VanillaFoodPantry Mod Wiki

The VanillaFoodPantry mod (VFP) is designed to give players a reason to maintain diverse farms by adding hundreds of new recipes and processing methods for standard Minecraft items. It bridges the gap between basic survival food and complex culinary systems without requiring dozens of new crop types. Instead, it focuses on 'Additives' (like yeast and salt), 'Portions' (breaking large foods into smaller bites), and 'Pantry Storage' (bulk blocks for food items).

Key features include:

• Enhanced Utility: Gives uses to items like Poisonous Potatoes and Spider Eyes in food or brewing.
• Realistic Processing: Introduces flour, gelatin, and animal fats.
• Bulk Storage: New blocks like Crates and Sacks to store massive amounts of food decoratively.
• Moonshine Mixing: A unique system for combining potion effects.

VFP introduces a few essential raw materials that serve as the foundation for most advanced recipes.

Salt Ore

Salt is a primary additive used for seasoning and curing. Salt Ore generates in the overworld, typically between Y-levels 40 and 80. When mined, it drops multiple Salt crystals.

Animal Fat

Most passive mobs now have a chance to drop Animal Fat upon death. This item is essential for frying 'Junk Food' and creating tallow-based products.

Bones and Leather

While vanilla items, VFP allows these to be processed into Gelatin, a thickening agent used for desserts and glazes.

Before cooking complex meals, players must craft 'Activators' and 'Additives'. These are non-edible components used in crafting recipes.

• Yeast: Crafted using Sugar, Water (Bottle), and a heat source or mushrooms. Used for leavening bread and brewing.
• Baking Powder: Created by combining Salt and Sugar. Used in bakery items.
• Gelatin: Produced by boiling Bones or Leather with Water. Used for jelly and gummy snacks.
• Flour: Obtained by grinding Wheat. It is the base for all bakery items.
• Cornmeal: Obtained by grinding Corn (if available) or as a substitute for wheat flour in specific recipes.
• Cocoa Powder: Ground Cocoa Beans, used for chocolate-based foods.

VFP introduces the concept of scaling food to fit your hunger bar perfectly through Portions and Bucket Break-ups.

Portions

Large food items can be broken down into smaller 'Nuggets' or 'Slices'. This is highly efficient for players who only need to restore 1 or 2 hunger points without wasting a full Steak or Apple.

• Apple Slices: 1 Apple yields 4 Slices.
• Meat Nuggets: 1 Cooked Beef/Pork/Chicken yields 4 Nuggets.
• Bread Slices: 1 Loaf of Bread yields 4 Slices (used for Sandwiches).

Bucket Break-Ups

Handling liquids is made easier for cooking. You can 'break up' a bucket into smaller containers:

• Milk Bucket: Can be crafted with 3 Glass Bottles to get 3 Milk Bottles.
• Water Bucket: Can be broken down into 3 Water Bottles without needing a source block.
• Mushroom Stew: Can be divided into smaller 'Portion Bowls'.

The mod categorizes its hundreds of recipes into logical groups, each with varying hunger and saturation benefits.

Bakery Items

Using Flour, Yeast, and Baking Powder, players can create:

• Biscuits & Muffins: High saturation, quick to eat.
• Donuts: Sugar-heavy snacks that provide a brief speed boost.
• Pie Slices: Vanilla Pumpkin Pies can be sliced into 4 portions.

Sandwiches

Sandwiches are the ultimate mid-game food. They require two Slices of Bread and a filling.

• Ham Sandwich: Bread + Cooked Pork + Salt.
• Chicken Sandwich: Bread + Cooked Chicken + Greens.
• PB&J: Bread + Nut Butter + Jelly (Gelatin + Fruit).

Kebabs

Kebabs are crafted using a Stick and various meats/vegetables. They are efficient because they combine multiple food groups into one item.

• Veggie Kebab: Stick + Carrot + Potato + Mushroom.
• Meat Kebab: Stick + Beef + Pork + Mutton.

Stuffed Potatoes (Tatoes)

Baked Potatoes can be enhanced with toppings:

• Loaded Potato: Baked Potato + Animal Fat + Salt + Green Onion.
• Cheesy Potato: Baked Potato + Milk/Cheese.

Junk Food

For players with excess Animal Fat, Junk Food provides high hunger restoration but low saturation.

• Potato Chips: Sliced Potatoes fried with Animal Fat.
• Popcorn: Corn/Seeds heated with Animal Fat.

VFP expands the brewing stand's utility and introduces a new way to mix effects.

Brewing Aids

Many food powders can be used as alternative brewing ingredients:

• Spider Eye Powder: A more compact way to brew poison.
• Magma Cream Substitute: Created using Slimeballs and Animal Fat.

Moonshine Potion Mixing

Moonshine is a high-strength base that allows players to combine multiple potion effects into a single bottle.

1. Create Moonshine Base: Ferment Sugar and Yeast in a water bottle.
2. Mixing: Combine the Moonshine Base with two different potions in a crafting grid to create a 'Mixed Potion'.
3. Risk: Drinking Moonshine has a chance to apply a brief 'Nausea' effect alongside the beneficial buffs.

To manage the massive influx of food, VFP adds decorative and functional storage blocks.

Crates and Sacks

These blocks act like 'compacted' versions of food. Most can be crafted by filling a 3x3 grid with the same food item.

These blocks can be placed in the world for decoration and broken to retrieve the 9 items back, making them superior to chests for long-term food storage.

Tough As Nails (TAN) Integration

If the Tough As Nails mod is installed, VFP items are automatically tagged with thirst and temperature values. Juices and soups will restore thirst, while spicy foods (like those using peppers or certain spices) may increase body temperature.

Configuration

The mod's config file (vanillafoodpantry.cfg) allows server owners to:

• Toggle the spawning of Salt Ore.
• Adjust the drop rates of Animal Fat.
• Enable or disable specific 'Junk Food' recipes.
• Modify the saturation and hunger values of all added foods to balance against other mods.