Just Enough Items for Forge

An unofficial port of JEI (Just Enough Items) to MinecraftForge 26.2.

JEI lists every item in the game and, for any of them, shows how to make it and what it is used in. Point at an item and press R for its recipes, U for its uses.

Everything from the original mod is here: the ingredient list, recipe and usage lookup, the search bar and its filters, bookmarks, recipe transfer (the + button in a crafting screen), cheat mode, the full config screen, and the plugin API other mods use to add their own recipe categories.

Why this exists

JEI is developed for Fabric and NeoForge. There is no MinecraftForge 26.2 build, so this one was made by adapting the 26.2 sources to the Forge API. Four of JEI's five modules needed no changes at all; the port is confined to the loader module.

Recipe syncing, and what it means for servers

Since Minecraft 1.21.2 a vanilla server no longer sends full recipes to the client. NeoForge and Fabric restored that at the loader level and JEI relies on it; MinecraftForge 26.2 has no equivalent, so this port sends the recipes itself over JEI's own channel.

The practical consequence: install this on the server too. Recipes are only sent by a server that has JEI. On a server without it the client falls back to what vanilla provides, and some recipes will be missing from JEI - exactly as on a vanilla server today. Singleplayer is unaffected.

Other differences from the NeoForge build

• Fluids. Forge's FluidStack carries an NBT tag rather than data components, so two fluids that differ only by their components show up as one.
• Forge has no fluid slot display type, so a recipe that presents a fluid through that mechanism falls back to whatever its own JEI plugin provides.
• A tooltip that asks for a custom style is drawn with the default frame.
• Everything else - networking, key bindings, screen hooks, the config screen - was rewritten against Forge's own APIs and behaves the same.

Installation

Requires MinecraftForge for Minecraft 26.2. Put the jar in your mods folder; there is no other dependency. Install it on the server as well if you want full recipe coverage in multiplayer.

Credits

JEI is created and maintained by mezz. This is an unofficial port, so please do not report problems with it to the original author - use the comments here instead.

Original project: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/jei

Licence

MIT, the same licence as the original mod.