Fun & Essential Foods
by lump_of_coal
Fun & Essential Foods is a Forge food mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 that adds cooking content, including marshmallows and a crafted cook book.
What it does
The mod is built around cooking. Its author describes it as an experimental project centred on marshmallow cooking, and it adds food items and a recipe book that is crafted on a 3x3 grid from leather, paper and string, laid out in a set pattern. The author states that feedback from players and the author's own ideas will shape later versions.
It runs on Forge only, for 1.20.1 alone, and the server and every player need it, since the environment is client and server. The code is not open source: it is released under All rights reserved. The author asks players to leave feedback, and the first and only file, 1.0.0, was published on 2024-09-01.
Key features
Marshmallow cooking
Marshmallows can be cooked as part of the mod's food content, which the author calls experimental.
Cook book recipe
A cook book is crafted on a 3x3 grid from leather on the top, bottom and middle, with paper and string in the remaining slots.
Cooking-focused food items
Food items centred on cooking extend the vanilla food set, with the author's own ideas as the basis.
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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
Cooking on a server
Server owners who want shared cooking content install the mod on the server and on every player's client.
Who it’s for: Players who want more cooking content on Forge 1.20.1, and server owners running that version who accept an experimental, single-file mod.
How it compares
Forever Line is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 with the same client and server environment, released under All rights reserved and not open source. Ar's Food is also a Forge 1.20.1 mod, with the same environment and license. Large amount of food covers the same version and environment as well, and is likewise not open source. Fun & Essential Foods is a narrower, single-file experiment, while these options are catalogued as separate mods with their own content.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fun & Essential Foods | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-09-01 |
| Forever Line | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-12-13 |
| Ar's Food | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-07 |
| Large amount of food | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-06-14 |
Questions
Which loader does Fun & Essential Foods need?
Does the server need Fun & Essential Foods too?
Are there other versions of Fun & Essential Foods?
In the catalog
Fun & Essential Foods 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.
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What the author says
Hi! i am lump_of_coal, this is a project i have wanted to make for a while! this is a experimental mod for me, so all i have is marshmallow cooking:(, I hope you enjoy it though! I hope to make this a big massive mod for food and cooking and you can help me with that by making a big community out of this mod:) that…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/fun-essential-foods
- Owner
- lump_of_coal
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-09-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15