Crabber's Delight Mod Guide: Seafood, Recipes & Cooking Pot Meals
Crabber's Delight expands Farmer's Delight with a full suite of seafood ingredients and recipes. The mod adds Crabs, Shrimp, Clams, and Clawsters that you can catch, cook, and combine into hearty dishes like Clam Bake, Seafood Gumbo, and Surf and Turf.
Overview
Crabber's Delight is an addon for Farmer's Delight that brings the ocean to your kitchen. The mod introduces four new seafood creatures (Crabs, Shrimp, Clams, and Clawsters), makes Tropical Fish useful as a food source, and adds over a dozen new recipes ranging from simple snacks to elaborate Cooking Pot meals. Whether you're looking for quick hunger restoration on the go or powerful Nourishment-granting feasts for boss fights, the seafood in this mod has you covered.
You can browse every item and recipe this mod adds using the tabs at the top of this page. This guide focuses on helping you understand what everything does, how the food stats compare, and the best ways to use each ingredient.
Prerequisites
Crabber's Delight requires Farmer's Delight to be installed. You'll need a Cooking Pot (crafted from Bricks and a Wooden Shovel in Farmer's Delight) to make the mod's best dishes. A Cutting Board and Knife from Farmer's Delight are also essential for processing Clams, Crabs, and Tropical Fish into their component parts. If you haven't set up basic Farmer's Delight infrastructure yet, start there first.
Getting Started
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Build a Crab Trap
Your first step is crafting a Crab Trap (from Farmer's Delight) and placing it in Water. The trap needs a 3x3 area of Water around it to function, and Waterlogged blocks count toward this requirement. Place it in any ocean or river biome for double the catch speed.
- 2
Use Bait to Improve Catches
Supply your Crab Trap with Bait or Buckets of Chum to improve the quality of items it catches. Without bait, you'll mostly get basic catches. With proper bait, you'll start pulling in
Raw Crab, 
Raw Shrimp, 
Raw Clawster, and Clams at a much better rate. - 3
Cook Your Catches
Smelt your raw seafood in a Furnace, Smoker, or Campfire.
Cooked Crab restores 4 hunger, 
Cooked Clawster is the best at 7 hunger, and 
Cooked Shrimp provides 3 hunger. These are decent food sources on their own, but they really shine as ingredients in Cooking Pot recipes. - 4
Set Up a Cutting Board
Place a Cutting Board and use a Knife on your catches for bonus ingredients. Cutting a
Cooked Crab yields 4 
Crab Legs. Cutting a 
Clam gives you 
Raw Clam Meat with a 10% chance to find a 
Pearl. Tropical Fish can be sliced into 2 Tropical Fish Slices plus Bone Meal. - 5
Start Cooking Pot Meals
Once you've stockpiled cooked seafood and some Farmer's Delight crops (Onion, Tomato, Rice), start making Cooking Pot meals.
Clam Bake, 
Seafood Gumbo, and Surf and Turf are the top-tier options, all granting the powerful Nourishment effect that prevents hunger drain.
Raw Ingredients
The mod adds four new seafood creatures, each obtained primarily through the Crab Trap. All raw seafood can be eaten directly, but cooking it first is always better.
Raw Crab
Raw Crab restores 2 hunger with 0.3 saturation. It cooks into Cooked Crab (4 hunger, 0.8 saturation), and from there you can cut Cooked Crab on a Cutting Board with a Knife to get 4 Crab Legs, a convenient snack food that restores 3 hunger each.
Raw Clawster
The Clawster is the mod's premium catch. Raw Clawster provides 3 hunger and 0.5 saturation even uncooked, and Cooked Clawster jumps to a solid 7 hunger with 0.8 saturation. Clawster is a key ingredient in the Clam Bake and Seafood Gumbo, two of the mod's best Cooking Pot meals.
Raw Shrimp
Be careful eating Raw Shrimp. It only restores 1 hunger and has a 30% chance to inflict the Hunger effect for 30 seconds. Cooking it removes the risk entirely, giving you a clean 3 hunger and 0.6 saturation. Cooked Shrimp is used in the 
Shrimp Skewer and Clam Bake.
Clam
Clams are not edible on their own. You need to cut them on a Cutting Board with a Knife to extract Raw Clam Meat (2 hunger, 0.3 saturation), which can then be cooked into 
Cooked Clam Meat (4 hunger, 0.8 saturation). There's also a 10% chance of finding a Pearl when cutting a Clam, a bonus drop you can use for trading or decoration.
Raw Shrimp has a 30% chance to give you the Hunger effect for 30 seconds, which drains your hunger bar faster. Always cook it first. Even a Campfire works if you don't have a Furnace handy.
Simple Recipes & Snacks
Before you get into Cooking Pot meals, the mod offers several quick crafting recipes that only need a Crafting Table. These are great early-game options when you don't have a full kitchen set up yet.
Fish Stick
Combine a Stick with any cooked fish (including Cooked Cod, Cooked Salmon, or 
Cooked Tropical Fish) for a 
Fish Stick that restores 5 hunger and 0.6 saturation. This is one of the easiest recipes in the mod and a great way to get more value out of fish you're already catching.
Shrimp Skewer
The Shrimp Skewer combines a Stick, two Cooked Shrimp, and a Tomato (from Farmer's Delight) for a hearty 8 hunger and 0.8 saturation. This is one of the best non-Cooking Pot foods in the mod and excellent for exploration.
Kelp Shake
The 
Kelp Shake is unique: it doesn't restore any hunger at all. Instead, it grants 15 seconds of Water Breathing, making it a handy utility drink for short underwater trips. Craft it with a Glass Bottle, Sugar, and 4 Kelp. It stacks to 16 like Farmer's Delight meal items.
Simple Recipes
Cooking Pot Meals
The real power of Crabber's Delight lies in its Cooking Pot recipes. These meals require Farmer's Delight's Cooking Pot and combine multiple seafood ingredients with crops for high-hunger, high-saturation dishes that grant the Nourishment effect. Nourishment prevents your hunger bar from draining while the effect is active, making these meals ideal for combat, mining, and long exploration sessions.
Surf and Turf
The most filling food in the mod. Surf and Turf restores a massive 14 hunger and 0.8 saturation, plus 5 minutes of Nourishment. It's crafted on a regular Crafting Table (not a Cooking Pot) from any Cooked Seafood, a Baked Potato, and Cooked Beef. This makes it one of the simplest high-tier foods to produce once you have a steady supply of cooked catches.
Clam Bake
The Clam Bake is the mod's showpiece Cooking Pot dish. It requires Cooked Clam Meat, Cooked Clawster, Cooked Shrimp, Seagrass, a Carrot, and an Onion. It restores 13 hunger with an excellent 0.9 saturation modifier, plus 5 minutes of Nourishment. The recipe demands all three types of cooked seafood, so you'll need a well-stocked Crab Trap operation to make these regularly.
Seafood Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo uses Raw Clawster, Raw Shrimp, Onion, Rice, and a Porkchop in the Cooking Pot. It restores 12 hunger with 0.9 saturation and grants 5 minutes of Nourishment. Notice that this recipe uses raw seafood rather than cooked, saving you a smelting step. If you're short on fuel, Gumbo is a great option.
Bisque & Clam Chowder
These two soup recipes are the mid-tier Cooking Pot options. 
Bisque restores 8 hunger (0.75 saturation) with 3 minutes of Nourishment, made from any Cooked or Raw Seafood, Onion, Rice, Carrot, and Milk. 
Clam Chowder is slightly lighter at 7 hunger (0.6 saturation) with 3 minutes of Nourishment, requiring Cooked Clam Meat, Onion, Potato, and Milk. Both are served in Bowls.
Cooking Pot Recipes
The Nourishment effect from Farmer's Delight stops your hunger bar from draining. A single Surf and Turf or Clam Bake can keep you fed through an entire mining session or boss fight. Prioritize these meals over simple cooked fish whenever possible.
Tropical Fish Processing
Crabber's Delight makes vanilla Tropical Fish actually useful as food. Raw Tropical Fish can be cooked in a Furnace, Smoker, or Campfire for Cooked Tropical Fish (3 hunger, 0.8 saturation). Both raw and cooked Tropical Fish can be sliced on a Cutting Board with a Knife to yield 2 Tropical Fish Slices plus a Bone Meal. Cooked Tropical Fish Slices restore 3 hunger and 0.5 saturation each, meaning slicing a single Cooked Tropical Fish gives you 6 total hunger worth of food instead of 3.
Storage Barrels
Once you start accumulating large quantities of seafood, the mod provides compact storage in the form of Barrels. Pack 9 of any raw seafood item into a 3x3 grid on a Crafting Table to create a storage Barrel (Crab Barrel, Clam Barrel, Clawster Barrel, or Shrimp Barrel). Each Barrel can be unpacked back into 9 of the original item. These work just like vanilla Honey Blocks or Iron Blocks for compact storage. The Barrels also function as decorative blocks with the same properties as Wood (2.0 hardness, 3.0 blast resistance).
Storage Barrels
Food Stats Comparison
| Cooked Crab | Cooked Clawster | Shrimp Skewer | Crab Cakes | Bisque | Seafood Gumbo | Clam Bake | Surf and Turf | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunger | 4 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Saturation | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.75 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Effect | None | None | None | Nourishment (60s) | Nourishment (3 min) | Nourishment (5 min) | Nourishment (5 min) | Nourishment (5 min) |
| Source | Furnace/Smoker | Furnace/Smoker | Crafting Table | Crafting/Cooking | Cooking Pot | Cooking Pot | Cooking Pot | Crafting Table |
Configuration
Crabber's Delight includes a configuration option that affects vanilla Minecraft items. The mod can make Bowl food items (Mushroom Stew, Beetroot Soup, and Rabbit Stew) stackable up to 16, matching Farmer's Delight's meal stacking behavior. This is enabled by default and can be toggled off in the config file under the "stack_size" section by setting "enableStackableSoupItems" to false. You can also customize which Bowl food items are affected by editing the "soupItemList" in the config.
By default, this mod makes vanilla Mushroom Stew, Beetroot Soup, and Rabbit Stew stack to 16. If this causes issues with other mods or you prefer the vanilla behavior, you can disable it in the config file.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need Farmer's Delight installed?
Yes, Crabber's Delight is an addon for Farmer's Delight and requires it to function. You'll need Farmer's Delight's Cooking Pot, Cutting Board, and Knife to access most of the mod's recipes.
How do I get a Crab Trap?
The Crab Trap is a block from Farmer's Delight. Craft it using that mod's recipe and place it in Water with a 3x3 Water area around it. Add Bait or Buckets of Chum to improve catch quality.
Why isn't my Crab Trap catching anything?
Make sure the trap has a 3x3 area of Water blocks around it (this can be disabled in the config). Waterlogged blocks count toward this requirement. Also, the trap gathers items slowly by default. Place it in a Water biome (ocean, river) for 2x speed, and add Bait for better quality catches.
What is the best food in Crabber's Delight?
Surf and Turf is the most filling at 14 hunger with 5 minutes of Nourishment. Clam Bake is close at 13 hunger with the highest saturation modifier (0.9). Both are excellent endgame foods. For ease of crafting, Surf and Turf wins since it only needs a Crafting Table, while Clam Bake requires a Cooking Pot and three different types of cooked seafood.
How do I get Pearls?
Pearls have a 10% chance to drop when you cut a Clam on a Cutting Board using a Knife. There's no other way to obtain them, so keep opening Clams and you'll accumulate Pearls over time.
Does this mod work with other Farmer's Delight addons?
Yes, Crabber's Delight is designed to work alongside Farmer's Delight and other addons. The mod uses Farmer's Delight's tag system for cooked fish, meaning its items integrate naturally with other addons that reference the same tags.