Reverse Crafting

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## ⚡ Recycle Your Gear. Reclaim Your Materials. Reverse Crafting is a highly balanced, lightweight, and modern Minecraft datapack that lets you recycle your unwanted or worn-out tools, armor, slabs, stairs, and utility blocks back into their primary constituent materials—completely exploit-free!

Designed specifically for Minecraft 26. 1 (Datapack Format 101), this pack integrates seamlessly into survival mode using vanilla mechanics like smelting, blasting, stonecutting, and shapeless uncrafting.

## 🛠️ Key Features 🔥 Metal Recycling (Smelting & Blasting): Toss copper, iron, gold, netherite, and chainmail items into a furnace or blast furnace to recover exactly 1 base ingot (or 1 iron block for anvils). 📦 Stairs to Blocks (Stonecutter): Slice any of the 40+ stair variants in the stonecutter to convert them back into 1 full block. 🧩 Slabs to Blocks (Shapeless): Put 2 matching slabs in any crafting grid to get 1 full block back. 💎 Luxury & Utility Uncrafting: Safely reclaim diamonds from jukeboxes/enchanting tables, or wood from chest/crafting tables. 🛡️ 100% Exploit-Free: Carefully designed conversion ratios ensure players cannot duplicate resources or infinitely refresh tool durability. Highly recommended for multiplayer and survival servers!

## 📖 How It Works

### 1. Smelting & Blasting

Recycle your metal weapons, armor, and utility items instantly. Blasting is twice as fast!

| Input | Process | Output | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Any Iron Equipment, Shears, Shield, Bucket, Compass, Cauldron, Minecart, Flint & Steel | Smelting / Blasting | 1x `Iron Ingot` | | Any Gold Equipment, Clock | Smelting / Blasting | 1x `Gold Ingot` | | Any Copper Equipment, Spyglass, Lightning Rod | Smelting / Blasting | 1x `Copper Ingot` | | Any Netherite Equipment | Smelting / Blasting | 1x `Netherite Ingot` | | Any Chainmail Armor piece | Smelting / Blasting | 1x `Iron Ingot` |

> > All smelting and blasting recipes have been set to instant smelting/blasting (0 seconds) for premium quality of life!

### 2. Shapeless Uncrafting

Place these items in any standard crafting grid to extract their key ingredients:

Diamond Gear: 1x Diamond Tool/Armor ➡️ 1x Diamond Leather Armor: 1x Leather Armor piece ➡️ 1x Leather Stone Tools: 1x Stone Tool ➡️ 1x Cobblestone Wooden Tools: 1x Wood Tool ➡️ 1x Oak Planks Luxury Utilities: `Jukebox` ➡️ 1x Diamond `Enchanting Table` ➡️ 1x Diamond `Anvil` / `Chipped` / `Damaged` ➡️ 1x Iron Block `Hopper` ➡️ 1x Chest `Cauldron` / `Minecart` ➡️ 3x Iron Ingots `Brewing Stand` ➡️ 1x Blaze Rod `Chest` ➡️ 8x Oak Planks `Crafting Table` ➡️ 4x Oak Planks

### 3. Slabs & Block De-compression

Slab Merging: Place 2 matching slabs of any type (planks, stones, quartz, copper, etc.) into a crafting grid to get 1 full block. Block De-compression: Return compact blocks back into their raw components: `Amethyst Block` ➡️ 4x Amethyst Shard `Quartz Block` ➡️ 4x Quartz `Glowstone Block` ➡️ 4x Glowstone Dust `Clay Block` ➡️ 4x Clay Ball `Bricks` / `Nether Bricks` ➡️ 4x Brick / Nether Brick `Honeycomb Block` ➡️ 4x Honeycomb `Prismarine` ➡️ 4x Prismarine Shard

### 4. Stair Recutter

Put any stair block into a Stonecutter to safely slice it down into its base block form (1:1 conversion). Supported for all 40+ vanilla wood and stone stairs!

## 🔒 Anti-Exploit Design

> > Why is this pack safe for survival servers? > Standard uncrafting packs usually return all* materials used to craft an item. This introduces heavy duplication loops: players craft a pickaxe, use it until it has 1 durability left, and uncraft it to get all materials back, gaining infinite tools. > Reverse Crafting avoids this by returning exactly 1 constituent item (the primary material) and discarding sticks/handles. Players are heavily penalized for uncrafting, making recycling useful only for unwanted loot or miscrafts, maintaining Minecraft's survival economy.

## 🚀 Installation Guide

1. Download the datapack folder/ZIP file. 2. In Minecraft, select your world, click Edit, and select Open World Folder. 3. Open the `datapacks` directory and drop the `mysterious-curie` folder (or ZIP) inside. 4. Open the world (or type `/reload` if you are already in the world) to load the recipes!