Erudium
Erudium is a Forge food and adventure mod for 1.20.1 that adds custom mobs, villager professions, coffee items and a range of strange, overpowered food.
What it does
Erudium brings Custom NPCs-style entities, a new villager job type, coffee items and assorted food into one Forge mod for 1.20.1. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. Its code is published under the MIT License and is open source.
Key features
Custom mobs and food
Custom entities and unusual food items give survival and adventure play a stranger, more fanciful flavor.
Coffee and villager profession
Coffee-related items and mechanics appear alongside a new profession that villagers can take up and interact with.
Recipe visibility in JEI
New items and recipes show up in the Just Enough Items interface, so players can look them up in game.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Cursed Craft is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 with the same client and server environment, but it is not open source and is released under All rights reserved. Enchantium is also Forge for 1.20.1 and runs on client and server, and it is released under the MIT License without being open source. Sabertools is server-side only, so players join without installing it.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erudium | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-20 |
| Cursed Craft | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-04-21 |
| Enchantium | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-06-02 |
| Sabertools | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2024-01-15 |
Questions
Does Erudium need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Erudium support?
In the catalog
Erudium is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
Similar mods
What the author says
Pokerfish Extract & Pokerfish Sand – things for smoked sand and also fuel Honza & Vojta – Custom NPCs or entities for added personality
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/erudium
- Owner
- The Cheze-Khaeke Foundation
- Published
- 2025-08-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
