Improved Rotten Flesh
by HiddenThorn
Improved Rotten Flesh gives the rotten flesh dropped by zombies several uses, from leather and cured meat to blocks, potions and a sword.
What it does
Vanilla rotten flesh has few uses, and this NeoForge mod adds several. Placing it in a furnace produces leather, and placing it in a smoker produces cured meat, which restores more hunger than the raw item and can cause poison when eaten too quickly. Nine pieces of rotten flesh crafted in a crafting table form a rotten flesh block, and a brewing stand can turn it into an Undying potion that grants regeneration and strength, with slowness and bad luck as the trade-off.
Rotten flesh blocks also serve as building material for a boss. Stacking them with a pumpkin on top summons a Rotten Golem, which is joined by five zombies and heals and strengthens itself during the fight. Defeating it drops a Rotten Sword, which grants regeneration, strength and luck while held, and combining it with a Nether Star produces an Enchanted Rotten Sword with higher durability and damage.
The mod is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and is not open source. Files exist for NeoForge only, across 1.20.6, 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.8 and 26.1.2, with 1.0.4 for 26.1.2 as the latest release. Both sides must run it, so servers and every player need the mod installed.
Key features
Leather from rotten flesh
Rotten flesh placed in a furnace smelts into leather, giving a use to a drop that is otherwise common.
Cured meat in a smoker
Rotten flesh smoked into cured meat restores more hunger, though eating it quickly causes poison.
Rotten flesh blocks
Nine rotten flesh arranged in a crafting table produce a block that can be placed and used to summon a boss.
Rotten Golem and Rotten Sword
A summoned Rotten Golem heals and fights alongside zombies, and its defeat drops a sword with regeneration, strength and luck effects.
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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.
How it compares
Rotten Flesh To Leather is NeoForge only, covers 1.21.10 – 1.21.11, and is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, so it adds leather alone. Rotten Flesh into Leather is also leather-focused, but it runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.20 – 26.1.2 under the MIT License and is not open source. Better Rotten Flesh is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and covers Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.8.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved Rotten Flesh | NeoForge | 1.20.6 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-21 |
| Rotten Flesh To Leather | NeoForge | 1.21.10 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-01-09 |
| Rotten Flesh into Leather | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 26.1.2 | Not published | 2026-05-08 |
| Better Rotten Flesh | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-08-17 |
Questions
Does Improved Rotten Flesh work on Fabric?
Does the server need Improved Rotten Flesh?
Which versions does Improved Rotten Flesh cover?
In the catalog
Improved Rotten Flesh is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Welcome to the Improved Rotten Flesh mod, this mod aims to give some extra uses to rotten flesh as currently in Minecraft it doesn't have many purposes, this mod will change that and make rotten flesh a useful resource inside of your world. Some changes are the Rotten Golem, which drops the Rotten Sword when slain…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/improved-rotten-flesh
- Owner
- HiddenThorn
- Published
- 2024-09-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15