Hi all! This is a small update regarding the status of my datapacks.

First, I started a full-time job as software developer some months ago, which really takes time and energy away from me to be as active as I used to be on the development of my Minecraft projects. I plan to keep updating my existing datapacks and adding new stuff whenever I can, though, it will just take longer. I also deleted my ko-fi, since I don’t really want to earn any money from this anymore.

Now, regarding future Minecraft updates, it’s clear now that Mojang is changing how a lot of datapack stuff works, which means that maintaining a lot of datapacks up to date takes a lot more effort than it used to. For this reason, I plan on only updating my datapacks with each Minecraft release and stop updating for important snapshots or pre-releases, like I used to do. This also means that updating datapacks will probably take longer and I will not be able to update them quickly on the following days of a release anymore.

Specifically, Minecraft 1.20.5 is introducing a lot of changes for datapacks. The most important for me being that crafting custom items is now officialy supported. A lot (if not most) of my datapacks make use of kind-of-complex techniques to achieve custom crafting, so updating them to the new system will take a bit of work, but it will be worth it. Now you won’t have to craft weird knowledge books that then transform into objects, you craft the custom items directly, and they even appear in the recipe book as such! This will be great for my Vegancraft and Baked Goods datapacks which have tons of custom items, so hopefully I can adapt them to this system in the next update.

An example of the new custom crafting

An example of the new custom crafting (and a sneakpeek of a new addition)

Stay tuned!