Wayfarer Recipes

Wayfarer Recipes adds crafting recipes for rare items that usually come from exploration, combat, or loot. It’s designed for Minecraft: Java Edition 26.1 and newer and uses vanilla ingredients—no mods or resource packs required.

The recipes offer new ways to obtain survival items while keeping their costs tied to their themes and progression. Powerful rewards call for valuable materials or ingredients from later adventures.

Recipe catalog

In the grids below, each letter stands for the item listed beside it. A space means an empty slot.

Early game and exploration

Iron horse armor — 7 iron ingots
Golden horse armor — 7 gold ingots
Diamond horse armor — 7 diamonds

I _ I
I I I
I _ I

Use the matching material for each recipe: iron ingot (I), gold ingot (I), or diamond (I).

Sniffer egg — 8 moss blocks around 1 turtle egg

M M M
M T M
M M M

M = moss block · T = turtle egg

Nautilus shell — 4 prismarine shards and 1 copper ingot

_ P _
P C P
_ P _

P = prismarine shard · C = copper ingot

Echo shard — 8 sculk blocks around 1 amethyst shard

S S S
S A S
S S S

S = sculk · A = amethyst shard

Goat horns — 4 copper ingots and 4 amethyst shards
There is one recipe for each of the eight instruments: ponder, sing, seek, feel, admire, call, yearn, and dream. Each recipe produces a horn with the matching instrument.

C A C
A _ A
C A C

C = copper ingot · A = amethyst shard

Pottery sherds — 4 clay balls and one pattern-themed ingredient
Each recipe produces the sherd matching its listed ingredient.

_ C _
C I C
_ C _

C = clay ball · I = pattern ingredient

Mid game

Shulker shell — 4 chorus fruit, 4 ender pearls, and 1 purpur block

C E C
E P E
C E C

C = chorus fruit · E = ender pearl · P = purpur block

Trident — 4 prismarine shards, 1 prismarine crystal, 1 diamond, and 1 blaze rod

S P S
S D S
_ R _

S = prismarine shard · P = prismarine crystal · D = diamond · R = blaze rod

Heart of the sea — 8 nautilus shells around 1 diamond

S S S
S D S
S S S

S = nautilus shell · D = diamond

Experience bottle — 8 emeralds around 1 glass bottle

E E E
E B E
E E E

E = emerald · B = glass bottle

Ominous bottle — 4 bones, 4 emeralds, and 1 glass bottle

B E B
E G E
B E B

B = bone · E = emerald · G = glass bottle

Trial key — 4 copper ingots and 1 breeze rod

_ C _
C B C
_ C _

C = copper ingot · B = breeze rod

Ominous trial key — 2 diamonds, 2 ominous bottles, and 1 trial key

_ D _
B T B
_ D _

D = diamond · B = ominous bottle · T = trial key

Music discs — 8 diamonds around the listed themed ingredient
Each recipe makes the disc named in the table. Music Disc 5 keeps its vanilla recipe.

D D D
D I D
D D D

D = diamond · I = themed ingredient

Mob heads and skulls — 8 themed materials around the listed core ingredient

M M M
M C M
M M M

M = themed material · C = core ingredient

Late game

Heavy core — 4 netherite ingots, 4 breeze rods, and 1 diamond

N B N
B D B
N B N

N = netherite ingot · B = breeze rod · D = diamond

Enchanted golden apple — 8 diamonds around 1 apple

D D D
D A D
D D D

D = diamond · A = apple

Totem of Undying — 3 emerald blocks, 3 gold blocks, and 1 enchanted golden apple

E G E
G A G
_ E _

E = emerald block · G = gold block · A = enchanted golden apple

Dragon egg — 4 obsidian, 2 end crystals, 1 dragon’s breath, and 1 dragon head

O D O
C H C
O _ O

O = obsidian · D = dragon’s breath · C = end crystal · H = dragon head

Elytra — 6 phantom membranes around 1 netherite ingot

M _ M
M N M
M _ M

M = phantom membrane · N = netherite ingot

Vanilla recipes and exclusions

Wayfarer Recipes leaves existing vanilla recipes alone. Saddles have been craftable since Java 1.21.6, and name tags and golden dandelions are craftable in 26.1, so this pack does not add duplicate recipes for them.

The pack focuses on items available in ordinary survival. It does not add recipes for creative-only or technical blocks, or for blocks that cannot be obtained as items in survival, such as command blocks, barriers, end portal frames, spawners, budding amethyst, reinforced deepslate, trial spawners, and vaults.

Installation

1. Download and unzip wayfarer_recipes.zip, or use the included wayfarer_recipes folder.
2. Place the folder in your world’s datapacks directory.
3. Load the world and run /reload.

The recipes use vanilla ingredients and do not require a mod or resource pack.