Butchery
by MC_jmods
With Butchery installed, killing a mob with the Butcher's Knife leaves a corpse that can then be hung, skinned, cut up and cooked.
What it does
The mod changes how mobs and animals are harvested. Killing a mob with a sword or bow still works, but when the Butcher's Knife is used the mob drops its corpse instead of its normal loot. Sheep drop their corpse as well as their wool. The Butcher enchantment, or any tool or weapon enabled in the config, can produce corpses in the same way.
Corpses are processed in stages. A hanging corpse is drained of blood on a hook, then skinned on a skin rack by dampening it and covering it in salt to obtain leather. The butchers table and hanging corpses yield different cuts of meat, and alternative food outputs can be enabled in the config. Corpses can also be cooked on a rotisserie over a campfire, fed into a mincer for beef or lamb, and turtle shells opened with a hammer.
Butchery is published for Forge and NeoForge only, with files for 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.8 and 26.1.2. It is client and server, so both the server and every player need it, and it is released under All rights reserved, which means it is not open source. Its Forge file runs on 1.20.1, and the latest NeoForge file is for 1.21.8.
Key features
Corpse drops from the knife
Killing a mob with the Butcher's Knife drops its corpse in place of its usual loot.
Blood draining and skinning
Hanging a corpse on a hook drains its blood, and a skin rack removes the hide for leather.
Meat from the butchers table
Corpses hung or placed on the butchers table are cut into different selections of meat.
Cooking and mincing
Corpses cook on a rotisserie above a campfire, and a mincer turns beef or lamb into minced meat.
Decoration and storage blocks
Decorations include barrels of cod and salmon, jars, brains in jars and head mounts, and the butchers display stores food.
Spike trap
A spike trap built from elder guardian drops damages entities and applies mining fatigue on contact.
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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.
Required by 3 mods
How it compares
Corpse is published for Forge and NeoForge across 1.19 – 26.3, is client and server, and is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Corpses Begone is also a Forge and NeoForge mod, for 1.20 – 1.21.1, but it is released under the MIT License and is not open source. LGs Player Corpses works on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21.9 – 26.2, and players can join without installing it, since is needed on the server, with the client optional.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butchery | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-10-09 |
| Corpse | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-15 |
| Corpses Begone | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-12-18 |
| LGs Player Corpses | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.9 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-16 |
Questions
Does Butchery need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Butchery support?
Can the mod be used on versions before 1.20.1?
In the catalog
Butchery is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Butchery is a mod that makes harvesting mobs and animals much much more immersive and fun. Whilst simply killing mobs is still an option with this mod installed, you have the added option of kill a mob with the new Butcher's Knife. Killing a mob with the butchers knife will cause the mobs corpse to drop instead of…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/butchery
- Owner
- MC_jmods
- Published
- 2024-02-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15