Transmutation Recipes

The primary purpose of the Minium Stone is to transmute items into other items. Natural items can be placed with a Minium Stone on a crafting table to transmute them into other items.

Main Mineral Path

 * 4 dirt &rArr; 1 cobblestone
 * 4 cobblestone &rArr; 1 clay
 * 4 clay &rArr; 1 clay block (vanilla)
 * 4 clay blocks &rArr; 1 iron ingot
 * 8 iron ingots &rArr; 1 gold ingot
 * 4 gold ingots &rArr; 1 diamond

Each of these recipes is reversible (there is a Minium Stone transmutation recipe to reverse clay blocks into clay blobs), so more valuable minerals can be simply a way to "store" large quantities of lesser minerals. Multiplying it all out, it takes 8,192 dirt blocks to make one diamond:


 * 8,192 dirt &rArr; 2,048 cobblestone &rArr; 512 clay &rArr; 128 clay blocks &rArr; 32 iron ingots &rArr; 4 gold ingots &rArr; 1 diamond

Reversal Recipes
The Minium Stone allows you to undo some crafting actions that can be done in vanilla Minecraft:


 * 4 planks &rArr; 1 log
 * 1 clay block &rArr; 4 clay
 * 3 bonemeal &rArr; 1 bone
 * 1 smooth stone &rArr; 1 cobblestone
 * 2 blaze powder &rArr; 1 blaze rod
 * 1 glass block &rArr; 1 sand
 * 1 brick block &rArr; 4 bricks
 * 2 sticks &rArr; 1 planks
 * 1 sandstone &rArr; 4 sand
 * 3 paper &rArr; 3 sugarcane

Smelting
Rather than use a furnace, which takes time, a Minium Stone can use one Charcoal/Coal plus seven of a smelt-able item to smelt them instantly. Note that this is slightly less efficient than smelting in a furnace (a piece of coal/charcoal in a furnace will smelt 8 items. Here it only converts 7), but the benefit is it's instantaneous.


 * cobblestone &rArr; smooth stone
 * emerald ore &rArr; emerald
 * clay &rArr; brick
 * fish &rArr; cooked fish
 * raw steak &rArr; cooked steak
 * raw porkchop &rArr; cooked porkchop
 * raw chicken &rArr; cooked chicken
 * potato &rArr; baked potato
 * sand &rArr; glass
 * redstone ore &rArr; redstone ingot
 * iron ore &rArr; iron ingot
 * gold ore &rArr; gold ingot
 * diamond ore &rArr; diamond
 * logs &rArr; charcoal
 * coal ore &rArr; coal
 * lapis lazuli ore &rArr; lapis lazuli
 * cactus &rArr; cactus green

Dye cycle
If you have one dye color, using a Minium Stone, you can turn it into another. They transmute into each other in a progression:


 * rose red &rArr; cactus green &rArr; purple dye &rArr; cyan dye &rArr; light grey dye &rArr; grey dye &rArr; pink dye &rArr; lime dye &rArr; dandelion yellow &rArr; light blue dye &rArr; magenta dye &rArr; orange dye &rArr; ink sac

However, note that this does not make a complete loop (bonemeal, cocoa beans, and lapis lazuli are missing), so the transmutation is one-way. But since rose red is one of the most common dyes, it's relatively easy to start "at the beginning" of this cycle and get to wherever you want in the progression.

Colored wool itself has a similar cycle, but there is no "un-dying" transmutation to get your dye back out of colored wool:


 * white wool &rArr; orange wool &rArr; magenta wool &rArr; light blue wool &rArr; yellow wool &rArr; lime wool &rArr; pink wool &rArr; light grey wool &rArr; grey wool &rArr; cyan wool &rArr; purple wool &rArr; blue wool &rArr; brown wool &rArr; green wool &rArr; red wool &rArr; black wool &rArr; white wool

The wool cycle is complete (starts and ends with white), so given any color of wool, you can achieve any other color.

Wood Cycle
Logs, planks, leaves, and saplings all transmute in a cycle of tree types:


 * oak &rArr; spruce &rArr; birch &rArr; jungle &rArr; oak

Also, any four planks (of any wood type) can be transmuted back into an oak log. There is a path for wood to join the "mineral" path above:


 * 2 logs &rArr; 1 obsidian
 * 4 obsidian &rArr; 1 iron ingot

Thus you can transmute diamonds from sticks:
 * 2,048 sticks &rArr; 1,024 planks &rArr; 256 logs &rArr; 128 obsidian &rArr; 32 iron ingots &rArr; 4 gold ingots &rArr; 1 diamond

So, it's much more efficient to build a tree farm to transmute diamonds than to build a cobblestone generator. There is no reversal recipe to turn iron into obsidian, so that transmutation is one-way (though obsidian can be turned back into logs).

Other Cycles

 * sand &rArr; dirt &rArr; gravel &rArr; grass &rArr; sand
 * rose &rArr; dandelion &rArr; rose
 * red mushroom &rArr; brown mushroom &rArr; red mushroom
 * pumpkin &rArr; melon &rArr; pumpkin (seeds too)