More Tinkers Compat: Unlocking New Material Possibilities in Tinkers' Construct
Minecraft modding thrives on connections. When you combine Tinkers' Construct with a dozen other mods that add their own metals, gems, and oddities, you quickly realize that the default material list can feel a little lonely. That is exactly where More Tinkers Compat steps in — a clever datapack designed to bridge the gaps between Tinkers' Construct and a host of popular mods, turning your smeltery into a true multiblock melting pot.
What Exactly Is More Tinkers Compat?
At its core, More Tinkers Compat is a compact but powerful datapack that expands the melting and casting recipes of Tinkers' Construct 3. Originally created for a personal modpack, it now serves any player who wants their smeltery to recognize materials from mods like Aquaculture, Undergarden, or Occultism. The datapack requires Tinkers' Construct version 3.3.2.324 for Minecraft 1.16 and the Materialis mod version 2.4.2 to function. Without these, the extra compatibility simply won’t activate, so double-check your mod folder before diving in.
Unlike a full mod, a datapack works inside your world save, which means you can add it without altering your server’s core mod list. That makes it a lightweight, flexible way to enhance your crafting experience without risking mod conflicts.
Extensive Mod Compatibility
The star feature is the sheer number of mods that suddenly play nice with your smeltery. Here is a quick look at the supported mods and what they bring to the molten table:
- Aquaculture – Melt down those unique fish-themed tools and armor pieces.
- Decorative Blocks – Turn decorative metal blocks back into liquid resources.
- Eidolon – Recycle arcane materials like pewter and lead into fresh casts.
- End: Reborn – Process ender-infused metals with ease.
- Farmer's Delight – Smelt kitchen knives and cooking utensils for base metals.
- Netherite Horse Armor – Finally a reason to melt down that extra horse armor.
- Occultism – Turn otherworldly ores and gear into usable ingots.
- Quark – Add Quark’s varied stone and metal items to your recycling loop.
- Storage Drawers – Melt drawer components and reclaim materials.
- Undergarden – Smelt the strange, underdark alloys and get adjusted byproducts.
- Wyrmroost – Process dragon-scale gear and other draconic items.
There is even partial compatibility with the Create mod, so your mechanical contraptions can feed into the smeltery in limited but useful ways. This wide net means that almost every item in your storage system can find a second life as molten metal, drastically reducing waste.
New Melting Recipes and Material Tweaks
Beyond simply adding mod items to the smeltery, More Tinkers Compat introduces several smart recipe changes that deepen the gameplay:
- Chain armor melting recipes – You can now smelt chainmail into iron nuggets, giving that early-game armor a recycling purpose.
- Mob head utility – Mob heads gain extra melting recipes, making them valuable for decoration-oriented players who want to reclaim resources or create unique decorative blocks.
- Plastic material via Thermal's latex – If you have Thermal Expansion installed, you can use latex to create a Plastic material, opening up new tool part possibilities.
- Adjusted Undergarden ore byproducts – The datapack tweaks the byproducts you get when melting Undergarden ores, offering a more balanced and rewarding smelting experience.
These changes feel organic, as if Tinkers' Construct always intended to support these mods. The mob head recipes, for instance, are perfect for builders who end up with stacks of zombie and skeleton skulls after a few nights of grinding.
How to Install the Datapack
Getting More Tinkers Compat up and running is straightforward, but there is one crucial step many players overlook. The datapack must be decompressed before it will work. When you download the file, it often arrives as a compressed archive. You need to extract it so that the folder containing the data and pack.mcmeta files sits directly inside your world’s datapacks folder. Simply dropping the zipped file into the folder will not activate any of the recipes.
Once decompressed, place the entire folder into the datapacks directory of your chosen world. If you are playing on a server, upload the extracted folder to the world’s datapacks location and run /reload. If you are managing multiple mods and datapacks, the foxygame.net launcher can streamline the entire process by providing a built-in mod browser and easy installation, making it a perfect companion for datapacks like this one. After a quick reload, your smeltery will immediately recognize all the new recipes.
Why This Datapack Elevates Your Modpack
More Tinkers Compat does more than just add recipes. It solves a common frustration: finding a cool material in a mod, only to realize it cannot be melted, cast, or used in your favorite tool forge. By connecting Tinkers' Construct to over a dozen other mods, the datapack turns your smeltery into a central recycling hub. Every piece of armor, every decorative block, and every odd tool becomes a potential source of ingots. This not only saves inventory space but also encourages you to explore mods you might otherwise ignore.
The inclusion of Plastic through Thermal’s latex is a particularly clever touch. It shows that the datapack author thought beyond simple metal melting and considered how organic or synthetic materials could enrich the Tinkers' material palette. Combined with the mob head tweaks and chain armor recycling, the datapack feels like a natural extension of the Tinkers' Construct philosophy: everything is a material, and nothing should go to waste.
Conclusion
If you run a modded Minecraft world with Tinkers' Construct and any of the supported mods, More Tinkers Compat is an essential addition. It is lightweight, easy to install once you remember to decompress it, and instantly makes your smeltery far more versatile. The expanded melting recipes, adjusted byproducts, and clever material additions like Plastic all work together to create a more cohesive modded experience. Just make sure you have Tinkers' Construct 3.3.2.324 and Materialis 2.4.2 ready, extract the datapack properly, and watch your smeltery come alive with possibilities you never knew were missing.