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[Uristqwerty]

CraftGuide: Quick access to a list of every crafting recipe in the game!

It was created as a result of how useful Risugami's RecipeBook is, but how quickly it became a hassle to navigate once you have a hundred pages at the time. RecipeBook has improved greatly since then, though. (In my opinion, the single greatest change was the addition of the scroll wheel as a way to navigate quickly)



To create your own, just place a crafting table in the centre of a crafting grid, put a piece of paper in each corner, and fill in the edges with four books.

Other useful features include small recipes as well as shapeless recipes having a visually distinct bsckground. Additionally, you can click on an item in a recipe to filter the displayed recipes so that only ones that require or produce that item will be shown (In this case, books). Use the clear button to go back to seeing them all.



One of the more recent features is a searchable list of items, to quickly filter out unrelated recipes.

Just right click while holding it, to see every crafting recipe in the game.

To navigate the list, you have a few options:
-The scroll bar: Just click on the slider, and drag it up or down to quickly scroll through the list.
-The up/down buttons: Quickly navigate one or ten pages at a time with the buttons above and below the scroll bar.
-Keyboard shortcuts: Arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end can all be used if you prefer a keyboard over a mouse. Up/Down arrow keys scroll one line at a time, Left/Right and Page up/Page down go by pages, and Home/End can be used to immediately jump to the start or end of the list.
-Mouse wheel: If you have one, just spin it to immediately scroll the list! Number of lines scrolled can be configured to suit your preferences.
-Shift: Holding shift while scrolling will multiply the movement by ten!

At the end of the list, you will also find furnace recipes! Only ones that work in a regular furnace, though, and not any special furnace types added by a mod that specifically have their own separate set of recipes, unfortunately.

Some items show a * over the top right corner. That means that it will accept any variation of that item (for example, wool colour or tool damage).



At the bottom left corner, there is a small triangle. Clicking and dragging it will allow you to resize the entire GUI. This is especially useful if you have a lot of space around the edges, allowing you to see often four or more columns of recipes at once.


Frequently Asked Questions:

• Will there be SMP support?
  Probably. It will be a while before you can craft one, though.
  
• Item Damage?
  Items internally keep a number saying how "damaged" they are, but it's often used for other purposes. This quote explains it fairly well...
  

  Narzuhl, on 02 November 2011 - 02:21 PM, said:

  Several Blocks (like wool) use just one block ID for multiple variations (different colors in case of wool). Those are called damage values in minecraft. And the recipes accepting all damage values will produce the same result for every block with the same id, even when the damage value differs. For example a bed... it can be made from every kind of wool, no matter what color.
  Many current mods use very few block IDs and implement all their block as such subtypes, because there are only 256 block IDs in minecraft.
  

Future plans:
At the moment, this mod is getting fairly complete, but there is still plenty that can be done. Some possible features include a way to categorize items by originating mod, though that would a bit difficult, as it would require mods to be able to provide information on what items they added. A favourites/bookmarks list is almost certainly going to be added.

Installation:

• If you don't have it yet, install Risugami's ModLoader
  
• Download CraftGuide
  
• Place the downloaded .zip file into .minecraft/mods/ -or- copy the contents of the .zip file into your minecraft.jar
  
• Optional: Download an Extra or two! You'll probably want QuickGuide, if you'll be playing SMP with mods, or just don't care to craft an item and carry it with you everywhere.

Current version: 1.4.4

• Minecraft 1.2.3: AdF.ly
  
• Minecraft 1.2.4 and 1.2.5: AdF.ly

You'll probably want to check out the extras section as well, for some optional features to customize your CraftGuide the way you want.


Previous versions:
Minecraft 1.2.3:

• 1.4.3: AdF.ly

Minecraft 1.1.0:

• 1.4.3: AdF.ly
  
• 1.4.2: AdF.ly
  
• 1.4.1: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.4.0: AdF.ly, Direct Link

Minecraft 1.0.0:

• 1.4.0: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.3.1: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.3.0: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.2.2: AdF.ly, Direct Link

Minecraft Beta 1.8.1:

• 1.2.2: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.2.1: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.2.0: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.1.0: AdF.ly, Direct Link
  
• 1.00 AdF.ly, Direct Link

Extra:
Here are some optional mods that enhance the abilities of CraftGuide. Note that you already need a compatible version of CraftGuide for them to do anything (except crash, for some of them), these just add to it.

• QuickGuide for Minecraft 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 (Direct Link)
  
• QuickGuide for Minecraft 1.2.3 (Direct Link)
  
• QuickGuide for Minecraft 1.1.0 (Direct Link)
  
• QuickGuide for Minecraft 1.0.0 (AdCraft, AdF.ly, Direct Link)
  
• QuickGuide for Minecraft Beta 1.8.1 (AdCraft, AdF.ly, Direct Link)
  Adds a configurable key to open the crafting guide screen without needing a special item. Works in SMP. This provides an early SMP option (no server mod required!), as well as giving you a choice of how you use it, wither as an actual item, or merely a quick reference that you don't have to change windows to a web browser to use. (Note: In SMP, it shows every recipe from mods that YOU have installed, not what the server has)
  
• BrewGuide for Minecraft 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 (Direct Link)
  
• BrewGuide for Minecraft 1.2.3 (Direct Link)
  
• BrewGuide for Minecraft 1.1.0 (Direct Link)
  
• BrewGuide for CraftGuide 1.3.0 and up (AdCraft, AdF.ly, Direct Link)
  Adds every potion brewing recipe it can find (anything that can be reached from water, with any combination of ingredients). Warning: VERY thorough, it adds nearly 1000 recipes on it's own, with only the ingredients found in unmodded Minecraft!
  
• CraftHide for Minecraft 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 (Direct Link)
  
• CraftHide for Minecraft 1.2.3 (Direct Link)
  
• CraftHide for Minecraft 1.1.0 (Direct Link)
  
• CraftHide for CraftGuide 1.3.0 and up (Direct Link)
  With this, you can exclude all recipes containing (a) specific item ID(s).
  Note: For more advanced users, as you will have to add 256 (or 2048) to item IDs, because Minecraft bumps them all up to make room for block items. First try +256, it should be the one that most people need.

Videos:
brandonmannn has thown together a nice quick overview:


Changelog:

Spoiler

-1.4.4

• API change: Added javadoc
  
• API change: Added two new classes, allowing larger (or smaller) recipes (yay, 4x4 crafting grid support!), and a way to force CraftGuide to reload all recipes, if your mod adds, removes, or alters them during the game.

-1.4.3

• Include Forge metadata-sensitive smelting recipes when present
  
• Some other small changes

-1.4.2

• Fixed two more bugs

-1.4.1

• Various bug fixes/stability improvements
  
• A clear button to quickly clear the item list search

-1.4.0

• various small changes/fixes
  
• experimental feature: RP2 alloy furnace recipes.
  
• Item list for quickly setting the filter
  
• Text search for item list
  
• Some button tooltips

-1.3.1

• Doesn't crash when given a recipe using an item that doesn't exist
  
• The entire GUI can be resized by dragging the lower right corner.

-1.3.0

• Default scroll wheel rate is now one page rather than one row
  
• Default item ID changed
  
• Changing the item ID actually works (oops!)
  
• Changed the API. The reflection API is still the same, however
  
• Recipes are now associated with an item type that is used to craft it
  
• Can show/hide recipes by associated crafting type
  
• The left side is finally getting some use, with buttons to change between various views.
  
• Lots of internal changes.

-1.2.2

• Shows the filter item, when there is one
  
• Filtering works a bit better (Technical: Properly treats damage -1 as a wildcard value)
  
• Shows a * over any place an item will accept any damage value
  
• API work

-1.2.1

• Bugfix: output quantities weren't showing.

-1.2.0

• Filtering
  
• Different backgrounds for small (2x2 or less) and shapeless recipes
  
• Recipe under the mouse visually changes to a different background

-1.1.0

• Remembers where you were when you closed the book
  
• Furnace recipes
  
• Row number indicator
  
• Massive internal changes to make later ones easier

-1.00

• Initial release

Upcoming changes:
-planned

• Config screen
  
• Advanced filtering
  
• Saving favourites for quick viewing
  
• Perhaps a close button?

Important!
This mod may not be distributed in any form, even partially, without my explicit permission! If you wish to include it in a mod pack, compilation, or anything else, ask first. Exception: if you are making a private mod pack just to share with a few friends, and aren't making any profit off of it, you may include a copy of CraftGuide without taking the time to contact me first. If you later want to make it public or profit from people downloading/viewing it, you will need to either remove CraftGuide from it, or ask me first.

The following people are permitted to distribute this mod:

• RallenXai
  
• ARRRG (AMCO)
  
• Lazysp333
  
• Kasperbjerby
  
• DefaultAsAwesome
  
• Karinth
  
• JordynX (X mod pack)
  
• moeren86
  
• TheEnlightened
  
• saukawolf
  
• Minecrafters990
  
• Taxtin
  
• wifty_16 (Wifty's Mod Pack)
  
• TizNarniaz2
  
• 8Keep123
  
• AstramG
  
• HobbyCraftPKC
  
• AznKause89

(This is basically anyone who took the time to ask, really, as I can't think of any specific reason I would say no. However, I do feel that it is important that they ask in the first place, rather than just assuming what the answer would be, or outright ignoring me and using it anyway. It's polite, and it lets me see where the mod is being used.)

The following mod packs are permitted to contain this mod, but have no single owner:

• The Yogbox
  
• Xeyon Modpack

For other modders:
I'm starting to work on an API (probably misunderstanding the definition of "API", though). It isn't anywhere close to complete, so I might end up renaming anything at any time.

For now, though:

Spoiler

Reflection API:
If you don't want to include any files at all, you can use reflection to do some simple tasks.
Right now, "net.minecraft.src.CraftGuide.ReflectionAPI" has a static method "public static void addFilter(Object callback)" that can be used to register an object that gets a chance to decide if each recipe should be discarded. To do so, it must have a method "public Boolean allowRecipe(ItemStack[] recipeItems)" or "public Boolean allowRecipe(ItemStack craftingType, ItemStack[] recipeItems)"

More capabilities will be added as requested or whenever I feel like it.

Regular API:
Turns out the old one was broken. So, a heavily altered (and working) API: download (1.3.0 and up), download (1.4.0 and up), download (1.4.3 and up) (only change was removing some imports that shouldn't have been there in the first place), download (1.4.4 and up)

Well, you'll need to use reflection to inform CraftGuide that your mod provides and/or filters recipes, though the API includes a class you can extend that does it for you.

Using the provided class, you just extend it, implementing IRecipeProvider, IRecipeFilter, and/or IRecipeFilter2, and create an instance of your class. The base class will automatically register itself with CraftGuide (if it exists, otherwise silently do nothing), and will be called at the appropriate time(s) based on what interfaces it implements.

One working example would be BrewGuide, which uses the API to add all brewing recipes (that it can find) to CraftGuide. You can get it's source here.

[MgoSolidx]

I'll be sure to review it.

Channel is MgoSolidxRevived.

EDIT:
Download Link is not working for me. ):

Another EDIT:
Nvm. lol.

[platypuspancakes]

Yay, a way to scroll through the recipe book! Although, it is a bit expensive to make... Maybe a book with 4 ink sacs in the corners?

[Operative2259]

Any possibility of having the ability to extract the recipes into a txt file? THere used to be a recipes list but it was not updated.

[Operative2259]

Any possibility of having the ability to extract the recipes into a txt file? THere used to be a recipes list but it was not updated.

[MineHippie]

oh I love it. The answer to my forge woes.

Is there any way to set up a different book or a gui list or something for each mod? That might be asking too much I know. But doesn't hurt to ask.

[Pokemaster73]

Risugami has already made a mod like this.

[MineHippie]

Pokemaster73, on 22 October 2011 - 03:27 AM, said:

Risugami has already made a mod like this.

He mentioned that. Yes, this does basically the same thing. But with a different interface to make it easier to get through a huge list of stuff. If, for instance, you use redpower 2 that's like 500+ pages of risugami's book.

[Epiclyralphy]

Nice, i'll definately use this over Risugami's. This may be a heap harder, but any chance of making a furnace one? (I know this seems useless, but if you use Redpower, there is an alloy furnace. This uses more then one item to make alloys like Red alloy.)

[DoomZero]

You say somebody is improving on Risugami's idea and fixing a terrible flaw we've all had to deal with before?

They're even planning to update regularly?

What? Are you trying to tell me that this isn't even close to being finished, and many more features are soon to come?

How can it even get any better than that? I think it goes without saying that the idea is completely sold for me.

[Uristqwerty]

Operative2259, on 22 October 2011 - 03:12 AM, said:

Any possibility of having the ability to extract the recipes into a txt file? THere used to be a recipes list but it was not updated.

It's certainly possible, but it would be outside the scope of this specific mod. Fairly simple thing to do, really.

Epiclyralphy, on 22 October 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:

Nice, i'll definately use this over Risugami's. This may be a heap harder, but any chance of making a furnace one? (I know this seems useless, but if you use Redpower, there is an alloy furnace. This uses more then one item to make alloys like Red alloy.)

Getting recipes for the furnace looks like it should be easy. Change the mess of code I have to support the furnace too isn't. I do intend to add furnace recipes fairly soon, though. Probably going to take at least a day or two, though.

As for the alloy furnace, it almost certainly has it's own recipe system. I don't know how hard it would be to support it, but a long-term goal could be to provide an API so that other mods can define their own recipe categories... Hmm...

[Blueblade11]

Nice!

[god_blever]

i cant make mods work on my cpu so this is uslises

[Kyyshrrk]

god_blever, on 22 October 2011 - 08:50 PM, said:

i cant make mods work on my cpu so this is uslises

Kudos for your unique ability to spontaneously generate dozens of questions in one sentence.

I'll start my personal list
*Why are you reading the mods forum if you can't use mods?
*How is this mod significant enough to warrant pointing out that it is "uslises" when no mod is "usful" to you
*How did you manage to setup an account?

And thank the modder for saving much of my time. EE+RP2 gives me a 750 page risu-book.

[thrandisher]

Very nice! Something i always wanted. While i liked risu's one, this helps alot more for when you have alot of things. A++

[rymmie1981]

This is amazing. I love it so much. I have destroyed all copies of my recipe books and replaced them with crafting guides.

I don't know if it's possible to separate the recipes by mod, but it would be awesome if you could. This is still the best recipe mod ever. I might even get Infitools now.

[JonReed]

You are a godsend for many users of forge mods. No longer must I right click 300 times just to get through all of the sub-blocks in RedPower.

[bonesy1134]

rymmie1981, on 23 October 2011 - 12:16 AM, said:

I don't know if it's possible to separate the recipes by mod, but it would be awesome if you could. This is still the best recipe mod ever. I might even get Infitools now.

Agreed. be awesome if seperation of mod was possible. or like another mod i saw where you could select a specific item and it would show what crafts were available for that item

[MassiveMinecrafting]

I love the mod:) Post this in topic please?

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RaDCc3F9r_k

[Oswarlan]

incredible, once this gets the features in the upcoming section, it will be enough for me to completely stop using risagumis
one thing tho. and this problem is something that bothered me with his, is no SMP support. any plans to make it so that we can use this on SMP?