Usable Unusables
by TuraVasile
Usable Unusables gives a set of normally useless survival items, such as rotten flesh, spider eyes and name tags, new crafting recipes and uses on Forge for 1.20.1.
What it does
The mod targets items that most survival players rarely pick up. Poisonous potatoes and rotten flesh become ingredients, cooked rotten steak becomes a food, and spider eyes feed into a cooked version that grants night vision and a stew recipe. Regular potatoes can be turned into french fries.
Horse armour is crafted from leather and gains a material tier that suits armour, while name tags, gilded blackstone and a few other items are added to crafting grids. The changes only add recipes and uses; no new dimensions, mobs or progression systems are introduced. The mod is released under the MIT License.
Installation needs Forge for 1.20.1 on both the server and each player's client, since the environment is client and server. Files are published for Forge only, with 1.0.0 as the single release, dated 2025-11-15.
Key features
Poisonous potato recipes
Poisonous potatoes gain crafting uses instead of remaining a throwaway item.
Rotten flesh food
Cooked rotten steak becomes a food, and rotten flesh joins other recipes.
Spider eye cooking
Cooked spider eyes give night vision and can be used in a spider eye stew.
Horse armour crafting
Horse armour is crafted from leather and given a material tier suited to armour.
Gilded blackstone and name tags
Gilded blackstone uses gold nuggets and blackstone, and name tags are crafted from leather, iron, paper and ink sacs.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Survival worlds with spare drops
Players who collect rotten flesh and spider eyes from mobs get a use for them without adding new content.
Who it’s for: Players who want a few extra uses for common drops in a regular survival world, and server owners who want the same recipes on a shared server. Both sides need the mod.
How it compares
Rotten Flesh Now Useful is Forge for 1.20.1, client and server, and released under MIT-0 without being open source, so it focuses on the rotten flesh recipe alone. Cooked Flesh is also Forge for 1.20.1 with client and server environment, but is under All rights reserved. French Fries is Forge for 1.20.1 with client and server environment under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license, and covers the potato side of the changes.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usable Unusables | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-15 |
| Rotten Flesh Now Useful | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-13 |
| Cooked Flesh | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-24 |
| French Fries | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-11 |
Questions
Does Usable Unusables need a specific loader?
Does the server need the mod?
Under what license is Usable Unusables released?
In the catalog
Usable Unusables 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
A simple mod that gives use to some previewsly unusable or useless items. not only that but it also adds some crafting recipes to some items that would be nearly unusable in a regular survival world.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/usable-unusables
- Owner
- TuraVasile
- Published
- 2025-11-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-15
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15