🍖 Food Expansion: Reforged
First — all credit goes to Lellson8 for originally creating Food Expansion and sharing it as an open project. This port exists to preserve and continue that work in modern Minecraft versions.
NEW! Now Available for NeoForge 1.21.1!
(Please make sure you are downloading the correct version for your Minecraft version. Mods are not cross-compatible between major versions such as 1.20.1 and 1.21.x due to internal registry and system changes.)
Overview
Food Expansion: Reforged is a continuation port of the original Food Expansion mod, bringing its expanded food system into modern Minecraft while preserving its original balance and design philosophy.
This mod focuses on enhancing Vanilla Minecraft’s food progression by adding simple, craftable food items that integrate naturally into survival gameplay without overcomplicating the system.
It also increases stack sizes for all applicable food items that return bowls, improving inventory management and overall gameplay flow.
Features
- Expands Vanilla Minecraft’s food variety with new craftable items
- Maintains a simple, survival-friendly progression system
- Improves food stackability (up to 64 for bowl-returning foods)
- Keeps recipes intuitive and Vanilla-inspired
- Designed for seamless integration into survival and modpacks
Food Added
🥓 Bacon & Crispy Bacon
- Crafted from raw pork and cooked for improved food value
- Crispy Bacon is faster to consume than standard foods
- Simple early-game meat progression upgrade
🍳 Fried Egg
- Crafted by cooking eggs in a furnace
- Basic early-game food source
🥓🍳 Bacon and Egg
- Combines Bacon and Fried Egg
- Balanced mid-tier food item
🌵 Cactus Fruit
- Crafted from cactus
- Simple survival food alternative
🍬 Green Jelly
- Crafted using slimeballs and sugar
- May inflict nausea when consumed
- High-risk, low-reward food item
🍫 Chocolate Bar
- Crafted from cocoa beans, milk, and sugar
- Stable mid-game food option
🧟 Compressed Flesh
- Crafted from rotten flesh and sugar
- Removes hunger effect from rotten flesh
- Can be smelted into leather
🍄 Cooked Mushroom
- Smelted mushroom variant
- Basic survival food upgrade
🥧 Carrot Pie
- Crafted using carrots, wheat, and eggs
- Simple crafted food item
🥣 Carrot Soup
- Crafted with carrots and a bowl
- Basic restorative food
☠️ Spider Eye Stew
- Applies poison briefly
- Grants short Night Vision effect
- Risk-reward consumable
🔥 Nether Wart Stew
- Removes negative potion effects
- Applies brief fire effect
- Alternative to milk with different trade-offs
🔥 Blaze Cream Soup
- Grants Fire Resistance briefly
- Utility-based survival food
🌾 Dough
- Not edible
- Used for crafting bread more efficiently
🍉 Melon Salad
- Simple crafted melon dish
- No additional effects
🌾 Roasted Seeds
- Early-game food source from various seeds
- Basic survival sustain item
🍭 Lollipop
- Crafted from sugar and sticks
- Can also be used as a weak melee weapon
🍎 Forbidden / Starving Fruit
- Creative-only items (configurable crafting optional)
- Extreme hunger manipulation mechanics
🥗 Beetroot Noodles
- Crafted food item using beetroots and wheat
- No additional effects
Mob Drops
🐴 Horse Meat (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Horses
- Basic meat progression food
🦑 Squid (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Squids
- Simple ocean food source
🦇 Bat Wing (Raw / Cooked)
- May apply Hunger when eaten raw
- Safer when cooked
🐺 Wolf Meat (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Wolves
- Standard meat progression item
🐱 Ocelot Meat (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Ocelots
- Basic survival food
🦜 Parrot Meat (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Parrots
- Simple meat item
🦙 Llama Meat (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Llamas
- Standard animal food source
🐻 Polar Bear Meat (Raw / Cooked)
- Dropped from Polar Bears
- Higher-tier meat item
About This Port
This project is a faithful continuation port, not a redesign.
- Built for NeoForge 1.21.1
- Focused on parity with the original mod
- No major redesign of systems or balance
- Modernized for current registry and data systems
The goal is to preserve the original Food Expansion experience while making it fully playable on modern Minecraft versions.
Compatibility
- Works well in modpacks
- Safe to add to existing worlds
- Compatible with most survival and progression mods
- Designed for Vanilla+ gameplay environments
Original Mod
Original mod by Lellson8:
👉 https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/food-expansion
1.14-1.20 version by raulsmartin:
👉 https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/food-expansion-reimagined
All credit for original design, recipes, and concepts goes to the original author.
Modpack Use
You are free to include this mod in both public and private modpacks without permission.
