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Craftable Netherite

by Community

Adds alternative recipes for netherite upgrade templates, making them renewable. Reduces the grind for upgrading diamond gear.

Overview

Craftable Netherite tackles the netherite upgrade template bottleneck by adding a recipe that makes the smithing template obtainable through crafting rather than bastion looting alone. With netherrack and diamonds among the ingredients, players can produce templates at a balanced cost and keep upgrading diamond gear without raiding bastion remnants repeatedly. The templates remain duplicatable, so the supply stays renewable once you have one. It eases the grind while leaving the smithing upgrade process itself unchanged.

It suits survival worlds and players who dislike the bastion grind and want a renewable path to netherite upgrade templates. It comes from Community, sits in the Crafting category, and is rated a simple, drop-in pack to run. Everything happens through vanilla data pack functions, so no mod loader such as Fabric or Forge is required to use it on Minecraft 1.20 through 1.21.4.

Category
Crafting
Complexity
Simple
Install Method
World & Server
Popularity
Popular

Features

How It Works

Under the hood, Craftable Netherite relies on plain data pack mechanics rather than any client mod. Here is what happens in-game once it is loaded:

  1. 1Adds a crafting recipe that outputs the netherite upgrade smithing template directly.
  2. 2The recipe consumes ingredients including netherrack and diamonds at a tuned cost.
  3. 3Vanilla template duplication still works, keeping the supply renewable after the first one.
  4. 4Smithing table upgrading of diamond to netherite gear continues to behave normally.

Supported Versions

1.201.20.11.20.41.211.21.4

Compatibility

Compatible with most data packs.

  • Conflicts with packs that redefine the same netherite upgrade template recipe, since recipes cannot stack.
  • Compatible with most recipe packs that add unrelated crafting, leaving the template recipe free.
  • Pairs safely with loot and trade packs because it only introduces a crafting recipe.

Craftable Netherite is a pure data pack and does not ship a resource pack, so it changes server-side behaviour without altering textures, models or sounds on the client.

Tags

netheritecraftingupgradetemplates

How to Install

Craftable Netherite installs as a standard Java Edition data pack and runs on both singleplayer worlds and multiplayer servers. Recent 1.21 releases bumped the data pack format, so keep the pack's pack.mcmeta in step with your server version.

  1. 1.Download the Craftable Netherite pack as a .zip and keep it zipped.
  2. 2.Open the target world folder — a singleplayer save under .minecraft/saves, or the world folder on your server.
  3. 3.Drop the .zip into that world's datapacks folder, creating the folder if it does not exist.
  4. 4.Load the world (or run /reload if it is already open) and run /datapack list to confirm it is enabled.

The pack is built for Minecraft 1.20 through 1.21.4, so it loads on vanilla Java without Fabric, Forge or any other mod loader. It is a safe drop-in that adds new recipes only, so existing items and worlds are unaffected by installation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which Minecraft versions support Craftable Netherite?

It supports Java Edition 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.4, 1.21, and 1.21.4.

Do I need any mods to craft the template?

No. It is a vanilla data pack that runs server-side with no mod loader or resource pack.

What does this pack let me craft?

It adds a recipe for the netherite upgrade smithing template, making it renewable through crafting.

What ingredients does the recipe use?

The recipe uses ingredients including netherrack and diamonds at a balanced cost.

Can the templates still be duplicated?

Yes. The templates remain duplicatable, so you can renew your supply once you have one.

Does it change how I upgrade gear to netherite?

No. The smithing table upgrade process is unchanged; only template acquisition becomes easier.

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