Netherite Upgrade — No Template Required
Restores Netherite upgrading to its pre-1.20 behavior: combine Diamond gear with a Netherite Ingot at the Smithing Table, no Smithing Template needed. No more digging through Bastion Remnants just to unlock the upgrade.
A simpler, more accessible path to Netherite gear for survival worlds — especially useful for servers or maps with limited or no Nether access.
Features
Overwrites the vanilla Netherite smithing recipes directly — no new items, no dependencies Compatible with every version from 1.20 to 26.2 (separate zips for each version range) No mods required: works on vanilla, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt — any loader, since it's a pure data pack Keeps everything else about Netherite unchanged: Ancient Debris mining, ingot crafting, and Netherite's stats and properties all stay vanilla.
Installation
Download the zip matching your Minecraft version Copy it (or its contents) into
.minecraft/saves/<world name>/datapacks/
Run /reload in-game, or reopen the world
