Epicurean Gastronomy FAQ

It overhauls Minecraft's food system by adding a Cooking Table, new crops, and a modular meal-crafting mechanic. It aims to make food and the hunger system more of a benefit than a chore.

It adds Tomatoes, Peppers, and Onions, which can be found in the world.

The Cooking Table is where you assemble Meals that give various status effect buffs. After crafting a meal, you can place it in the ingredients section and add Dressings in the seasonings section.

Jelly is crafted from Sweet Berries and applied to foods to restore more hunger and saturation. Super Jelly is crafted from Jelly and gives better restoration plus a temporary jump boost.

Yes, placing a hopper under the block a crop is growing on lets it harvest various crops. This is configurable and on by default.

Yes, there is an option to disable hunger and only use saturation for health restoration, similar to some RPGs. It is configurable and off by default.

Omnivore Mode lets you eat any block or item that doesn't have a right-click-in-the-air action. It is configurable and off by default, and items with durability consume a configurable amount of durability instead of being destroyed instantly.

Yes, you can hold right-click in the air to eat cake and restore a cake's worth of hunger all at once. Otherwise it will place down.

Meals include Noodles, Beef Stew, Ramen, Spaghetti, Pad Thai, Hamburger, Pancakes, and Chicken Tenders, each with required and optional ingredients.

Yes, the mod adds the ability to grow nether wart with bone meal.