Ore Food

Ore Food

Turn minerals into edible food. 50 mineral foods — five mineral tiers × ten food types — plus five food enchantments that grant potion effects based on enchantment level. Eating consumes durability instead of the item, so one food can be eaten many times.

Platforms: Forge 1.20.1, NeoForge 1.21.1, NeoForge 26.1.2

What it adds

50 mineral foods

Ten foods: Beef, Bread, Chicken, Cod, Mutton, Porkchop, Pufferfish, Rabbit, Rotten Flesh, Salmon. Five mineral tiers: Copper, Iron, Golden, Diamond, Netherite.

Item IDs are <mineral>_<food> — orefood:copper_beef, orefood:diamond_bread, orefood:netherite_salmon.

Hunger and saturation come from the matching vanilla food, multiplied by the mineral tier:

For beef (vanilla cooked beef is 8 / 12.8): 6 / 9.6, 8 / 12.8, 8 / 16.0, 10 / 20.0, 12 / 24.0. For bread (vanilla bread is 5 / 6.0): 4 / 4.5, 5 / 6.0, 5 / 7.5, 6 / 9.4, 8 / 11.3.

Durability and enchantability depend only on the mineral tier, not on the food:

Durability means remaining bites. Each bite costs 1 durability; when it reaches 0, the food is consumed. Iron tier can be eaten 16 times; Netherite tier, 128 times. They do not stack. In Creative mode, eating does not consume durability.

Pufferfish and Rotten Flesh: the debuffs are intentional

These two carry their vanilla debuffs, and the duration scales with the mineral tier. Effect levels stay at vanilla values (Pufferfish: Poison II, Hunger III, Nausea I; Rotten Flesh: Hunger I, 80% chance) with one exception — the Netherite tier also raises the effects that are still level I to level II.

Netherite raises Nausea (I → II) on Pufferfish and Hunger (I → II) on Rotten Flesh. Poison II and Hunger III on Pufferfish are already above level I, so they are not raised further. The other eight foods have no debuffs.

Five food enchantments

These apply only to edible items. Effects trigger when the food is eaten.

Crafting

Every food has its own five-tier upgrade chain — 50 recipes in total. The four lower tiers are crafted at a crafting table; the fifth is smithed.

Example for bread: 8 Copper Ingots + Bread → Copper Bread; 8 Iron Ingots + Copper Bread → Iron Bread; 8 Gold Ingots + Iron Bread → Golden Bread; 8 Diamonds + Golden Bread → Diamond Bread; Smithing Table: Template + Netherite Ingot + Diamond Bread → Netherite Bread.

The center slot must be the correct previous tier — using the wrong tier produces nothing.

How to use

1. In the Creative Food & Drinks tab, every mineral food sits directly after its vanilla counterpart: Cooked Beef, then Copper / Iron / Golden / Diamond / Netherite Beef, then the bread group, and so on. In Survival, start from the copper tier and craft upwards.
2. Enchant:
   • Powerful Recovery, Adrenaline, Fitness and Satiety are normal enchantments (enchanting table, villagers, loot).
   • Feast is treasure-only (loot, librarian, similar to Mending).
3. Eat: hold right-click. Each bite consumes 1 durability and triggers the effects.
4. Hover the food to see effects, levels and durations in the tooltip, formatted like vanilla potions. Debuffs carried by pufferfish and rotten flesh variants are listed there too.

Adding your own mineral food (KubeJS)

With KubeJS installed you can register your own, inheriting every behaviour — eating, durability, enchantments and tooltip:

StartupEvents.registry('item', event => {
  event.create('mypack:redstone_beef', 'orefood:ore_food_item')
    .definition({ nutrition: 6, saturation: 9.6, durability: 12, enchantment_value: 2 })
    .tag('c:foods')   // NeoForge only: required, or the food cannot be enchanted
})

definition fields: nutrition, saturation, durability (bites), enchantment_value, and the optional effects array with { effect, duration, amplifier, probability } entries.

Upgrading from 1.x

1.2.0 replaced the single orefood:ore_food item with one real item per beef (five items); 2.0.0 expanded that to 50 foods. Items from 1.1.0 and earlier no longer exist, so orefood:ore_food stacks in existing worlds become invalid. Start a new world, or accept the one-off registry warnings when loading an old one.

Development notes

The source repository's AGENT.md documents the three-platform API differences, the build setup, and the pitfalls hit while porting.

Ore Food

Turn minerals into edible beefs. One item, five mineral tiers; five food enchantments that grant potion effects based on enchantment level. Eating consumes durability instead of the item, so one beef can be eaten many times.

Platforms: Forge 1.20.1, NeoForge 1.21.1, NeoForge 26.1.2

What it adds

One item: Ore Food

orefood:ore_food is the mod's only item. All beefs share the same item ID but have different names, textures, and stats.

Durability means remaining bites. Each bite costs 1 durability; when it reaches 0, the beef is consumed. Iron Beef can be eaten 16 times; Netherite Beef, 128 times. They do not stack. In Creative mode, eating does not consume durability.

All values are data-pack driven: change one line, re-enter the world, and it takes effect.

Five food enchantments

These apply only to edible items. Effects trigger when the food is eaten.

Crafting

Beefs upgrade tier by tier. Each recipe uses 8 matching minerals around the previous tier beef.

The center slot must be the correct previous tier. Using the wrong tier produces nothing.

How to use

1. Get beefs from the Creative Food & Drinks tab.
2. Enchant:
   • Potent Recovery, Adrenaline, Vitality, and Satiety are normal enchantments (enchanting table, villagers, loot).
   • Feast is treasure-only (loot, librarian, similar to Mending).

• Eat: hold right-click. Each bite consumes 1 durability and triggers effects.
• Hover the beef to see effects, levels, and durations in the tooltip, formatted like vanilla potions.

Data pack / modding

• Data pack guide: docs/datapack-guide.md — includes a complete example with potion effects.
• Development notes: AGENT.md — API differences, build setup, and pitfalls.