Seams and Stitches

Summary

This mod adds interactive sewing to Minecraft. It introduces a Tailoring Bench where players craft items by stitching along seam paths in a minigame. Hit more stitches within the timing window to produce higher-quality results. Mastering a pattern unlocks Quick Craft, letting you skip the minigame for repeat crafts. How many completions are required before mastery is unlocked is configurable per recipe.

A Needle and Scissors are required to use the bench. Both are craftable.

Quality Tiers

Each completed craft is graded based on the fraction of stitches hit and how precisely they were timed:

If fewer stitches are hit than the poor threshold, the craft fails entirely and no item is produced.

Quality tiers can grant per-attribute bonuses defined in quality_bonuses. Attribute values are set explicitly per tier, replacing the item's vanilla default for that attribute.

Instructions for Use

1. Folder Structure

To add custom sewing recipes, place them in the following path inside your modpack or data pack:

modpack_name/
└── data/
    └── seamsandstitches/
        └── recipe/

2. JSON Recipe Structure

Each custom recipe must be its own individual JSON file and can be named anything you like.

Top-level fields:

Seam fields:

Quality breakpoints fields (quality_breakpoints):

Quality bonus fields (quality_bonuses is a list of these):

The quality bonus replaces the item's vanilla default for that attribute rather than adding to it.

3. Example Recipe

{
  "type": "seamsandstitches:sewing_pattern",
  "texture": "minecraft:textures/item/leather_helmet.png",
  "output": {
    "id": "minecraft:leather_helmet",
    "count": 1
  },
  "ingredients": [
    { "item": "minecraft:leather" },
    { "item": "minecraft:leather" },
    { "item": "minecraft:leather" },
    { "item": "minecraft:leather" },
    { "item": "minecraft:leather" }
  ],
  "seams": [
    {
      "id": "crown",
      "path": [[4,11],[3,10],[3,9],[3,8],[3,7],[3,6],[3,5],[4,4],[5,3],[6,3],[7,3],[8,3],[9,3],[10,3],[11,4],[12,5],[12,6],[12,7],[12,8],[12,9],[12,10],[11,11]],
      "speed": 2,
      "lead_in": 0.4,
      "lead_out": 0.4,
      "perfect_window": 0.05
    },
    {
      "id": "left_strap",
      "path": [[6,4],[6,5],[6,6],[7,7],[6,7],[5,8],[5,9],[5,10],[5,11]],
      "speed": 2,
      "lead_in": 0.4,
      "lead_out": 0.4,
      "perfect_window": 0.05
    }
  ],
  "quality_breakpoints": {
    "poor": 0.25,
    "well": 0.5,
    "expert": 0.75,
    "master": 1.0
  },
  "quality_bonuses": [
    {
      "attribute": "minecraft:generic.armor",
      "slot": "head",
      "poor": 0,
      "well": 1,
      "expert": 2,
      "master": 3
    }
  ]
}

4. Upgrade Recipe (Container Content Transfer)

When upgrading a container item — such as a wallet or shulker box — use deferred_ingredients to keep the source item in the bench until the craft completes, and transfer_contents to carry its stored contents onto the new item.

The deferred ingredient index refers to its position in the ingredients array (0-based). In the example below, index 0 is the copper wallet.

{
  "type": "seamsandstitches:sewing_pattern",
  "texture": "lightmanscurrency:textures/item/wallet/wallet_copper.png",
  "output": {
    "id": "lightmanscurrency:wallet_iron",
    "count": 1
  },
  "ingredients": [
    { "item": "lightmanscurrency:wallet_copper" },
    { "item": "minecraft:iron_ingot" },
    { "item": "minecraft:iron_ingot" }
  ],
  "deferred_ingredients": [0],
  "transfer_contents": true,
  "seams": [
    {
      "id": "stitching",
      "path": [[4,4],[5,4],[6,4],[7,4],[8,4],[9,4],[10,4],[11,4],[11,5],[11,6],[11,7],[11,8],[10,9],[9,9],[8,9],[7,9],[6,9],[5,9],[4,9],[4,8],[4,7],[4,6],[4,5]],
      "speed": 2.0,
      "lead_in": 0.4,
      "lead_out": 0.4,
      "perfect_window": 0.05
    }
  ]
}

How it works:

• The copper wallet (index 0) stays in the bench when the minigame starts. If the player cancels, the wallet is returned.
• On successful completion, the wallet's contents are transmuted onto the iron wallet output before the copper wallet is consumed.
• The remaining ingredients (iron ingots) are consumed immediately when the craft starts as normal.

Configuration

Config file: config/seamsandstitches-common.toml

Recipe Overrides

When enabled, the specified items can no longer be crafted at a crafting table and must instead be made at the Tailoring Bench.

Overridable recipe IDs:

• Armor: leather_helmet, leather_chestplate, leather_leggings, leather_boots, leather_horse_armor
• Items: book, painting

General Options

Debug Options

Default Recipes