Delightful

Overview

Delightful is an addon for Farmer's Delight that adds dozens of new foods, knives for almost every modded material imaginable, new crops like Salmonberries, a matcha tea system, an animal fat and oil mechanic, and placeable pies. Every single item in the mod can be individually toggled on or off in the config file, making it one of the most configurable food mods available.

The mod shines brightest when paired with other mods. It automatically detects installed mods and enables compatibility knives, pie overhauls, and additional recipes. Whether you're running a kitchen-focused modpack or a massive tech and magic pack, Delightful adds meaningful culinary content that integrates with what you already have. You can browse the full list of items and recipes using the tabs at the top of this page.

Prerequisites

Delightful requires Farmer's Delight to be installed. You should be familiar with Farmer's Delight basics: Knives for cutting, the Cooking Pot for meals, and the Cutting Board for processing ingredients. All of Delightful's recipes build on Farmer's Delight systems, so having a Cooking Pot set up is the first step to getting the most out of this mod.

Foods & Meals

Delightful adds a wide variety of food items ranging from simple snacks to full meals with powerful status effects. The foods follow Farmer's Delight conventions: many are made in the Cooking Pot or on the Cutting Board, and the best meals grant the Nourishment or Comfort effects.

Quick Snacks

Salmonberries restore 2 hunger and grant a brief Saturation boost. They grow on bushes in Forest biomes and can be replanted using Salmonberry Pips. The bushes grow faster in rainy or thundering weather, so setting up a farm in a rainy biome speeds things up considerably. Acorns drop from Oak Leaves and restore 2 hunger on their own, but their real value is in crafting Nut Butter. Cactus Flesh (3 hunger) can be smelted into Cactus Steak (4 hunger) for a desert survival food.

Hearty Meals

The Cheeseburger is a standout at 12 hunger and 0.8 saturation, granting 30 seconds of Strength. The Deluxe Cheeseburger pushes this to 13 hunger and 0.9 saturation, adding Nourishment for 3 minutes on top of the Strength. The Nut Butter and Jelly Sandwich restores 10 hunger with Nourishment for 3 minutes, making it one of the most efficient mid-game foods. S'more provides 9 hunger with 3 minutes of Nourishment. Sinigang and Coconut Curry are bowl foods that each restore 15 hunger with 0.9 saturation and grant Comfort for 5 minutes, making them among the best foods in the mod.

Field Salad

The Field Salad is a bowl food that restores 10 hunger with 0.55 saturation, granting both Saturation (5 seconds) and Nourishment (30 seconds). It's a solid all-around meal that uses basic ingredients from Farmer's Delight.

Special Items

Ender Nectar is a unique consumable that opens your Ender Chest inventory when drunk, without needing to place one. It restores only 4 hunger and inflicts brief Confusion, but the portable Ender Chest access makes it invaluable for inventory management on long trips. Note that using it angers nearby Piglins, just like opening a real Ender Chest. Glow Jelly Bottles restore 5 hunger and grant 45 seconds of Glowing, which has niche uses for marking yourself for teammates.

Rock Candy restores 4 hunger and gives 6 seconds of Haste. It's crafted from Rose Quartz (compatible with Create and Biomes O' Plenty) and is a fun treat that actually has utility when you need a quick mining boost.

Salmonberries & Farming

Salmonberries are Delightful's signature crop. Wild Salmonberry Bushes generate naturally in Forest biomes and can be harvested when mature (age 3+). A fully grown bush drops 2-3 berries, while a partially grown one drops just 1. After harvesting, the bush resets to age 1 and regrows.

To start your own Salmonberry farm, craft Salmonberries into Salmonberry Pips and plant them on Farmland. The bushes have 5 growth stages (0-4) and require light level 8 or higher. Growth speed depends heavily on weather conditions: in a biome where it rains, bushes grow roughly 4x faster during rain. Thunderstorms also provide a speed bonus. In dry biomes, expect slower growth. Bone Meal works to advance growth stages manually.

Salmonberries have many uses: eat them raw for 2 hunger with Saturation, craft them into Salmonberry Gummies (which grant Saturation for 20 seconds), make Salmonberry Pie (a placeable Farmer's Delight-style pie), or combine them into Salmonberry Ice Cream (if Neapolitan is installed). You can also store them in a Salmonberry Sack, a decorative storage block. Wandering Traders sometimes sell Salmonberry Pips for 1 Emerald.

Matcha & Tea System

The Matcha system is a small but rewarding crafting chain. Start by using a Knife on any Leaves block for a chance to obtain Green Tea Leaves. If you have Farmer's Respite installed, its Green Tea Leaves are fully compatible and recommended as a more reliable source.

Cook Green Tea Leaves in a Cooking Pot to produce Matcha, a concentrated tea powder. Matcha itself isn't eaten directly. Instead, it's the key ingredient in two latte recipes: the Matcha Latte (6 hunger, Vitality II and Caffeinated for 1 minute) and the Berry Matcha Latte (8 hunger, same effects). If Neapolitan is installed, you can also make Matcha Ice Cream, which grants Vitality II, Caffeinated, and a short burst of Speed III.

Animal Fat & Oil

Animal Fat drops when you kill a "fatty" animal with a Knife. The base drop chance is 60%, increased by Looting, and yields 1-3 fat per kill. The fatty animals list is extensive: Pigs, Cows, Sheep, Chickens, Rabbits, all fish types, Horses, Donkeys, Polar Bears, Foxes, Goats, Frogs, Turtles, Dolphins, Squids, and many modded animals from mods like Ecologics, Naturalist, Quark, and others.

Smelt Animal Fat in a Furnace to get Animal Oil Bottles. These have 3200 ticks (160 seconds) of burn time as fuel, which is the same as a block of Coal. The real convenience is their Sneak Right Click ability: you can instantly refuel any Furnace, Blast Furnace, or Smoker by Sneak Right Clicking it with an Animal Oil Bottle, adding the full burn time without opening the furnace GUI. Animal Fat can also be used to craft Candles.

Knives

Delightful's biggest feature is its massive library of Knives for materials from dozens of mods. All knives must be enabled in the config file at config/delightful-common.toml; the base game knives (Copper, Bone, Amethyst, Emerald, Lapis Lazuli) are disabled by default and need to be turned on manually.

Base Knives

The base knives use vanilla or common Forge-tagged materials. The Bone Knife (190 durability, 1.5 attack damage) is easy to get early. The Copper Knife (150 durability, 1.5 damage) is another early option. The Amethyst Knife sacrifices durability (44 uses) for extremely high mining speed (15.0) and is great for specific tasks. The Emerald Knife (250 durability, 3.5 damage, 24 enchantability) is a solid mid-tier choice with excellent enchantability. The Lapis Lazuli Knife has the highest enchantability of any base knife at 32, though its stats are otherwise modest.

Compat Knives

Delightful adds knives for a staggering number of modded materials. Any mod that adds metals via standard Forge tags (forge:ingots/tin, forge:ingots/steel, etc.) gets a matching knife automatically. Beyond tag-based knives, the mod includes hand-crafted compatibility knives for The Twilight Forest (Fiery, Ironwood, Knightmetal, Steeleaf), The Undergarden (Cloggrum, Froststeel, Utherium, Forgotten), Mekanism Tools (Osmium, Refined Glowstone, Refined Obsidian), Botania (Manasteel, Elementium, Terra), Create Stuff & Additions (Gilded Quartz, Experience, Blazing), and many more.

Some standout knives include the Refined Obsidian Knife with 4096 durability and 8.0 attack damage (the highest damage knife from Mekanism), the Allthemodium Knife with a massive 15000 durability and 11.0 attack damage, and the Experience Knife with an extraordinary 800 enchantability, making it a magnet for high-level enchantments.

Pie Overhauls & Placeable Blocks

Delightful lets you place vanilla Pumpkin Pie in the world as a Farmer's Delight-style pie block. Right click it to eat a slice directly, or use a Knife to cut a Slice of Pumpkin Pie. This same overhaul extends to Salmonberry Pie (the mod's own recipe) and, if the respective mods are installed, to Oh The Biomes You'll Go pies (Blueberry, Green Apple, Nightshade Berry, Crimson Berry, Gloomgourd) and Ars Nouveau's Source Berry Pie.

Sliceable Melons and Pumpkins

Delightful also overhauls vanilla Melons and Pumpkins. Right click a placed Melon or Pumpkin with a Knife to begin slicing it. Melons can be sliced up to 8 times, yielding Melon Slices, and you can also use a Glass Bottle on a sliced Melon to extract Melon Juice (requires 4 slices worth of melon). Mini Melons spawn in Plains biomes and Cantaloupes spawn on Beaches, both as smaller versions that can be sliced up to 5 times. Cantaloupe Slices restore 4 hunger with Absorption for 10 seconds.

Cabinets & Storage

Two new Cabinet variants are added: the Quartz Cabinet and the Basalt Cabinet. These function identically to Farmer's Delight cabinets but use different materials for aesthetic variety. Storage blocks include the Salmonberry Sack, Acorn Sack, and various fruit sacks and crates for compatible mods (Blueberry Sack, Crimson Berry Sack, Green Apple Crate, etc.).

World Generation

Delightful adds three naturally-generating features to the world. Wild Salmonberry Bushes spawn in Forest biomes with a configurable frequency (default: 1 in 35 chance per chunk). Mini Melons spawn in Plains biomes at the same default rate. Cantaloupes spawn on Beaches at a slightly lower frequency (default: 1 in 55 chance per chunk). All three can be disabled or have their spawn rates adjusted in the config.

Meat & Animal Products

Goats now drop Raw Chevon (2 hunger raw, 6 hunger cooked) when killed. This gives Goats an actual purpose beyond their vanilla behavior. Similarly, the mod adds Raw Venison Chops and Cooked Venison Chops for mods that tag their animals under forge:raw_venison (Naturalist is recommended). Venison Chops are a fast food item, meaning they can be eaten quickly. Marshmallow on a Stick (1 hunger raw) can be smelted into a Roasted Marshmallow on a Stick (2 hunger), which is then used to craft S'more.

Mod Compatibility

Delightful's compatibility system is one of its strongest features. The mod automatically detects installed mods and enables matching content. Here is a summary of the major integrations:

Biomes O' Plenty

Adds Chopped Clover (2 hunger, fast-eat snack) and Lavender Tea (grants Comfort for 1 minute and Caffeinated for 10 seconds).

Ecologics

Enables Coconut Curry (15 hunger, Comfort 5m, Speed 30s), Honey Glazed Walnut (6 hunger), Prickly Pear Juice (grants Absorption for 20 seconds), and Azalea Tea (grants Nourishment for 1 minute and Caffeinated for 10 seconds).

Neapolitan

Enables Salmonberry Ice Cream (6 hunger, Speed III for 5 seconds, Saturation for 1 minute) and Matcha Ice Cream (6 hunger, Speed III, Vitality II, Caffeinated). Also enables decorative Ice Cream Blocks.

Oh The Biomes You'll Go

Enables placeable pie overhauls for all BYG pies: Blueberry, Green Apple, Nightshade Berry, Crimson Berry, and Gloomgourd Pie. Also adds storage blocks like Blueberry Sacks and Green Apple Crates.

Configuration

The config file at config/delightful-common.toml gives you granular control over every feature. Items are organized into three sections: Knives, Pie Overhauls, and Registry & Recipes. Every single item can be individually toggled true or false. The Bone, Copper, Amethyst, Emerald, Lapis Lazuli Knives, Raw Goat, Cooked Goat, and Green Tea Leaf are disabled by default and must be turned on manually.

Additional config options include: nut_milk (allow cooking milk from nuts, default true), clover_honey (cook honey from honey and clovers, default true), give_sliced_directly (sliced items go to inventory instead of dropping, default false), melon_juicing (allow juicing sliced melons with Glass Bottles, default true), and use_milk_tag (replace forge:cheese with forge:milk in recipes, default false). World generation rates for Wild Salmonberries, Mini Melons, and Cantaloupes are also configurable.