Idle Generators
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Automate your resource gathering with passive generation, even while you're offline!
Place a generator, walk away, and come back to full storages. Perfect for Skyblock, survival, or any world where you want steady resource income without constant mining or chopping. Generators run on real-world time, so they keep producing whether you're online, offline, or the world is closed.
✏️ Custom Recipes (new in v1.5.0)
Want different recipes for your world, server or Realm? Change any generator's recipe in the online Recipe Editor: pick the ingredients on a crafting grid and download a small pack. No files to edit by hand.
- Open the Recipe Editor, choose Bedrock and change the recipes you want.
- Download the pack and open the
.mcpackfile: Minecraft imports it. - Edit your world → Behavior Packs → activate Idle Generators: Recipe Overrides and move it above Idle Generators.
Works on Realms, a new download replaces the old pack, and our updates never overwrite your recipes.
Advanced: editing the JSON by hand
The .mcpack is a normal zip: rename it to .zip, extract it and edit the files in recipes/crafting/ (one per generator, for example iron_generator.json). pattern is the 3×3 grid and key says which item each letter is; change only item ids, never identifier or result. Zip the contents again (manifest.json at the top level), rename to .mcpack and import it.
📦 Features
✅ 69 Unique Generators in six sets: Minerals, Wood, Stone & Construction, Colors, Nature and Nether.
✅ Offline Generation: resources keep generating when you're not playing. Uses real-world time to produce items, so play however you like: the generators never stop.
✅ Smart Withdrawal System
- Left-click: withdraw 1 item
- Shift + left-click: withdraw up to a full stack (64)
Withdrawals drain the accumulated buffer, and sub-cycle progress is never lost.
✅ Auto-output: place a chest, barrel, hopper or other container directly below a generator and it empties itself; a hopper below chains into your item network.
✅ Settings Menu: operators run /idlegen:config to switch single generators or whole sets on/off, with each switch showing its production. No cheats needed, so achievements stay enabled. Prefer world-level control? Behavior Packs → Idle Generators → gear icon turns whole sets off before entering the world.
✅ Animated Models: each generator is a unique animated visual entity.
✅ HUD Readout: look at a generator to see its glyph, name, current amount / capacity, and progress % on the action bar.
✅ Storage Caps: generators buffer 8–1024 items depending on the type (the Nether Star keeps just 8).
✅ Vibrant Visuals Compatible: works alongside Vibrant Visuals and third-party PBR resource packs.
✅ Balanced Progression: tuned for vanilla worlds. Feedback welcome!
✅ Supported Languages: English, Español.
🧰 The Generators
Craft a generator, place it, and collect. Every set shares one recipe layout, so once you know a set you know all of it. Open a set to see its recipes and stats.
🪨 Minerals (11): Cobblestone, Coal, Copper, Iron, Redstone, Lapis, Gold, Quartz, Emerald, Diamond, Netherite
Each mineral generator uses glass on the corners, a themed material, and the resource's block in the center.
🌳 Wood Logs (12): Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Mangrove, Cherry, Pale Oak, Poplar, Crimson, Warped
All 12 share the same pattern: glass corners, bone meal, that wood's sapling (×3) and its log in the center. Mangrove uses a Propagule, and Crimson / Warped Stems use their fungus.
🧱 Stone & Construction (12): Stone, Granite, Diorite, Andesite, Deepslate, Tuff, Calcite, Dripstone, Gravel, Sand, Red Sand, Clay
All 12 share the same layout: glass on the corners, cobblestone on the sides, a themed catalyst on top & bottom, and the output's block in the center. Red Sand uses sand on the sides; Dripstone and Clay craft with their block but produce the item (Pointed Dripstone / Clay Balls).
🎨 Colors (16): every dye in the game
Never farm flowers or squids for color again. All 16 share the same layout: glass on the corners, bone meal on the sides, that color's natural source on top & bottom (bone, ink sac, poppy, cactus, cocoa beans…), and the dye itself in the center.
🌿 Nature (8): Amethyst, Honeycomb, Glow Lichen, Moss, Spore Blossom, Big Dripleaf, Flowering Azalea, Resin
Living Overworld nature: amethyst without hunting a geode, honeycomb without a hive, spore blossoms (vanilla never lets you grow them) and resin without a Creaking Heart. All 8 share the same layout: glass on the corners, vines on the sides, that resource's natural source on top & bottom (calcite, honey bottle, bone meal, moss carpet, moss block, small dripleaf, azalea, pale oak log), and the item itself in the center.
🔥 Nether (10): Netherrack, Blackstone, Basalt, Soul Sand, Soul Soil, Magma, Nether Wart, Glowstone, Wither Rose, Nether Star
Build with Nether blocks without living in the Nether: netherrack, blackstone, basalt, soul sand and soul soil at full speed, magma, nether wart and endless glowstone dust, plus the prizes: the Wither Rose and the Nether Star (one per hour, stores up to 8). All 10 share the same layout: glass on the corners, obsidian on the sides, that resource's source on top & bottom (flint and steel, gold ingot, blue ice, nether wart, bone block, magma cream, soul sand, glowstone, wither skeleton skull), and the item itself in the center. The Nether Star generator asks for a Nether Star and two Wither Skeleton Skulls: you fight the Wither twice.
⚠️ Important Notes
Compatible with:
- ✅ Achievements: the add-on does not disable achievements (since v1.2.1); your world must still qualify on its own
- ✅ Vibrant Visuals & PBR packs: enabling the add-on does not turn them off
- ✅ Realms: including custom recipe packs
- ✅ Auto-output: generators push their buffer into a container placed directly below (chest, barrel, hopper, dropper, dispenser, shulker box); a hopper below chains onward like vanilla
Not compatible with:
- ❌ Hoppers pulling from the generator itself: use the container-below auto-output instead
- ❌ Redstone: no redstone control
- ❌ Pistons: cannot be pushed/moved
- ❌ Comparators: no comparator output
This is a standalone generator system focused on simple, reliable passive production.
📋 Requirements
- Minecraft Bedrock Edition: 1.26.50 or higher (older devices: v1.4.0 stays available for 1.26.30+, v1.2.1 for 1.21.130+)
- Both packs required: Behavior Pack + Resource Pack (activate the Behavior Pack and the Resource Pack joins automatically)
- No experimental features needed!
Also available for Minecraft Java
A Java Edition version of Idle Generators is available as a mod on CurseForge.
📜 Version History
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v1.5.0: Nether
- 🔥 Nether set: 10 new generators (Netherrack, Blackstone, Basalt, Soul Sand, Soul Soil, Magma Block, Nether Wart, Glowstone, Wither Rose & Nether Star)
- 🌳 Woods +3: Poplar, Crimson Stem & Warped Stem: 69 total
- ✏️ Custom recipes through the online Recipe Editor
- 🖼️ New pack icon · ⚠️ minimum game version raised to 1.26.50 (v1.4.0 remains available for 1.26.30+)
v1.4.0: Nature
- 🌿 Nature set: 8 new generators (Amethyst, Honeycomb, Glow Lichen, Moss, Spore Blossom, Big Dripleaf, Flowering Azalea & Resin): 56 total
- 🎛️ Nature switch in the world's Behavior Packs settings and in
/idlegen:config· 8 new HUD glyphs
v1.3.0: Automation & Control
- 🎨 Colors set: 16 new dye generators: 48 total
- 📦 Auto-output into a container placed directly below (hopper-chainable)
- 🎛️ Pack switches in the world's Behavior Packs settings · 🔀
/idlegen:configper-generator menu - ⚠️ Minimum game version raised to 1.26.30 (v1.2.1 remains available for 1.21.130+)
v1.2.0: Stone & Construction
- 🧱 12 new generators: Stone, Granite, Diorite, Andesite, Deepslate, Tuff, Calcite, Dripstone, Gravel, Sand, Red Sand & Clay: 32 total
- 🔨 New recipe layout · 🖥️ 12 new HUD icons · ✨ Vibrant Visuals fix
v1.1.0: Recovery & Expansion
- 🌳 Wood set: 8 new log generators + Oak now craftable (9 total)
- 🖥️ HUD action-bar readout · ⚙️ Netherite recipe no longer needs a Dragon Egg · 🐛 withdrawal drains the full buffer
v1.0.0: Initial Release
- 11 mineral generators (Cobblestone → Netherite), offline generation, animated visual entities, English & Spanish
🎮 Perfect For
- ✅ Skyblock worlds
- ✅ Survival & long-term worlds
- ✅ Multiplayer servers and Realms
- ✅ AFK resource farming
💬 Support & Feedback
Found a bug or have a suggestion? Leave a comment, feedback is always welcome!
Enjoy idle resource generation! 🌟
Idle Generators Team
