The lodestone recipe now crafts 8 at a time, rather than just one. Makes a bit of sense since the recipe takes 8 blocks.

Makes it a lot more worthwhile to craft a lodestone, while still keeping netherite as part of the recipe.

History

1.5.1X

The tweak that made the lodestone output 8x has been replaced by vanilla’s solution—replacing the netherite with an iron ingot instead.

1.4.0+

The lodestone recipe now yields 8 lodestones rather than just 1