With limited inventory space in the game Minecraft, there is an innate want to be able to manage complex crafting that mods like Industrial Craft requires. Non-programming alternatives exist, but I wanted a generalizable program that could efficiently solve the problem.

Using the mod ComputerCraft, I started writing a LUA script that stored Minecraft crafting recipes in arrays. Whenever a recipe is requested, the program will first search its inventory for all the required components. If a component is not available, it will then search its arrays for a recipe. When the recipe is found, it will then recursively perform the crafting process until either all components are found, or a component/recipe is missing.