Help needed w/ custom crafting recipe shape

[craggy badger]

Hello! I am having trouble with the crafting recipes once again, this time on a different issue however. I'm wondering if I'm formatting this incorrectly, because the server seems to register the shape as 9 ingredients in one row ("Crafting rows should be 1, 2, or 3 characters, not [9]"). Am I doing something wrong with the formatting?

Any and all advice will be appreciated! Thank you in advance!

[sudden quest]

that is correct. are you sure you're not using an old version of your .jar or sth?

[craggy badger]

I am confident, I have rebuilt this .jar around 5 times now and each time it comes up with the same issue

[sudden quest]

hm that actually can't be, it just checks the length of the array. decompile your .jar and check if it actually contains the proper array, idk

very weird