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Only Excavators Recipe Balancing Data Pack Wiki & Guide

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Restricts excavator crafting recipes and rebalances their availability.

Guides

Step-by-step, in-game.

Craft Your First Iron ExcavatorGather Your Materials Before you can craft an iron excavator, you'll need to collect a significant amount of…Optimize Your Mining Strategy with ExcavatorsChoosing Where to Excavate Excavators are powerful but expensive to craft, so use them strategically. They're best…Progress Through Excavator TiersEarly-Game: Iron Excavator Your first excavator requires iron blocks plus diamonds or copper. This is the hardest…Understand Material Block RequirementsWhy Blocks Instead of Items The datapack changes Only Excavators recipes to use full material blocks instead of…

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to install this datapack if I already have Only Excavators?
Yes, this is a separate datapack that changes the crafting recipes. Without it, excavators use the original cheap recipes from the mod. Install it on top of Only Excavators to make crafting them harder.
What's the easiest excavator to craft with this datapack?
The iron excavator is the first one you can make, but it now requires full blocks of material instead of single items, plus extra ingredients like diamonds or copper. You'll need to mine significantly more than the vanilla recipe demands.
Can I use this datapack in my existing survival world?
Yes, it uses only standard Minecraft items so it works in any world. If you already crafted excavators with the old recipes, the datapack won't change those tools—only new crafts will use the new recipes.
Do I need other mods installed for the new recipes to work?
No, this datapack only uses standard Minecraft items and blocks, so it works standalone with just Only Excavators. It's designed to fit into any modpack without extra dependencies.

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