Uncraftable Saddles

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Uncraftable Saddles

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Removes the saddle crafting recipe added in 1.21.6 and restores saddles to their original chest loot tables. Nothing else is changed.

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Minecraft
26.2
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Description

🐴 Uncraftable Saddles — Like It Used to Be

A lightweight datapack that removes the saddle crafting recipe and brings saddles back to dungeon, temple and fortress chests — exactly the way it was before 1.21.6.

❓ Why This Pack Exists

In 1.21.6, a crafting recipe for the saddle was added to the game, while at the same time saddles were removed from most chest loot tables. For many players, this ruined one of the most rewarding parts of exploration: finding a saddle as a rare treasure.

Saddle Restore rolls that change back:

  • 🚫 No more crafting — the saddle recipe is completely disabled.
  • 💰 Saddles are back in chests — with their original drop chances.
  • 🎯 Nothing else is touched — every other recipe, loot table and mechanic stays 100% vanilla.

✨ Features

Feature Details
❌ Disables saddle crafting The recipe is replaced with an uncraftable barrier-based dummy
✅ Restores saddle loot Saddles return to 9 structure loot tables with original weights
🧊 Zero side effects No other loot, recipes or mechanics are modified
🌍 Singleplayer & servers Standard datapack — no mods required
🔄 Wide version support From 1.21.2 up to the latest 26.x releases

🔧 How It Works

  • The minecraft:saddle recipe is overridden with a shapeless recipe that requires minecraft:barrier, making it impossible to craft in survival.
  • Affected chest loot tables are overridden with current-version tables plus the original saddle entries re-added — so no other loot changes from newer updates are lost.

💰 Restored Loot Tables

Structure Loot Table Saddle Weight
Dungeon chests/simple_dungeon 20
Desert Pyramid chests/desert_pyramid 20
Jungle Temple chests/jungle_temple 20
Nether Fortress chests/nether_bridge 20
End City chests/end_city_treasure 3
Bastion Remnant (Treasure) chests/bastion_treasure 15
Ancient City chests/ancient_city 10
Trial Chambers (Reward) chests/trial_chambers/reward 5
Trial Chambers (Ominous Reward) chests/trial_chambers/reward_ominous 8

🧭 Version Support

Version Support
1.21.6 ✅ Main target — crafting removed, loot restored
1.21.7 – 1.21.11 ✅ Supported
26.1 – 26.3 ✅ Supported

📦 Installation

Singleplayer

  1. Download the datapack.
  2. Place the Uncraftable Saddles folder into .minecraft/saves/<world>/datapacks/.
  3. Run /datapack reload or rejoin the world.
  4. Optional: /recipe take @a minecraft:saddle to clear the recipe from recipe books.

Server

  1. Place the folder into <server>/world/datapacks/.
  2. Restart the server or run /datapack reload.

❓ FAQ

Does it change any other loot? No. Only the saddle recipe and the saddle entries in the listed loot tables are modified.

Do already generated chests get updated? No. Loot is rolled when chunks generate. Explore new chunks or create a new world to see the change.

How can I test it quickly? Run /loot give @s loot minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon a few times — saddles should drop again.

Does it work with mods? Yes, as long as a mod doesn’t hard-code its own saddle recipe. This pack only overrides vanilla data-driven files.

Happy treasure hunting! 🗺️✨