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Variant Crafting Tables [Forge]
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.20. File opened and checked on 30 Sep 2026; downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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Note: This is the Forge version!
Looking for Fabric version of this mod? Check out this Fabric mod by XanthianZ!
Fed up of how there is only one crafting table? The one that looks like it's based on oak planks. Isn't it weird when you try to make a crafting table out of Nether fungus, and suddenly you have a normal-looking crafting table? Need a Crafting Table that fits with the theme and aesthetics of your house? Fret no more!
Introducing...
Variant Crafting Tables!
What does this mod do, exactly? Why, of course, it adds a Crafting Table for each of the vanilla planks! While there are other mods, the aim of this mod is to ensure more vanilla consistency and give the Crafting Tables a more unique looks. That's right, they're not merely recolours! They look quite different from each other!
Crafting is as simple as using four of the corresponding wood planks!
This mod also introduces Minecart with Crafting Table so you can craft on the go! I recommend using Quark mod to allow you to chain together Minecarts.
Video Overview
Mod Features
- Adds over 100 Crafting Tables!
- Adds Minecart with Crafting Table! Supports each Crafting Table variant! Put a Crafting Table above the Minecart while crafting!
- Recipe advancement for each crafting table when you pick up wood planks for that vanilla consistency!
- Fitting with vanilla theme!
- Woodworks integration! Cut logs into crafting tables with Sawmill from Woodworks.
- Supports over 50 Forge mods!
Currently Supported Languages
en_ca (Canadian English)
de_de (German)
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Is this for Forge or Fabric?
It's for Forge. If you're looking for Fabric version, try the mod by XanthianZ.
Will there be 1.12.2 version?
No! That version is too old and it's best to work towards gradually phasing out 1.12.2 in favour for newer Minecraft versions. Plus, 1.12 has different textures and I do not want to spend time making textures to fit.
Why can't I mix planks anymore?
Because the vanilla crafting table recipe has been overriden so it uses only oak planks for vanilla crafting tables. It's a small price to pay to have all those neat crafting tables.
Can you add support for <insert name here> mod?
Certainly! There are two ways to go about with this:
* (1) Adding the Crafting Table yourself and also conditionally set crafting and creative tab to be available only when variant crafting tables mod is installed OR...
* (2) Make a pull request on GitHub with the Crafting Table assets, textures, and code.
What mods are currently supported?
See the dropdown labeled 'Supported Mods'
Why isn't the mod working properly? I can't craft the modded crafting tables! The recipes are being weird!
Try using the /datapack command to disable Variant Crafting Tables datapack, then enable the datapack, making sure to append last after the mod ID, to ensure the data pack will load last, allowing recipes to properly work.
Step 1: /datapack disable "mod:variant_crafting_tables"
Step 2: /datapack enable "mod:variant_crafting_tables" last
Current Supported Mods - The following mods are supported by Variant Crafting Tables!
The Big Mods
- Biomes o' Plenty
- Twilight Forest + The Lost Blocks
- Prehistoric Fauna
- Regions Unexplored
- The Undergarden
Abnormals Mods
- Atmospheric
- Autumnity
- Bamboo Blocks
- Endergetic Expansion
- Environmental
- Upgrade Aquatic
- Woodworks (Sawmill recipes)
Team Aurora Mods
Other Mods
- Abundant Atmosphere
- Ad Astra
- The Aether
- Architect's Palette
- Biome Makeover
- Caupona
- The Ceilands
- Cobblemon
- Colourful Azaleas
- Darker Depths
- Deeper Darker
- Ecologics
- End's Phantasm
- Enlightened End
- Extended Mushrooms
- Fruit Trees
- Forbidden & Arcanus
- Gardens of the Dead
- Good Ending
- Habitat
- Hexcasting
- Hexerei
- Integrated Dynamics
- Malum
- MoreCraft
- Nether's Exoticism
- New World
- One Twenty Backport (1.18.2 & 1.19.2 only. Replaced with Quark in mod version 1.8.0+)
- Pyromancer
- Quark
- Silent Gear
- Snowy Spirit
- Tinkers Construct
- Twigs
- Outer End
- The Wild Backport (1.18.2 only)
- Windswept
![Variant Crafting Tables [Forge] — Minecraft Java mod, screenshot 2](https://i.imgur.com/ru7UEZD.png)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.4
- 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.
- Ships as VariantCraftingTables-1.20.1-2.0.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.1 MB
- Download link checked 24 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.