BEI

Barely Enough Items: a JEI-style item list and recipe viewer for Minecraft Bedrock Edition

Updated Oct 21, 2026

client · 0.1.1

README0.1.1

BEI

Barely Enough Items: a JEI-style item list and recipe viewer for Minecraft Bedrock Edition, as a LeviLamina client mod.

BEI brings what Just Enough Items (JEI) does on Java Edition to Bedrock: browse every item, look up how to make it and what it is used for, and move a recipe's ingredients into the crafting grid with one click. It runs entirely on the client and reads the recipes the server already sends, so it works in single-player and on any server, and the server does not need to install anything.

Background
Install
Usage
Building
Maintainers
Contributing
License

Background

Bedrock Edition has a recipe book, but it only shows crafting recipes, it cannot tell you what an item is used for, and it cannot be extended. Java players have relied on JEI for this for over a decade. BEI is a port of that experience to Bedrock, built on LeviLamina, which supports Bedrock clients on Windows.

Recipe categories:

crafting, including special recipes such as banners, fireworks and map cloning, which are shown as examples;
smelting, blasting, smoking, campfire and soul campfire cooking;
fuel;
stonecutting, smithing, cartography and brewing;
anvil repair (repair materials and combining two damaged items) and composting chances;
any data-driven or add-on recipe type, which gets a generic page.

Item list: all creative inventory items plus registry items that are missing from it, with localized names, item tags and creative groups.

Rendering: the game's own item renderer and UI textures, so icons, enchantment glint and panels look exactly like vanilla.

Languages: English and Simplified Chinese, including pinyin search.

Install

Requirements:

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.26.51.01 for Windows (x64).
LeviLamina 26.51.x client, for example installed through LeviLauncher.

With lip:

lip install github.com/LiteLDev/BarelyEnoughItems#client

Manually: download bei-client-windows-x64.zip from the latest release and extract it so that BEI/ ends up in the game's mods/ folder, next to LeviLamina/.

Usage

Open any container screen (inventory, crafting table, furnace, chest, …). The item list appears on the right, and your bookmarks on the left.

Item list

Action	Effect
Hover an item	Tooltip with the name, id and mod
Left click	Show its recipes (in cheat mode: take a stack)
Right click	Show its uses (in cheat mode: take one)
Mouse wheel, `<` `>`	Change page
Click the search bar	Type to filter; right click clears it, `↑` `↓` recall earlier searches

Recipes and uses

These keys work over BEI's panels, over vanilla inventory slots and inside the recipe screen. All of them can be remapped in Settings → Keyboard & Mouse.

Key	Effect
`R`	Recipes that make the hovered item
`U`	Recipes that use the hovered item. For a workstation, such as a furnace, this lists everything it can make.
`Backspace`	Back to the previous page
`A`	Add or remove a bookmark
`O`	Show or hide the item list
`Ctrl` + `F`	Focus the search bar

In the recipe screen, click a tab to switch category and use the mouse wheel to page. Left click an ingredient to see its recipes, right click it to see its uses, and click a workstation on the left to see every recipe of that category.

The + button next to a recipe moves its ingredients from your inventory into the open crafting grid, furnace or smithing table. Shift-click moves as many sets as you have. Ingredients you are missing are tinted red.

Search syntax

Query	Matches
`oak planks`	Items whose name contains both words
`stone\|dirt`	Either word
`-slab`	Exclude items matching the term
`@minecraft`	Items from a namespace
`#planks`	Items with a matching item tag
`$oak_`	Items whose id contains the text
`"red wool"`	An exact phrase
`mb`, `muban`, `木板`	Chinese names by pinyin initials, full pinyin or characters

Bookmarks

Press A over any item to pin it to the bookmark list on the left. Bookmarks are saved to mods/BEI/config/bookmarks.json.

Cheat mode

When you are allowed to use commands (an operator, or a world with cheats enabled), cheat mode lets you click items in the list to take them. While it is on:

left click takes a stack;
right click or shift-click takes one;
in creative mode, clicking the list while holding an item deletes it.

To turn it on, Ctrl-click the settings button next to the search bar.

Settings

Click the settings button next to the search bar for in-game options: cheat mode, bookmarks, search bar position, item ids in tooltips and more. They are saved to mods/BEI/config/config.json.

Building

You need Windows x64, xmake, Visual Studio Build Tools with MSVC 14.4x or newer, and LLVM (clang-cl).

git config --global core.longpaths true
xmake f -a x64 -m release -p windows --target_type=client -y
xmake -y                                    # produces bin/BEI/
xmake build -y bei-tests; xmake run bei-tests

AGENTS.md describes the architecture, the conventions and the rules for working with Bedrock internals. tools/e2e is the end-to-end test harness that drives the real game.

Maintainers

@futrime (Zijian Zhang)

Contributing

PRs and issues are welcome. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and follow the Code of Conduct. Report security issues as described in SECURITY.md.

License

BEI is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3, the same license as LeviLamina. See COPYING.LESSER and COPYING.

BEI is not affiliated with Mojang Studios, Microsoft, or the JEI project.

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