Modular Delight

Properties attached to ingredient items decide which effects an ingredient contributes to a meal. Each property defines up to three effects: an ambient effect that works for as long as the meal is digesting, a condition that must be met, and an activated effect that triggers when that condition is satisfied. Several attributes, status effects, damage reactions or other effects can be stacked on a single property, and conditions can be combined with all and any clauses or flipped with an inverted flag.

The new Stockpot block takes heat to cook meals, and its screen offers three input slots, each tied to one of the three effect types, plus a serving slot for a bowl and an output slot. Once the heated ingredients are placed in the input slots they combine into a custom meal. As with the vanilla Cooking Pot, the serving is only removed with a bowl, and otherwise the pot stays in place even if it is broken.

Properties are hooked up to real items through a tag file under data/<namespace>/tags/items, using the same pattern vanilla uses for item tags. A built-in property can be disabled entirely by placing a file at the same path under data/modulardelight/modular delight/properties with a remove entry. Server owners can leave out properties they do not want, which keeps the set of effects small.