CraftAnyway

CraftAnyway - Dynamic Crafting Planner & Auto-Crafter

Tired of manually clicking through complex recipes, calculating raw materials in your head, and trying to remember exactly how many planks, sticks, or gears you need for that end-game machine?

**CraftAnyway** is the ultimate client-side companion mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge). It seamlessly integrates with **Just Enough Items (JEI)** to bring you a fully interactive visual planning tree, exact inventory-aware quantity calculations, an explorer's HUD shopping list, and an autonomous state-machine-driven auto-crafter!

Key Features

🌲 Interactive Visual Planning Tree (Plan Screen)

• Hover over any item in your **JEI panel** and press **P** to instantly calculate a complete crafting tree.

• A beautiful, full-screen panning and zooming GUI opens, displaying a visual node tree. The target item sits at the top, branching down into every sub-ingredient via sleek connecting lines.

• Request multiple outputs using the [+] and [-] quantity scaling buttons in the top left, and watch the entire tree dynamically scale!

• Select between multiple valid crafting paths (e.g. different wood types or alternative recipe recipes) side-by-side.

⚖️ Exact Dynamic Mass Calculations & Virtual Leftovers

• **Virtual Inventory Simulator:** Unlike other calculators, CraftAnyway dynamically evaluates your actual inventory as it traverses the tree.

• **Yield Leftovers Simulation:** Recipes that produce multiple items (like Planks from Logs) are accurately modeled. Leftover items from a sub-craft (e.g., crafting 4 Planks when you only need 2, leaving 2 leftovers) are virtually placed back into your inventory to satisfy other sibling recipe slots!

• **Dynamic Child Scaling:** Child requirements scale down dynamically based on possessed intermediate components. If you need 8 Planks and have 6 Planks, the mod knows you only need to craft 2 Planks, accurately scaling the child requirement down to 1 Log (instead of 2!).

📝 Smart Step-by-Step Breakdown

• Replaces confusing "Alternatives" lists with an intuitive **Step-by-Step To-Do List** organized from raw materials (bottom-up) to final assembly.

• Each step intelligently groups the ingredients you need to craft at that stage of the tech tree.

🧠 Intelligent Inventory-Aware Tag Resolution

• When a recipe accepts "any" item from a tag (e.g. Any Planks), the planner recursively scans all possibilities.

• It dynamically subtracts costs based on your **actual inventory**, automatically selecting the variant you already have the raw materials for (e.g. choosing Spruce Planks over Oak Planks because you have Spruce Logs).

🎯 Interactive Variant & Recipe Picker

• The visual tree dynamically discovers **all** JEI-registered methods of obtaining an item (including Crafting, Smelting, Blasting, and Modded mechanics).

• "Any" tag items chosen by the planner are indicated with a yellow * in the visual tree.

• Click on any node to open the **Alternative Recipes Menu** (formerly the Variant Picker Menu).

• The menu features **Visual Ingredient Previews**, rendering the exact input items required for each alternative directly in the popup, making it effortless to choose your preferred processing method!

• The planner instantly recalculates the entire tech tree and saves your variant and recipe preferences!

🛒 Persistent HUD & Chest Shopping List

• Displays your Crafting Steps on your main HUD.

• Automatically docks next to Chests and containers.

• Numbers turn green dynamically the moment you gather enough of a specific item, keeping you perfectly on track!

⚡ Smart Packet-Safe Auto-Crafting

• Open a Crafting Table and press **Craft Plan** to let the mod automatically assemble your items.

• **Dynamic Execution Scheduling:** The auto-crafter reads your actual inventory slots and schedules only the exact missing crafts needed, perfectly skipping sub-crafts if you already possess intermediate components.

• **Safe Click Sequences:** Uses a highly robust click loop (Left-click to grab a stack, Right-click to place exactly 1 item in the grid, Left-click to return the stack) to prevent dumping entire stacks into a slot.

• **Leftover Sweeper:** At the end of each craft, the executor automatically sweeps the grid and shift-clicks any leftovers (like empty buckets) back into your inventory.

• **Smart Pause & Resume:** If a recipe requires a non-crafting step (e.g., Smelting or Crushing), the mod safely pauses, informs you via chat what to produce, and resumes right where you left off when you click the button again.

How to Use

1. **Plan a Craft:** Open your inventory or recipe book, hover over any item in the JEI panel, and press **P**.

2. **Review the Tree:** Drag with your mouse to pan around, scroll to zoom, adjust the target quantity with [+] or [-], and click **Select Path** on your preferred crafting route.

3. **Gather Materials:** Explore or search chests while tracking your missing raw materials and simplified intermediates on your HUD shopping list.

4. **Auto-Craft:** Open a Crafting Table and click the **Craft Plan** button in the top left. Watch as the mod dynamically handles all sub-crafts, placing items precisely and clearing the grid for you!

Installation & Requirements

• **Minecraft Version:** 1.21.1

• **Mod Loader:** NeoForge (21.1.218 or newer)

• **Dependency:** **Just Enough Items (JEI)** (19.0.0 or newer)

• **Client-Side Only:** This mod is entirely client-side; you do not need to install it on the server to use it on multiplayer worlds!