Turning Rotten Flesh and Bones into Food, Armor, and Decor

Smelting Food and Crafting Lighting

Instead of throwing away excess mob drops, you can turn them into everyday survival supplies. Place leftover rotten flesh into a furnace and smelt it to produce Edible Flesh, which you can eat to quickly restore your hunger bar. For base building, take spare bones to your crafting interface—check the recipe book for the exact pattern—to craft Bone Torches. Like standard vanilla torches, Bone Torches can be placed on both floors and walls to light up caves and builds. While decorating your walls, look out for the mod's hidden painting, which you can discover and hang alongside vanilla artwork.

Choosing the Right Flesh Chestplate

Mob drops can also be crafted into two different chestplates with very different combat roles:

• Flesh Chestplate: Grants absorption hearts that act as a buffer against incoming damage, making it a safe everyday armor piece with no negative side effects.
• Rotten Flesh Chestplate: Grants both Strength and Absorption for higher melee damage and extra health, but inflicts Hunger, Poison, and Slowness on the wearer.

Reserve the Rotten Flesh Chestplate for short, stationary melee fights where Slowness will not get you killed, and carry plenty of Edible Flesh to offset the constant Hunger drain. For general exploration, stick to the standard Flesh Chestplate.