Stewing & Baking
by Eugene
Stewing & Baking changes how vanilla food is cooked, with stews, breads, cakes and cookies made at a crafting table, cooking pot or furnace.
What it does
Recipes that were once made in a single place are reworked so that dough, batter and other uncooked food go into a crafting table, and a finished item is then baked or stewed. Breads, cakes and cookies follow this path, which the author describes as making vanilla food feel more realistic. Hot food placed in a furnace or smoker produces experience, so cooking yields some XP.
Stews and soups can be made another way: an empty bowl is filled by right-clicking water, the water is boiled in a furnace, and the bowl is then crafted with other ingredients. The mod started as part of the AnimateCraft modpack and was later released on its own. Files are published for Fabric only, across five game versions 1.20 – 1.20.4, and the latest file is 1.1 for 1.20.3.
The mod runs on the client and on the server. Both need it, so every player on a server that runs it installs it too. It is not open source and is released under All rights reserved, with a first release on 2024-02-22 and the most recent update on 2024-05-04.
Key features
Crafted bread and cakes
Breads, cakes and cookies are made at a crafting table from dough and batter rather than from a single item.
Stews from boiled water
An empty bowl filled with water is boiled in a furnace, then combined with other materials to make soups and stews.
Cooking experience
Hot food cooked in a furnace or smoker gives some experience points to the player.
Reworked old recipes
Existing recipes are reused to create new items, including dough, batter and other uncooked foods.
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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.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want more detailed cooking in survival worlds, and server owners who run food-focused packs on Fabric across the 1.20 – 1.20.4 range.
How it compares
Bake Your Bread is a Fabric mod for 1.20.1 – 26.2 with client and server sides, released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and not open source. Steve Eat Stew is a Fabric mod for 1.20.4 with client and server sides, released under the MIT License and open source. ezbowls is a Fabric mod for 1.19 – 1.20.4 that runs only on the server and is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and is open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stewing & Baking | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2024-05-04 |
| Bake Your Bread | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-04-21 |
| Steve Eat Stew | Fabric | 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2024-03-19 |
| ezbowls | Fabric | 1.19 – 1.20.4 | Server-side only | 2024-02-13 |
Questions
Does Stewing & Baking need Fabric API?
Must the server install Stewing & Baking?
Which game versions does Stewing & Baking support?
In the catalog
Stewing & Baking is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 13,907 mods support Minecraft 1.20.4.
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What the author says
This is originally for modpack AnimateCraft: Lankeren. If you like this content, play it in the modpack to gain the best experience! --- You feel weird that breads, cakes, cookies, and stew can all be made just on the crafting table? Now you can do it more realistically and romantically! Using the old recipes will…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/stewing-baking
- Owner
- Eugene
- Published
- 2024-02-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-05-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15