About Foodables
From ModrinthFoodables is a Vanilla Plus-style food mod that shakes up the vanilla food and adds a range of new potential treats.
Foodables
A comprehensive culinary expansion mod for Minecraft 1.21.5
Transform your Minecraft culinary experience with 125+ new items, advanced food processing systems, and immersive farming mechanics. Foodables brings a comprehensive vanilla-plus approach to food, farming, and cooking that seamlessly integrates with your Minecraft world.
🍎 Features
Food & Culinary System
- 53 Unique Food Items - From simple fruits to complex multi-ingredient dishes
- Balanced Nutrition System - Tiered progression from basic foods (2-3 hunger) to premium meals (12+ hunger)
- Advanced Food Processing - Baking, drying, juicing, and multi-step crafting systems
- Smart Saturation Values - Complex recipes reward players with better saturation efficiency
- Always-Edible Drinks - Juices and beverages that can be consumed even when full
Farming & Agriculture
- 7 Fruit Trees - Apple, Banana, Lemon, Lime, Mango, Orange, and Peppercorn trees with natural generation
- 5 New Crops - Tomato, Lettuce, Brown Onion, Red Onion, and Garlic with full growth cycles
- 2 Berry Bushes - Blueberry and Blackberry bushes that generate naturally in forest biomes
- Tree Harvesting - Trees drop fruits when the leaves are breaking over time
Advanced Processing Systems
- Drying Rack Network - 10 wood variants (including new Pale Oak) for jerky production
- Food Preservation - Create jerky and dried foods with enhanced saturation and storage benefits
- Multi-Stage Cooking - Complex recipes requiring multiple ingredients and processing steps
- Tool Integration - 5 specialized tools (Mortar & Pestle, Knife, Juicer, Whisk, Crusher) for advanced crafting
World Generation Integration
- Natural Tree Generation - Fruit trees spawn organically in appropriate biomes
- Berry Bush Clusters - Discover berry patches throughout forest regions
- Salt Ore Deposits - Underground salt mining for food preservation and seasoning
- Configurable Generation - Toggle any world generation feature via in-game configuration
📦 Installation
Requirements
- Minecraft: 1.21.5
- Mod Loader: Fabric Loader 0.16.14+
- Fabric API: Latest version for 1.21.5 (Download)
- Java: 21 or higher
- Cloth Config: 18.0.0+ (Download) - Required for configuration GUI
Step-by-Step Installation
- Install Fabric Loader - Download and run the Fabric Installer
- Download Dependencies:
- Fabric API (Required)
- Cloth Config (Required for config menu)
- Download Foodables - Get the latest version from CurseForge
- Install Mods - Place all
.jarfiles in your Minecraftmodsfolder - Launch Game - Start Minecraft using the Fabric profile
Recommended Companion Mods
- REI (Roughly Enough Items) - Essential for viewing Foodables recipes and drying rack processes
- AppleSkin - Enhanced hunger and saturation display to understand food values
- Mod Menu - Required for accessing Foodables configuration options
⚙️ Configuration
Access Foodables configuration through Mod Menu → Foodables Config
World Generation Options
| Setting | Default | Description | |---------|---------|-------------| | Tree Generation | Enabled | Controls fruit tree spawning in new chunks | | Berry Bush Generation | Enabled | Toggles natural berry bush patch generation | | Ore Generation | Enabled | Controls salt ore deposit spawning underground |
Important Notes:
- Configuration changes require a world reload to take effect
- Only affects newly generated chunks - existing areas remain unchanged
- Disable features to reduce world generation load or for custom modpack balance
🎮 Getting Started
Your First Foodables Experience
- Explore and Gather - Find fruit trees and berry bushes by adventuring through your world
- Basic Farming - Collect seeds by breaking short grass to start your own crops
- Tool Crafting - Create a Knife and Mortar & Pestle for basic food processing
- Drying Rack Setup - Build drying racks for jerky production
- Advanced Cooking - Progress to complex multi-ingredient recipes for maximum nutrition
Food Progression Guide
- Early Game: Focus on raw fruits, vegetables, and basic cooked foods (2-4 hunger)
- Mid Game: Build processing infrastructure and create complex dishes (5-8 hunger)
- Late Game: Master multi-ingredient recipes and jerky production (9-12+ hunger)
🔧 Troubleshooting
Common Issues & Solutions
🚨 Game crashes on startup
- Verify Fabric API and Cloth Config are installed for MC 1.21.5
- Ensure all mods match your Minecraft version exactly
- Confirm Java 21+ is installed and selected in launcher
- Check launcher logs for specific error messages
🌳 Trees or ores not generating in my world
- Check configuration settings in Mod Menu → Foodables Config
- Remember: only NEW chunks will have Foodables generation
- Try exploring unexplored areas or create a new world for testing
- Verify world generation is enabled in configuration
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 10 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.5.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric and Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Foodables as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.5 and 9 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authorcaninotusetruth, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree
