Better Crafter (for Fabric)

Take full control of your automatic crafting!

Better Crafter is a small but powerful mod that improves the usability of the Crafter block by making its behavior more predictable and automation-friendly.

This project is a fork of the original BetterCrafter mod, which has been inactive and unmaintained for over 7 months and has not been updated for the latest Minecraft versions.

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Features

Reserved Crafting Slots

• The Crafter will not consume the last item in each slot—these are treated as "reserved."
• You can place a single instance of each item in the desired slots to define a crafting pattern.
• Hoppers will automatically stack matching items into those reserved positions.

Consistent Automation

• Prevents random item placement when using hoppers.
• Makes automated crafting machines much more reliable.

Simple and Vanilla-Friendly

• No new blocks, GUIs, or configs.
• Works out-of-the-box with vanilla redstone and hoppers.

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Important

To ensure the mod functions correctly, all unused slots must be disabled using the Crafter's interface. If free slots remain open, inserted items may still be placed randomly.

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Requirements

• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API (Modrinth / CurseForge)

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Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API.
2. Drop the mod .jar into your mods folder.
3. Launch the game and enjoy smarter crafting!