
Affordable Templates
Java data pack listed for Minecraft 1.21–26.x. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
This project aims to make smithing templates accessable without requiring heaps of diamonds. Once a player discovers a trim once, duplicating it is now…
⬇ Download on ModrinthAffordable Templates
What, really, is the point of making smithing templates cost 7 diamonds each to duplicate? Late game progression? Time sinks? Well, not anymore.
Meet Affordable Templates. A datapack intended solely to make smithing templates more about the journey to discover them, not the journeys down to the mines for more cash. As such, all smithing templates now cost only one copy surrounded by the blocks of their making to duplicate, while Netherite Upgrade Templates merely cost 8 netherrack and a diamond to craft outright. The full crafting recipe list is listed below.
The Recipes
- Bolt Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Copper Block
- Coast Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Cobblestone
- Dune Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Sand
- Eye Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x End Stone
- Flow Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Breeze Rod
- Host Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Terracotta
- Raiser Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Terracotta
- Rib Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Nether Bricks
- Sentry Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Stone
- Shaper Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Terracotta
- Silence Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Polished Deepslate
- Snout Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Blackstone
- Spire Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Purpur Block
- Tide Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Prismarine
- Vex Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 4x Cobblestone + 4x Dark Oak Planks
- Ward Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Cobbled Deepslate
- Wayfinder Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Terracotta
- Wild Armor Trim: 1x Base Copy + 8x Mossy Cobblestone
- Netherite Upgrade Template: 1x Diamond + 8x Netherrack
Credits
- If you do end up using this datapack in a video, please make sure to credit me, WaffleHere, as creator.
- If you are posting on Youtube, go ahead and give me a ping in the description at @wafflesarehere. Thanks!
Other than that, enjoy! I hope this simple pack makes your game that much more fun.
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Affordable Templates 26.2.zip
- Download size: 11 KB
- Download link checked 7 Nov 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.