Rotten Chicken: Rotten Flesh cooks to Chicken
by meenimc
Rotten Chicken changes what Rotten Flesh cooks into: a data pack that turns the item into cooked chicken in a furnace, smoker or campfire.
What it does
The data pack adds a cooking recipe so that rotten flesh, normally a weak food with a poor effect, produces cooked chicken. The recipe works in the furnace, smoker and campfire, and keeps the usual cooking time and experience reward, so each flesh stored gives a small amount of experience when smelted.
Rotten Flesh is otherwise a junk item with little use. The author describes it as a balanced alternative to other datapacks that smelt rotten flesh into leather, and as a change that removes the incentive for a cow farm built around zogglin-style leather trades. Villager trading is weak, so this gives the item a practical purpose without making it overpowered.
Rotten Chicken is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and as a data pack for servers. A server needs the pack for the recipe to apply, while players may add it without changing the result for them. The code is under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, so the project is not open source. Builds cover 1.14 – 26.2.
Key features
Cooking rotten flesh
Rotten flesh can be smelted in a furnace, smoker or campfire to yield cooked chicken instead of the usual result.
Experience on smelting
Cooking one flesh stores experience in the furnace or smoker, matching the reward for other recipes.
Usual cooking time
The conversion takes the same time as the vanilla recipes it replaces, so the change adds no delay.
Balanced change
The recipe is meant as a middle ground for Rotten Flesh, short of changes that make the item overpowered.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.17.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.15.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.14.x5 of 5 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want rotten flesh to have a use in survival, and server owners who prefer a data pack over a mod for a small recipe change.
How it compares
Rotten Flesh into Leather is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20 – 26.1.2 under the MIT License, and is not open source; it converts the item into leather instead of chicken. Leather Craft is open source under the MIT License, runs on client and server, and covers 1.16.1 – 1.21.11 for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. Leather From the Dead is needed on the server, with the client optional, under All rights reserved, and covers 1.21 – 1.21.11 on four loaders.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotten Chicken: Rotten Flesh cooks to Chicken | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.14 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2025-11-10 |
| Rotten Flesh into Leather | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 26.1.2 | Not published | 2026-05-08 |
| Leather Craft | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-06-01 |
| Leather From the Dead | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2026-10-10 |
Questions
Does Rotten Chicken need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders can run Rotten Chicken?
Does Rotten Chicken change leather drops?
In the catalog
Rotten Chicken: Rotten Flesh cooks to Chicken 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
What tastes like chicken? Rotten flesh is what! Rotten chicken is a Minecraft datapack that lets you cook rotten flesh to produce delicious cooked chicken.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/rotten-chicken
- Owner
- meenimc
- Published
- 2024-06-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15