Balanced Recipes and Copper
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.17–1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
Craft debug stick, netherite template, invisible frames, trial keys, enchanted apple, invisible frames, copper's saddle/nametag in a balanced way. Also…
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**BALANCED RECIPES**
This mod/datapack adds useful crafting recipes to Minecraft, focusing on obtaining items from scratch that normally cannot be obtained or depend on loot, but at a fair cost, using a reasonable amount of materials.
This project has the following objectives:
- Create hard-to-obtain items at a fair price.
- Make use of useless items (tuff, copper, trims, horse armor, amethyst).
- Keep rare items such as horse armor and elytra in that state.
Some examples
- Copper's fishing rod, crafter, saddle and nametag.
- Craft enchanted apple, trial keys (optional), debug stick, invisible item frame (with amethyst) and upgrade template.
- Unpack quartz, glowstone and cowbweb (also craftable with 9 string).
- Shapeless recipe to bread, cookies, paper, shulker box and 2x2 smithing table and others...
- Recycle: leather (armor, saddle), netherite/gold (neth gear).
- Rotten flesh to leather.
- Stick from logs.
Note: 1.7 has a special version *without trial keys* crafting
Future plans: More amethyst uses
Obtain datapack version in modrinth (compatible with 1.16): https://modrinth.com/datapack/balanced-recipes-and-copper
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.17.1, 1.18.2, 1.19.2
- 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 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 Balancedv1.9_trial.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 46 KB
- Download link checked 2 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.