LavaRecycle

LavaRecycle is a lightweight Minecraft 1.21+ Paper plugin that adds useful quality-of-life mechanics for lava and cauldrons.

Features

Lava Recycling with Bone Meal

Right-click on a lava source block or lava cauldron with bone meal to recycle it.
80% chance: Only sound + happy villager particles (no change).
20% chance: Lava is converted into a random solid block:
- Common (85% of successful rolls): Stone, Deepslate, Tuff, Diorite, Granite, Andesite, Basalt, Blackstone.
- Rare (~15% of successful rolls): Ores including Coal, Copper, Iron, Gold, Redstone, Lapis, Emerald, and Diamond (with their deepslate variants).

Dispenser support: You can also dispense bone meal directly at lava/lava cauldrons to trigger the same effect.

Enhanced Cauldron Dispenser Support

Dispensers can now fully interact with cauldrons:

Fill empty cauldrons using Water Bucket, Lava Bucket, Powder Snow Bucket, and all mob buckets (Axolotl, Cod, Salmon, Tadpole, Tropical Fish, Pufferfish).
Empty filled cauldrons back into empty buckets.

Commands

Command	Description	Permission
`/lavarecycle reload`	Reload the plugin config	`lavarecycle.reload`

Permissions

lavarecycle.reload — Allows use of the reload command (default: OP)

Configuration (`config.yml`)

# Allows dispenser to fill/empty buckets with liquids from/to cauldrons
bucket-dispenser-feature: true

# Chance to successfully recycle lava with bone meal (0.0 - 1.0)
bone-meal-chance: 0.2

# Chance to get an ore instead of a stone when recycling succeeds (0.0 - 1.0)
ore-chance: 0.15

# Blocks that can be obtained from the "stone" group
stone-group:
  - STONE
  - DEEPSLATE
  - TUFF
  - DIORITE
  - GRANITE
  - ANDESITE
  - BASALT
  - BLACKSTONE

# Blocks that can be obtained from the "ore" group
ore-group:
  - COAL_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_COAL_ORE
  - COPPER_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_COPPER_ORE
  - EMERALD_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_EMERALD_ORE
  - GOLD_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_GOLD_ORE
  - IRON_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_IRON_ORE
  - LAPIS_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_LAPIS_ORE
  - REDSTONE_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_REDSTONE_ORE
  - DIAMOND_ORE
  - DEEPSLATE_DIAMOND_ORE

You can customize the probabilities and add/remove any valid block materials in the lists.

License

This project is open source under the MIT License. Feel free to modify and distribute — credit is appreciated but not required.