Tools & Equipments Upgrade
Version: 5.0 Minecraft: 1.21
Recycling in Blast Furnace
The blast furnace now allows melting various items to obtain valuable resources:
- Chainmail items turn into chains
 - Iron items are smelted into iron ingots
 - Golden items yield gold ingots
 - Copper items transform into copper ingots
 - Diamond items become emeralds (anti-diamond farm protection)
 - Netherite items produce netherite ingots
 - Jukebox or enchanting table can be melted into diamond
 - Crying obsidian turns into regular obsidian
 
Upgrading in Smithing Table
Using the amethyst template (amethyst shard), you can upgrade and downgrade tools and armor in the smithing table.
Item Upgrades
- Wooden tools → stone tools
 - Stone tools → iron tools
 - Chainmail armor → iron armor
 - Leather armor → iron or chainmail armor
 - Iron items → golden items
 - Golden or iron items → diamond items
 - Diamond items → netherite items
 
Quality Downgrades
- Netherite items → diamond items
 - Netherite, diamond, golden or iron armor → chainmail armor
 - Netherite, diamond, golden, iron or chainmail armor → leather armor
 
Horse Armor
- Leather armor → iron armor
 - Iron armor → golden armor
 - Iron or golden armor → diamond armor
 - Diamond, golden or iron armor → leather armor