. The actual contents of the datapack are compatible. Please report an issue if it doesn't function in the latest update. Versions before 1. 21. 9 are no longer supported

## Why Does This Exist? While there are many crafting tweak datapacks, none provided a cohesive set of changes that prioritized balance and consistency. This provides an alternative, one-stop shop, for a whole slew of tweaks that aim to make quality-of-life changes while maintaining gameplay balance and the vanilla feel. Additionally, this pack is set up so that all the recipe book entries and recipe toasts work properly (they unlock at the right time and are grouped appropriately) which is lacking in many other packs. Everything should seamlessly integrate into vanilla Minecraft!

## General Rules: There are some general rules that Minecraft recipes generally follow (and which this datapack seeks to remove all exceptions to) - A block created with a 3x3 of the same material should be unpackable - A block created with a 2x2 of the same material should not be unpackable - Crafting results should be proportional to their input (some loss is acceptable, and often expected) - Crafting results should not grant an overabundance of materials to the point of making the inventory situation demonstrably worse - The stonecutter, blast furnace, and smoker should have equal or better rates than the crafting table/furnace - If two crafting recipes are similar, they should be similar everywhere - Recipes with the same output should be grouped in the recipe book

## What Are the Changes?

### Blast Furnace Buff This allows you to smelt raw gold, copper, and iron blocks in blast furnaces. They give you the same amount of XP you would normally get if you smelted the raw items individually. However, it is slightly more efficient since it takes only eight times as long as a regular item. This makes it quite simple to calculate how much fuel you need! One coal for every raw block!

Additionally, sand and red sand can be smelted into glass using a blast furnace!

### Dropper to Dispenser This works just like the one at Vanilla Tweaks! It allows you to turn droppers into dispensers either by using a bow or with three sticks and three string. What prompted me to make this, however, is that, at the time of creation, Vanilla Tweaks did not properly implement the recipe book and recipe toasts (this might not be the case any longer).

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Vanilla Tweaks (VT) is an excellent resource and you can find more such datapacks here: (https://vanillatweaks.net/picker/crafting-tweaks/)

### More Gates This is a simple part of the datapack that increases the number of fence gates you receive to two. It grants greater freedom to use them for decoration. If this isn't your jam, it also gives you an easier means to avoid the issue of multiple animals getting stuck trying to get through the one-block entrance of your pen.

### More Stairs The crafting recipe in Vanilla Minecraft is an utter ripoff! Six solid blocks should really give you more stairs! While eight stairs are mathematically possible, I opted to take a different route than VT as that just seemed a bit of a stretch. Instead, stair recipes now grant six stairs!

### More Trapdoors Trapdoors are great decoration blocks as well as useful in various technical builds. So why, pray tell, do six planks condense down into two thin slabs of wood? Again, VT takes the mathematical approach and outputs 12 trapdoors! I find this a bit excessive as well as unrealistic (There is a lot of waste when working with wood!), so I opted for 6 as a result. This helps prevent inventory clutter while still meaning you only need to deforest a third of what you had to before! If you want even better rates, check out the stonecutting tweaks below!

On top of these changes to wooden trapdoors, I also modified the iron trapdoor recipe to match the copper recipe. It now requires six iron but produces two trapdoors. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the iron bars recipe. To fix this, I changed the iron bars recipe to two columns of ingots on either side of the crafting interface. This has the added bonus of actually looking more like prison bars!

Since the advent of the copper age, Mojang tried to resolve this inconsistency; however, I believe they went in the wrong direction. Thus, I made their copper bars recipe match my iron bars recipe below.

![Iron Bars Recipe