Farmer’s Delight
Jar: FarmersDelight-1.20.1-2.4.1+refabricated.jar (mod id farmersdelight, this is the Fabric “Refabricated” port by MehVahdJukaar/MerchantPug of vectorwing’s original Forge mod). This is the anchor mod for the entire “Food, Farming & Cooking” category — six of the other eleven mods in this category (Chef’s Delight, End’s Delight, Expanded Delight, Ocean’s Delight, Farmer’s Knives, and indirectly Animal Feeding Trough) are official or community add-ons that hard-depend on it via "farmersdelight": "*" in their fabric.mod.json.
Its lang file lists 92 items and 126 blocks. Core additions: three new crops (tomato, cabbage, onion — plus rice grown from panicles) with seeds and crates; new cooking furniture — the Stove (passive cooking, replaces a furnace+campfire workflow), Cooking Pot (multi-serving stews/soups with a recipe book UI, toggle via enableRecipeBookCookingPot), Cutting Board (knife-based butchering/slicing, boosted by Fortune per cuttingBoardFortuneBonus), Skillet, and Basket; a full set of wood-type Cabinets for storage; and building/decor pieces (Rope — climbable and reelable, Canvas, Canvas Rugs, Tatami mats, Canvas Signs in every dye color). On the food side it adds dozens of composed dishes built from raw cuts (minced beef, chicken cuts, bacon, fish slices, mutton chops) into sandwiches, wraps, rolls, stews, soups, and pies (apple pie, sweet berry cheesecake, chocolate pie), plus a starter tier of Flint/Iron/Golden/Diamond/Netherite knives that every add-on in this category extends with more materials. Config toggles worth knowing: farmersBuyFDCrops (villagers trade FD crops), wanderingTraderSellsFDItems, richSoilBoostChance (Rich Soil farmland speeds growth), and vanillaSoupExtraEffects (vanilla soups/stews also grant FD-style buffs). A Paxi datapack (config/paxi/datapacks/SkyVillages-FarmersDelightCompat…zip) patches Farmer’s Delight content into the modpack’s SkyVillages structures.
How you’ll use it here
This is the heart of the pack’s cooking loop and where prepared-food buffs come from, so build a Stove, Cooking Pot and Cutting Board early. Use the Cutting Board with a knife to butcher meat into cuts, then the Cooking Pot for stews and soups and the Stove/Skillet for fried dishes — apple pie, cheesecake and dozens of composed meals. Feed it with Croptopia crops plus FD’s own tomato/cabbage/onion/rice. Because hunger is heavier here and cooked food gives real stat buffs, this is one of the first systems worth investing in, not an afterthought.
Anticipated questions
Does cooking actually matter here? Yes — on this server prepared food gives real stat buffs, not just hunger refill, so building an FD kitchen early pays off.
What do I build first? Generally the Stove (passive cooking), Cooking Pot (multi-serving stews and soups) and Cutting Board (knife-based butchering).
Can I trade for FD crops? Yes — with farmersBuyFDCrops villagers trade Farmer’s Delight crops, and wanderingTraderSellsFDItems has the wandering trader sell FD items.
Do I need a separate knife? Yes, the Cutting Board needs a knife — Flint/Iron/Golden/Diamond/Netherite to start, with other mods’ materials covered by Farmer’s Knives.