Plant Based

Many important items in Minecraft can only be crafted with animal ingredients. Plant Based is a Minecraft mod which adds alternate, plant (or mineral) based recipes for important items that would otherwise use animals ingredients.

NOTE: The mod is compatible with Minecraft 1.21.2 and later, but no recipes since 1.18 have been added, since I don't currently play Minecraft and haven't kept track of new additions. Feel free to open issues on the issue tracker for new recipes.

Recipes Added

Decorative
- Candles (honeycomb -> cocoa beans)
- Glow item frame (glow ink sac -> glow lichen)
- Item Frame (leather -> paper)
- Waxed copper block (honeycomb -> cocoa beans)
Foods
- Cake (milk buckets -> water buckets, egg -> wheat seeds)
- Pumpkin pie (egg -> wheat)
Items
- Sponge (six paper)
- String (one bamboo)
Potions
- Harming (fermented spider eye -> mushroom stew)
- Invisibility (fermented spider eye -> glass)
- Poison (spider eye -> mushroom)
- Slowness (fermented spider eye -> snowball)
- Water breathing (pufferfish -> kelp)
- Weakness (fermented spider eye -> tulips)
Tools
- Arrows (feather -> paper)
- Black dye (ink sac -> charcoal)
- Book and quill (feather -> stick, ink sac -> charcoal)
- Book (leather -> string)

Currently Broken Recipes

Honey bottle (brew beetroot soup into empty glass bottle)

Minecraft Animal Ingredients

The animal based ingredients in Minecraft, and their uses are:

Dragon egg
Egg
- Crafting cake, pumpkin pie
Feather
- Crafting arrows, book and quill, burst explosion fireworks
Fermented spider eye
- Brew potion of weakness, potion of harming, potion of slowness, potion of invisibility
Glow ink sac
- Crafting glow item frame
- Use on sign
Honeycomb
- Crafting beehive, candles, honeycomb block, waxed copper
- Use on copper
Honey bottle
- Food
- Crafting honey blocks
Ink sac
- Crafting black dye, book and quill
Leather
- Crafting books, item frames, leather armor, leather horse armor
Milk bucket
- Crafting cake
- Removing status
Pufferfish
- Food
- Feed to cats
- Brew potion of water breathing, mundane potion
Rabbit hide
- Craft leather
Rabbit's foot
- Brewing potion of leaping, mundane potion
Raw/cooked beef
- Food
- Feed to wolves
Raw/cooked chicken
- Food
- Feed to wolves
Raw/cooked cod
- Food
- Feed to cats, wolves, dolphins
Raw/cooked mutton
- Food
- Feed to wolves
Raw/cooked porkchop
- Food
- Feed to wolves
Raw/cooked rabbit
- Food
- Crafting rabbit stew
- Feed to wolves
Raw/cooked salmon
- Food
- Feed to cats, wolves, dolphins
Scute
- Craft turtle shell
- Repair turtle shell
Spider eye
- Craft Fermented spider eye
- Brew potion of poison, mundane potion
Sponge
- Absorb water
String
- Crafting bow, crossbow, fishing rod, lead, loom, scaffolding, white wool
- Redstone component
Tropical fish
- Food
- Feed to cats, wolves
Turtle shell
- Wearing
- Brew potion of turtle master
Wool
- Note block sound
- Crafting banners, beds, carpets, paintings
- Furnace fuel

Recipes Which Need Animal Ingredients

Armor
- Leather horse armor (leather)
- Leather (leather)
- Turtle shell (scute)
Decorative
- Banners (wool/string)
- Candles (wool/string, honeycomb)
- Carpets (wool/string)
- Glow item frame (glow ink sac)
- Item frame (leather)
- Paintings (wool/string)
- Waxed copper block (honeycomb)
- Wool (string)
Foods
- Cake (egg, milk bucket)
- Cooked beef (raw beef)
- Cooked chicken (raw chicken)
- Cooked cod (raw cod)
- Cooked mutton (raw mutton)
- Cooked porkchop (raw porkchop)
- Cooked rabbit (raw Rabbit)
- Cooked salmon (raw salmon)
- Pumpkin pie (egg)
- Rabbit stew (raw rabbit)
Other
- Loom (wool/string)
- Scaffolding (string)
Potions
- Harming (fermented spider eye/spider eye)
- Invisibility (fermented spider eye/spider eye)
- Poison (spider eye)
- Slowness (fermented spider eye/spider eye)
- Water breathing (pufferfish)
- Weakness (fermented spider eye/spider eye)
Tools
- Arrows (feather)
- Beds (wool/string)
- Black dye (ink sac)
- Book and quill (feather, ink sac, book/leather)
- Book (leather)
- Bow (string)
- Burst explosion fireworks (feather)
- Crossbow (string)
- Fishing rod (string)
- Lead (string)