Recipe Category Crafting Items

Note

Version note: This page covers recipe category crafting items for Minecraft 1.12.2.

For newer README-listed versions, this feature is handled through recipe catalysts or crafting stations:

Minecraft 1.16.5, 1.18.2, 1.19.2, and 1.20.1: Recipes Overview, Creating Your Plugin
Minecraft 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, and 26.2: Recipes Overview, Recipe Categories

Recipe What?

Recipe Category Crafting Items are items that are used for crafting things from a specific Recipe Category.

Examples include the:

Crafting Table for crafting recipes.
Furnace for smelting and fuel recipes.
Brewing Stand for brewing recipes.

JEI shows these items at the top of their category. This helps players find the items they need in order to craft a category of recipes. They can click the item directly to see its recipe.

Implementation

After you create a plugin, you are passed the IModRegistry in your plugin's register method.
From there, add your recipe category crafting item with modRegistry.addRecipeCategoryCraftingItem.

Warning: As of JEI 4.5.0, modRegistry.addRecipeCategoryCraftingItem is now deprecated and has been replaced by modRegistry.addRecipeCatalyst.