Crafting Station Multitier
Vanilla crafting tables stop at 3x3, and for years modded players have worked around that limit with clunky workarounds. Crafting Station Multitier throws out the workaround entirely. This NeoForge add-on introduces expandable crafting stations whose grids grow from 3x3 all the way to 9x9, pulling ingredients straight from the containers around them. If you build big, automate everything, and hate manually shuffling stacks into a grid, this is the mod you have been waiting for.
The Four Tiers of Crafting Stations
Progression is simple and satisfying. Each tier is crafted by surrounding the previous station with a specific block, so upgrading never feels like a grind.
- Crafting Station (3x3) — a single crafting table's worth of grid space
- Resonant Crafting Station (5x5) — the previous station surrounded by 8 copper blocks
- Transcendent Crafting Station (7x7) — the previous station surrounded by 8 amethyst blocks
- Infinite Crafting Station (9x9) — the previous station surrounded by 8 netherite blocks
There is also a Crafting Station Slab, where one station yields two slabs, and it behaves exactly like the full block. The GUI resizes with the grid, every tier gets its own accent color, and the panel textures can be reskinned with a resource pack, which is a nice touch for modpack authors who want a unified visual style.
Craft Directly From Your Containers
The headline feature is container integration. Chests, barrels, and other inventories placed next to the station appear in a side panel with one tab per side. Scroll through them, click items straight into the grid, and use the search bar to highlight what you need inside a packed storage system.
For sprawling bases, the Linking Node (4 iron ingots and an ender pearl) connects up to 6 containers per station from a distance. The default range is 64 blocks, it is fully configurable, and setting it to -1 makes it unlimited. That means one station can draw from an entire warehouse without you ever carrying a single item across the room.
Automation That Actually Works
Press the green button next to the clear button and the station starts running itself. The current grid becomes a saved pattern, its contents move into a 36-slot supply, and a 9-slot output collects the result plus any leftovers. Pipes, conduits, and AE2 or Refined Storage networks can feed the supply and pull finished items out. If several recipes match the saved pattern, the one shown in the result slot when you flipped the switch is the one that keeps crafting, and the crafting interval is configurable to suit your tick budget.
Getting set up is quick, and if you would rather skip manual file juggling, the foxygame.net launcher handles Crafting Station Multitier with a one-click install that also keeps it updated automatically as new builds land.
Recipe Viewers and Oversized Recipes
Full recipe transfer works on every grid size. Click the + button in JEI, or EMI on 1.21.1, and the recipe fills the 3x3, 5x5, 7x7, or 9x9 grid instantly. Recipes larger than 3x3 receive their own JEI categories instead of being flagged as broken, which keeps your recipe browser clean and readable.
Any plain minecraft:crafting_shaped recipe up to 9x9 works out of the box, whether it comes from a datapack or KubeJS, with no custom recipe type required. Modpack authors finally have a straightforward way to ship 5x5, 7x7, and 9x9 recipes. Polymorph and Polymorph+ are supported too, so when a grid fits more than one recipe you simply pick the output you want with the arrow button next to the result slot.
Compatibility and Configuration
Integrations cover Storage Drawers, Functional Storage, Colossal Chests, Sophisticated Storage, Iron Chests including Upgraded Iron Chests, CraftingTweaks, and Avaritia, where Extreme Crafting recipes run happily on the Infinite Crafting Station. Any mod exposing a standard item handler or vanilla container works as well, and every integration is optional.
Config options let you toggle side inventories in the crafting grid, set the maximum distance for remotely linked containers, cap slots shown per container, adjust the automated crafting interval, and show or hide items floating above the table. The add-on targets NeoForge and supports versions 26.2, 26.1.2, 26.1.1, and 1.21.1. It builds on prior work by Leclowndu93150 and Tfarcenim under the MIT license, with the multitier grids, remote containers, automation, and interface redesign by DNomad.
Final Thoughts
If you want to download Crafting Station Multitier, the process is the same as any NeoForge add-on: grab the build matching your Minecraft version, drop it into your mods folder, and launch. The article above covers how to install it in practice, but the short version is that it works alongside most storage and crafting mods without conflict. Crafting Station Multitier for Minecraft turns crafting from a chore into a system, and once you have automated a 9x9 grid feeding itself from a wall of chests, you will never look at a vanilla crafting table the same way again.