How do I install Vanilla Food Expanded?

Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. Download the .jar. Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile. Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

What Minecraft version does Vanilla Food Expanded work with?

The listing gives Minecraft 26.2. This is the version stated by the author or source site, not something we verified ourselves.

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Vanilla Food Expanded

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Vanilla Food Expanded

Adds a variety vanilla style food to your game! Resource pack included!

HOW TO INSTALL AS A DATAPACK

Just put the zipped file into your worlds datapacks folder AND your resource pack folder. If it says it is outdated, ignore the message. As long as you are on the version you put in when downloading it will work. The datapack will show up as incompatible but it will work anyway.

All the foods in this datapack

Muffins Muffins are a good alternative to bread. If you can get a sugercane farm going they are really cheap to make and provide similar outcomes to bread. Wait, are you eating the paper?

Craft a Berry Muffin with sweet berries, wheat, and paper. Cheap to get!

Craft a Chocolate Muffin with cocoa beans, wheat, and paper. A better version of the berry muffin!

Craft a Glowberry Muffin with glow berries, wheat, and paper. A slightly better version of the berry muffin!

Fried Eggs Eggs are a really good food to use instead of cooked meat. They give less nutrition but more saturation than cooked meats. They can be cooked on a campfire, in a furnace, or a smoker.

Cook chicken eggs in a furnace to get a Fried Egg A powerful early game food

Cook turtle eggs in a furnace to get a Fried Turtle Egg Why are you cooking turtle eggs

Cook dragon eggs in a furnace to get a Fried Dragon Egg The rarest food

FAQ

Does this work on a server? Yes. Go into your servers folders and go to world -> datapacks and put the datapack there. This datapack works multiplayer so play with however many people you would like! Every player needs the resource pack or mod to see the items correctly.

Incompatibles

Some resource packs might override the new food textures, to make sure this does not happen have the food galore resource pack at the top.
JEI does not seem to show you the recipes, just use this page to see the recipes for each item.

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Milestones

100 downloads - Dec. 21st | 2025
300 downloads - Jan. 4th | 2026
1k downloads - Feb. 28th | 2026
3k downloads - ???

Quick facts

Edition: Minecraft Java
File type: .jar
Minecraft version listed: 26.2
How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.

Verified by MCModsHub

Downloads as VE-Food-2.8.zip
Download size: 24 KB
Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working

These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.

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