




Pressing!
Pressing is a small datapack that lets you automate most non-renewable and some renewable items in Minecraft! It tries to stay true to the vanilla game adding no new blocks or items, only mechanics.
It adds 4 new mechanics:
- Pressing
- Flaming
- Dripping
- Planting
Pressing
Pressing lets pistons do crafting, press an item using a piston with a block from above and it will change the item!

See the gallery for recipes!
Flaming
Flaming lets campfires do crafting, simply drop items into a campfire for different results.
Examples:
- Cobblestone -> Deepslate
- Sand -> Red Sand
Dripping
Dripping lets dripstone do crafting, place items under a dripstone spike with water above it and they'll transform into something new!
Examples:
- Sand -> Dirt
- Copper -> Oxidized copper
- Hay Block -> Slimeball

Planting
Planting lets dispensers plant crops and saplings from below!

Q&A
Q: There are some items here that are already renewable, why is that?
A: Some items like redstone and shulker shells, while renewable, are very difficult to automate in the base game. Most players aren't going to want to transport a shulker to the overworld just for a shulker farm, therefore I've added recipes so they are actually reasonable to automate. Additionally, some items in vanilla require a player to be placing or breaking blocks. I've tried my best to remove semi automatic farms from the game, which is why resin clumps can be automated from eggs and dispensers can plant.
Q: Recipes?
A: Look at the gallery.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as pressing-0.1.1.zip
- Download size: 24 KB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.