🌿 Drying Rack

• Added the new Drying Rack for preserving and processing food.
• Supports multiple drying recipes including herbs, chili, mushrooms, fish and meat.
• Added a dedicated Drying Rack recipe book so players can easily see all available recipes.
• The currently inserted ingredient is now visually represented on the Drying Rack.
• Added separate variants for all supported wood types.
• Added unique inventory icons for the different wood variants.

🧂 Spice Rack

• Added the new Spice Rack for organized spice storage.
• Added separate Spice Rack variants for all supported wood types.
• Improved the Spice Rack interface and inventory layout.
• Reworked the placement and spacing of the visible spice jars.
• Added completely new inventory icons for every wood variant.

🪵 Kitchen Shelf

• Visually reworked the Kitchen Shelf.
• Improved all Shelf inventory icons and fixed their proportions and positioning.
• Added a new detailed Shelf model.
• Wood variants now use matching visuals for a more consistent kitchen design.

🧀 Dairy & Food Expansion

• Expanded the dairy system with foods such as Butter, Cheese, Cheese Slices, Cream and Cheese Toast.
• Updated several related recipes and food-processing chains.
• Improved the visual consistency of dairy and prepared-food items.

🎨 Complete Icon Overhaul

A large visual pass was made across the entire mod to make the inventory look much more consistent and closer to Minecraft's visual style.

• Reworked the complete item icon set into a more unified Minecraft-inspired pixel-art style.
• Improved centering, scale, readability and visual consistency.
• Updated crops and seed icons so plants and their seeds belong to the same visual family.
• Reworked icons for processed foods, dried ingredients, Wild Creatures meals and seasonal dishes.
• Added or updated icons for:
  • Drying Racks
  • Spice Racks
  • Kitchen Shelves
  • Frying Pan
  • Cooking Pot
  • Mortar & Pestle
  • Jute Bag
  • Herb Planter
  • Cutting Board
• Updated the Salt Ore texture with a darker stone base while keeping the salt deposits clearly visible.

📖 Expanded Food Guide

Added a completely new in-game guide book inspired by the World Bosses Codex system.

• Custom multi-page book interface with automatic text wrapping and pagination.
• Designed to prevent text from being cut off, even on information-heavy pages.
• Explains the complete Expanded Foodsystem progression.
• Includes information about:
  • Crops and farming
  • Herbs and spices
  • Where different spices and ingredients can be found
  • Salt Ore and salt processing
  • Cooking Pot
  • Frying Pan
  • Cutting Board
  • Mortar & Pestle
  • Herb Planter
  • Drying Rack
  • Spice Rack and Kitchen Shelf
  • Dairy foods
  • Hydration
  • Buff foods
  • Recipes and progression tips

🌦 Season System Integration

When Season System is installed, the guide automatically includes additional seasonal information such as crop growth seasons, growth behavior and seasonal food information.

🐊 Wild Creatures Integration

When Wild Creatures is installed, the guide automatically includes the additional meat types and compatible Expanded Foodsystem dishes.

📚 Automatic Guide Distribution

• Players receive the Expanded Food Guide automatically when entering a world/server for the first time.
• Each player receives the automatic guide only once.
• Respawning, reconnecting or restarting the server does not grant another book.
• The distribution state is stored per player.
• Automatic book distribution can be disabled through the configuration.

⚙️ Configuration Improvements

• Added a configuration option for automatic guide-book distribution.
• Adjusted the default Herb Planter growth speed for better balancing.
• Existing configurable processing and food systems continue to support server-controlled settings.
• Server configuration remains authoritative when playing in multiplayer.

✨ UI & Quality-of-Life Improvements

• Improved spacing and positioning in the Drying Rack interface.
• Improved spacing and inventory positioning in the Spice Rack interface.
• Recipe information is now easier to understand directly in-game.
• Kitchen-related blocks now share a more consistent visual identity.

🌍 Minecraft Version Support

This update is being released for:

• Minecraft 26.2
• Minecraft 26.1.2
• Minecraft 1.21.11
• Minecraft 1.21.1
• Minecraft 1.20.1

Thank you for playing Expanded Foodsystem! 🍲🌿
More foods, integrations and kitchen features are already planned for future updates.