L-man's Better Apples
by L-Man
L-man's Better Apples adds new apple varieties, apple-based foods and a villager profession that sells apples, for Forge and NeoForge.
What it does
Minecraft's apple is expanded with new varieties, Pink Lady, Granny Smith and Red Delicious, which can be obtained as food. Apple Juice and Apple Slices join the set, and several recipes take apples as an ingredient, including Apple Pie, Apple Core and Caramel Apples alongside the vanilla apple dishes. The mod is meant to make the apple a more useful food item than it is in vanilla.
A new villager profession, the Orchardist, is added, and its job block is an Apple Crate: a wooden storage container with 6 item slots. Orchardists sell the new apples, so players can trade for them without finding trees. The client and server both need the mod, so the server and every player must run it. Files are published for Forge and NeoForge, covering 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 with 2 release versions; the latest Forge file is 1.0.0 for 1.20.1 and the latest NeoForge file is 1.0.0 for 1.21.1. The code is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
New apple varieties
Pink Lady, Granny Smith and Red Delicious are added as separate apples with their own food values.
Apple-based foods
Apple Juice, Apple Slices, Apple Pie, Apple Core and Caramel Apples can be crafted from apples.
Orchardist villager
A new villager profession trades the new apples, with an Apple Crate as its job block.
Apple Crate storage
The wooden Apple Crate holds 6 item slots and serves as the Orchardist's workstation.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Trading for apples
Players who want the new apple varieties can find an Orchardist and trade for them instead of hunting trees.
Who it’s for: Players who want more food options built around apples, and server owners who add a trading villager to their world. Both sides need the mod.
How it compares
Slice By Slice is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.19.2 – 1.21.5 under the MIT License, also client and server. Apple Juice is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 only, under All rights reserved, and it is client and server too. Extra Apples is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license, so its terms differ from the MIT License used by Slice By Slice.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-man's Better Apples | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-03-23 |
| Slice By Slice | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.5 | Client and server | 2026-06-20 |
| Apple Juice | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-31 |
| Extra Apples | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-03-21 |
Questions
Which loaders does L-man's Better Apples support?
Does the server need L-man's Better Apples?
Can players trade for the new apples?
In the catalog
L-man's Better Apples is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Minecraft has tons of food with wasted potential, this mod aims to fix apples Firstly, adding a new villager known as "The Orchardists" which sells you all the knew apples. The villagers job block is the all "Apple Crate". A wooden storage crate that has 6 item slots.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/apples-plus
- Owner
- L-Man
- Published
- 2025-02-28
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-03-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15