Smaug
An interactive crafting plugin for Minecraft servers to create custom items. The plugin allows you to define custom items either in it's own plugin configuration or register your items externally using the API.
Features
This plugin's primary purpose is to allow you to:
- Define recipes/conversions to create custom items by interacting with stations (plans to integrate MythicMobs/Crucible)
- Define custom items in-configuration as well as register items externally
Example Usage:
Usage
Defining an item in-configuration can be done like so:
item.yml
test:
material: DIAMOND
display-name: <#000000>This is a test item!
item-model: minecraft:stone
Note: all text-based fields such as display-name, or lore can use MiniMessage format.
You can inherit properties additively by using the key 'inherits'
test2:
display-name: <#0000ff>This is the second test item!
inherits: test
Defining a recipe:
a) Recipes accept item keys in the format : for output, or the keys of the items section. is optional, as the plugin will infer if the key is a member of the minecraft namespace it will default to that, an example is given in the recipe under 'test.output'.
b) Alternatively, if you want to specify a registered item from a specific namespace, e.g. smaug, you can refer to it either by test, or smaug:test if there is a conflict with a key in another namespace.
c) Recipes also allow for forward references, as this is the only way currently to register a recipe, meaning, the recipe expects that the item referenced will be present in the registry at the time the recipe is parsed.
recipe.yml
test:
output: gold_ingot # a)
amount: 2 # output amount
actions: 10 # optional, defaults to 0
ingredients:
items:
#item_key: amount
test2: 2
test_hammer: 9
type: smaug:anvil #station type
Links
- Support for the plugin and it's API are available on discord. Any questions that cannot be answered with the content on this page can be asked there.
- Reporting a bug? please open a ticket on github.
Credits
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as Smaug-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 7.2 MB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
