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`

[!NOTE] 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

[!IMPORTANT] 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

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