Crafting guide

A crafting guide is a GUI element which the player can use to look up which items are neccessary to craft a certain item by providing crafting recipes. A crafting guide may also include smelting recipes, but not neccessarily so. Many games already bring their own crafting guide. A notable exception is Minetest Game.

For games without a crafting guide, you can add one by installing and using a crafting guide mod (see below).

List of crafting guide mods

Name	Shortname	Access	Maximum recipe size	Shaped	Shapeless	Output count	Groups	Cooking	Fuels	Replacements	Repairing	Extras
Crafting Guide	craftguide	Book item, craft sign, inventory menu	8×8	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Reverse crafting guide, search, bookmarks, block drops, optional “Progressive Mode” (only shows recipes from items ever had in inventory), command to show recipes for pointed node, API to register non-standard recipes, API to register recipe filters, API to register search filters, etc.
Unified Inventory	unified_inventory	Inventory menu	16×16	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic	No	No	No	Reverse crafting guide, block drops, search, move items into crafting grid, shows itemstring
Smart Inventory	smart_inventory	Inventory menu	3×3	Yes	l.s.	Yes	Yes	Basic	Yes	Broken	No	Search, filter, move items into craft grid, shows itemstring
Zeg9's craft guide	zcg	Inventory menu	3×3	Yes	l.s.	No	Poor	Basic	No	No	No	History
Craft Guide Mod Renewed	cgmr	Craft sign, craft PC	5×5	Yes	l.s.	No	Poor	Basic	No	No	No	Bookmarks, search, shows itemstring
Craft Guide	craft_guide	Craft sign, craft PC	3×3	Yes	l.s.	Yes	Poor	Basic	No	No	No	Bookmarks, search

Meaning of the columns

• Access: How the crafting guide is accessed
• Maximum recipe size: The maximum supported size of shaped crafting recipes before this mod fails. It is probably safe to say that supporting recipes of a size of up to 5×5 is more than enough, as larger recipes would become too unwieldy
• Shaped: Supports shaped recipes
• Shapeless:
  • Yes: Supports shapeless recipes and clearly distinguishes them from shaped recipes
  • l.s.: “like shaped”. Shapeless is supported, but there is no indication that these recipes are shapeless
• Output count: Whether the output count of all recipes is displayed correctly
• Cooking:
  • Yes: Supports cooking recipes and shows cooking times for cooked items
  • Basic: Supports cooking recipes
• Groups
  • Yes: Group slots are clearly distinguished and the required group (or groups) are mentioned correctly
  • Partial: Group slots are correctly distinguished, but it is not directly clear to the user or the group names are not correctly accessible
  • Poor: Only concrete (but correct) recipes are given for group-based recipes
  • No: Group-based recipes are broken
• Fuels: Lists available fuels
  • Yes: Shows available fuels with burning time
  • Basic: Shows available fuels
• Replacements: Support for recipes in which one item is replaced with another after crafting
• Repairing: Displays the special tool repairing recipe (and repair bonus)

List of games with crafting guide

For the following games, you do not need to manually enable a crafting guide mod, as they already bring their own crafting guide:

• Aftermath
• Big Freaking Dig
• Carbone NG
• Cobalt
• Eden2
• Extreme Survival
• Dwarves
• Farlands
• Legend of Minetest
• Lord of the Test
• LOTH
• MineClone 2
• Minetest Hades
• Minetest Preindustrial
• Minetest TNG
• Pixture
• Regnum
• rpgtest
• Spiffy
• Spacetest
• Technic
• Test the beast
• VoxBox
• Voxelgarden
• Voxiworld
• Wasteland TNG