The earth is not a cold dead place.

Adds intuitive vanilla+ crafting recipes, fuels, composts, material recovery, and uncraftable recipes that feel like they should already exist.

The earth is not a cold dead place.


Focused on making the existing world more useful. Recover materials from blocks, harvest overlooked resources, make use of decorative plants, and craft items that previously had no recipe. From breaking materials back down into their components to discovering new survival uses for common resources, Practicality expands Minecraft's crafting and resource systems while staying true to the vanilla experience.

 

New Compostables

Bamboo

Books

Cobweb

Dead Bush

Feather

Leather

Paper

Poisonous Potato

Rotten Flesh

Sponge

String

Wet Sponge

Wool

 

New Crafting Recipes

Any Coal → Black Dye

Any Sandstone ×8 → Furnace

Any Sandstone + Stick → Stone Tools

Any Sapling → 2 Sticks

Any Tier Material ×7 → Horse Armor

Bamboo ×3 → 3 Paper

Bone ×9 → Bone Block

Bucket + Magma Block → Lava Bucket

Bucket + Snow Block → Powder Snow Bucket

Charcoal ×9 → Coal Block

Clay Block → 4 Clay Balls

Cobweb → 4 String

Cobweb + Bone ×5 → Skeleton Skull

Dead Bush → 2 Sticks

Emerald ×2 + Gold Ingot ×4 + Soul Sand → Totem of Undying

Fern → 2 Sticks

Glass Bottle + Cactus → Water Bottle

Grass → Seeds

Grass ×2 → String

Honeycomb → 2 Sugar

Honeycomb + Glass Bottle → Honey Bottle

Iron Nuggets → Chainmail Armor

Leather ×3 + Iron Nuggets ×2 → Saddle

Lily Pad → Green Dye

Milk Bucket + String → Candle

Moss Block + Gunpowder ×5 → Creeper Head

Mud → Brown Dye

Nether Wart ×9 → Nether Wart Block

Paper + String → Name Tag

Pufferfish + Bowl → Random Suspicious Stew

Saddle → 3 Leather

Sea Grass → Seeds

Sea Grass ×2 → String

Snow Block → 4 Snowballs

Stick ×4 → Planks

String ×4 → Cobweb

Tall Grass → 2 Seeds

Tall Grass ×2 → 2 String

Twisting Vine + Glass Bottle → Water Bottle

Twisting Vines ×2 → String

Vine + Glass Bottle → Water Bottle

Vines ×2 → String

Water Bucket + Dirt → Mud

Water Bucket + Snow Block → Ice Block

Weeping Vine + Glass Bottle → Water Bottle

Weeping Vines ×2 → String

Wool → 4 String

Bone Block + Rotten Flesh ×5 → Zombie Head

Glowstone + Item Frame → Glowing Item Frame

Feathers x9 → Wool

Copper x6 + Stick → Rail x16

Copper x6 + Stick x2 + Redstone Torch → Activator Rail x6

Copper x6 + Stone Pressure Plate + Redstone Dust → Detector Rail x6

Cactus → Slimeball

Glow Ink Sac → Glowstone Dust x2

 

New Block Drops

All Grasses → Themselves

All Vines → Themselves

Dead Bush → Itself

Fern → Itself

Glowstone → Itself

Tall Seagrass → 2 Seagrass

 

New Furnace & Campfire Recipes

Clay Ball → Brick

Clay Block → Terracotta

Mud → Dirt

Powder Snow Bucket → Water Bucket

Wet Sponge → Sponge

 

New Fuel Sources - (1= fuel smelts 1 full item)

Big Dripleaf → 0.5

Bone → 0.5

Bone Block → 4.5

Book → 1.25

Book and Quill → 1.5

Dead Bush → 1.0

Feather → 0.25

Fern → 0.5

Hay Bale → 4.5

Leather → 0.5

Lily Pad → 0.5

Paper → 0.25

Small Dripleaf → 0.25

Twisting Vines → 0.5

Vines → 0.5

Weeping Vines → 0.5

Wheat → 0.5

 

New Cooking Recipes

Apple → Sugar

Chorus Fruit → Popped Chorus Fruit

Egg → Cooked Egg - (uses vanilla egg texture to be compatible with texture packs)

Glow Berries → Sugar

Melon Slice → Sugar

Rotten Flesh → Leather

Spider Eye → Fermented Spider Eye

Sweet Berries → Sugar

 

New Brewing Recipes

Poisonous Potato + Water Bottle → Awkward Potion

 

New Stonecutter Recipes

Amethyst Block → 4 Amethyst Shards

Blue Ice → 9 Packed Ice

Bone Block → 9 Bones

Bricks → 4 Bricks

Coal Block → 9 Coal

Cobblestone → Gravel

Deepslate → Cobbled Deepslate

Dried Kelp Block → 9 Dried Kelp

Glowstone → 4 Glowstone Dust

Gravel → Flint

Honeycomb Block → 4 Honeycomb

Ice → 4 Snowballs

Magma Block → Blaze Powder

Mud Bricks → 4 Packed Mud

Nether Bricks → 4 Nether Bricks

Nether Wart Block → 9 Nether Wart

Packed Ice → 9 Ice

Packed Mud → Mud

Purpur Block → 4 Popped Chorus Fruit

Quartz Block → 4 Nether Quartz

Sandstone → 4 Sand

Stone → Cobblestone

Stripped Birch Log → 4 Paper

Stripped Birch Wood → 16 Paper

 

Wood Processing

At the stonecutter any wood planks can be converted into:

Doors

Fence Gates

Fences

Slabs

Stairs

Trapdoors

 

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