Farmer's Delight guide for FTB StoneBlock 4 1.1.1 to 1.11.1

Same as in the FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 guide

Farmer's Delight is a cozy expansion to farming and cooking. It uses a simple cooking system and familiar ingredients to let you prepare a wide variety of hearty meals, from sandwiches and salads to stews and desserts.^[1]

The pack includes version 1.3.4 of the mod, so everything in this guide is based on that build.^[2]

What you get

• Meals: a cooking system for hearty dishes, so no ingredient goes to waste in your kitchen.^[1]
• Soil improvement: a way to improve the very soil your crops grow in.^[1]
• Tools and weapons: new gear for hunting and gathering.^[1]
• Decorations: cute pieces for your builds, plus many other blocks and items to help along the way.^[1]

Who it is for

It is for you if you want food and farming to be more than a stack of bread. It suits players who enjoy a relaxed kitchen and farm alongside the bigger machines of a modpack.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack

The mod shows up right at the start of the questbook. The getting_started chapter has a quest, a quest in "?", that asks for a campfire and Straw. It comes after another quest in that chapter. That placement suggests you meet the mod early, though the sources don't say how much the rest of the pack's progression relies on it.^[3]

Farmer's Delight is a mod about farming and cooking, and in this pack your first step into it is Straw. The quest a quest in "?" in the getting started chapter asks you to bring a Campfire and Straw. Here is the order I'd go in, and why.^[1][4]

Make a knife

The knife is the tool that opens up the mod. It is a lightweight melee weapon with fast swings and gentle damage, and it can harvest Straw from grasses. The mod even has an advancement for crafting one. The Flint Knife is the one to craft first.^[5][6]

Flint KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Flint

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:flint_knife

Later you can move up to the Iron Knife. The Golden Knife and the Diamond Knife are changed by the pack, so the pack's versions are shown below.^[5]

Golden KnifeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold ingot

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:golden_knife

This is the pack's changed recipe for the Golden Knife.

Diamond KnifeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any diamond gem

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:diamond_knife

This is the pack's changed recipe for the Diamond Knife.

Get your first Straw

Straw is a dry plant fiber used in crafting. You get it by cutting grassy crops and plants with a knife, and the mod's advancement for it mentions grass, wheat or rice.^[6]

The pack gives you another route too: a Crook can turn Dry Leaves into Straw, and that recipe was added by the pack.^[5]

StrawAdded by the pack

Crook (ftbstuff)

• Dry Leaves

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/crook/dry_leaves

If you already have a Straw Bale, you can break it back down into Straw.^[5]

9× StrawMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Straw Bale

Recipe id: farmersdelight:straw

Craft a Cutting Board

The Cutting Board lets you break an item down by using it with a tool in hand. It also gives you another source of Straw: cutting a bamboo block gives Straw and a stripped bamboo block. The pack also has a Create cutting recipe that gives the same result.^[5][6]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stick	any plank	any plank
Stick	any plank	any plank

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cutting_board

Straw, Stripped Bamboo BlockMod recipe

Cutting (farmersdelight)

• Bamboo Block

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cutting/bamboo_block

Campfire and Cooking Pot

The Campfire is the other item the quest asks for, and the mod has an advancement for placing one down to cook some food. The Cooking Pot is the next step, and its advancement is about putting one down and starting to prepare meals.^[4][6]

Cooking PotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Brick	Wooden Shovel	Brick
any iron ingot	any water bucket	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cooking_pot

Turn Straw into Canvas

Once you have some Straw, you can craft Canvas. It is used for the farmersdelight:basket and for canvas signs.^[5]

CanvasMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Straw

Recipe id: farmersdelight:canvas

Start looking for crops

Wild crops are found by biome. Rice grows in the ponds of wet lands such as swamps and jungles. Cutting Wild Rice with a knife gives you both Rice Crops and Straw, and so does a Rice Panicle.^[5][6]

Rice Crops, StrawMod recipe

Cutting (farmersdelight)

• Wild Rice
• any knife tool

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cutting/wild_rice

Farmer's Delight is a cozy kitchen-and-farm mod, and the sources for this pack don't describe any power, fluid or multiblock systems for it. What they do cover is a handful of hands-on stations (the cooking pot, the cutting board, the skillet), a soil upgrade chain, and some handy automation toggles. Here's how those work in this pack.^[1][6][7]

Cooking Pot

The Cooking Pot is where you prepare hearty meals. Placing one down is the first step into the mod's meal system, and its tooltip shows how many servings a stored meal holds. This pack leaves the in-GUI recipe book switched on, via recipe_book.enableRecipeBookCookingPot, so you can browse recipes right from the pot's interface.^[6][7]

Cooking PotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Brick	Wooden Shovel	Brick
any iron ingot	any water bucket	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cooking_pot

Cutting Board and Knife

Hold a tool and use a Cutting Board to break an item down. In this pack a Dispenser can operate a board in front of it, because overrides.dispenserUsesToolsOnCuttingBoard is on.^[6][7]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stick	any plank	any plank
Stick	any plank	any plank

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cutting_board

Each level of Fortune adds a bonus to Cutting Board chances. The pack sets settings.cuttingBoardFortuneBonus to 0.1, the same as the mod default.^[7]

The Knife is a lightweight melee weapon with fast swings and gentle damage. Knives can harvest Straw from grasses, and guarantee secondary drops from animals. You can also get Ham from Pigs or Hoglins with one.^[6]

Straw is a dry plant fiber you get by cutting grassy crops and plants with a Knife. It's what Canvas is crafted from, and canvas is used for things like the farmersdelight:basket and canvas signs.^[5][6]

CanvasMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Straw

Recipe id: farmersdelight:canvas

Skillet and Campfire Cooking

The Skillet lets you cook on the go: stand near heat, then hold the food in your other hand. Sneak to place it down as a block. You can also place a Campfire to cook some food.^[6]

Soil, Compost and Growth

Organic Compost slowly decays into Rich Soil, an upgrade for your farms. It decomposes faster with adjacent water and with adjacent activators, and the in-game description mentions sun, water and mushrooms as helpful.^[6]

Rich Soil boosts plant growth on a random-tick chance. In this pack, settings.richSoilBoostChance is 0.2, which matches the mod default. Mushroom Colonies need very rich soil to grow, and you shear a fully mature one to harvest it.^[6][7]

Tomato Vines and Rope

Hang rope above a tomato crop and the plant grows taller. Mining a vine by hand leaves behind the rope set in farming.defaultTomatoVineRope, which is the mod's own rope in this pack.^[6][7]

With farming.enableTomatoVineClimbingTaggedRopes on, vines can climb any rope with the farmersdelight:ropes tag. The config warns that this converts those blocks into the default rope block. Rope reeling is also enabled through settings.enableRopeReeling, so sneak-using with an empty hand reels rope back from bottom to top.^[7]

Crates

The mod adds 3x3 crates for crops, and the pack keeps vanilla-crop crates craftable through settings.enableVanillaCropCrates. The Beetroot Crate and Carrot Crate are changed by the pack, while the Cabbage Crate is the mod's own. The exact versions are shown below.^[5][7]

Beetroot CrateChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Beetroot

Recipe id: farmersdelight:beetroot_crate

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Carrot CrateChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Carrot

Recipe id: farmersdelight:carrot_crate

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Cabbage CrateMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Cabbage

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cabbage_crate

Meals, Effects and Vanilla Soups

Warm bowl meals grant Comfort, which provides natural regeneration no matter how hungry you are. Plated meals grant Nourishment, which prevents hunger loss except when saturation is used to heal damage.^[6]

The pack enables the Comfort health bar sheen, the Nourishment hunger bar overlay and the effect tooltips on meals and drinks. These are the client options: client.comfortHealthOverlay, client.nourishmentHungerOverlay and client.foodEffectTooltip.^[8]

Vanilla soups are touched too. overrides.stack_size.enableStackableSoupItems is on, so mushroom stew, beetroot soup and rabbit stew stack to 16. overrides.vanillaSoupExtraEffects gives them extra effects like this mod's meals, and overrides.rabbitStewBuff improves Rabbit Stew's food stats.^[7]

Dough

Wheat becomes Dough when you craft it with a Water Bucket, and the bucket's water isn't used up.^[6]

Here's a natural order for Farmer's Delight in this pack, based on its quest and recipes: get straw, make a knife, set up your workstations, then branch into canvas, crates and food.^[4][5]

Straw and the early quest

The pack's getting_started chapter has one Farmer's Delight quest, a quest in "?". Its tasks are a Campfire and Straw, and it unlocks after another quest in the same chapter. So straw is the first thing the pack asks of this mod.^[4]

There are several ways to get straw in this pack:^[5]

• Cut Rice Panicle or Wild Rice with any knife to get Rice Crops and straw.^[5]
• Process a Rice Panicle in the Immersive Engineering crusher for the same results. The pack changed this recipe.^[5]
• Cut a Bamboo Block to get straw plus a Stripped Bamboo Block. The mod has a cutting recipe for this, and the pack also adds a matching Create cutting recipe.^[5]
• Break a Straw Bale back down into straw.^[5]
• Use a crook on Dry Leaves. This recipe is added by the pack.^[5]

Knives

The rice cutting recipes accept any knife. The Flint Knife and Iron Knife use the mod's own recipes. The Golden Knife and Diamond Knife recipes have been changed by the pack, so check the recipes below rather than relying on what you remember from other packs.^[5]

Flint KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Flint

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:flint_knife

Iron KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:iron_knife

Golden KnifeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold ingot

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:golden_knife

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

Diamond KnifeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any diamond gem

Stick

Recipe id: farmersdelight:diamond_knife

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

Workstations

Next come the Cutting Board and the Cooking Pot. Both use the mod's own recipes.^[5]

Cutting BoardMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stick	any plank	any plank
Stick	any plank	any plank

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cutting_board

Cooking PotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Brick	Wooden Shovel	Brick
any iron ingot	any water bucket	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: farmersdelight:cooking_pot

Canvas and building items

Straw also feeds into Canvas, and canvas leads to the farmersdelight:basket, the Canvas Rug and the canvas signs.^[5]

CanvasMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Straw

Recipe id: farmersdelight:canvas

BasketMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Bamboo	Empty slot	Bamboo
Canvas	Empty slot	Canvas
Bamboo	Canvas	Bamboo

Recipe id: farmersdelight:basket

Crates and food

Once your farms are running, crates are a handy way to pack up produce. The pack changed the recipes for the Carrot Crate and the Beetroot Crate.^[5]

Meals follow from there. The Egg Sandwich is a simple one, while the Hamburger uses a Beef Patty. Both in-pack recipes are shown below.^[5]

Egg SandwichMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any bread food
• any cooked egg food
• any cooked egg food

Recipe id: farmersdelight:egg_sandwich

HamburgerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any bread food
• Beef Patty
• any leafy green food
• any tomato crop
• any onion crop

Recipe id: farmersdelight:hamburger

Same as in the FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 guide

Farmer's Delight is wired into a handful of other mods in this pack. Most of the links come from recipes the pack added or changed, so you'll spot them in your recipe viewer. Here's what connects where.^[9]

Tree Bark from Create cutting

The pack adds Create cutting recipes that turn logs and wood blocks from other mods into their stripped versions. Each one also gives you Tree Bark. This covers Ars Nouveau and Ars Elemental archwood, Chipped reinforced logs, Malum runewood and soulwood, Occultism otherworld wood, and many Twilight Forest woods. Here is one example.^[9]

Stripped Runewood Log, Tree BarkAdded by the pack

Cutting (create)

• Runewood Log

Recipe id: create:cutting/runtime_generated/compat/malum/runewood_log_to_stripped_runewood_log

Create and Create Crafts & Additions

Pie Crust can be made in a Create mixer, using Wheat Flour. The pack changed this recipe.^[9]

Pie CrustChanged by the pack

Mixing (create)

• 3× Wheat Flour
• 250× any milk

Recipe id: farmersdelight:integration/create/mixing/pie_crust_from_mixing

The pack also changed the Create Crafts & Additions compacting recipe for Cake Base. It uses Wheat Dough from Farmer's Delight.^[9]

Cake BaseChanged by the pack

Compacting (create)

• Wheat Dough
• 2× Sugar
• any egg

Recipe id: createaddition:compacting/cake_base

Immersive Engineering

Immersive Engineering's Plant Oil shows up in two squeezer recipes that the pack changed, one for Cabbage Seeds and one for Tomato Seeds. The recipe dump shows no listed item output for them. The exact recipes are below.^[9]

Cloche growing

The pack adds Immersive Engineering cloche recipes that use Rich Soil as the soil for crops from other mods. That includes Ars Nouveau pods, Magebloom, Occultism's Demon's Dream, Supplementaries' Flax, Actually Additions' Canola Plant and Coffee Beans, Industrial Hemp fiber, and all nine tiers of Chicken Roost's chicken seed.^[9]

Farmer's Delight crops get cloche recipes too, on Just Dire Things soils, from Primogel Soil up to Shadowpulse Soil. Cabbage and Onion are covered across that range, while Rice Crops stops at the third tier. One example is shown below.^[9]

CabbageAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Cabbage Seeds
• Primogel Soil

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/cabbage_from_goosoil_tier1

Demon's DreamAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Rich Soil
• Demon's Dream Seeds

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/datura_from_rich_soil

One of the Rich Soil cloche recipes added by the pack.

Applied Energistics and Applied Delight

Applied Delight adds the ME Cooking Pot, a version of the Cooking Pot that brings in AE2 gear such as the Dense Energy Cell, the ME Terminal and the Wireless Receiver. The exact recipe is shown below.^[9]

Quest link

In the getting started chapter, quest a quest in "?" asks you to bring a campfire and Straw.^[3]

Same as in the FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 guide

In this pack, the Farmer's Delight quest the sources show sits in the getting_started chapter.^[3]

• a quest in "?" has no title in the pack files. Its tasks are a campfire and Straw.^[3]
• It comes after a quest in "?" in the same chapter, so finish that one first.^[3]

Straw is the only Farmer's Delight item in this quest's task list, so the Farmer's Delight part of it is simply getting your hands on straw.^[3]

Farmer's Delight has a lot of config options, but only a handful really change how your game feels. For every number the pack's config file lists a mod default for, the pack's value is identical to that default, so the pack hasn't changed any of those. The file doesn't list defaults for the on/off options, so I can't tell you which of those the pack flipped.^[7]

Food and cooking

• overrides.stack_size.enableStackableSoupItems is currently on. Bowl foods in overrides.stack_size.soupItemList stack to 16, and the pack's list is currently Mushroom Stew, Beetroot Soup and Rabbit Stew.^[7]
• overrides.vanillaSoupExtraEffects is currently on, so vanilla soups and stews grant extra effects like this mod's meals do. overrides.rabbitStewBuff is also currently on, which gives Rabbit Stew improved food stats.^[7]
• recipe_book.enableRecipeBookCookingPot is currently on, so the Cooking Pot interface has a Recipe Book.^[7]
• settings.cuttingBoardFortuneBonus is currently 0.1 per level of Fortune on Cutting Board chances. Setting it to 0.0 disables the bonus. This is the mod default.^[7]
• overrides.dispenserUsesToolsOnCuttingBoard is on, so a Dispenser can operate a Cutting Board in front of it.^[7]

Farming

• settings.richSoilBoostChance is 0.2, which is how often Rich Soil boosts a plant's growth on each random tick. This is the mod default.^[7]
• settings.enableRopeReeling is on, so you can reel rope back up from bottom to top by sneak-using on it with an empty hand.^[7]
• farming.defaultTomatoVineRope is currently set to Rope. That is the rope Tomato Vines leave behind when you mine them by hand.^[7]
• settings.enableVanillaCropCrates is currently on, so the 3x3 crates for vanilla crops are craftable.^[7]

Villagers and loot

• world.generateFDChestLoot is currently false in this pack, so the mod doesn't add its ropes, seeds, knives, meals and so on to chest loot across Minecraft. The file doesn't say whether that differs from the mod default.^[7]
• settings.farmersBuyFDCrops is on, so Novice and Apprentice Farmers buy this mod's crops. The file warns this may reduce the chance of other trades appearing.^[7]
• settings.wanderingTraderSellsFDItems is on, so the Wandering Trader sells some of this mod's items (currently crop seeds and onions).^[7]
• world.genFDCropsOnVillageFarms and world.genVillageCompostHeaps are both on, so you may find this mod's crops in village farms and Compost Heaps in village biomes.^[7]

Wild crop generation

For the wild crop chances, a smaller value means more frequent clusters. Currently, every one of these matches the mod default.^[7]

• world.wild_rice.chance is currently 20, the most frequent of the wild crops.^[7]
• world.wild_beetroots.chance and world.wild_cabbages.chance are both currently 30.^[7]
• world.wild_potatoes.chance and world.wild_tomatoes.chance are both currently 100.^[7]
• world.wild_carrots.chance and world.wild_onions.chance are both currently 120, the rarest of the wild crops.^[7]
• Brown and red mushroom colonies on mushroom fields are currently enabled through world.brown_mushroom_colonies.genBrownMushroomColony and world.red_mushroom_colonies.genRedMushroomColony, with world.brown_mushroom_colonies.chance and world.red_mushroom_colonies.chance both at 15.^[7]

Client display options

Every client option is on. client.foodEffectTooltip shows which effects meal and drink tooltips provide. client.comfortHealthOverlay gives the health bar a silver sheen with the Comfort effect. client.nourishmentHungerOverlay gives the hunger bar a gilded overlay with the Nourishment effect.^[8]

One more setting is settings.canvasSignDarkBackgroundList. In this pack it currently lists gray, purple, blue, brown, green, red and black, so Canvas Signs on those dye backgrounds default to white text when placed.^[7]

FTB StoneBlock 4 1.11.1 ships Farmer's Delight 1.2.11a (the 1.21.1 build), and it has been in the pack since 1.0.0 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from the last few releases of the mod itself, newest first. Entries marked 1.21+ in the changelogs apply to this pack, since it runs the 1.21.1 build.^{[10][11][12][13]}

1.2.11a

• Fixed block entities not clearing properly on contraption mods.^[14]

1.2.11

• The feasts tag is now added to the c:edible_when_placed tag, and ropes are now tagged under the c:ropes block and item tags (both 1.21+).^[10]
• Fixed a potential load error where tomatoes were not present when joining a server.^[10]
• Canvas Rug and Tatami Mats now have their own stepping sounds.^[10]
• Statistics are now properly awarded for using tools on the Cutting Board, using Knives to cut cakes and pies, and using containers to take servings from feasts.^[10]
• Fixed Mushroom Colonies floating without support when under a light level of 13 (1.21+).^[10]
• Fixed outdated fluid syntax in the Create integration (1.21+).^[10]
• Added the fr_ca translation.^[10]

1.2.10

• The JEI widget for the Cooking Pot now has its own image file, so it can be edited with custom widgets.^[11]
• Villagers can now consume Farmer's Delight crops to become willing to breed.^[11]
• New snacks and sweets tags were added, and all the mod's foods were properly tagged inside c:foods and relevant sub-tags (1.21+).^[11]
• The c:foods/milk tag is being phased out in favor of the official c:drinks/milk tag. All the mod's recipes now use c:drinks/milk, and the old tag stays for backwards compatibility until the next minor release (1.21+).^[11]
• Fixed the foodEffectTooltip config not affecting the tooltip of vanilla foods that have Farmer's Delight effect overrides.^[11]
• Fixed the Cutting Board playing sounds at the zero corner instead of at its center.^[11]
• Fixed non-contained meals, such as Dumplings, being deleted if they were sitting on the meal slot while you used the same meal on the pot to serve it.^[11]
• Fixed the Chocolate Pie spouting recipe in the Create integration to use the correct fluid tag (1.21+).^[11]

1.2.9

• Rich Soil Farmland can now be hydrated by any fluid type capable of hydration.^[12]
• Wild Cabbage and Sea Beet can now generate on any biome tagged with minecraft:is_beach.^[12]
• The offhand_equipment tag now includes forge:tools/shields by default.^[12]
• The Cooking Pot no longer crashes when opened in spectator mode. This is a temporary fix: access is now disabled.^[12]
• Fixed the Cooking Pot allowing players to cook and store up to 99 servings (1.21+).^[12]
• Fixed the Create integration's milling recipes never finishing processing (1.21+).^[12]
• Fixed Rabbit Stew not returning bowls after being eaten (1.21+).^[12]
• Fixed a potential datapack error with cooking recipes in KubeJS (1.21+).^[12]