How to Tell If a Recipe Is Locked Before Gathering Materials

Collecting rare resources for a complex craft only to discover you cannot actually make the item is easy to avoid. EMI Gamestages Integration marks restricted recipes in several places so you can verify every step before mining or smelting ingredients.

Inspecting the Recipe Viewer

1. Open your inventory and look up the recipe you plan to craft in EMI, such as a Pigment Mixer.

2. Check the space directly above the recipe display. If the recipe is gated behind progression, a text label appears there naming the required stage.

3. Look closely at the recipe output slot. The mod changes the background color of locked output slots, giving you an immediate colored highlight warning that you cannot craft the result yet.

4. Check for a small lock picture drawn over the output item itself.

Checking Recipe Ingredients

Multi-step crafts often rely on components that carry their own stage restrictions. Before gathering raw materials, click through each ingredient inside the EMI recipe viewer. Check every sub-recipe for colored output slot highlights, lock icons, and stage labels above the crafting grid. Once every component shows a normal slot background and no lock symbols, you can safely gather the materials and craft the final item.