Finding Which Animals Eat a Specific Food Item

When you have surplus crops or mob drops in your chests, you can search backward from the item itself to discover every mob that uses it for breeding.

Searching by Food or Material

1. Open your inventory and hover over the crop, meat, or material— either directly in your inventory slots or inside the JEI, REI, or EMI item list.

2. Trigger your recipe viewer's Uses lookup on that item (by default in most viewers, pressing the U key or right-clicking the item in the sidebar).

3. Click the breeding category tab at the top of the recipe window.

4. Page through the results to see every mob that accepts that specific item for breeding.

Comparing Mob Options

Checking the uses of common farm items lets you plan animal pens around crops you already grow:

• Checking wheat will bring up entries for livestock like cows and sheep.
• Checking carrots, potatoes, or slimeballs will show entries for rabbits, pigs, or frogs respectively.
• Each result page includes the mob's spawn egg for quick identification, any (tamed) prerequisite attached to the mob's name, and any eggs produced, giving you a complete checklist before you head out to lead animals back to your base.