🍲 Expanded Foodsystem

Cook. Grow. Prepare. Fry. Drink. Season. Survive.
A Vanilla+ food, farming and hydration expansion that makes cooking, crops, drinks and kitchen building feel deeper, cozier and more rewarding.

🌾 What is Expanded Foodsystem?

Expanded Foodsystem expands Minecraft's food gameplay with new crops, ingredients, spices, kitchen blocks, meals, drinks, storage options, optional hydration and optional seasonal progression.

Instead of only crafting simple food or smelting meat, you can grow new crops, prepare ingredients on a cutting board, fry food in a pan, cook advanced meals in a cooking pot, drink teas and juices, and create meals with different quality levels and useful bonuses.

The mod is designed as a Vanilla+ experience. It adds more depth to survival, farming and cooking while still feeling like Minecraft.

✨ Main Features

🍲 Cooking Pot with water, heat, ingredients, spices and recipe quality
🍳 Frying Pan with its own custom UI, progress, heat status and recipe book
📖 Cookbook with recipe categories, paging, ingredient checks and item hover previews
💧 Optional Hydration System with water-drop HUD and drink-based hydration
🔪 Cutting Board for preparing ingredients before cooking
🗡️ Kitchen Knives from wood up to diamond
🌱 New crops such as rice, lettuce, pepper, onion, tomato, cucumber and corn
🧂 New spices and ingredients including salt, herbs, chili, mint, garlic, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, basil, rosemary and thyme
🥘 New meals, soups, stews, rice dishes, salads and fried foods
🥤 New drinks and teas with small survival-friendly buffs and hydration values
⭐ Food quality system with Basic, Good, Perfect and Legendary meals
💫 Buff food with useful short-duration effects
🌦️ Optional Season System integration for crop growth, seasonal recipes and hydration effects
👜 Jute Bag with 9 storage slots and visual fill levels
🪵 Kitchen Shelves in multiple vanilla wood variants
👨‍🌾 Farmer Villager integration with new trades
🎁 Village loot integration for seeds, ingredients and special items

💧 Hydration System

Expanded Foodsystem includes an optional Hydration System that adds a new survival layer to drinks, soups and teas.

💧 Adds a player hydration value
📊 Shows a water-drop HUD directly above the vanilla hunger bar
🥤 Drinks restore hydration
🍲 Soups and broths restore smaller amounts of hydration
💧 Vanilla Water Bottles restore hydration
📜 Hydration values are shown in item tooltips with water-drop icons
⚙️ Fully configurable
🖥️ Server settings override client preferences

If the server disables hydration, the client cannot force it on. This makes the system safe for servers and modpacks.

Hydration Effects

✅ High hydration can provide small positive survival benefits
⚠️ Low hydration can increase exhaustion
🚨 Critical hydration can apply stronger negative effects depending on config

🍲 Cooking Pot

The Cooking Pot is the heart of the mod. It allows you to combine food, spices and water to create more advanced meals.

💧 Uses a real water level system
🔥 Requires a heat source below
🥕 Supports multiple food ingredient slots
🧂 Supports spice slots
📊 Shows cooking progress and status
📖 Includes an expandable cookbook
⭐ Displays recipe quality directly in the UI
🔎 Shows item hover previews in the cookbook

Cook simple meals, improved recipes, buff food, seasonal dishes and even legendary meals.

🍳 Frying Pan

The Frying Pan adds a faster and more direct way to prepare small meals and fried food.

🍳 Custom Frying Pan UI
🔥 Requires heat below
🥚 Ingredient slot
🍽️ Result slot
📊 Progress indicator
📖 Built-in Frying Pan recipe book
🔎 Item hover previews in the recipe book
✅ Shift-click support

Frying Pan Foods

🍳 Fried Egg
🍞 Toast
🐟 Fried Cod Fillet
🐟 Fried Salmon Fillet
🥔 Fried Potato Slices
🌽 Roasted Corn
🍄 Fried Mushrooms

📖 Cookbook System

The Cooking Pot and Frying Pan include built-in recipe books to help you discover and manage recipes.

📚 Recipe categories
🔎 Ingredient overview
✅ Shows available ingredients
❌ Highlights missing ingredients
💧 Shows water requirements
🔥 Shows heat requirements
⭐ Shows meal quality
➡️ Supports paging for many recipes
🖱️ Item hover previews for results and ingredients

⭐ Food Quality

Meals can have different quality levels depending on their recipe and ingredients.

⚪ Basic – simple meals for everyday survival
🟢 Good – improved meals with better combinations
🟡 Perfect – stronger meals using better ingredients or spices
🟣 Legendary – rare high-tier food with powerful bonuses

Better food quality makes cooking feel more rewarding and gives rare ingredients and spices a real purpose.

💫 Buff Food and Drinks

Some recipes create Buff Food or special drinks. These provide short but useful effects for survival, exploration and combat.

❤️ Regeneration
⚡ Speed
🔥 Fire Resistance
🍗 Saturation
👁️ Night Vision
💪 Strength

Buff food is balanced to support survival gameplay without replacing potions.

🥤 Drinks and Teas

Expanded Foodsystem adds several drinks and teas that can be prepared through cooking. These drinks are especially useful when the Hydration System is enabled.

🌵 Cactus Juice
🌵 Refreshing Cactus Juice
🍃 Herbal Tea
🍃 Mint Tea
🫐 Berry Juice
🥕 Vegetable Juice
🍯 Golden Tea
🌶️ Spicy Broth

🌱 New Crops

Expanded Foodsystem adds several new crops and farming options.

🌾 Rice
🥬 Lettuce
🌶️ Pepper
🧅 Onion
🍅 Tomato
🥒 Cucumber
🌽 Corn

Seeds can be found through grass drops, village loot or Farmer Villager trades.

🌦️ Optional Season System Integration

Expanded Foodsystem includes optional compatibility with Season System.

✅ Works normally without Season System installed
🌱 Custom crops can react to seasons when Season System is installed
📄 Crop profiles can be exported automatically
🍽️ Seasonal recipes can be enabled or disabled
💧 Summer can increase hydration loss
🍵 Warm drinks can give extra hydration in Winter
⚙️ Fully controlled through config options

Seasonal Crop Examples

🥬 Lettuce prefers Spring and Autumn
🌾 Rice prefers Summer and needs moisture in hot seasons
🌶️ Pepper is a Summer crop
🍅 Tomato prefers Summer
🌽 Corn grows in Summer and Autumn

Config Options

season_system_integration=true
season_system_auto_export_crop_profiles=true
season_system_seasonal_recipes=true

hydration_system_enabled=true
hydration_season_system_effects=true
hydration_summer_loss_multiplier=1.5
hydration_winter_warm_drink_bonus=10

If Season System is not installed, these features are simply ignored and Expanded Foodsystem continues to work normally.

🍽️ Seasonal Recipes

When Season System is installed and seasonal recipes are enabled, special meals become available in their matching season.

🌸 Spring Salad – available in Spring
☀️ Summer Tomato Soup – available in Summer
🍂 Autumn Harvest Stew – available in Autumn
❄️ Winter Herbal Tea – available in Winter

Seasonal recipes make farming and cooking feel connected to the world around you.

🧂 Ingredients and Spices

Spices are an important part of the cooking system. They can improve recipes, unlock buff food or create higher-quality meals.

🧂 Salt
⚫ Pepper
🌿 Herbs
🌶️ Chili
🍃 Mint
🧄 Garlic
🟤 Cinnamon
🫚 Ginger
🟠 Turmeric
🌿 Basil
🌿 Rosemary
🌿 Thyme

🧂 Salt Ore

Salt can be obtained from Salt Ore, which has been visually reworked to better fit the Minecraft world.

⛏️ Mine Salt Ore to obtain Raw Salt
🧂 Process salt for cooking and recipes
🪨 Uses a more vanilla-like ore texture
✨ Features subtle white salt veins and crystal highlights

🔪 Cutting Board

The Cutting Board lets you prepare ingredients before cooking.

🌵 Cut cactus into cactus flesh
🥬 Cut lettuce
🍞 Slice bread
🐟 Fillet fish
🍄 Prepare mushroom pieces

Place the ingredient on the board, use a kitchen knife, and receive the prepared result.

🗡️ Kitchen Knives

Kitchen knives are used with the Cutting Board and come in multiple material tiers.

🪵 Wooden Kitchen Knife
🪨 Stone Kitchen Knife
⚙️ Iron Kitchen Knife
🟡 Golden Kitchen Knife
💎 Diamond Kitchen Knife

🪵 Kitchen Shelves

Build a cozy pantry or kitchen with functional Kitchen Shelves.

📦 9 storage slots
🪵 Available in multiple vanilla wood types
👀 Shows whether items are stored inside
💾 Keeps contents when broken and placed again
🧭 Correctly faces the direction it is placed

Available wood variants include oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, bamboo, crimson and warped.

👜 Jute Bag

The Jute Bag is a compact placeable storage block.

📦 9 storage slots
📈 Visual fill levels
💾 Keeps contents when picked up
🏕️ Great for farming, cooking and storage rooms

🍽️ Example Recipes

🥬 Lettuce + Salt + Water → Lettuce Soup
🥕 Carrot + Potato + Salt + Water → Vegetable Soup
🌾 Rice + Water → Cooked Rice
🌵 Cactus Flesh + Water → Cactus Juice
🌵 Rice + Cactus Flesh + Salt → Cactus Rice Bowl
🌽 Rice + Corn + Salt + Turmeric + Ginger + Water → Golden Spice Rice
⭐ Tomato + Corn + Rice + Lettuce + Salt + Basil + Rosemary + Turmeric + Water → Legendary Harvest Feast

👨‍🌾 Villager and Loot Integration

Expanded Foodsystem integrates with vanilla survival progression.

👨‍🌾 Farmer Villagers can trade selected seeds, crops and ingredients
🎁 Village chests can contain useful cooking items
🌱 Seeds can be discovered through exploration and farming

🎨 Visual Style

Many item textures have been reworked to create a more consistent Minecraft-style look across crops, seeds, drinks, meals, candies, spices and ingredients.

🥘 Improved food icons
🥤 Improved drink icons
🌱 Improved crop and seed icons
🧂 Improved spice and ingredient icons
🍬 Improved candy icons
🗡️ Improved knife icons
🪨 Improved Salt Ore texture

🎮 Vanilla+ Survival Experience

Expanded Foodsystem is built for players who enjoy farming, cooking, survival progression and cozy kitchen building.

It adds more reasons to farm, trade, loot, prepare ingredients, drink useful beverages, manage hydration and build a proper kitchen without moving too far away from the Minecraft feel.

📌 Planned Future Additions

🪨 Mortar for grinding spices
🌿 Drying Rack for herbs, fish, meat and chili
🏆 Advancements
🔊 Sounds and particles
📖 More cookbook improvements
⚖️ More balancing and configuration options

🍲 Expanded Foodsystem — make food matter again.