{"id":129846,"date":"2026-06-07T18:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/realistic-gunpowder-craft\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:29:05","slug":"realistic-gunpowder-craft","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/realistic-gunpowder-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Realistic Gunpowder Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>## Realistic Gunpowder Craft<br \/>\n### Takes gunpowder craft to another level with the new sulfur blocks<\/p>\n<p>andesite + rotten flesh + wheat = saltpeter base<\/br><br \/>\nsaltpeter base in furnace = potassium nitrate<\/br><br \/>\n5x potassium nitrate + sulfur + charcoal = 7x gunpowder<\/br><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width='300px' height='300px' alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-attachments\/assets\/93d48ef8-879c-4aa9-aa16-59be105bff69\" \/><\/br><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width='300px' height='300px' alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-attachments\/assets\/188082c3-bf70-4b55-8755-d105f57cc38a\" \/><\/br><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width='300px' height='300px' alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-attachments\/assets\/00143c5c-7982-40a8-983e-2652be7db5b1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>## Why is the recipe so strange?<br \/>\nIn real life, the gunpowder is made up of 75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal and 10% sulfur.<\/br><br \/>\nCharcoal and sulfur are already in minecraft, so I tried implementing potassium nitrate.<\/br><br \/>\nAccording to Wikipedia, in medieval times people got potassium nitrate by mixing manure with either mortar or wood ashes, common earth and organic materials such as straw to give porosity to a compost pile and also mixed with limestone (nearest &#8211; andesite. I did not find the mention of limestone in English wiki, but there is a Russian page that says about it).<\/br><\/p>\n<p>Btw, this is my first published mod and it was made without anything like MCCreator, just using the fabric documentation \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takes gunpowder craft to another level with the new sulfur blocks (adds new Potassium Nitrate and Saltpeter Base items)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":129847,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"realistic-gunpowder-craft","_minecraft_project_id":"onMb2eWF","_minecraft_author":"Kostya_Pictures","_minecraft_license":"LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved","_minecraft_downloads":9,"_minecraft_follows":1,"_minecraft_client_side":"required","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"realistic-gunpowder-craft.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":11613,"_minecraft_version_count":1,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T13:03:11.567719Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2026-05-07T11:28:45.267890Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2026-05-02T20:31:36.955740Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/realistic-gunpowder-craft","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":129847,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-07T15:29:07+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"9e971073a836aef44f2241b4f7db289b","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[87,97,85,89,92],"mod_loader":[99],"minecraft_version":[837,838,839,840,841],"class_list":["post-129846","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-adventure","mod_category-fabric","mod_category-food","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-utility","mod_loader-fabric","minecraft_version-26-2-snapshot-2","minecraft_version-26-2-snapshot-3","minecraft_version-26-2-snapshot-4","minecraft_version-26-2-snapshot-5","minecraft_version-26-2-snapshot-6"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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