Homestead Hearth

New Crops

Over 45 plantable crops across multiple categories.

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New Food Items

Over 180 new craftable food and drink items.

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Grapes & Hops

19 grape varieties and 4 hop varieties can be found growing wild in specific biomes.

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Fruit & Nut Trees

17 trees that grow naturally and drop fruit from their leaves. Saplings can be planted and grown like vanilla trees.

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Enhanced Soils

Two new dirt types that boost crop yields when tilled with a hoe:

• Fertilized Dirt — Tilled version gives a ~50% chance of bonus drops per item at harvest
• Enriched Dirt — Tilled version doubles all crop drops at harvest

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Processing Machines

Six new crafting stations.

• Mill — Grinds grains into flour amongst other things
• Juicer — Presses fruits and nuts into juices and oils
• Oven / Stove — Bakes and cooks food items
• Cutting Board — Slices and preps ingredients. Requires a Knife
• Butcher Block — Processes carcasses into meat cuts. Requires a Butcher Knife
• Homestead Workbench — An alternate crafting station for Homestead-specific recipes. Requires a Hammer

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Drying Rack

A wall-mounted block that slowly dries items over 3 in-game days.

• Any grape variety → Raisin
• Raw beef, pork, chicken, mutton, rabbit, cod, or salmon → Jerky
• Rotten Flesh → Hide
• Hide → Leather

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Culture Collector

Placed near flowers, this block passively scans an 8-block radius and generates two fermentation ingredients:

• Yeast — Produced based on the total number of flowers nearby.
• Culture — Produced based on how many unique flower types are nearby.

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Liquid Barrel

Stores water or milk

• Right-click with a water bucket or milk bucket to fill it completely
• Right-click with an empty jar to draw out one jar's worth at a time, getting a Jar of Water or Jar of Milk
• Right-click with a filled jar to add one unit back in
• Crouch + right-click with an empty hand to dump it out entirely

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Animal Feeding System

Cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens now have a hunger mechanic. Animals will look for a nearby Trough (within 12 blocks) when hungry, eat from it, and become satisfied for one in-game day.

Trough holds up to 8 units of one feed type at a time. Three tiers of animal feed:

• Basic Feed — When the animal is later killed, it drops a small carcass 70% of the time, medium 30%.
• Quality Feed — Drops a medium carcass 70% of the time, large 30%.
• Premium Feed — Drops a large carcass 70% of the time, medium 30%.

Unfed animals drop only a small carcass. Baby animals are unaffected.

After eating and digesting (one day later), fed animals drop Dung

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Portable Storage Items

Three items that open an inventory when right-clicked:

• Lunchbox — General food storage
• Produce Basket — General produce/crop storage
• Seed Pouch — Seed storage

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Kitchen Counters

Decorative counter-height blocks available in all 8 vanilla wood types (Oak, Birch, Spruce, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Mangrove, Cherry). Four variants per wood type:

• Counter — Plain decorative counter surface
• Crafting Counter — Has a built-in crafting table
• Storage Counter — Has a built-in chest
• Powered Counter — Emits a redstone signal

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Plate

A flat, thin block (like a shallow dish). Right-click with any item to place it on display; right-click again to pick it up.

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Seed Packet

A one-use item that opens and gives you one random seed from the full pool of all Homestead crops and grape/hop varieties.

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Mod Compatibility

• JEI — All six custom machine recipe types (milling, juicing, baking, cutting, butchering, workbenching) are fully browseable in JEI
• Jade — Hovering over a cow, pig, sheep, or chicken shows whether it's hungry, what feed type it last consumed, and when it will produce dung.