Pantry
by Lumi-Lynx
Pantry is a Fabric and NeoForge food mod that makes food age over world time, with cellars, salt and ocean water used to slow that spoilage.
What it does
Most foods move through the stages Fresh, Aging, Stale and Spoiled as time passes in the world. Fresh food behaves normally. Spoiled food stays edible, but eating it can apply penalties set in the configuration, and Pantry never deletes it. Preservation lowers the rate at which food spoils from here on and can bring back some of its quality, but it cannot wipe out a food's past, so heavily spoiled supplies never return to full freshness.
Salt comes from seawater gathered with buckets or bottles, kept in saline cauldrons, and then boiled down in a furnace. A salt water bucket yields 12 salt and a bottle yields 4, while one full saline cauldron fills three salt water bottles. Placed salt water acts like water, and player-made pools cannot produce endless salt. Food can also be salted, smoked or dried, and these methods can be combined. Golden foods use their own Gilded preservation path.
Pantry requires Pantry API and YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) to run. The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge for 26.2 only, with 1.0.0-alpha.5 as the latest file under the alpha channel. The code is under the MIT License and is not open source.
Key features
Food aging
Over the course of world time, the majority of foods move between the Fresh, Aging, Stale and Spoiled stages, and the pace of that change is adjustable in the config file.
Batch freshness
Items of the same kind combine into batches weighted by freshness, so one fresh item cannot reset an entire pile, and compatible batches still stack.
Ingredient and recipe carry-over
Wheat, cocoa beans, pumpkins, eggs, mushrooms and kelp age too, and quality carries into bread, cookies, pies, stews and cake slices.
Salt and ocean water
Ocean water becomes salt through buckets, bottles, saline cauldrons and a furnace, and salt is used to preserve food.
Cake inspection
A vanilla cake follows the same rules, and sneaking with an empty hand lets a player inspect a placed cake before eating it.
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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 3
Questions
Does Pantry need Pantry API and YACL?
Does the server need Pantry installed?
Can spoiled food be removed by Pantry?
Which versions does Pantry support?
In the catalog
Pantry is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Pantry is a configurable food spoilage and preservation mod. Food loses freshness over time, proper storage keeps it fresh longer, and ocean water can be boiled into salt. It adds a light survival rhythm without deleting your supplies: use older food first, preserve what you want to keep, and build storage suited to…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/pantry
- Owner
- Lumi-Lynx
- Published
- 2026-06-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15