Pam's HarvestCraft - Food Core guide for All the Mods 10 4.8 to 4.10

Pam's HarvestCraft - Food Core is part of the pack, and this pack ships version 1.0.4 of it. That is the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since version 2.2 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the mod list.^[1]

What the sources can tell you

The only thing I can confirm about this mod is its presence and version in the pack. I have no mod description, in-game guidebook, or platform page to draw on, so I won't guess at its features, items, or who it suits best.^[1]

Unverified What Food Core adds to the game and how it fits into the pack's progression is not confirmed by the available sources. No quests in this pack involve the mod, and it is not on the ATM Star path, but neither point could be backed by a pack source.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Food Core is the kitchen side of Pam's HarvestCraft: the cooked dishes and the basic ingredients they are built from. Almost every recipe here is a shapeless crafting recipe, and most of them also ask for a kitchen tool from a tool tag, such as a pot, saucepan, mixing bowl, cutting board, skillet, bakeware or juicer. So before you start, look at each recipe to see which tool type it wants.^[2]

First: Butter and cheese

Start with the basics, because other dishes are built on top of them. Butter is one of the simplest recipes in the mod, and it is used by the buttered baked potato later on.^[2]

ButterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any milk

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:butteritem

This is a plain mod recipe that uses a pot-type tool.

Next is Cheese. The pack changed this recipe, so go by the one shown here and not by the standalone mod.^[2]

CheeseMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any milk
• any salt

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:cheeseitem

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

Next: Batter and cooking oil

Batter is the base for muffins, cakes, cheese cake and donuts, so make it early.^[2]

2× BatterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

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

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:batteritem_x2

Batter goes into the apple, caramel, carrot and chocolate muffins, and into several cakes and donuts.

Donuts also need Cooking Oil. This recipe is registered under the crops half of Pam's, and the pack changed it. It is crafted with a roller-type tool.^[2]

4× Cooking OilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

The pack changed this recipe, and it needs a tool from the roller tag.

Then: Sweet building blocks

Caramel is used in caramel apples, donuts, muffins, pies, yogurt and ice cream. Chocolate Bar is used in chocolate cake, chocolate bacon and chocolate caramel fudge. Both use a saucepan-type tool.^[2]

CaramelMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool saucepan
• any sugar
• any milk

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:caramelitem

Caramel is an ingredient in several of the sweet dishes above.

Chocolate BarMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool saucepan
• any cocoabean crops

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:chocolatebaritem

Chocolate bars are needed for the chocolate cake and the fudge.

Finally: Your first real meals

With those ready, try something simple. Boiled Egg needs only a pot-type tool and an egg-tagged item. Basic Hamburger and the other basic sandwiches, like the chicken or fish versions, all follow the same pattern and use a skillet-type tool.^[2]

Boiled EggMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any egg

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:boiledeggitem

A quick first dish that needs a pot-type tool.

Here's the thing to know up front: every Food Core recipe the sources show is a shapeless crafting recipe. You work in the crafting grid, and the sources show no machines, multiblocks, power or fluid handling for this mod. The core mechanic is choosing which ingredients and kitchen tools go into the grid.^[3]

Kitchen tools are part of the recipe

Almost every dish needs a tool-tag slot alongside the food. The sources show tags for a pot, saucepan, cutting board, juicer, bakeware, mixing bowl and skillet. The cooking oil recipe further down uses a roller tool. Any item in the matching tag can fill that slot, so you aren't locked to one specific item.^[3]

The food slots work the same way. Recipes ask for tags like eggs, milk, bread, cheese, condiments or vegetables, and any item in that tag is accepted. That's why one recipe such as Basic Hamburger can take different breads and condiments. The basic burger and sandwich recipes all share the skillet slot.^[3]

Which tool does what

• Pot: used for Butter, Boiled Egg, Beef Noodle Soup and Apple Donut.^[3]
• Skillet: used for the basic burgers and sandwiches, for example Basic Cheeseburger, Basic Chicken Sandwich and Bacon and Eggs.^[3]
• Mixing bowl: used for Batter, Apple Smoothie and Apple Popsicle.^[3]
• Bakeware: used for baked goods like Apple Pie, Apple Muffin, Beef Pot Pie and Baked Vegetable Medly.^[3]
• Cutting board: used for Applesauce, Beef Jerky, Apple Yogurt and Buttered Baked Potato.^[3]
• Saucepan: used for Apple Jelly.^[3]
• Juicer: used for Apple Juice.^[3]

Building up intermediate ingredients

Many dishes use other Food Core items as ingredients, so you craft in stages. The apple line is a clear example: you juice apples, turn the juice into jelly, then turn the jelly into toast. Each step uses its own tool.^[3]

Apple JuiceMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

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

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejuiceitem

First step: juice, made with the juicer tool.

Apple JellyMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool saucepan
• any applejuice juice
• any sugar

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejellyitem

Next step: jelly, made with the saucepan tool.

Apple Jelly ToastMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• any toast
• any applejelly jelly

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applejellytoastitem

Last step: toast, made with the cutting board tool.

Batter works the same way. You make it once, then it feeds other recipes like Apple Donut and Apple Muffin.^[3]

2× BatterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

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

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:batteritem_x2

Batter is crafted with the mixing bowl tool and then used in the donut and muffin recipes.

A pack change: Cooking Oil

The pack changes how Cooking Oil is made. Its recipe is a shapeless craft that takes Canola and a roller tool. Cooking oil is then used by recipes like the apple donut.^[3]

4× Cooking OilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

This recipe is marked as changed by the pack.

Unverified The sources here show no quests that involve this mod, and it is not on the ATM Star quest path. So there is no quest-driven progression to follow. The tiers below are just a way of grouping the in-pack recipes by what each one depends on.

Good news: you don't need to unlock anything to start cooking. The recipes shown for this mod are all shapeless crafting recipes, and each one asks for a kitchen tool from a tool tag, such as a pot, saucepan, mixing bowl, cutting board, bakeware, skillet, juicer, grinder or roller. Because the recipes use tags, any item in the matching tag works.^[3]

Tier 1: base ingredients

Start by making the building blocks that other foods are built from. Butter, Cheese and Cream all use milk. Dough and Batter are the two you will reach for constantly.^[3]

2× DoughMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

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

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:doughitem_x2

2× BatterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

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

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:batteritem_x2

ButterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool pot
• any milk

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:butteritem

The sweet side starts with Cocoa Powder, Chocolate Bar and Caramel. Cooking Oil is the one to watch: the mod has its own roller recipes for it, and the pack changed the canola-to-oil recipe that comes from the crops mod.^[3]

4× Cooking OilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

This canola recipe is changed by the pack, so don't rely on the mod's default.

Tier 2: simple foods

Next come foods that need just one or two ingredients and a tool. Examples are Boiled Egg, Apple Juice, Cracker, Beef Jerky and Chocolate Milk. Juices matter later, because the jellies, smoothies and popsicles are made from them.^[3]

Tier 3: baked goods and treats

Once you have dough, batter, oil, cocoa and caramel on hand, a big family of treats opens up. Muffins use batter and bakeware, pies use dough and bakeware, and donuts use batter and cooking oil in a pot. Each family comes in several flavors, including apple, carrot, chocolate, caramel and chorus.^[3]

Apple PieMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool bakeware
• any sugar
• any apple crop
• any dough

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:applepieitem

Other options here are Carrot Cake, Cheese Cake, Chocolate Roll and Chocolate Caramel Fudge.^[3]

Tier 4: meals built from other dishes

The top tier uses finished foods as ingredients. Chicken Dinner needs two other crafted dishes, Fried Chicken and Mashed Potatoes. Apple Jelly Toast needs jelly, and Caramel Ice Cream needs caramel. Burgers and sandwiches, such as Bacon Cheeseburger, combine bread, cheese, condiments, meat and a skillet.^[3]

Chicken DinnerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool cuttingboard
• Fried Chicken
• Mashed Potatoes
• any vegetable

Recipe id: pamhc2foodcore:chickendinneritem

No quests in this pack involve this mod, so its links to other mods come entirely from recipes. The ones worth knowing about are the recipes the pack added or changed itself.^[3]

Creative Blaze Cake

The pack adds a Create mechanical crafting recipe for the Creative Blaze Cake. It combines cakes from several mods with an ATM Star. From this mod it uses Carrot Cake, Cheese Cake, Chocolate Cake and Pumpkin Cheese Cake. It also takes Chocolate Sprinkles Cake, Fruitcake, Holiday Cake, Lemon Drizzle Cake, Mochi Cake and Pineapple Upside-down Cake, plus Blaze Cake, Cake o' Enchanting, Chocolate Cake and Honey Cake.^[3]

Creative Blaze CakeAdded by the pack

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Lemon Drizzle Cake	Pumpkin Cheese Cake	Fruitcake	Chocolate Sprinkles Cake	Holiday Cake
Mochi Cake	Chocolate Cake	ATM Star	Carrot Cake	Cheese Cake
Pineapple Upside-down Cake	Cake o' Enchanting	Honey Cake	Chocolate Cake	Blaze Cake

Recipe id: allthemods:create/creative_blaze_cake

Added by the pack, crafted with Create mechanical crafting.

Mixing Bowl from modded logs

The pack adds sawmill woodcutting recipes that turn logs and wood from many other mods into a Mixing Bowl. Examples include Peach Log, Zelkova Log, Alpha Log, Echo Log, Menril Log, Undead Log and Fungyss Stem.^[3]

Mixing BowlAdded by the pack

Woodcutting (sawmill)

• Peach Log
• Peach Stripped Log
• Peach Stripped Wood
• Peach Wood

Recipe id: sawmill:pamhc2foodcore_mixingbowlitem_0

One of many pack-added sawmill recipes. Each wood type has its own.

Some woods accept the log, the stripped log, the wood and the stripped wood, such as the Peach set above. Others accept only the log and the wood, like Zelkova Log with Zelkova Wood, and Alpha Log is accepted on its own.^[3]

Milk, oil and torches

The pack changed the recipe that gives you Fresh Milk. It now comes from a single Milk.^[3]

2× Fresh MilkChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Milk

Recipe id: productivebees:pamhc2/milk_pams

Changed by the pack.

Cooking oil also links to the crops mod. The pack changed the recipe so that Canola plus any item from the roller tool tag gives you Cooking Oil.^[3]

4× Cooking OilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool roller
• Canola
• Canola

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:cookingoil_x4_canola_x2

Changed by the pack.

The pack also changed a torch recipe: Cattail and cooking oil now make a Torch.^[3]

TorchChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking Oil
• Cattail

Recipe id: pamhc2crops:torch_cattail

Changed by the pack.

Food Extended meals

Food Core items are base ingredients for many dishes from the food extended items. Fries goes into Poutine, and Fried Chicken goes into Chicken and Waffles. Basic Hamburger and Hot Dog are both used in Cookout Meal. These are the mod's own recipes, not pack changes.^[3]

PoutineMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any tool mixingbowl
• Fries
• any cheese
• Gravy

Recipe id: pamhc2foodextended:poutineitem

A mod recipe, not changed by the pack.

Many of these recipes also ask for a kitchen tool or ingredient by tag, such as a cutting board, a skillet, a soda or a cheese. Any item carrying that tag works.^[3]

The pack changelogs only record version bumps for Food Core, so this is a timeline of which jar shipped when. They don't say what changed inside each mod update. All the Mods 10 4.10 ships Food Core 1.0.4, and the mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 2.2 or earlier.^[1]

Pack release timeline

• All the Mods 10 2.33: the changelog lists an update from 1.0.0 to 1.0.0, so the version number stayed the same.^[4]
• All the Mods 10 4.0: updated from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1.^[5]
• All the Mods 10 4.1: updated from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 4.7: updated from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3.^[7]
• All the Mods 10 4.10: ships 1.0.4, as the file pamhc2foodcore-NEOFORGE-1.21.1-1.0.4.jar.^[1]

Unverified The update from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 is not in the changelogs I have, so I can't say which pack release introduced it. I also have no stored mod changelogs for any of these jars, so what each version actually changed is unconfirmed.