



CIT Recrafted
A modern Custom Item Textures (CIT) engine for Minecraft 1.12.2 Built from the ground up to support legacy OptiFine/MCPatcher resource packs, CIT Recrafted brings modern performance and expanded features to 1.12.2 item rendering.
- Natively supports resource packs loaded directly from other mods.
- Supports NBT data, durability, stack size, enchantments, and pattern matching.
- Compatible with existing Optifine and MCPatcher-based resource packs out of the box.
type: (Required) Currently only supports theitemtype.items: (Required) The target item ID(s). Unlike in Optifine, this implementation supports regex/pattern matching.nbt.*: Matches NBT data.damage: Matches damage. Works with percentages and ranges.enchantments: Matches enchantments.enchantmentLevels: Matches enchantment levels to all enchantments. Works with ranges.stackSize: Matches count of items in stack. Works with ranges.texture: Texture to use for the item. Can be a full path or a lone name.model: Model to use for the item.weight: Priority above or below other textures.
See the Optifine documentation for more information.
What is CIT?
CIT is a feature added by Optifine (and previously MCPatcher) allowing resource pack creators to give items custom textures based on properties like item name or durability. As Optifine is growing outdated, I wanted an alternative to use with better optimization mods, so I made one.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.12.2
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as cit_recrafted-0.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 30 KB
- Download link checked 19 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.