Onion Onion
by davigj
With Onion Onion, cutting onions on a Farmer's Delight cutting board can make nearby ghasts shed tears and turn obsidian into crying obsidian.
What it does
Onion Onion is a Farmer's Delight add-on that adds onion slices, called rings, which players make by cutting onions. Cutting onions produces effects on nearby entities and blocks: a ghast may shed a tear, obsidian may become crying obsidian, and weeping vines may grow nearby. Each effect has a chance setting in the config, and the effects reach a radius of blocks that defaults to 2. The radius is capped at 16 to limit performance costs.
Required dependencies are Architectury API, Blueprint, Farmer's Delight and Farmer's Delight Refabricated. Overweight Farming is optional and lets peeling its Big Onion blocks with an axe trigger the same effect. Frame Changer is also optional. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, across the 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 range, and the code is released under the MIT License, so the project is open source.
Key features
Onion rings
Cutting onions into slices gives players onion rings as food items.
Ghast tears
Cutting onions near a ghast can make it shed a tear, with a configurable chance.
Crying obsidian
Nearby obsidian can convert into crying obsidian when onions are cut, with its own chance setting.
Weeping vines
Cutting onions can cause weeping vines to grow in the area around the player.
Config options
Toggles for damage, impact and the Big Onion effect, plus the effect radius and chances, are all set in the config.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Use cases
Themed farm kitchens
Players who cook with Farmer's Delight can add onion rings to their recipes and kitchen routines.
Nether-themed builds
Crying obsidian and weeping vines fit builds that draw on the Nether.
Who it’s for: Players who use Farmer's Delight and want onion-cutting effects, and server owners who want to tune the chances and radius in the config.
How it compares
Overweight Farming is an add-on that works with Onion Onion for Big Onion blocks, released under All rights reserved and not open source, with files for 1.18 – 1.21.1 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. Chopper's Delight is also MIT licensed and open source, published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.20.1 – 1.21.1. Pizza Delight is open source under the MIT License but has no Fabric files, supporting only Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onion Onion | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-29 |
| Overweight Farming | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.18 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-17 |
| Chopper's Delight | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-07 |
| Pizza Delight | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-10 |
Questions
Which loader should a player pick for Onion Onion?
Does the server need Onion Onion installed?
Does Onion Onion work without Overweight Farming?
Can the onion effects be turned off?
In the catalog
Onion Onion is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
In real life, chopping onions aerosolizes the compound known as syn-Propanethial-S-oxide. This irritates the cells in human eyes through a short series of acidic chemical reactions, producing an iconic reaction. This mod adds the ability to cut onions into slices (rings) to achieve a similar effect! The varying…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/onion-onion
- Owner
- davigj
- Published
- 2023-12-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-29
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15