FleshZ Mod Wiki

FleshZ Mod transforms the way players obtain leather in Minecraft, moving away from the instant-drop system of the vanilla game toward a more immersive and multi-step crafting process. Instead of animals dropping finished leather upon death, they now drop Raw Hides. These hides must be cured with sugar and dried on specialized Wood Racks to become usable leather.

Additionally, the mod provides a valuable use for Rotten Flesh, allowing players to process it into Rotten Leather, which can eventually be refined into standard leather. This makes zombie hunting a viable early-game strategy for obtaining armor and utility items without relying solely on animal husbandry.

The mod introduces a three-stage workflow for leather production: Harvesting, Curing, and Drying.

1. Harvesting

Animals that traditionally dropped leather now drop Raw Hide. This item cannot be used for crafting armor or books immediately and must be processed further.

2. Curing (Preparation)

To prevent the hide from rotting and to prepare it for the drying process, it must be combined with a curing agent. In FleshZ, Sugar is used as the primary preservative. Combining a Raw Hide with Sugar creates a Prepared Hide.

3. Drying

The final stage requires the Wood Rack. Prepared Hides are hung on the rack and left to dry over time. Once the process is complete, the hide transforms into standard vanilla Leather. This same process applies to Rotten Leather, which can be dried to revert it into a Raw Hide, effectively allowing players to 'cleanse' zombie remains into high-quality materials.

FleshZ adds several intermediate items required for the new leather production pipeline.

Wood Rack

The Wood Rack is the central functional block of the mod. It is a simple wooden frame that can hold one item at a time for drying.

• Usage: Right-click the Wood Rack with a Prepared Hide or Rotten Leather to hang it. After a set period (defaulting to 4 minutes), the item will visually change, indicating it is ready to be harvested. Right-click again to collect the finished product.
• Placement: The rack can be placed on any solid surface and does not require a specific light level or temperature to function, though it is often placed outdoors for aesthetic realism.

The following mobs have had their loot tables modified. They no longer drop vanilla Leather; instead, they drop Raw Hide in the same quantities.

Crafting Table Recipes

Drying Rack Recipes

Items placed on the Wood Rack will convert after 4800 ticks (approximately 4 minutes) by default.

FleshZ is highly customizable via datapacks. Server owners and modpack creators can add their own drying recipes or modify existing ones by creating JSON files in the following directory: data/rotten/rack_items/

Example JSON Structure:

{
 "item": "minecraft:kelp",
 "result": "minecraft:dried_kelp",
 "time": 4800
}

• item: The ID of the item to be placed on the rack.
• result: The ID of the item produced after drying.
• time: The duration in ticks (20 ticks = 1 second).