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Essential Food

by g-lestouf

Essential Food, a NeoForge mod for Minecraft 1.21.8, adds new ingredients and dishes that players can cook and craft.

NeoForgeClient and serverAll rights reserved1.21.8

What it does

New food items join the game, including a caramelized apple, an apple pie, chocolate bars, a golden chocolate bar, a chocolate cake and stuffed tomato. Several of them are prepared in a furnace or assembled from common materials such as wheat, sugar, cocoa, milk buckets, cheese and cooked beef. A cooking table is also added as a crafting station for the dishes.

The mod runs on the client and on the server, so both need it installed. Files are published for NeoForge only, for the single game version 1.21.8. The author is g-lestouf and the code is not open source, released under All rights reserved. The latest file is 1.0.2, dated 2026-02-18.

Key features

  1. Caramelized apple

    Apples are cooked with a sugar and caramel recipe, producing a food that is made in a furnace.

  2. Chocolate items

    Chocolate bars, a golden chocolate bar and a chocolate cake are craftable from cocoa, sugar and milk.

  3. Tomato and cheese dishes

    Tomato seeds, stuffed tomatoes and cheese recipes use wheat, tomatoes and cooked beef as ingredients.

  4. Cooking table

    A table is added where the dishes are assembled from wooden planks, cooked beef and carrots.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.81.0.2
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Questions

Does Essential Food need another mod to run?

No required dependency is listed for NeoForge.

Do players need the mod if the server has it?

Yes. Servers that run it need every player to install it too.

Is Essential Food still being changed?

The author notes say the mod is not finished and that some new content and minor bugs are still to be addressed.

In the catalog

Essential Food is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.

Food mods6,151NeoForge modsMods for 1.21.817,695

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What the author says

Liste des ajouts: - Fromage - Bacon - Caramel - Pomme caramélisée - Tarte aux pommes - Tablette de chocolat - Tablette de chocolat dorée - Gateau au chocolat - Pizza - Hambuger - Tomate - Graines de tomate - Tomate farcie Crafts: - Fromage: 3 sceaux de lait - Bacon: 1 de viande de porc (crue ou cuite) - Caramel…
g-lestouf, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
g-lestouf
Published
2026-01-25
Updated on Modrinth
2026-02-18
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

FoodUtility
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