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Useful Flesh

by onyeukwusean

Useful Flesh lets rotten flesh be smelted into leather, a use the vanilla game does not offer for that drop.

FabricForgeServer required, client optionalGNU General Public License v3.0 or later26.1 – 26.2

What it does

The mod adds a smelting recipe that turns rotten flesh into leather, giving a food item that zombies drop a second use. Leather is used to craft saddles, and the recipe gives rotten flesh a new purpose in survival play. The change is also published as a data pack, and files are available for Fabric and Forge. The server is the side that needs the mod, while players may run without it.

Key features

  1. Smelting recipe

    Rotten flesh can be smelted into leather in a furnace, adding a use for a drop that was previously only edible.

  2. Saddle crafting

    The leather produced from rotten flesh can be used in crafting saddles, since saddles need leather as an ingredient.

  3. Data pack option

    The change is also published as a data pack for servers that prefer that install method over a loader mod.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.1.21.0.01.0.0-forge
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.

How it compares

Full comparison

Rotten Flesh into Leather supports Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20 – 26.1.2, so it reaches further in version range. Useful Flesh is not open source, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and targets 26.1 – 26.2 on Fabric and Forge.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
Useful FleshFabric and Forge26.1 – 26.2Server required, client optional2026-06-20
Rotten Flesh into LeatherFabric, Forge and NeoForge1.20 – 26.1.2Not published2026-05-08

Questions

Does the server need Useful Flesh installed?

The server is the side that needs it. Players may leave it out, so a client without the mod can still join.

In the catalog

Useful Flesh 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.

Food mods6,151Fabric modsMods for 26.213,894

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What the author says

The other day, I was thinking of datapack ideas, when I thought about rotten flesh. It's the worst food source in the game, yet there's a lot of it. So made this datapack, which fixes yet another issue. You can now smelt rotten flesh into leather, which has a lot of uses. As of 26.1.2, leather can be used to craft…
onyeukwusean, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
onyeukwusean
Published
2026-04-24
Updated on Modrinth
2026-06-20
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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