♻️ Better Recycle – Minecraft Datapack

📦 Overview

Better Recycle is a quality-of-life datapack designed to make your survival experience more efficient, rewarding, and realistic. Instead of letting old or unwanted tools and armor sit uselessly in chests, this datapack allows you to recycle them back into valuable resources using smelting and blasting.

Whether you're upgrading gear or cleaning your inventory, Better Recycle ensures that nothing goes to waste.

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🔥 Core Features

🛠️ Recycling System

• Recycle tools and armor into their base materials

• Works with both furnaces and blast furnaces

• Supports a wide variety of items including:

  • Tools
  • Armor
  • Utility items

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⏱️ Cooking Methods

Every recipe comes in two versions:

Method	Cooking Time	XP Reward
Smelting	200 ticks	1.5 XP
Blasting	100 ticks	1.5 XP

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🔁 Full Recycling List

💎 Diamond Gear

All diamond tools and armor recycle into 1 Diamond:

• Axe
• Sword
• Hoe
• Pickaxe
• Shovel
• Spear
• Helmet
• Chestplate
• Leggings
• Boots

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🔥 Netherite Gear

All netherite tools and armor recycle into 1 Netherite Ingot:

• Axe
• Sword
• Hoe
• Pickaxe
• Shovel
• Spear
• Helmet
• Chestplate
• Leggings
• Boots

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🧰 Utility & Misc Items

Item	Output
Brush	1 Copper Ingot
Bundle (normal)	1 Leather
Bundle (colored)	Corresponding Dye: white, orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime, pink, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, black
Clock	2 Gold Ingots
Compass	2 Iron Ingots
Fishing Rod	1 String
Flint and Steel	1 Iron Ingot
Recovery Compass	4 Echo Shards
Shears	1 Iron Ingot
Spyglass	1 Copper Ingot

Note: Normal bundles return 1 leather, while colored bundles return a dye matching their color.

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⚖️ Balance & Gameplay

• Carefully balanced to avoid overpowered resource generation
• Encourages resource management and sustainability
• Makes exploration and looting more rewarding
• Reduces frustration from unused or damaged gear

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🎯 Why Use Better Recycle?

✔ Clean up your inventory efficiently ✔ Recover valuable materials from old gear ✔ Add realism to your Minecraft world ✔ Enhance survival gameplay without breaking balance

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🧩 Compatibility

• Works in vanilla Minecraft (Java Edition)
• No mods required
• Compatible with most other datapacks