Thirteen foods and a stone oven, built mainly to test an AI texture pipeline
Snackworks adds thirteen foods (soup, cheese, a meat pie, a chocolate croissant) and one block, the Stone Oven, which turns dough into bread and corn into roasted corn. That is the whole mod, and it is honest about why it exists: the author was building a pipeline that generates Minecraft textures with AI, and needed a real mod with a lot of items to test it on. Snackworks is that test. If you want a small, plain food mod with no surprises in it, this is one.
It feels like a food mod, which is the point. You craft a soup, you eat the soup, you get your bowl back. The Stone Oven is the only thing with any drama to it: you right-click it with dough, the front face lights up and sizzles like a campfire, and four seconds later a bread roll hops out onto the ground in front of it. There is no fuel to manage and no interface to open. You feed the wall, the wall glows, the wall gives you bread.
Nothing special happens. Everyone on the server needs the mod installed to see the food.
New to this mod? Do these in order and you will have seen the point of it.
Every food is a plain vanilla-style edible with a nutrition value and a saturation modifier, and nothing else. No potion effects, no buffs, no hunger mechanics layered on top. They range from Raw Dough at one half-drumstick up to the Meat Pie at eight, and they all live in their own creative tab.
Right-click the oven with something it can cook and it consumes one, switches its front face to the lit texture, gives off light level 7 and plays a sizzle. Eighty ticks (four seconds) later it throws the cooked result out of its front as a dropped item with a small hop, and goes dark again. Right-clicking it while it is already cooking does nothing. It has no fuel slot and no inventory screen.
The oven knows exactly two conversions: Raw Dough becomes a Fresh Bread Roll, and a Corn Cob becomes Roasted Corn. Handing it anything else does nothing at all.
Tomato Soup stacks to one and hands you an empty bowl when you finish it. Berry Juice uses the drinking animation instead of the eating one and leaves you a glass bottle. Both use the 1.21 mechanic that swaps the item for another once it is used up, so nothing is silently deleted.
Tomato Soup is two tomatoes and a bowl. Berry Juice is sweet berries, glow berries and a glass bottle. Raw Dough is two wheat and a water bucket. The Stone Oven is stone bricks ringed around a furnace. Everything else in the mod is obtained from the oven or the creative tab.
The candy is built with the fast-eat flag, so it goes down at dried-kelp speed rather than normal food speed. It restores only one drumstick, so it is a small mid-fight top-up rather than a meal.
The best food in the mod: 8 nutrition, 0.8 saturation. Also the icon of the creative tab.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
A shiny apple under a coat of honey. 6 nutrition, 0.8 saturation.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
Charred golden kernels on a stick. 6 nutrition, up from the raw cob's 3.
Where: Put a Corn Cob into a Stone Oven.
Raw corn with the husk peeled halfway back. Edible at 3 nutrition, but worth roasting first.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
Bowl food: stacks to one, 6 nutrition, and returns the empty bowl when you finish it.
Where: Crafted from two Tomatoes and a bowl.
The only drink in the mod: it uses the drinking animation and leaves a glass bottle behind. 4 nutrition.
Where: Crafted from sweet berries, glow berries and a glass bottle.
A snack at 2 nutrition, mostly useful as soup ingredient.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
A triangular wedge with holes in it. 4 nutrition.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
In its paper wrapper, studded with dark berries. 5 nutrition.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
Flaky pastry under chocolate stripes. 5 nutrition.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
The fast-eat item: swallowed at dried-kelp speed for a single drumstick.
Where: Creative tab only for now.
The oven's headline output. 5 nutrition, 0.6 saturation.
Where: Put Raw Dough into a Stone Oven and wait four seconds.
Bread's before picture. Technically edible for one half-drumstick and almost no saturation.
Where: Crafted from two wheat and a water bucket; the bucket is returned.
A stone-brick oven with an arched opening. Faces the direction you place it and drops itself when mined with a pickaxe.
Where: Crafted from stone bricks ringed around a furnace.
The lit state. Emits light level 7 and holds this face for the four seconds a cook cycle takes.
Where: Right-click a Stone Oven with Raw Dough or a Corn Cob.
Every texture this mod ships, at its real in-game size, scaled up so you can see each pixel. Most are 16×16, the same size as a vanilla dirt block.
Flavour, not rules. None of this changes how the mod behaves.
There is no story here and the mod does not pretend otherwise. It is a kitchen shelf: soup, cheese, a pie, a croissant, and a wall you can put dough into. What flavour it has comes entirely from the sprites, which is fitting, because the sprites are the reason the mod exists at all.
It is a real, working mod, but it was built as a test bed for an AI texture pipeline rather than as a design anybody agonised over. Thirteen foods, one oven, no ambitions.
No. Every one of them is plain nutrition and saturation. The only behavioural quirks are the fast-eating candy, the soup that returns a bowl and the juice that returns a bottle.
No. It has no fuel slot, no inventory and no screen. Right-click it with dough or corn and it cooks.
Not yet. There are no crops. Outside the creative tab, only the crafted and oven-cooked items have a source.
Forge for Minecraft 1.21.1 only. There is no NeoForge or Fabric build.
Status: The jar compiles and the author has tested it himself, but it has not had a real playtest yet.
.jar file into your mods folder.This wiki documents the mods; it does
not host them. Builds live in the project's own repository under
mc-snackworks/build/libs/.
By Bora. Every texture generated through the Flow AI pipeline this mod was built to test.