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Add NBT crafting to the game

I think all of the datapack creators trying to make custom items have run across this at least once. Minecraft's existing crafting framework that's built in to datapacks does not allow for ingredients or products with any kind of NBT data at all, forcing us to use a lengthy and unwieldy system based on the knowledge_book item.

While this method works fine, NBT crafting would open up huge opportunities to datapack creators wishing to create high-quality content. People who make datapacks about alternative crafting recipies for existing items could then expand into making better content involving NBT items with actual abilities, instead of just creating the same thing over and over.

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    Literally, Advancements AND Loot Tables both have NBT compatibility, why not crafting too!?!?

    (This would make EVERYTHING sooo much easier! They could even use it to make Brewing Recipes a thing, as well as using it for tipped arrows and stuff instead of using whatever extra coding they have in there!)

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    Yes I made an OP sword and I dont know how to do the knowledge book system and I want a crafting recipie for it in survival so I can troll my friends and do it in survival, NBT  Crafting would make this so much easier for beginner datapack creators.

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    this addition would be really good for datatpack creators, especially those who use texture packs with their datapack

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    This would add sophisticated crafting trees where crafting can acknowledge NBT tags in items for input and output items with NBT tags.

    Adding this would be so much more efficient instead of having alternatives like throwing entities on the ground or revoking advancements to return a modified item.

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    The community has developed 4 different workarounds for this feature being missing, and none of them are good. Commandeering a special tileentity as a fake crafting bench, tossing items on the floor together, using an intermediary knowledgebook item, or go modded. All of them add significant overhead to the process that make it not feasable for near-vanilla servers to add custom items that can be crafted into other custom items, which seems to be at the heart of why one would want custom roleplay items.