Quark: What It Adds and How Its Recipes Are Split
Quark is a large collection of small vanilla-styled additions. This guide covers its scale, where the recipes sit, and the one genuine surprise in its version split.
The older build is the bigger one
This is unusual enough to lead with. 1.20.1 carries 1,039 crafting recipes against 977 on 1.21.1, and 516 stonecutting recipes against 495. Both of the mod's two large categories shrank in the port.
If you are choosing a version and want maximum content, the older line has roughly 80 more recipes across the two. Nothing suggests features were cut deliberately — parts of the mod simply have not been carried across yet.
Stonecutting is half the mod
495 stonecutting recipes on 1.21.1 against 977 crafting ones means roughly a third of everything Quark makes comes out of a stonecutter rather than a bench. For a mod shipping 789 blocks against just 83 items, that ratio is the practical headline: keep a stonecutter where you build.
Runes are the one bespoke system
Smithing Rune carries 18 recipes on both builds and is the only category Quark defines for itself. Everything else in the recipe list is a vanilla type — crafting, stonecutting, smelting, blasting, campfire cooking and smoking.
That is the mod's design in miniature. Quark deliberately avoids adding machines or new benches; it adds things that fit the game you already know, so its recipes use the stations vanilla already gives you.
The small categories
Smelting holds 13 recipes on both versions, Blasting 7 on 1.21.1 and 6 on 1.20.1, and Campfire Cooking, Smoking and Smithing Transform hold a single recipe each.
Two tiny categories differ between builds: Mixed Exclusion has 4 recipes on 1.21.1 and none on 1.20.1, while Exclusion has 1 on 1.20.1 and none on 1.21.1.
No worldgen structures
Quark generates no structures. It changes terrain and adds blocks and mobs, but there is no dungeon or ruin to find, so nothing here gates progression behind exploration.
Where to start
There is no progression to follow — every recipe is available as soon as you have its ingredients. The useful first step is reading the stonecutter's list for the stone you already build with, since that is where the largest share of the block palette lives.
Versions
4.1-482 on NeoForge for 1.21.1, 4.0-462 on Forge for 1.20.1.
Covers the mod's in-game guide topics: