Pam's HarvestCraft - Food Core guide for All the Mods 10 2.7 to 2.19

Pam's HarvestCraft - Food Core is part of this pack's mod list. The pack ships version 1.0.0, built for NeoForge 1.21.0. It has been in the pack since 1.4 or earlier, so it is a long-standing part of the pack rather than a recent addition.^[1]

The name suggests it is the core library for the Pam's HarvestCraft food content, but the pack files I have only confirm that the mod is installed and which version it is. I can't tell you what it adds, who it is aimed at, or how to use it.^[1]

Unverified The mod's exact features, items, recipes and configs are not confirmed by the available sources, so they are not covered here. No guidebook or platform description was available for this mod.

Unverified Where the mod fits in progression is not confirmed. It is not on the ATM Star quest path, and no quests in this pack involve it.

Pam's HarvestCraft - Food Core is the cooking half of the Pam's food setup, and in this pack every recipe in it works the same way. Each one is a shapeless crafting recipe, and almost all of them need a kitchen tool of a certain type in the grid. The tools in the recipes are pot, saucepan, cutting board, mixing bowl, bakeware, juicer, skillet and roller. So before you cook anything, work out which tool each dish wants.^[2]

Unverified The recipes shown here don't say how the kitchen tools themselves are crafted or obtained, so check them in your recipe viewer. No quests in this pack cover this mod, so nothing will guide you through it. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Step 1: a quick win with a Boiled Egg

Start with Boiled Egg. It's one of the simplest recipes in the mod: an egg plus a pot. Making it confirms your tool setup works before you move on to anything bigger.^[2]

Boiled EggMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any egg

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:boiledeggitem

Step 2: the base ingredients

Next, make the building blocks that later dishes ask for. Butter is used in Buttered Baked Potato. Cheese goes into Cheese Cake and the cheeseburgers. Caramel is used in caramel pies, donuts, muffins, ice cream and yogurt.^[2]

ButterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any milk

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:butteritem

CheeseMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any milk
• any salt

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:cheeseitem

CaramelMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool saucepan
• any sugar
• any milk

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:caramelitem

Step 3: batter

Batter is the most useful base to have in stock. Apple, carrot, caramel and chocolate muffins all need it. So do Carrot Cake, Chocolate Cake and the donuts. This recipe uses a mixing bowl.^[2]

2× BatterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool mixingbowl
• any flour
• any milk
• any egg

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:batteritem_x2

Step 4: cooking oil, then donuts

Every donut recipe needs cooking oil, and a pot to fry in. Cooking Oil comes from a recipe that belongs to the crops mod rather than this one. It uses canola and a roller. Once you have it, Caramel Donut is an easy first donut, because you already have batter and caramel.^[2]

4× Cooking OilMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

Caramel DonutMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any cookingoil
• any batter
• any caramel

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:carameldonutitem

Step 5: check the pack-changed meals

The pack has changed a number of recipes, so don't trust what you remember from other modpacks. The changed ones include Basic Hamburger, Basic Cheeseburger, Bacon Cheeseburger, Baked Vegetable Medly, Chicken Dinner, the basic sandwiches and the noodle soups. Always check the recipe shown here instead of relying on the mod's defaults.^[2]

Basic HamburgerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool skillet
• any groundbeef groundmeat
• any soysauce
• any bread

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:basichamburgeritem

Changed by the pack.

Food Core is a crafting mod, not a machine mod. In the recipes the sources show, every dish is made with ordinary shapeless crafting. The sources describe no multiblocks, power, fluid handling or machine automation for this mod, so there is nothing to build or wire up.^[2]

Kitchen tools in the crafting grid

Almost every recipe includes one kitchen tool, matched by a tag such as a pot, skillet, cutting board, bakeware, mixing bowl, juicer, saucepan or roller. The tool decides what kind of dish you are making. A boiled egg uses the pot, and jerky uses the cutting board.^[2]

Boiled EggMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any egg

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:boiledeggitem

The simplest pattern: one food ingredient plus one tool.

Beef JerkyMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• any rawbeef
• any salt

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:beefjerkyitem

Ingredients are also tags, not single items. Recipes ask for things like any batter, any sugar or any apple crop, so any item in that tag works. Check the recipe viewer to see which items count.^[2]

Unverified The sources do not say which items provide the tool tags in this pack, or whether a tool is used up when you craft. Check the recipe viewer before you craft in bulk. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Chaining intermediates

Many dishes are built from other Food Core products. Apple Juice is made from an apple crop and a juicer. That juice goes into Apple Jelly, which then goes into Apple Jelly Toast.^[2]

Apple JuiceMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool juicer
• any apple crop
• any apple crop

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejuiceitem

Apple JellyMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool saucepan
• any applejuice juice
• any sugar

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejellyitem

Apple Jelly ToastMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• any toast
• any applejelly jelly

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejellytoastitem

Batter works the same way. It is crafted from an egg, flour, milk and a mixing bowl, and then feeds recipes like Apple Donut and Apple Muffin.^[2]

2× BatterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool mixingbowl
• any flour
• any milk
• any egg

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:batteritem_x2

Apple MuffinMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool bakeware
• any apple crop
• any batter

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applemuffinitem

Cooking Oil comes from a recipe registered under the Pam's crops namespace. It takes canola and a roller tool. Several dishes then use it, such as the apple donut.^[2]

4× Cooking OilMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

Recipes the pack changed

Some recipes are marked as changed by the pack, so they may not match what you remember from the mod's defaults. The changed ones in the visible part of the recipe dump are:^[2]

• Basic Hamburger and Basic Cheeseburger^[2]
• Bacon Cheeseburger^[2]
• The basic sandwiches: Basic Chicken Sandwich, Basic Fish Sandwich, Basic Mutton Sandwich, Basic Pork Sandwich and Basic Rabbit Sandwich^[2]
• Basic Veggie Burger and Baked Vegetable Medly, which both use a cabbage crop^[2]
• Beef Noodle Soup^[2]

Basic HamburgerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool skillet
• any groundbeef groundmeat
• any soysauce
• any bread

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:basichamburgeritem

This is the pack's version of the recipe, not the mod default.

Unverified There is no config file, in-game guidebook or documentation for this mod in the sources. Anything beyond crafting, such as automation, hunger values or effects, is unconfirmed here.

Unverified The sources I was given contain no quests for this mod and no in-pack tier system, so this section follows the recipe chain instead. The stages below are my own grouping, based on which items feed into which.

Food Core has no gated tiers. Every recipe in the dump is a shapeless crafting recipe, so you progress by unlocking ingredients and kitchen tools. Most dishes need a tool item in the grid, such as a pot, saucepan, cutting board, mixing bowl, bakeware, juicer, skillet, roller or grinder. Those tools are accepted through item tags, so any matching tool works.^[2]

Stage 1: Base ingredients

Start by making the building blocks that later dishes consume: Dough, Batter, Cooking Oil, Butter, Cheese, Cream, Caramel, Cocoa Powder and Chocolate Bar. Dough and batter matter most, because pies, muffins, cakes, donuts and pot pies all lean on them.^[2]

2× DoughChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool mixingbowl
• any flour
• any freshwater water
• any salt

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:doughitem_x2

The pack changed this recipe from the mod's version.

2× BatterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool mixingbowl
• any flour
• any milk
• any egg

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:batteritem_x2

Cooking oil has several routes in this pack. One uses nuts and a roller, one uses canola and a roller, and one uses cabbage and a roller. The cabbage route is marked as changed by the pack.^[2]

2× Cooking OilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• any cabbage crop

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:cookingoilitem_x2_vegetables

Changed by the pack.

Stage 2: One-step foods

Next come dishes made straight from raw crops or meat plus a tool. Beef Jerky and Chicken Jerky use a cutting board. Boiled Egg uses a pot. Apple Juice, Carrot Juice and Chorus Juice use a juicer. Applesauce and Cracker are also single-step recipes.^[2]

Stage 3: Dishes built on your base ingredients

Once you have batter, dough, caramel, cocoa and chocolate, you can start baking and frying. Muffins such as Apple Muffin and Chocolate Muffin use bakeware and batter. Pies such as Apple Pie and Caramel Pie use bakeware and dough. Donuts such as Caramel Donut and Chocolate Donut are made in a pot with batter and cooking oil. Carrot Cake, Cheese Cake and Chocolate Cake also use batter, and Chicken Pot Pie and Beef Pot Pie use dough.^[2]

Apple, carrot and chorus fruit each have a matching set of muffin, pie, donut, yogurt, juice and jelly recipes. Chorus fruit is the odd one out here, but its recipes follow the same patterns as the others.^[2]

Stage 4: Multi-step dishes

The deepest chains need intermediate foods that you craft first. Apple Jelly Toast needs jelly and toast. The jelly needs juice, and the juice needs a crop, so that is a chain of several crafts. Crackers and Cheese needs both crackers and cheese. Chocolate Caramel Fudge needs caramel and a chocolate bar. Chicken Dinner needs fried chicken and mashed potatoes.^[2]

Apple Jelly ToastMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• any toast
• any applejelly jelly

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejellytoastitem

Chicken DinnerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• Fried Chicken
• Mashed Potatoes
• any cabbage crop

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:chickendinneritem

Changed by the pack.

What the pack changed

Several recipes here differ from the mod's own version. The sources only mark them as changed and do not show the original recipes, so I can't say exactly what differs. The changed recipes are dough, cabbage-based cooking oil, Baked Vegetable Medly, Beef Noodle Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, Chicken Dinner, Bacon Cheeseburger, and the basic burgers and sandwiches. The basic burgers and sandwiches are Basic Hamburger, Basic Cheeseburger, Basic Veggie Burger, and the chicken, fish, mutton, pork and rabbit sandwiches.^[2]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.0 guide

Food Core is mostly a pile of classic comfort dishes, but in this pack those dishes don't just sit in your hunger bar. Many of them are building blocks for fancier meals from HarvestCraft's extended food recipes, a couple of HarvestCraft crops feed into Food Core items, and there's even a crossover with bees.^[3]

Cooking Oil and crops

Cooking Oil is made from Canola, so it's worth planting some. Once you have oil, you can combine it with Cattail to craft a vanilla Torch, which is handy if you're short on coal early on.^[3]

4× Cooking OilMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking Oil
• Cattail

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:torch_cattail

Food Core dishes as ingredients

This is where Food Core really pays off. A lot of its basic dishes are ingredients in bigger extended recipes, so cooking them in bulk sets you up for the fancy stuff later.^[3]

• Fried Chicken goes into Chicken Biscuit, BBQ Chicken Biscuit, Chicken and Waffles, Springfield Cashew Chicken, Fried Feast and Weekend Picnic.^[3]
• Basic Hamburger upgrades into Coleslaw Burger, Jalapeno Burger and Onion Hamburger, and is part of the Cookout Meal.^[3]
• Hot Dog is used for Chili Dog, Slawdog and the Cookout Meal.^[3]
• Fries shows up in Poutine, Steak and Chips, Chicken Tenders Meal and Delighted Meal.^[3]
• Mashed Potatoes is used for Bangers and Mash, Mashed Potatoes Chicken Biscuit and Fried Feast.^[3]
• Grilled Cheese leads to Homestyle Lunch and Grilled Cheese Vegemite Toast.^[3]
• Potato Chips goes into Chips and Dip and Weekend Picnic.^[3]
• Sunflower Seeds is used for Sunflower Broccoli Salad and Sunflower Wheat Rolls.^[3]
• The sandwiches upgrade too: Basic Chicken Sandwich becomes Leafy Chicken Sandwich and Basic Fish Sandwich becomes Leafy Fish Sandwich.^[3]
• A few more one-offs: Epic Bacon makes the Epic BLT, Cracker makes Crackers and Cheese, Meatloaf makes the Meatloaf Sandwich and Pickled Beets goes into the Bento Box.^[3]

Here are a couple of the big combo meals, just so you can see how many Food Core dishes they pull together:^[3]

Fried FeastMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• Fried Chicken
• Coleslaw
• Mashed Potatoes
• any soda

Recipe id: pamhc2foodextended:friedfeastitem

Weekend PicnicMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• Fried Chicken
• Potato Salad
• Potato Chips
• any soda
• Spring Salad

Recipe id: pamhc2foodextended:weekendpicnicitem

Cookout MealMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• Basic Hamburger
• Hot Dog
• any soda

Recipe id: pamhc2foodextended:cookoutmealitem

Milk from bees

The pack also includes a Productive Bees recipe that turns its Milk into Food Core's Fresh Milk. That gives you another way to get milk for HarvestCraft cooking.^[3]

2× Fresh MilkMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Milk

Recipe id: productivebees:pamhc2/milk_pams