Crafting Guide

craftguide is the most comprehensive crafting guide on Minetest.

Consult the Minetest Wiki for more details.

This crafting guide is a blue book named "Crafting Guide" or a wooden sign.

This crafting guide features a progressive mode. The progressive mode is a Terraria-like system that only shows recipes you can craft from items you ever had in your inventory. To enable it: craftguide_progressive_mode = true in minetest.conf.

craftguide is also integrated in sfinv (Minetest Game inventory). To enable it: craftguide_sfinv_only = true in minetest.conf.

Use the command /craft to show the recipe(s) of the pointed node.

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API

Custom recipes

Registering a custom crafting type (example)

craftguide.register_craft_type("digging", {
	description = "Digging",
	icon = "default_tool_steelpick.png",
})

Registering a custom crafting recipe (example)

craftguide.register_craft({
	type   = "digging",
	width  = 1,
	output = "default:cobble 2",
	items  = {"default:stone"},
})

Recipe filters

Recipe filters can be used to filter the recipes shown to players. Progressive mode is implemented as a recipe filter.

craftguide.add_recipe_filter(name, function(recipes, player))

Adds a recipe filter with the given name. The filter function should return the recipes to be displayed, given the available recipes and an ObjectRef to the user. Each recipe is a table of the form returned by minetest.get_craft_recipe.

Example function to hide recipes for items from a mod called "secretstuff":

craftguide.add_recipe_filter("Hide secretstuff", function(recipes)
	local filtered = {}
	for _, recipe in ipairs(recipes) do
		if recipe.output:sub(1,12) ~= "secretstuff:" then
			filtered[#filtered + 1] = recipe
		end
	end

	return filtered
end)

craftguide.remove_recipe_filter(name)

Removes the recipe filter with the given name.

craftguide.set_recipe_filter(name, function(recipe, player))

Removes all recipe filters and adds a new one.

craftguide.get_recipe_filters()

Returns a map of recipe filters, indexed by name.

Miscellaneous

craftguide.show(player_name, item, show_usages)

Opens the Crafting Guide with the current filter applied.

• player_name: string param.
• item: optional, string param. If set, this item is pre-selected. If the item does not exist or has no recipe, use the player's previous selection. By default, player's previous selection is used
• show_usages: optional, boolean param. If true, show item usages.