Crafting Tweaks

Quality-of-life recipes that make previously unobtainable or tedious items craftable. No new items — just fills gaps in vanilla crafting.

Recipes

Leather from Rotten Flesh (furnace/blast furnace)

rotten_flesh  →  smelt  →  leather

Turns zombie drops directly into leather. 1:1 ratio.

String from Wool (crafting table, shapeless)

1× wool  →  4× string

Saddle (crafting table, shaped)

L L L
L _ L
_ L _

L = leather (5 leather total)

Horse Armor (crafting table, shaped)

Standard armor pattern with the appropriate material:

ItemMaterial
iron_horse_armoriron_ingot
golden_horse_armorgold_ingot
diamond_horse_armordiamond

Golden Rail (crafting table, shaped)

C _ C
C R C
C S C

C = copper_ingot, R = redstone, S = stick → 4× powered_rail