Crafting and Recipes

Crafting and Recipes

Emerald Essentials offers intuitive recipes that follow vanilla crafting logic, while introducing specialized transmutation and endgame infusion pathways.

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🔨 Equipment Recipes

1. Standard Emerald & Ruby Tools

Crafted in the standard vanilla 3x3 crafting grid layout:

• Sword: 2 Gems + 1 Stick
• Pickaxe: 3 Gems + 2 Sticks
• Axe: 3 Gems + 2 Sticks
• Shovel: 1 Gem + 2 Sticks
• Hoe: 2 Gems + 2 Sticks

2. Daggers (emerald_dagger, ruby_dagger)

• Layout: 1 Gem + 1 Stick placed vertically in a crafting grid.
• Cost: Inexpensive early/mid-game weapon, ideal for fast combat and stealth builds.

3. Bow & Shield

• Emerald Bow: 3 Emeralds + 3 Strings in standard bow formation.
• Emerald Shield: 1 Emerald surrounded by 6 Wood Planks in the standard shield shield-pattern.

4. Armor Sets

Crafted in the traditional armor patterns using Emeralds or Rubies:

• Helmet: 5 Gems (horseshoe shape)
• Chestplate: 8 Gems (full jacket)
• Leggings: 7 Gems (pants outline)
• Boots: 4 Gems (two side boots)

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🔮 Magical & Endgame Artifacts

Amethyst Resonator

• Grid Pattern:
  • Top: Amethyst Shard
  • Center: Emerald
  • Bottom: Iron Ingot

Amethyst Lens

• Grid Pattern:
  • Center: Amethyst Shard
  • Sides: Gold Nuggets / Glass Panes

Emerald Mirror

• Grid Pattern:
  • Center: Ender Pearl
  • Borders: 4 Emeralds + 4 Gold Ingots

Emerald Whetstone

• Grid Pattern:
  • Top: Emerald
  • Bottom: Smooth Stone / Flint

Emerald Crown

• Grid Pattern:
  • 5 Emeralds across the top and side corners + 3 Gold Ingots forming a regal band.

Emerald Apple

• Grid Pattern:
  • Center: Golden Apple (or standard Apple)
  • Surrounding: 8 Emeralds

Enchanted Emerald

• Infusion / Crafting:
  • 4 Amethyst Shards + 4 Emeralds surrounding a Nether Star or Diamond Block at an Amethyst Altar.

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🔥 Smelting & Blasting

Source Block	Furnace / Blast Furnace Output	Experience
ruby_ore	1 ruby	1.0 XP
deepslate_ruby_ore	1 ruby	1.0 XP

Tip

Blast Furnaces smelt Ruby ores at double the speed of traditional furnaces.