Reverse Crafting

 ## ⚡ 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!