Just add Craft!
by Avokadi_Mods
Just add Craft! turns cooking into a crafting system where meals carry enchantments, and players can eat them for effects beyond a hunger bar.
What it does
Plain bread and potatoes are replaced by recipes that can be combined into enchanted dishes. The mod's Mystical Recipe Book, an item found in the game, holds these recipes and lets a player look up which ingredients produce which effect. Some meals grant a short-term benefit such as faster health regeneration, a burst of healing or extra experience, while others can produce side effects when ingredients are mixed without care. A kitchen setup, with its own cooking workflow, is part of the content.
The mod is built for NeoForge and targets Minecraft 1.21.1. It needs both the server and every player to run it, because the enchanted food and recipes are checked on both sides. The code is licensed under the MIT License, but the project is not open source. Recipe lookup works alongside the Just Enough Items viewer, which the author recommends for browsing meal ingredients.
Key features
Enchanted meals
Cooked dishes carry enchantments that can heal, speed up regeneration, grant experience or affect the player in other ways.
Mystical Recipe Book
An in-game book collects enchanted recipes, so a player can check combinations before cooking.
Kitchen cooking
A kitchen setup supports the cooking process, and ingredients are combined into dishes through it.
Risky ingredient mixing
Some ingredient combinations produce side effects, so a player has to choose which recipes to make.
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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
Magic survival runs
Players who want food that does more than fill the hunger bar can use enchanted meals as a source of short-term effects during a survival world.
Who it’s for: Players who want cooking to matter in a magic-themed survival or adventure world, and server owners who want food to carry effects. Players who prefer plain food with no added effects will find little to use.
How it compares
Tomemancy is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 that is client and server with All rights reserved, and it is not open source. Its theme and license differ from Just add Craft!, which is licensed under the MIT License and is not open source either.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Just add Craft! | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-11-03 |
| Tomemancy | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-12 |
Questions
Does the server need Just add Craft! installed?
Which Minecraft version does Just add Craft! support?
Does Just add Craft! require Just Enough Items?
In the catalog
Just add Craft! is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Just Add Craft! Mod: Bring Magic to Your Minecraft Kitchen 🧙♂️🍲 Tired of the same old bread and potatoes? With the "Just Add Craft!" mod, you're not just cooking you're crafting powerful, enchanted meals from the "Just add Magic" series. Forget about plain food and get into a world of magical recipes that offer…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/just-add-craft
- Owner
- Avokadi_Mods
- Published
- 2024-11-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-11-03
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15