Better Recipe Book
Adds brewing, smithing, and QOL changes to the vanilla recipe book!
Please find the mod on modrinth for the best experience!
Features
Brewing Stand Recipe Book
Smithing Table Recipe Book
Pin Commonly Used Recipes
Pin recipes to the top with a keybind
Instant Craft Toggle
Enable to craft with a single click. Hold shift to craft as many as you can.
View locked recipes
Optionally view recipes you have yet to unlock. Client side!
Un-group Recipes
Great if you like to pin specific recipes!
And More...
- Flip through pages with your mouse wheel
- Keep crafting screen centered when you open the recipe book
- Display furnace recipes so you can actually see them:
Now

Then

- Enable or disable the unlock animation
Oh... and you can also disable the recipe book entirely, if you'd like.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.20.4
- 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 CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Better Recipe Books (+ Smithing Tables, Brewing Stands) is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.20.4, 1.20.2 and newer. Downloaded 4,808,093 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.