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Recipe Book Access API

An effortless Fabric API, enabling recipe-book crafting from customizable external inventories.
by Jomlom
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Recipe Book Access is a simple Fabric API designed to intuitively add support for external inventory access in any crafting screen. It redirects the recipe book functionality to check and fill from a customisable list of inventories, instead of just the player's.

What does this mean?

See for yourself! Recipe Book Access Demonstration This example of a modded crafting table uses a custom list of inventories via this API, in this specific case it uses all inventories from nearby chests.

If you are looking for a mod that implements this for the crafting table, you probably want the Nearby Crafting mod.

Quickstart Guide

For a more detailed how-to-use guide, including how to setup this API in your project's environment, please see the readme on Github for this project here.

This API provides a simple interface called RecipeBookInventoryProvider, located in com.jomlom.recipebookaccess.api.

This interface must be implemented to your screen handler class, only one method needs overriding (getInventoriesForAutofill()) for the API's full functionality.

You must implement this method to return a list of inventories which you want the recipe book to access and craft from, this won't include the player's inventory by default.

Code Example:

import com.jomlom.recipebookaccess.api.RecipeBookInventoryProvider

public class YourCraftingScreenHandler extends AbstractRecipeScreenHandler implements RecipeBookInventoryProvider {
    // your existing code...

    @Override
    public List<Inventory> getInventoriesForAutofill() {
        return yourInventoriesList;
    }
}

Assumptions made by this API:

  • Your screen handler class extends 'AbstractRecipeScreenHandler', or any of its subclasses
  • Your corresponding screen extends 'RecipeBookScreen', in order to utilize the minecraft recipe book

(I have not tested outside these assumptions)

FAQs

FAQs

  • Q: I think I found an issue… \ A: Feel free to create an issue on Github or reach out directly by email [email protected].

  • Q: Will you release support for x ? \ A: Again, feel free to reach out with reqeusts to support certain versions or other mods. I plan to explore support for NeoForge soon.

  • Q: Does my getInventoriesForAutofill() implementation need to work from the client?
           A: Nope! getInventoriesForAutofill() is only used from the server side screen handler, and the API will keep the client up to date on the results for you automatically!

v1.1.1 [Fabric 1.21.2 -> 1.21.11]
MC Client, Fabric, 1.21.8, 1.21.5, 1.21.4, 1.21.6, 1.21.3, 1.21.7, Server, 1.21.2, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
Release 2026-06-19 Get

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