VanillaFoodPantry Mod [FORGE] do Minecraft 1.12.2, 1.18.2

What This Mod Does

The VanillaFoodPantry mod (VFP for short) adds new uses for standard Minecraft crops and farm animals. We've tried to give many vanilla items, even odd-ball ones like poisonous potatoes, a new food-related use and therefore a reason for you to keep it. A few items even work as alternate sources of brewing ingredients such as spidereye and magma cream. VFP also gives you more ways to store standard foods and potions in bulk, as you might in a real-world extended pantry.

New Items Sampling

Sampling of different new foods; click spoiler for more pictures

New Foods and Storage Options - A Taste

Wheat Flour, Raw Dough, Fried Plain and Sweet Doughs, Stuffed Rolls, Specialty Breads, Flat Breads, Sandwiches, and Muffins.

Egg Pies, Creamed Soups, Chowders, Stews, Milk Drinks, Tea Drinks, Steamed and Fried Eggs, Soft Cheese, Salted Pork, and other 'Adventure' meats like Squid, Horse, Wolf, Llama, Bear, and Bat Meat.

Fizzy Sugar Drinks, Juice and Cider Drinks, Taffy, Fudge, Roasted Seeds, Cookies, Sno-cones, Edible Sugar, and Gelos.

Nuggets and Fries, Kebabs of all kinds, Muscle Food (makes you strong!), Klingon Food (because it's green!), and an Assortment of New Uses for Old Things like Pumpkin Slices (roast and eat as a new source of food), Fermented Feathers (used like spider eye in brewing), Fireproofing Powder (from netherrack, used like blaze powder in potions), Hide Tie (from animal hides, use like string), Flesh-meal (from rotten flesh, use as fertilizer), Lava Sand (from lava and sand, use as a fuel source), and Ink Pearls (from ink pearl fragments and chorus fruit, use to obtain ender pearls).

Portions, Powders of all kinds, Pantry Blocks for Storage, Bags for Storage, Jars for Storage, and Cartons for Storage.

Target Audience

The mod's target audience is anyone who plays Minecraft for its farms and food crafting, particularly if you play in peaceful or easy modes and could use alternate sources of experience points (Xp) besides mining. This mod lets you gain experience points from the act of making food. If you like crafting non-trivial food recipes, this mod is for you. A good companion mod for VFP would be "Harder Peaceful" (1.8) or "Hunger In Peace" (1.8.9-1.12.2); both add hunger to the peaceful survival mode, allowing you to farm, mine, and build unmolested by murderous mobs.

MC 1.18.2 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.18.2
• Forge 1.18.2-40.1.60 at least
• Carrots Lib mc1.18.2-4.0.x

MC 1.16.4/5 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.16.4/5
• Forge 1.16.4-35.1.13/1.16.5-36.0.42 at least
• Carrots Lib mc1.16.4-3.0.x/mc1.16.5-3.0.x only

MC 1.12.1/2 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.12.1 or 1.12.2
• Forge (1.12.1-12.22.0.2467, 1.12.2-13.20.1.2655)
• Client and Server use

Click spoiler below for other versions.

MC 1.15.2 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.15.2
• Forge 1.15.2-31.1.18 at least
• Carrots Lib mc1.15.2-2.5.x only

MC 1.14.4 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.14.4
• Forge 1.14.4-28.1.39 at least
• Carrots Lib mc1.14.4-2.0.x only

MC 1.11.2 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.11.2
• Forge (at least 1.11.2-13.20.0.2255)
• Client and Server use

MC 1.11.0 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.11.0
• Forge (only 1.11-13.19.1.2189)
• Client and Server use

MC 1.8.9 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.8.9
• Forge (at least 1.8.9-11.15.1.1722)
• Client and Server use

MC 1.8.0 Mod Requirements (Tested)

• Minecraft 1.8
• Forge (at least 1.8-11.14.3.1450)
• Client-side use

Mod Documentation - MOVING!

The project's main documentation is moving to the github wiki at VFP Docs. Starting with version 3.2, please check that wiki for information about new feature and food item details. Eventually all of the information below will migrate there as well.

• For info on new 4.3 ToughAsNails integration, read: VFP supports ToughAsNails.
• For info on the 4.2 Moonshine Potion Mixing check: VFP Moonshine Potions.
• For info on new 3.2 VFP potion blends, check : VFP Brewing.
• For info about the 3.2 Decker Sandwiches, check this page directly: VFP Sandwiches .
• For info about the new multi-use feature for breads and eggpies, check this page: VFP Bakery Items.
• For info about the new "Veg-ish" items, check: VFP Veggies.
• For info about stuffed and over-stuffed potatoes and various 'mashes', check: VFP-Tatoes.
• For info on VFP passive mob-drops, check : VFP Mob-Drops.

Getting Started - User Guide [mc 1.12]

You should read the sections below to get an idea of how the mod is structured and how the food recipes are designed so you can plan how to integrate VFP with your existing resources and game setup. The spoiler sections also include information on many of the non-food items you're going to need to craft many of the recipes. Use the various images below along with an extension like NEI (MC1.8) or JEI (MC1.8.9+) to get the full catalog of recipes.

Read the chart in spoiler below for an idea of available food categories and their health values.

Many of the items are representative of a set of foods. For instance, VFP has four kinds of egg pies (top row) but all of them have the same food and saturation values so only one general "egg pie" icon is shown below.

The heftiest foods are egg pies, specialty breads (like muscle bread, apple bread), and heavy stews (like fish chowder or ham hocks stew). Next are the meals (like chicken nuggets and fries), cream soups, stuffed potatoes, sandwiches, and various new meats. Apple milk drink is also very good, replenishing up to 8 food points.

Items like muscle eggs and golden sugar give you other bonus side-effects like a speed or strength boost for a short time. Milk, cream, and cream soups also retain the curative effects of a milk bucket.

At the end of the food scale are most of the "junk" foods like cookies, taffy, fudge, iceees, and gelos. Small portions are also at this level; items like a single fried chicken nugget, or a roasted sunflower seed serving.

Additives and Activators

Additives and activators are little helper or agent ingredients, you need for the main food recipes. Agent ingredients are rarely edible but serve to make the various recipes unique and non-conflicting with other food mods. Most of the time they also make the recipes a teensy bit more realistic. You will need to figure out how to farm for and craft the main agent ingredients before you can complete most of the mod's other recipes. But unless you're just starting out, you probably have most of the required ingredients stashed somewhere (check those junk chests).

Below is a simple schematic of how the basic recipe pipeline works: you craft agents(1) for use in basic ingredient recipes(2). Those basic ingredients are the main building blocks for the majority of actual food stuffs(3) you make to consume.

The basic VFP recipe pipeline.

The main additives and activator agents in VFP (left to right): drying agent, leavening, fizz, curdling agent, what-what powder, enzyme extractor, and jungle-juju juice.

• Drying agent is used to create food powders, flour, and other powder-like ingredients.
• Leavening is used to create doughs for breads, pies, and dumplings.
• Fizz provides the caffeinated sugar buzz required for fizzy sugar drinks and tonics.
• Curdling agent is used for soft cheese and yogurts.
• What-What powder is an activator used to extract the JuJu essence from jungle vines and other items.
• Enzyme extractor is used to obtain rennet from plant sources for cheese making if you prefer not to kill baby cows for calf stomach lining drops. It is also used to purge zombie flesh.
• Jungle-JuJu juice is a concoction used to craft items like poisonous potatoes and rotten flesh.

Below are the recipes for the two simplest agent ingredients. You can use any standard seed (wheat, melon, pumpkin, beets) in any combination for these recipes.

Unprocessed drying agent. Smelt it to get usable drying agent.

Leavening agent. You can use it immediately.

Some agent ingredients are more complex and require other additives themselves; for example what-what activator powder is used by many other recipes and its recipe requires that you've already made or acquired some drying agent.

Crafting what-what powder requires some drying agent.

Crafting jungle-juju juice requires some what-what powder.

So does enzyme extraction agent.

Making curdling agent from saplings needs other agents.

Flour and Dough

Most of the baked goods in the mod require flour or dough. Our flour is made from crafting wheat with some drying agent and our simple dough is made from crafting flour, leavening, and a bit o' water. VFP will also work with any other food mod's flour and dough provided those items are registered under the "foodFlour" and "foodDough" ids in the Forge registry. Most of the recipes using dough or flour create raw or unbaked items that you must smelt to get the final edible product; this is intentional as it lets you gain Xp if you smelt batches of sufficient size.

Our flour requires some wheat and drying agent.

Our dough requires flour, leavening, and a bit o' water.

Example: enriched bread from dough, ready for baking.

Example: molasses cookies from flour, ready for eating.

Flour and dough are used for more complex recipes beside simple bread or cookies. You will need dough for egg pies, stuffed rolls, specialty breads, patties, stews, and other food stuffs.

Example: making a hefty egg pie with dough.

Portions

Using a bucket of milk as a substitute for a small amount of milk in something like a bread recipe is odd. Moreover, items like steaks and pork-chops are a pretty expensive way to make a single sandwich considering you have to kill a cow or pig just to get a couple pieces of it. VFP uses the idea of portions in many of its recipes to allow you to combine less expensive resources (like wheat and vegetables) with more expensive ones (like anything that requires clobbering animals) to make equal or more nutritious food than those items standalone.

Liquids, 3 sizes. Meats and bones, 2 sizes

Liquid Portions

The smallest water portion is called a bit o' water; the smallest milk portion is called a bit o' milk. You can get 32 bits or 4 bottles from a bucket of either liquid.

Example: a bucket of water yields 32 bits o' water.

Example: a bucket of milk yields 4 bottles of milk.

Item Portions

The smallest portion of meat is called a bit o' raw <meat_name>; for example, a portion of chicken would be a bit o' raw chicken. You get bits of meat by crafting the standard raw meat item with a flint cutter. A flint cutter is crafted like shears, but with flint. Each cutter has 16 uses. A flint cutter is not a generic held tool, you use it only for crafting.

A flint cutter (has 16 uses before "broken") [mc-1.12 recipe, see JEI for your mod's specific version]

Portioning a mutton chop with a cutter into 8 bits o' raw mutton.

Using bits o' raw pork to make meat-stuffed rolls.

Small Bones

You can now get small bones from some animals, in particular bats, chickens, and rabbits. You get the bones from crafting as shown below or as a random drop from the animals. VFP has a couple of new uses for bones; the most important is as the main ingredient for gelatin powder which you need to make edible gelos. You can also craft 2 small bones into a standard Minecraft bone meal.

Crafting small bones from raw chicken (or rabbit) and drying agent.

Use small bones to make bonemeal, gelatin powder, or big bones.

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Food Powders

Food powders are dehydrated portions of items like pumpkins, melons, and milk. Most food powders derive from a single source item, but some are compound powders and some are crafted from multiple source items. Food powders are central to many of the multi-flavored VFP foods like gelos, milk drinks, and cream soups where you use a food powder to create a "flavored" variant of a base recipe. There is a food powder for just about every standard food item and food powders for other items for which VFP has introduced a new food-related use. Some VFP sub-mods provide many new compound powders called "mixes" for even more recipes.

Crafting a simple food powder is straightforward; the recipe always uses one drying agent and one or more of the item being dried. Below are some of the VFP food powders for standard Minecraft items (there is also some support for other third-party mod foods).

-or- Simple powder- one item is dried for 1 or more powder portions.

-or- Simple powder- multiples of an item are dried for 1 powder portion.

Some powders are complex powders that you craft from multiple distinct ingredients in varied amounts. You will still need to use at least one drying agent to get the final powder.

Complex powder- requires different ingredients in various quantities.

Some powders are compound powders or mixes that you craft from other powders. Upcoming VFP sub-mods will provide more compound powders either from new food sources or from tie-ins with other third-party mods.

Compound powder- a mixture of several simple powders.

Example Uses:

Powders are used to craft some non-food items, but in general they are used in foods and drinks. In particular, food powder is often the flexible ingredient in a basic shared recipe like creamed soup or gelos. You change the flavor of the output by changing the food powder ingredient. For instance you can change:

this to this milk drink...or,

this to this gelo...or,