Fervente's Butcher Knife

The knife is a utility weapon for collecting meat from passive animals without the usual hunting steps. Right-clicking a compatible animal with it harvests meat at once, and the knife can be used against animals and other targets as a combat tool. Each harvest costs durability, and the knife has a short cooldown of about three seconds between harvests, so it cannot be spammed.

The tool is crafted in two steps, first a Cleaver Crafting Component and then the final Butcher Knife, and the enchantments it accepts are restricted to keep its use balanced. Drop counts are affected by the Looting enchantment, which can raise the yield from cows and pigs to five to seven meat per harvest. Values such as damage, durability and harvest limits are set in ferventes butcher knife-common.toml, so a modpack or server can tune them. The mod runs on client and server and is intended for modpacks and servers that want a meat-focused survival tool.

Fervente's Butcher Knife requires nothing beyond Forge for 1.20.1. The optional dependency MmmMmmMmmMmm is not needed for the core tool to work. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.