HackCraft: Crafting the Hackpad and Flashing Microcontroller Chat Macros

HackCraft adds a handheld macro keypad designed for players who regularly send repeatable chat strings, server commands, or coordinate callouts. Instead of retyping common phrases manually, you build a two-part hardware unit—a Hackpad housing and a programmable Hackpad Microcontroller—and solder them together at an Anvil.

Crafting the Hardware Components

Both devices are built from early overworld mining resources at a standard crafting table:

• Hackpad: Combine 2 Redstone Torch items, 1 Iron Ingot, 3 Redstone Dust piles, and 3 Cobblestone blocks to assemble the handheld Hackpad frame.
• Hackpad Microcontroller: Arrange 6 Cobblestone blocks with 3 Redstone Dust piles to craft the Hackpad Microcontroller chip.

Flashing Messages and Anvil Assembly

A freshly crafted Hackpad cannot transmit anything until a programmed Hackpad Microcontroller is installed inside it:

• Hold the Hackpad Microcontroller and open its configuration screen, fill the input slots with the text phrases you want to store, and press the "Write to Flash" button to save your preset strings to the chip.
• Place the Hackpad and the flashed Hackpad Microcontroller into an Anvil to bond the chip into the keypad.
• Open the finished Hackpad whenever you need your saved presets; selecting any programmed button immediately dispatches its stored line to the in-game chat.