Spirit Crafting Recipes (spirit_crafting)
The Spirit Crafting Table (block mxt:spirit_crafting_table) reuses the vanilla crafting table layout but does exactly one thing: spirit crafting, in the two recipe types mxt:spirit_shaped and mxt:spirit_shapeless. On top of the usual materials, every recipe also declares an aura cost, paid out of the table's own store.
File Location
Spirit crafting recipes are ordinary recipe files, so they go in data/<namespace>/recipe/ within your data pack. The filename corresponds to its ID: data/example/recipe/spirit_iron_ingot.json has the ID example:spirit_iron_ingot.
Purpose: vanilla recipe types (mxt:spirit_shaped, mxt:spirit_shapeless) registered by the mod, not a datapack registry.
The type is written in the file itself: "type": "mxt:spirit_shaped" or "type": "mxt:spirit_shapeless".
The table only accepts the two types above. mxt:alchemy recipes never run here, and whatever is in the table never enters the alchemy flow — nothing converts between the two.
Recipe Types
type is one of the two values below.
mxt:spirit_shaped (Shaped)
Matched against the shape of pattern.
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
type | String | required | Must be mxt:spirit_shaped. |
pattern | String[] | required | One to three rows, each one to three characters. |
key | Character-to-ingredient map | required | Maps every symbol used in pattern to its ingredient. Each key must be a single non-space character. |
result | ItemStackTemplate | required | The item produced, written in the vanilla item stack template shape. |
aura | Cost array limited to mxt:aura entries | required | The aura cost of one craft, paid out of the table's own store with fractions preserved. See Shared Data Types · Cost. |
{
"type": "mxt:spirit_shaped",
"pattern": [
"FF",
"FF"
],
"key": {
"F": "minecraft:fire_charge"
},
"result": {
"id": "minecraft:magma_block"
},
"aura": [
{"type": "mxt:aura", "aura": "mxt:common", "amount": 20}
]
}
pattern is tried at every possible offset in the 3×3 grid, and any slot the pattern does not cover has to be empty.
mxt:spirit_shapeless (Shapeless)
The ingredients have to match the non-empty slots of the grid exactly, in any order, so the grid may not hold unrelated items.
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
type | String | required | Must be mxt:spirit_shapeless. |
ingredients | Ingredient array | required | One to nine ingredients, matched in any order. |
result | ItemStackTemplate | required | The item produced, written in the vanilla item stack template shape. |
aura | Cost array limited to mxt:aura entries | required | The aura cost of one craft, paid out of the table's own store with fractions preserved. See Shared Data Types · Cost. |
{
"type": "mxt:spirit_shapeless",
"ingredients": [
"minecraft:blaze_powder",
"minecraft:prismarine_shard"
],
"result": {
"id": "minecraft:sea_lantern"
},
"aura": [
{"type": "mxt:aura", "aura": "mxt:common", "amount": 8}
]
}
Ingredients that Filter on Components
key and ingredients take vanilla ingredients (Ingredient): writing an item id, or a tag (with its leading #), only compares the item itself and never looks at anything on the stack. To filter on components, use the custom-ingredient layer NeoForge adds on top of Ingredient — neoforge:ingredient_type picks the type, and neoforge:components matches on "item + components":
{
"type": "mxt:spirit_shaped",
"pattern": ["PP"],
"key": {
"P": {
"neoforge:ingredient_type": "neoforge:components",
"items": "mxt:blank_talisman",
"components": { "mxt:quality": "example:paper_tier_3" }
}
},
"result": { "id": "example:refined_talisman" },
"aura": [{ "type": "mxt:aura", "aura": "mxt:common", "amount": 20 }]
}
items takes an item id, a tag (with its leading #) or an array of them (required); components is a vanilla component patch, and every entry in it has to be exactly equal to the one on the stack to match; strict is optional (default false) and, when true, forbids any component on the stack that components does not list. The test is equality, not "at least", so "tier 3 or above" means writing one entry per tier and OR-ing them with neoforge:compound:
{
"neoforge:ingredient_type": "neoforge:compound",
"children": [
{ "neoforge:ingredient_type": "neoforge:components", "items": "mxt:blank_talisman", "components": { "mxt:quality": "example:paper_tier_3" } },
{ "neoforge:ingredient_type": "neoforge:components", "items": "mxt:blank_talisman", "components": { "mxt:quality": "example:paper_tier_4" } }
]
}
"Or above" needs no enumeration: this mod registers a custom ingredient mxt:quality (items is required, plus either a quality membership list or a min_quality floor):
{
"neoforge:ingredient_type": "mxt:quality",
"items": "mxt:blank_talisman",
"min_quality": "example:tier_3"
}
It judges the tier the stack resolves to (component → the definition the stack carries → the default_quality registry) rather than exact component equality; a min_quality answers no across chains, and on its own an item with no tier answers no. neoforge:compound's field is children (the older alias ingredients works too), and there are also neoforge:difference (base / subtracted) and neoforge:intersection (children). The entry points for filtering items by tier are in Quality · Filtering items by tier.
The aura Field
aura is a Cost array that takes only mxt:aura entries — any other type is a load error, and so is an empty array. An entry's aura is an aura identity, not a stored number: what is spent is that aura itself, identified by its definition; the definition's own resource field says which value it is counted in, see mxt:aura. The table's own store pays here, so the charge is that aura, not the value it is measured in.
The whole array has to be paid in one go: if a single aura is missing, nothing is crafted — there is no partial deduction. Whether it can be paid depends only on the table's own store, never on how much anyone else carries.
amount is a number provider evaluated when the recipe matches, retaining fractions: 0.25 costs 0.25. The result must be finite and positive; otherwise the craft is refused without corrupting stock. Stock, requirements, the 99-times buffer capacity and menu synchronization all retain double precision; the UI displays two decimal places. The same aura can also be written as an "aura id to number" map, where each entry is read as an mxt:aura entry.
The table keeps aura for the recipe it currently matches, and nothing else: changing the grid, or matching a different recipe, discards whatever was stored, and a grid that matches nothing clears it too. The table takes at most 99 × the amount one craft needs per aura, and anything sent beyond that is handed back unchanged. This store is not saved to disk — reloading the table restores the grid and the result slot only.
Check Order
Shaped recipes are checked before shapeless ones, so a shapeless recipe is only used when no shaped recipe matches.
The matched recipe's craft conditions are checked once per tick: enough aura, and the result slot empty or holding the same result with room for more. When they hold, one craft happens that tick. When they do not, nothing happens — the inputs and the stored aura stay where they are — and it simply waits for the next tick. On a successful craft every non-empty input slot loses 1 item, the aura comes out of the table's own store, and the result lands in the result slot; the input items are not cleared all at once.
Recipes are vanilla recipe files rather than registry entries, so they do reload with /reload.