EMI Wiki

EMI (Enough Mod Items) is a comprehensive item and recipe viewer designed to make navigating the game's massive amount of content as seamless as possible. Whether you are playing vanilla or heavily modded, EMI provides a searchable index of every item, block, and fluid in the game. Its primary purpose is to answer two fundamental questions: "How do I make this?" and "What can I do with this?"

Beyond basic recipes, EMI is packed with advanced features like recipe trees for calculating raw material costs, crafting helpers to auto-fill grids, extensive search filters, and deep accessibility features.

Whenever you open your inventory or any crafting screen, you will notice a large grid of items displayed on the side of your screen. This is the Item Panel.

• Scrolling: Use your mouse wheel or the scroll bar to browse through every available item in the game.
• Hiding the Panel: If you need an unobstructed view of your game or inventory, you can toggle the visibility of the EMI panel at any time by pressing the designated toggle key (default Ctrl + O).
• Dynamic Scaling: The panel automatically adjusts to fit the available space around your open menus, ensuring it never overlaps important interface elements.

At the bottom of the Item Panel is a powerful search bar. Simply click it (or press Ctrl + F) and start typing to filter the items displayed in the panel above. The search updates instantly as you type.

EMI's search engine is highly robust and supports various prefixes to help you find exactly what you are looking for.

You can narrow down your searches using specific symbols before your search terms:

• Plain Text: Typing normally searches by the item's name (e.g., iron pickaxe).
• Mod Search (@): Type @ followed by a mod's name to see only items added by that specific mod (e.g., @create or @botania).
• Tag Search (#): Type # to search by internal game tags. This is incredibly useful for finding groups of items, like #logs, #planks, or #saplings.
• Tooltip Search: EMI can search through the extra text in an item's tooltip, not just its title.
• Regex Support: For power users, EMI fully supports Regular Expressions. You can use regex patterns to perform highly complex and specific searches across the entire item registry.

Interacting with items in the panel is the core of using EMI.

• View Recipe (Left-Click or R): Hover over any item and Left-Click (or press the Recipe key) to see exactly how it is created. If there are multiple ways to craft it, EMI will display them in categorized tabs.
• View Uses (Right-Click or U): Hover over an item and Right-Click (or press the Use key) to see every recipe that requires this item as an ingredient.

You can chain these actions indefinitely. For example, you can click an item to see its recipe, click one of the ingredients to see its recipe, and then right-click a byproduct to see what else it can be used for. To navigate back, you can use the Back key (default Backspace) to retrace your steps through your viewing history.

EMI goes far beyond standard crafting tables. It natively supports a massive variety of crafting methods and mechanics, including:

• Standard Crafting, Smelting, Blasting, Smoking, and Campfire Cooking.
• Brewing Stand recipes and Anvil interactions.
• Furnace Fuels (showing how many items a specific fuel will burn).
• World Interactions: EMI shows you in-world mechanics, such as using an Axe to strip logs, using a Hoe to till dirt into farmland, or using a Shovel to turn grass into dirt paths.

One of EMI's most powerful features is the Recipe Tree. When you are looking at a complex item that requires multiple steps of crafting, figuring out exactly how many raw materials you need can be a headache. EMI solves this.

By clicking the Recipe Tree icon while viewing a recipe, EMI will break down the entire crafting chain. It calculates the total base materials required (e.g., raw iron, logs, redstone dust) to craft the final product. You can expand or collapse specific branches of the tree, allowing you to plan out massive crafting projects and gather exactly what you need before you start.

EMI takes the tedium out of moving items into crafting grids. When you are viewing a recipe and have a compatible crafting screen open (like a Crafting Table), you will see a + button on the recipe.

• Auto-Fill: Clicking the + button (or pressing the designated transfer key) will automatically move the correct ingredients from your inventory directly into the crafting grid.
• Missing Items: If you do not have all the required items, EMI will highlight the missing ingredients so you know exactly what you need to go gather.
• Recipe Defaulting: EMI is smart enough to remember your preferred ingredients if a recipe accepts multiple types of items (like any type of wood plank).

If you are a server admin, a mapmaker, or just playing in creative mode, you can enable Cheat Mode in the EMI configuration menu.

When Cheat Mode is active, clicking an item in the EMI panel will no longer show its recipe. Instead, it will instantly give you a stack of that item directly into your inventory. This functions similarly to the creative inventory but benefits from EMI's powerful search and filtering tools.

If you find yourself constantly looking up the same item or recipe, you can save it to your Favorites Bar.

• Adding Favorites: Simply drag and drop an item from the main panel onto the favorites bar (usually located on the left side of the screen), or press the favorite key (default A) while hovering over it.
• Custom Amounts: You can favorite specific stack sizes. If you regularly need exactly 16 of a certain block, you can save a stack of 16 to your favorites for quick reference or cheating in later.
• Recipe Favoriting: You can even favorite specific recipes, not just items, giving you a one-click shortcut to complex crafting steps.

Accessibility is a core design goal of EMI. The mod is built from the ground up to be fully usable without a mouse and is highly friendly to screen readers.

• Keyboard Navigation: Every element of the EMI interface, from the search bar to the recipe tabs and the item grid, can be navigated entirely using the keyboard.
• Screen Reader Support: EMI integrates smoothly with standard screen reading software, reading out item names, tooltips, and interface elements to assist visually impaired players.
• Customizable Colors: The configuration menu allows you to adjust the colors of highlights and borders to accommodate colorblindness or visual preferences.

• The Config Menu: Don't forget to explore the configuration screen! Bound to a hotkey (check your controls), the config menu lets you heavily tweak the panel's appearance, search behavior, and layout to suit your playstyle.
• Quick Crafting: If you have the ingredients in your inventory, you can often craft an item directly from the recipe view by using the crafting helper, saving you the trouble of memorizing the pattern.
• Double-Click Search: Double-clicking the search bar will highlight it in yellow, meaning your search term will persist and filter your actual inventory slots, darkening items that don't match your search.