In the spirit of the IC wiki, HAYO! (NOTE: the latter only works inside crafting tables.) Shift-left click the question mark in a crafting table, and NEI will autofill the gui with the recipe using whatever items are in your inventory. Left click a question mark to show an overlay of the recipe on the gui. (Recipes that require a crafting table will have question marks when you view the recipe from a crafting table, those that use furnaces will have them in furnaces, etc.) Most people already know about the first feature, but the second might blow some minds.
They only show up when you're in a gui that can create the item. I won't bother with the obvious features (eg R and U for recipes).įirst, the question marks that show up when looking up recipies. This is a large wall of text, but if you use NEI often it'll probably save your more time than it wastes. The details on the NEI minecraftforum thread are horribly outdated. Some of these features aren't actually documented anywhere but the NEI changelog. Hopefully some of the Mindcrackers read this, and it saves everyone a bunch of time and frustration. I was a bit tired of watching the Mindcrackers spend half of each episode crafting items, so I decided to take a couple minutes and make this post to teach people how to effectively use NEI (Not Enough Items-not to be confused with TMI (Too Many Items)).
