Farmer's Delight: Contracts & Feasts

Contracts & Feasts is a Farmer's Delight addon that adds food contracts, village order boards, customer requests, recipe-aware rewards, and reputation-based progression.

Accept a contract, prepare the requested food, and deliver it to earn emeralds, experience, and occasional rare rewards. Contract Boards can be placed by players and also generate naturally in villages, turning Farmer's Delight cooking into a repeatable part of village life.

Requires Farmer's Delight.

About

Farmer's Delight gives you dozens of crops, ingredients, tools, and dishes, but many players eventually settle on the same few recipes.

Contracts & Feasts gives the rest of them a purpose.

Place a Contract Board, choose an available food order, cook what the customer requested, and turn it in for a reward.

Contracts can ask for ingredients, snacks, sweets, drinks, complete meals, or complex dishes produced through several stages of Farmer's Delight food preparation.

The system rewards actual cooking effort. A dish that requires cutting, cooking, assembling, and plating is worth more than a simple recipe made from basic ingredients.

Dedicated Contract Board stands also generate naturally near village meeting areas, making food orders part of ordinary village life.

Features

Contract Board

The Contract Board is a placeable, take-only village order board containing up to 18 available contracts at a time.

Offers refresh once per in-game day using a weighted rotation system. Contracts remain available long enough to be considered and completed instead of constantly disappearing or being replaced.

Six customer types

Contracts are divided between six themed customers, each with its own catalog of requested items:

Village Bakery
Local Tavern
Farmers' Market
Village Kitchen
Traveling Merchants
Harvest Feast

Each customer focuses on a different part of Farmer's Delight progression, from common ingredients and simple food orders to valuable late-game feast contracts.

Four rarity tiers

Contracts can appear at four rarity levels:

Common
Uncommon
Rare
Special

Rarity is rolled independently from customer type, allowing every customer to offer contracts of different value and difficulty.

A hidden reputation system tracks completed contracts. As your reputation grows, the Contract Board gradually becomes more likely to generate larger and more valuable orders.

Recipe-aware rewards

Contract payouts are calculated from each item's real recipe and processing chain rather than assigned as arbitrary fixed values.

The system can account for stages such as:

Raw ingredients → Cutting Board → Cooking Pot → Assembly → Plated dish

Food that requires more ingredients, processing steps, or specialised equipment receives an appropriately higher value.

This allows contracts to reward the actual effort behind Farmer's Delight recipes rather than treating every dish as interchangeable.

Natural village generation

A Contract Board stand can generate as an additional structure beside the central meeting area of supported villages.

Its materials automatically adapt to the village biome. Wooden elements use the appropriate regional wood type, while desert variants can use matching stone materials.

The board becomes part of the village instead of feeling like an unrelated block placed into the world.

Villager activity

Idle villagers may occasionally walk over and inspect the Contract Board.

This behaviour is purely atmospheric and does not interfere with available contracts, player progression, or villager professions.

Addon and datapack support

Contract objectives are built from data tags and Farmer's Delight's semantic food tags, including:

meals
snacks
sweets
drinks

Items from compatible Farmer's Delight addons and food mods can therefore appear in contracts without requiring dedicated built-in integration.

Contract catalogs and balance values are data-driven, allowing modpack and datapack authors to expand or adjust the system.

Inspired by Bountiful

The rotating Contract Board was inspired in part by Bountiful.

Contracts & Feasts adapts the bounty-board idea specifically for Farmer's Delight. Contracts request real food items, while rewards are calculated from the complete crafting and cooking chain behind each dish, including ingredients, Cutting Board processing, Cooking Pot recipes, assembly, and plating.

The mod also adds themed customers, contract rarity, reputation progression, and naturally generated Contract Boards in villages.

Balance tooling

Contracts & Feasts includes a headless balance simulation for developers and datapack authors.

./gradlew runBalance

The simulation evaluates every customer type and rarity tier, then prints item worth, contract reward, and distribution statistics.

It can be used to inspect progression, compare reward ranges, and tune custom datapacks built on top of the mod.

Localization

English (en_us) — Flomik
Russian (ru_ru) — Flomik
Chinese Simplified (zh_cn) — Flomik