Sophisticated Advanced Crafting

📖 ABOUT

Sophisticated Advanced Crafting adds an Advanced Crafting Upgrade for Sophisticated Backpacks and for Sophisticated Storage on NeoForge. Like the stock Crafting Upgrade it gives the container a crafting tab, with a recipe book that can use what's inside. 🎒

Click a recipe and the grid fills from the backpack or chest and from your own inventory together. With the backpack upgrade, crafting tables in the world can pull from your backpack too. 🛠️

One jar covers both mods and replaces the separate backpack and storage versions. Install it next to whichever Sophisticated mods you already use. 🧩

It runs on Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2 and 26.2, with a matching NeoForge file for each version. 🗂️

🆕 New in 1.0.6: the green recipe book now opens even when the backpack fills the screen, as on short GUI scales or ultrawide monitors with auto GUI scale. On 1.21.1 it is built for Sophisticated Core 1.5.7, Backpacks 3.26.9 and Storage 1.6.2. The 1.0.6 update is out for every supported version.

📚 FEATURES

• 🔀 Dual-source crafting: The recipe book in the upgrade tab places ingredients from the container and your inventory at once.
• 🪵 World crafting tables: With the backpack upgrade in your backpack, the recipe book at a regular crafting table can use the backpack's items.
• 📗 Floating recipe book: Opens in the free space beside the screen and never covers storage slots, your inventory or the hotbar. Closed by default. The green toggle sits off the craft grid.
• 📐 Works on any GUI scale: When the backpack fills the window, the book opens to the left of the backpack, clear of JEI, and its category tabs may run off the screen edge. It draws above the backpack slots so it stays clickable.
• 🎒 Two upgrades: The backpack version needs Sophisticated Backpacks and the storage version needs Sophisticated Storage. You only get the ones whose mod is installed.
• 🎨 Easy to tell apart: The backpack upgrade has a copper and gold icon, the storage upgrade a wood and gold one.
• 💎 Simple shaped recipe: a diamond on top, gold ingot, stock Crafting Upgrade, gold ingot in the middle, and 3 redstone along the bottom.
• ⚠️ One crafting upgrade per container: It can't sit in the same backpack or storage as the stock Crafting Upgrade.

📷 MEDIA

📦 INSTALLATION

⏩ INSTALL ON BOTH CLIENT AND SERVER (NEOFORGE)

⏩ MINECRAFT 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2 AND 26.2. PICK THE FILE FOR YOUR VERSION

⏩ REQUIRES SOPHISTICATED CORE FOR YOUR MINECRAFT VERSION (1.21.1 FILE BUILT AGAINST 1.5.7)

⏩ OPTIONAL: SOPHISTICATED BACKPACKS (1.21.1 FILE BUILT AGAINST 3.26.9), FOR THE BACKPACK UPGRADE

⏩ OPTIONAL: SOPHISTICATED STORAGE (1.21.1 FILE BUILT AGAINST 1.6.2), FOR THE STORAGE UPGRADE

Install at least one of Sophisticated Backpacks or Sophisticated Storage, or there is nothing to upgrade. Each file's changelog lists the Sophisticated versions it was built against.

Only the Minecraft 1.21.1 build has been thoroughly tested. If you find a bug on another version, please leave a comment with the Minecraft version, a screenshot, and a short description of the bug. 🐞

⚙️ CONFIGURATION

There is no config file; nothing is created in .minecraft/config/. The two upgrade recipes are ordinary datapack recipes in data/sophisticated_advanced_crafting/recipe/, so a datapack can change them.

Item ids and build notes are in the README.md on GitHub.

Renzo is actively working on Sophisticated Advanced Crafting and welcomes feedback, bug reports and ideas in the comments. 💬

© 2026 Renzo. Released under the MIT License.