In Minecraft, if you have an useless piece of armor or tool, you can smelt it in a furnace to retrieve some of the items used to craft it. But the returns are often very cheap and not worth it. Advanced Recycling Mod is here to improve this aspect of the game. This mod increases the returns on smelting useless items, and also makes some more items recyclable. The mod mainly focuses on items crafted using iron and gold. Items that have four or more iron in their crafting recipe will return an entire ingot upon being smelted. Items such as hoppers, cauldrons, iron bars, horse armor and bells are now recyclable.
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Features:
- Increases the rewards on smelting useless items.
- Mainly focus on iron and gold.
- Items that have more than four iron ingots in their recipe will return one ingot.
- Expands the list of recyclable items.
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Advanced Recycling Mod Download Links
For All Versions from Minecraft 1.14.4 to Minecraft 1.21.1
Forge/Fabric/Quilt version: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.20.1
- 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: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 200277.mcaddon
- Download size: 121 KB
- Download link checked 29 Jul 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.