Smithery is a custom plugin, inspired by Smeltery, that facilitates the forging of Alloys. This plugin requires [at least] Java 16 and CivModCore to function.

Be aware that Smithery does not dictate how Forges are made nor how Alloys are used. Server admins should use /smithery give to give themselves a Forge so that they can, for example, create a CraftEnhance recipe for it. Likewise, use /smithery list to list all parsed recipes and be able to produce each Alloy at each quality at each stage.

See here for how to properly configure your Smithery plugin. Smithery also supports, to a certain extent, Smeltery's 1.4 configuration. Read more about that here.

Say you have a block protection plugin and want to prevent players from extracting alloys from protected Forges they don't have permission to access, take a gander at uk.protonull.smithery.utilities.ActionHandler and create a fully custom, conditional action handler. By default, the handler allows or denies based on permissions.

Say you have custom items that you wish to use as ingredients in Smithery, take a gander at uk.protonull.smithery.utilities.IngredientMatcher and create a custom finder that will return a deterministic ID if the given item matches any of your custom items. That ID can be used within the ingredients list of configured recipes.

Alloy data is stored within the item's PersistentDataContainer, example below:

template:
  ==: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack
  v: 2586
  type: STICK
  meta:
    ==: ItemMeta
    meta-type: UNSPECIFIC
    display-name: '{"italic":false,"text":"Heavy Steel"}'
    lore:
      - '{"italic":false,"color":"white","extra":[{"color":"green","text":"GOOD"}],"text":"Quality:"}'
    enchants:
      DURABILITY: 1
    ItemFlags:
      - HIDE_ENCHANTS
    PublicBukkitValues:
      smithery:alloy:
        .:type: HSTEEL
        .:quality: GOOD

Be aware that the "type" and "quality" keys are 'ditto keys' to save space.