🍖 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.