Farmer's Delight enriches the farming and cooking experience in Minecraft. With a range of rustic tools and workstations, you can improve your farm plots, create various hearty meals and snacks, and even gear up for adventures! This mod revitalizes often overlooked items like milk, mushrooms, and beetroots, promoting a diverse and rewarding farming experience. For newcomers looking to become expert farmers, here's a friendly guide to help you get started:

📖 Getting Started

Follow the advancements! Much of its progression is described through them. By default, press the (L) key to open the Advancements screen.

Farmer's Delight introduces a few new mechanics for early-game: new tools to help you out, and new things to look out for!

Knives

Knives are scavenging tools: they allow you to obtain a few more resources from both fauna and flora.

Any animals you slay using a Knife are guaranteed to drop secondary items, such as Leather and Feathers;
Grassy plants (grass, wheat, rice etc) cut with a Knife will occasionally yield Straw, a firm and useful fiber;
They act as a modest melee weapon: swings faster than a sword for lesser damage;
Later on, they are also useful for cutting and portioning ingredients when preparing meals.

Knives are tiered like standard tools, except they cannot be made out of wood or stone. The simplest one you can make is the Flint Knife.

Straw and Rope

Using a Knife on grassy plants will yield Straw, a useful building and composting material. Early on, it's best used to craft some Ropes.

Ropes are essentially reverse scaffolding: the can be continuously deployed downward from the same spot, and can be climbed without collision. This allows players to safely descend or ascend high altitudes, such as ravines or mountains.

Ropes can also be crafted into a few things:

5 Ropes can be tied into a single Lead, to help you corral animals early on;
A 2x2 of Ropes can be crafted into a Safety Net, a block that fully absorbs your fall without dealing damage.

🧭 Exploring the land

When exploring, keep an eye out for certain flowering plants. All crops, from both this mod and vanilla, now spawn in nature as Wild Crops. These wild variants are rather rough, and not very suitable for eating, so you'll only be able to forage one sample or seed out of them. However, this might be more than enough to kickstart a humble farm once you settle down somewhere.

Each wild crop depends on certain biomes or temperatures, so make sure to cover as many places as you can!

If you can't seem to find these elusive plants anywhere, you can resort to other means:

Village Houses may contain samples of the new crops in a chest. I'm sure the Villagers won't mind sharing a few samples with you;
Shipwreck Supplies are often rumored to contain a few remnants of cargo left behind. Who knows, maybe you'll find some food in there...

Farmers are no strangers to composting, as one would expect; sometimes you may see Villagers experimenting with a larger-scale form of composting their leftovers.

Compost Heaps are houses dedicated to treating and processing a pile of Organic Compost, made from organic leftovers, straw and dirt. Once given enough sunshine and moisture, will eventually become a valuable farming resource: Rich Soil!

When any growable plant is placed on Rich Soil, its growth will be randomly boosted, similar to the usage of Bone Meal.

Rich Soil can be tilled into Rich Farmland through the use of hoes. Rich Farmland is immune to mob trampling and won't unravel to Melons or Pumpkins, but requires hydration in order to boost crops.

Mushrooms planted on Rich Soil under sufficient darkness will eventually form a Mushroom Colony. Such colonies will grow from 2 to 5 mushroom caps over time, dropping them when harvested.

🍳 Farming and Cooking

Once you have settled somewhere, plotted a few farms and corralled some animals, it's time to reward yourself with some quality food!

Farmer's Delight introduces a myriad of different meals to prepare, using various ingredients. Meals are designed to keep you not only very well fed, but to also benefit you in other ways. There are many different things to make, both sweet and savory, and they all involve ingredients you might not have given much attention to in the past!

It all begins with the Cooking Pot.

The Cooking Pot

The Cooking Pot is a workstation where you can both prepare and store a large amount of meals. When placed above any suitable heat source (campfire, open flames, lava, a stove etc.), it will start bubbling, indicating it's ready to cook.

Cooking a Meal

You can put up to six ingredients inside a pot. If they match, the pot will start cooking them up into a meal. Most meals need a container to be served on, such as Bowls; the result slot will tell you which one to use. Simply add the container on the corresponding slot, or right-click the pot with it, to take a serving!

Meals tend to be quite large, so they don't stack up as high in your inventory. If you're not going to eat them all right away, you can just mine the whole pot and take it with you! Cooking Pots can hold 64 servings of any meal with a container, regardless of their maximum stack limit.

By this point, you should be all set. Keep an eye out for ingredients that you might have ignored before, such as Eggs, Mushrooms or Beetroots, as they are now essential parts of certain recipes.

Happy Farming!