Rack of Drying

The rack holds one item at a time and turns it into a different result as it dries. Classic recipes cover dried meat, dried berries and thatch blocks, and a general reverse hydration device works on food in the same way, producing a dehydrated version. The live progress of each recipe can be checked through JEI recipe browsing, and One Probe and Jade show it in hover tooltips. Automation with hoppers and pipes can be switched on or off for the drying rack. New drying recipes can be added with JSON data packs or through CraftTweaker scripts in modpacks.

The mod also covers a chain of decay for building materials. Wet sponge becomes sponge, sandstone becomes sand, tuff becomes calcite, coarse dirt becomes gravel, mud becomes packed mud, and saplings, dead bushes and sticks follow a two-stage decay path. Sixteen concrete colors can be turned back into concrete powder. Craftable hay blocks match the hardness of the vanilla hay bale and burn for the same time.

The thatch bed sleeps like a straw bed and breaks after one night. A config option decides whether it sets the respawn point. Thatch blocks come in stairs, slabs and walls, and connect to solid blocks correctly. Raw beef, porkchop, chicken, mutton and rabbit can be made into jerky, a long-lasting preserved snack. Rack of Drying needs no other mod and is published for 1.20.1 only. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. Files exist for Forge and NeoForge, and the code is released under the MIT License without being open source.