Leather Recycling Data Pack FAQ

Place a leather item in a crafting grid or use the recycling recipe provided by the data pack—the exact method depends on how your installation handles recipes. Check your recipe book (press 'C' by default) and search for leather items to see available recycling options.

Recycling a leather helmet returns leather, which you can use to craft new leather items or combine with other materials. The amount of leather returned depends on the specific recipe configured in the data pack.

Yes, enchanted leather armor can be recycled just like regular leather armor. The enchantments are lost during recycling, so you'll only receive the base leather or rabbit hide output.

Both item frames and glow item frames recycle into rabbit hide through the same process. The glow variant simply provides the same resource output as a regular item frame.

Yes, recycling an enchanted book converts it into rabbit hide and the enchantment data is not preserved. If you want to keep the enchantment, use the book on an item instead of recycling it.

Yes, leather horse armor recycles into leather just like other leather armor pieces. This is useful for recovering resources from old or unwanted horse gear.

Rabbit hide is the output material from recycling item frames, glow item frames, books, and enchanted books. You can use it for crafting or trading, depending on what recipes are available in your world.

Recycling works through standard crafting recipes, so you can recycle items in your inventory crafting grid or at a crafting table. No special machines or blocks are required.

This is a data pack, so it works with vanilla Minecraft and other data packs that don't conflict with leather item recipes. Compatibility with mods depends on whether those mods override the same crafting recipes.

Yes, bundles recycle into rabbit hide. This allows you to recover resources from bundles you no longer need.