The Milk Expansion
by AAV20181
The Milk Expansion adds cheese, dough and milk-based foods to Forge for Minecraft 1.20.1, with a cooler that turns milk into frozen milk.
What it does
Cheese is the core of the mod. Cheddar Cheese is crafted from milk, and drum rolls made with cheese are part of the food line. Milk Dough and Wheat Dough serve as ingredients for the baked recipes, and an Oak Crate is added for storing the products.
Hardened milk and frozen milk come from a brewing and freezing process. A cooler takes an ice shard in its bottom slot and a milk bucket in its top slot, and the output is used to make cheese. The mod is available for the Forge loader and runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. It is published for 1.20.1 only, with the 1.1.0 file dated 2024-08-06, and the code is under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
The author describes version 1.1.0 as a first release with more content planned in later updates. JEI can be used to look up the crafting recipes for the new items.
Key features
Cheddar cheese
Cheddar Cheese is crafted from milk and is used in several of the new recipes.
Freezing and brewing
A cooler freezes milk placed in its top slot, using an ice shard in the bottom slot, to produce frozen milk.
Dough and crates
Milk Dough and Wheat Dough are added as ingredients, and an Oak Crate is available for storage.
Recipe lookup with JEI
Recipes for the new items can be viewed in JEI, which shows the cooler and cheese steps in one place.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Cheese stuffs! is also a Forge mod for 1.20.1 and is client and server, but it is released under All rights reserved, as is The Milk Expansion. Only Cheese is published for Fabric and Forge for 1.20.1 and is client and server under the MIT License, so it is licensed differently from this mod.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Milk Expansion | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-08-06 |
| Cheese stuffs! | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-11 |
| Only Cheese | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-16 |
Questions
Which loader does The Milk Expansion need?
Does the server need The Milk Expansion?
How is frozen milk made?
In the catalog
The Milk Expansion is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This mod adds an expansion to milk in minecraft! Including (Drum rolls) CHEESE Use: it is used to make Hardened milk (Frozen Milk) which is used to make Cheese.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/the-milk-expansion
- Owner
- AAV20181
- Published
- 2024-08-04
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-08-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15