Misc Minecraft Datapacks

All packs work with java edition only and are compatible with version 1.16. To install to your minecraft world simply place the zipped folders in the "datapacks" folder in your save file for each world you want to use it with. Do not put in your "resourcepacks" folder

Balanced Additional Crafting: this datapack was made with the goal of making crafting more rewarding by increasing the amount of items from certain expensive recipes or making the recipe cheaper for items that do not make sense to be expensive in the first place. It also adds recipes to some items that did not previously have recipes.

• Trapdoor recipes from planks give 12 items
• Rail, powered rail, activator rail, and detector rail recipes give 16 items
• Cobweb can be crafted with 9 string
• Crying obsidian can be crafted with 1 obsidian and 4 lapis lazuli
• Horse armors can be crafted with 7 of the appropriate item
• Dispenser recipe requires 1 string instead of 1 bow
• Elytra can be crafted with 1 popped chorus fruit and 6 phantom membrane
• Enchanted golden apples (aka Hatsune Miku apples) can be crafted with 1 apple and 8 gold blocks
• Fermented spider eye recipe requires 1 brown mushroom OR 1 red mushroom
• Hay block recipe only requires 4 wheat and hay block to wheat recipe only gives 4 wheat
• Hopper recipe gives 6 items
• Iron trapdoor recipe gives 4 items
• Lead recipe requires 5 string and no slimeball
• Lodestone recipe requires 1 redstone instead of 1 netherite ingot
• Name tags can be crafted with 1 string and 1 paper
• Netherite ingot recipe requires 3 netherite scrap, 3 gold ingots, and 3 nether bricks
• Piston recipe gives 4 items
• Saddles can be crafted with 3 leather and 1 iron ingot
• Shulker shells can be crafted with 5 purpur blocks
• Sticky piston recipe requires 1 slimeball OR 1 honey bottle
• Tridents can be crafted with 2 diamonds and 3 nautilus shells

Balanced and Cleaner Mob Drops: This datapack was created with the goal of making certain rare drops easier to obtain. Certain mobs are either difficult to farm or hunt. This datapack makes hunting those mobs more rewarding which makes the challenge fun rather than tedious. Also it makes skeletons and strays drop flint since I felt the arrow recipe is one of the least used in the game and yet one of the most satisfying. Lastly it removes a lot of unnecessary "rare drops" that are not unique items and really just end up clogging up your inventory.

• Drowned do not drop gold ingots
• Drowned drop tridents with an 5.5% chance and an additional 1% chance with each level of looting (this is the same chance they have on bedrock to drop tridents. They can also drop their equiped trident like normal)
• Ghasts drop 1-2 ghast tears or 1-5 ghast tears with looting III
• Rabbits drop 0-1 rabbit foot or 0-3 rabbit foot with looting III
• Shulkers always drop 2 shulker shells
• Skeletons and strays drop flint instead of arrows at the same rates.
• Wither skeletons have a 2% chance of dropping a wither skull and each level of looting gives a 9% increased chance. At looting III there is a 20% chance of getting a skull (wither skeleton farms are tedious, boring, and not reasonable for a casual player to build. beacons are cool and fun and having absurd amounts of them is a blast. however, they're still expensive due to the materials needed for the base)
• Zombies, Zombie villagers, and husks no longer have strange rare drops like iron ingots or potatoes. They are only useful if you are playing skyblock.

Balanced Ores: The goal of this datapack is to provide a manual alternative to gold and iron farms. By making gold and iron ore blocks drop an item and allowing fortune to be applied it increases the amount of gold and iron received from mining. Paired with "Balanced additional crafting" these two datapacks make iron and gold farms obsolete for any but the most technical of players. And even then sometimes it still doesn't feel like enough when compared to the ease and sheer volume of an iron farm.....

• Gold ore blocks drop 1 gold nugget when mined
• Iron ore blocks drop 1-3 iron nuggets when mined
• Nether gold ore blocks drop 1-3 gold nuggets when mined
• Gold nuggets smelt into gold ingots
• Iron nuggets smelt into iron ingots
• Gold nuggets cannot be crafted into or from gold ingots
• Iron nuggets cannot be crafted into or from iron ingots
• Gold items cannot be smelted into gold nuggets
• Iron items cannot be smelted into iron nuggets
• Zombified piglins drop gold ingots more often but no longer drop gold nuggets. (gold is still acquired at approximately the same normal rates, but the step of crafting the ingots is no longer necessary).
• Chain recipe requires 3 ingots and gives 3 items
• Glistering melon recipe requires 1 gold ingot and 1 melon slice
• Lantern recipe requires 1 iron ingot and 1 torch
• Soul lantern recipe requires 1 iron ingot and 1 soul torch

No Furnace Only Recipes: Adds several new recipes to the blast furnace and smoker for items that could only be smelted in a furnace.

• Glazed terracotta (all variants) in blast furnace
• Bricks in blast furnace
• Charcoal in blast furnace
• Cracked stone bricks in blast furnace
• Glass in blast furnace
• Green Dye in Smoker
• Lime Dye in Smoker
• Nether Brick in blast furnace
• Smooth stone in blast furnace
• Popped Chorus Fruit in Smoker
• Sponge in Smoker
• Stone in blast furnace
• Terracotta in blast furnace

Smithing Table Upgrades: This datapack allows lower tier armors and tools to be upgraded on the smithing table using the higher tier item in the second slot. For example, placing an enchanted iron chestplate in the left slot and a diamond chestplate in the right slot will output a diamond chestplate with the iron chestplate's enchants. It also allows chainmail armor to be crafted with leather armor on the left, and an iron ingot in the right slot.

• Chainmail Armor can upgraded to iron armor
• Gold armor can be upgraded to diamond armor
• Gold tools can be upgraded to diamond tools
• Iron armor can be upgraded to diamond armor
• Iron tools can be upgraded to diamond tools
• Leather armor can be upgraded to chainmail armor using an iron ingot
• Stone tools can be upgraded to iron tools
• Wooden tools can be upgraded to stone tools