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Quality Food
This mod adds quality to food and certain food-related material (e.g. crops)
Quick answer
Which Quality Food release should I use?
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2 targets 1.20.1, 1.20 with Forge, NeoForge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.
Where it goes
Is Quality Food required on the client, server, or both?
The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.
The source does not explicitly classify this release as client-only or server-only.
What else does Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2 need?
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2. Change the file and its required mods may change too.
This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.
This file does not list any required or optional mods.
Before you install it
Add Quality Food without breaking your instance.
Built for Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.
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Stick to this file
Use Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2. It targets 1.20.1, 1.20 with Forge, NeoForge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.
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Bring the mods it needs
This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.
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Put it on the correct side
The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.
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Pick the file you checked
Use the “Get this file” button beside Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2. It opens that exact file at the source.
About this project
What does Quality Food add?
General
This mod adds quality to food and certain food-related material (e.g. crops) through NBT data (meaning no new items)
1.21 documentation is currently located here
Quality can:
- Increase nutrition and saturation
- Improve positive effects and diminish (or outright remove) negative effects gained from eating food
- Impact the result of crafted (quality applicable) items (the
minecraft:generic.luckattribute increases the chance as well)
Animals
Can be fed with quality food (that they would normally eat), improving their potential
Said potential will increase the chances for quality loot (and also the outcome of milking cows or chickens laying egggs)
Baby animals will gain (using default values) ~ 60% to 90% of the parents' potential
You can give yourself a quality item like this: /give @s farmersdelight:roast_chicken_block{quality_food:{quality:2}}
qualityis a value between0(NONE) and3(DIAMOND)- Setting
NONEdoes not make sense since it will not affect anything and just makes the item unstackable with non-quality items
You can also use the following commands
/quality_food give/quality_food apply/quality_food remove
Configuration
There is a configuration per quality - aside from some normal things you can also specify which item should gain which effects
- Example:
effect_list = ["minecraft:apple;minecraft:regeneration;0.5;120;3;0.45"]minecraft:appleis the item this effect should apply to (can also be a tag, e.g.#minecraft:cat_food)minecraft:regenerationis the effect0.5is the chance for a food item to gain this effect (1means 100%)120is the duration in ticks (20ticks means 1 second)3is the amplifier (0results in an effect level of 1 (i.e. no level shown))0.45is the probability to gain this effect when eating the item (1means 100%)
The tag of an item with effects applied to it looks like this:
{
quality_food: {
effects: [
{
"forge:id": "minecraft:regeneration",
chance: 0.45d,
Ambient: 0b,
CurativeItems: [
{
id: "minecraft:milk_bucket",
Count: 1b
}
],
ShowIcon: 1b,
ShowParticles: 1b,
Duration: 120,
Id: 10,
Amplifier: 3b
}
],
quality: 1
}
}
I don't recommend manually creating such items - the quality_food commands will apply the configured effects
There is a farmland configuration which allows you to define a bonus (can also be negative, i.e. 0.5) based on the farm block the crop is planted on
- Example:
farmland_config = ["3;#minecraft:crops;farmersdelight:rich_soil_farmland;1.25"]3is the index (configurations are tested with the lowest one first - the first matching one will be applied) (needs to be positive)#minecraft:cropsis the crop block (can be a tag or a single block)farmersdelight:rich_soil_farmlandis the farmland block (can be a tag or a single block)1.25is the multiplier to be applied (needs to be positive - values below1will reduce the chance)
Non-food items can be made applicable to quality by adding them to the quality_food:material_whitelist item tag
Only blocks within the block tag quality_food:quality_blocks will support (i.e. retain) quality
- If a block is applicable to quality the item for said block will be too
For crafting (crafting table) there are these configs:
retain_quality_recipes: The result will retain the quality of the ingredients, examples:- If all items are
diamondquality the result will bediamond - If three items are
goldquality and two arediamondthe result will begold - If two items are
ironquality and the rest have none then the result will also have none
- If all items are
no_quality_recipes: Entries will not roll for quality (useful in case items can be crated back and forth)storage_recipe_blacklist: Entries will be excluded from the automatic storage block detection
The bonus quality a quality ingredient provides is configurable for the crafting table (crafting_bonus)
Cooking quality items will store a quality bonus within the furnace / cooking pot / …
- Higher quality will store a higher bonus per cooked item
- Once enough bonus is stored particles will start to show
- A higher bonus results in more particles
- This can be disabled through the client config
- Once you take out the result the stored bonus will be used up and grant a higher chance to a quality result
For compatibility’s sake certain blocks (and their item variant) are supported in a broader way than needed
If you find some items having quality where it doesn't make much sense you can blacklist them using the item tag quality_food:blacklist
Compatibility
There are a lot of mod-specific compatibilities already added
Usually the problems are related to:
- Crafting
- Blocks (crops e.g.) drop items in a specific way
- Crops that grow in a special way (e.g., two blocks high)
These things are handled automatically
- Food items (others need to be added to the tags mentioned above)
- Most recipes for compacting (storage-blocks)
Misc

Credits for the quality icons go to https://twitter.com/concernedape
Project description from CurseForge.
Pick your setup
Quality Food by Minecraft version and loader
Choose the version and loader you play, then open the matching release.
1.21
1 loader build1.20.1
2 loader builds1.20
2 loader builds1.19.2
1 loader build1.18.2
1 loader buildCheck the dependencies, then try the file in a copied instance before changing a world you care about.
Recent files
Quality Food versions and loaders
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.2
quality_food-1.20.1-2.4.2-all.jar
11 Aug 2026
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.1
quality_food-1.20.1-2.4.1-all.jar
10 Aug 2026
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.4.0
quality_food-1.20.1-2.4.0-all.jar
9 Aug 2026
Quality Food 1.21.1 - 2.3.6
quality_food-1.21.1-2.3.6.jar
11 Jul 2026
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.3.3
quality_food-1.20.1-2.3.3-all.jar
11 Jul 2026
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.3.2
quality_food-1.20.1-2.3.2-all.jar
13 Jun 2026
Quality Food 1.21.1 - 2.3.5
quality_food-1.21.1-2.3.5.jar
13 Jun 2026
Quality Food 1.21.1 - 2.3.4
quality_food-1.21.1-2.3.4.jar
28 Apr 2026
Quality Food 1.20.1 - 2.3.1
quality_food-1.20.1-2.3.1-all.jar
28 Apr 2026
Quality Food 1.21.1 - 2.3.3
quality_food-1.21.1-2.3.3.jar
9 Mar 2026
Quality Food 1.21.1 - 2.3.2
quality_food-1.21.1-2.3.2.jar
9 Mar 2026
Quality Food 1.21.1 - 2.3.1
quality_food-1.21.1-2.3.1.jar
20 Feb 2026
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