Herbcraft_Alchemy|百草可食：炼金分册

Herbal essences are the basis of the mod. It ships 40 essence definitions, and herbs and other natural materials can be crafted into essences. Essence data is stored in JSON files, so additional essences can be registered without changing code. Polished addons still need their own support, as the author notes.

Potions come in three forms: base herbal potions, clarified potions that focus on positive effects, and murky potions that focus on negative effects. Long and strong variants exist for each. Advanced potion stacks carry persistent components, and distilled essences and processed potions can be looked up in JEI and REI, with the aim of finding the routes that produce one exact item.

Two optional companions extend the mod. Herbcraft_Cuisine adds hidden dishes that act as high-tier brewing catalysts when installed next to Alchemy, and the two modules then share a secret cross-module recipe. Weapon coating examples are included as well. Herbcraft Core is required, and the mod is published for Fabric only, for game versions 26.1.2 – 26.3, under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, which makes it open source.