Cook smarter. Grow fresh. Zero overhead.
NerdSoft Kitchen is a focused, performance-first cooking mod for NeoForge 1.21. It adds a hand-fed grill table, four new crops, a refillable Iron Cup, and a small but satisfying food chain — all built directly on vanilla's own systems, so it slots into any modpack without dragging in bloat.
🧪 Beta — core gameplay is implemented and stable. Content and balance are still being tuned, and your feedback shapes what comes next.
✨ Why NerdSoft Kitchen?
- ⚡ Genuinely lightweight. Recipes, loot tables, tags, and language files are all datagen-based — no redundant JSON sprawl, no unnecessary tick overhead. The mod does exactly what it needs to and nothing more.
- 🔥 A real grill, not a reskinned furnace. The Grill Table runs 4 dedicated grill slots on a custom cook recipe plus 4 campfire slots side by side — two cooking methods, one block. A nearby hay bale speeds things up, and the Soul variant burns even faster.
- 🍅 Actual farming, not filler crops. Strawberries, tomatoes (grown on a pole!), lettuce, and purple onion each have their own growth stages — and wild versions generate naturally, so you can start snacking (or farming) before you've built a single planter.
- 🥛 A cup that's actually reusable. Fill the Iron Cup with milk from a cow, then turn it into yogurt or strawberry yogurt. It's tracked as a proper item data component — not a pile of near-identical NBT items clogging your JEI search.
- 🔌 Seamless JEI integration. A dedicated Grill Cooking category shows every recipe and its catalyst at a glance, and the Iron Cup's fill states are recognized as distinct, searchable items automatically.
- 🔍 Interactive Jade tooltips. Hover a lit Grill Table to see exactly what's cooking inside — no need to open a GUI just to check.
- 🌍 Bilingual out of the box. Ships with full English and Spanish translations from day one.
🧱 What's Inside
| Include | Content |
|---|---|
| Blocks | Grill Table, Soul Grill Table, Strawberry / Tomato / Lettuce / Purple Onion crops (+ wild variants), Tomato trellis pole |
| Items | Iron Cup (milk / yogurt / strawberry yogurt), seeds for every crop, raw & cooked chicken pieces, fried egg, salad |
| Recipe types | Grill cooking, curdling, mixing, shapeless cup crafting |
| Compat | JEI (optional), Jade (optional) |
📦 Requirements
- Minecraft: 1.21-1.21.3
- Loader: NeoForge 21+
- Side: Client + Server (required on both for multiplayer)
- Optional: JEI, Jade
🐛 Feedback & Support
Found a bug, or have a recipe/crop idea? Open an issue on GitHub — Beta is exactly the stage where your feedback has the most impact.
NerdSoft Kitchen is source-available but not open for redistribution — see the License tab for details.
