What is it?

This plugin is light-weight plugin for creating new Recipes.
It can create Crafting-Recipes using name, lore and enchants of an Item.
It's tested and created for Bukkit 1.8.8
THIS PLUGIN NEEDS JAVA 8!

Configuration:

The Configuration is pretty simple. You can declare your Items in a seperate yml file.
This file has to be in the folder: 'plugins/ExtendedRecipes/recipes'.
In such a file you can create as many recipes as you like.
You can also make as many yml files in this folder (including subfolder).

To the configuration of a recipe:
A recipe consists of many parts:

result (Item you get at the end)
needed items (the items you need for crafting)
shaped (if the recipe is shaped)
commands (to execute after created)
money (to pull of the player when crafting)
permission (to check when crafting)

Here a small demo, what can be done:

recipe1:
  name: 'TestRecipe42'
  shaped: true
  permission: 'craft.applesword'
  money: 10
  commands:
  - 'broadcast @p has a applesword'
  needs:
    0:
      type: APPLE
      damage: 0
      amount: 3
      name: '&aApple'
      lore:
      - '&cMade by Apple'
    4:
      type: APPLE
      damage: 0
      amount: 3
      name: '&aApple'
      lore:
      - '&cMade by Apple'
    8:
      type: WOOD
      damage: 0
      amount: 3
  result:
    type: STONE_SWORD
    damage: 0
    name: '&aApple Sword'
    lore:
    - '&aThink different'
    enchants:
    - 'DAMAGE_ALL:3'

AppleSword
See the screenshot for the example.

To the content:
A recipe always needs (not optional!):

name
result
items for building

As seen in the Example above, the root name is not relevant.

recipe1:
  ....

This can be anything.
The next part is the needs.
Here are the parts that are needed for the recipe.
It is important to know if you are doing a shaped recipe or a shapeless recipe.
If you are doing a shapeless recipe, the names for the items are not important (here item1, item2, ...).
Example:

recipe1:
  needs:
    item1:
      ...
    item2:
      ...

If you are doing a shaped recipe, the name of the items is important. They have to be 0,1,2,...,8. They stand for the place in the crafting matrix.
Crafting-Matrix:
0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8

Here is an example (look also at the example at the start):

recipe1:
  needs:
    0:
      ...
    2:
      ...
    4:
      ...
    6:
      ...
    8:
      ...

The above would make a cross. (... are item definations. See below).

Item definitions:
Items are defined as following (no matter if needs or result):

....
  item:
    type: APPLE  #The type of the Item. Can be the names (see below) or the itemID 
    damage: 0      #The damage value of the item. For damagable items (swords, armor, ...) please use -1
    amount: 1       #The amout of the item needed / given away.
    name: '&aApple' #The name of the item. 
    lore:                  #The lore of the Item that is used / needed
    - '&cMade by Apple'  #A line of the Lore
    enchants:             #The enchants needed
    - 'DAMAGE_ALL:4' #The enchants. Consistent of name:level. For enchantment name (see below).

Item names can be found here: item names.
Enchantments can be found here: enchantment names

The next category is the result.
The result is the item shown in the Crafting table.
Example:

recipe1:
  result:
    type: APPLE
    amount: 2
    ..... (see item declaration above)

There are furthor parameters to set.

shaped: if the recipe is a shaped recipe
name: the name of the recipe
permission: the permission needed for the recipe
commands: commands executed when creating item.

To the parts:

recipe1:
  name: 'Fancy Recipe'   #The name of the recipe. NEEDED!
  shaped: true                #If the recipe is a shaped recipe. (default: false)
  permission: 'craft.something' #The permission needed for crafting. If none present, no permission is needed.
  commands:                                #The commands to execute
  - 'tell @p You got a fancy sword!'  #a command. @p is replaced by the playername
  needs:
    ....
  result:
    ...

That's most of the stuff you need to keep this going.
Have fun!

Create Recipe by GUI

I created a small GUI for creating recipes in game.
A recipe can be created with /createrecipe <recipename>.
Then you have the GUI: Create Recipe empty
There you can put items in the left 3x3 matrix for ingredients.
You have to set a result on the right side of the PlayerHead (arrow), the barrier.
The wool block in the upper right corner tells if the recipe should be a shaped or a shapeless recipe.
When you added all your stuff, you can create the recipe by clicking on the bottom right green wool.
This will also create a file in the plugin data folder (plugins/ExtendedRecipes/recipes/ByPlugin/<RecipeName>.yml).
For an example of how a recipe looks, check out the Image section.

THIS PLUGIN NEEDS JAVA 8!

FAQ

F: I get an Error: Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 (or any other version).
A: Update to java 8!
F: The Gui does not show up correctly?
A: Use Bukkit 1.8.8+.