Table of Contents:

• What is Simple Recipe?
  • What's wrong with vanilla recipes?
  • Features
  • Examples
• Installation
• How to Use
• How to Build

What is Simple Recipe?

It's command line interface that makes writing Minecraft datapack recipes simpler and more pleasant.

What's wrong with vanilla recipes?

• Writing vanilla recipes in JSON is tedious and error-prone.
• Malformed recipes will silently error with no feedback provided.
• One recipe corresponds to one file, which can be clunky for large datapacks.
• Since recipes are written in JSON, you can't add comments.

Features

• Recipes are defined in YAML which is a terser, more human-friendly format for writing.
• Descriptive errors make debugging malformed recipes a lot simpler.
• Define multiple recipes per file.
• You can add comments to your recipes in YAML.
• Provides a migrate utility which lets you convert existing vanilla datapacks to Simple Recipe automatically.

Examples

Instead of writing recipes like this:

{
	"type": "minecraft:crafting_shaped",
	"pattern": ["CCC", "CBC", "CRC"],
	"key": {
		"R": { "item": "minecraft:redstone" },
		"C": { "item": "minecraft:cobblestone" },
		"B": { "item": "minecraft:bow" }
	},
	"result": { "item": "minecraft:dispenser" }
}

You can write them like this:

type: crafting_shaped
pattern:
  - CCC
  - CBC
  - CRC
key: { R: redstone, C: cobblestone, B: bow }
result: 1 dispenser

Or instead of like this:

{
	"type": "minecraft:crafting_shapeless",
	"group": "concrete_powder",
	"ingredients": [
		{ "item": "minecraft:black_dye" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:sand" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:sand" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:sand" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:sand" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:gravel" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:gravel" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:gravel" },
		{ "item": "minecraft:gravel" }
	],
	"result": {
		"item": "minecraft:black_concrete_powder",
		"count": 8
	}
}

You write them like this:

type: crafting_shapeless
group: concrete_powder
ingredients: [1 black_dye, 4 sand, 4 gravel]
result: 8 black_concrete_powder

Installation

If you are familiar with Node.js and NPM, you can globally install the package, and use simple-recipe:

$ npm install -g simple-recipe
$ simple-recipe --help

If you aren't familiar with Node.js and NPM, you can download a packaged executable file from Releases.

How to Use

Usage instructions can be found here.

How to Build

If you'd like to tinker around with the code, clone the repo and install the dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/Asha20/simple-recipe
$ cd simple-recipe
$ npm install

Compile the code on change:

$ npm run watch

Run unit tests:

$ npm run test:unit

Run end-to-end tests:

$ npm run test:e2e

Run all tests:

$ npm run test

Compile the code and package it into standalone executables:

$ npm run build

Release a new version:

$ npm run release