Data Packs Farming and Food

Chef's Dream: Immersive Cooking (210+ New Foods)

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Compatibility
Minecraft 1.20
to version
Minecraft 1.21
Changes include
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Required Resource Pack
YJMinecraft
Lvl 39Artisan Lemon Chef
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Important: This datapack is for 26.2. Legacy Versions can be found at the end of the description.


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Introduction


Chef's Dream is an immersive cooking datapack for Minecraft 1.20.5 and up. The datapack focuses on interacting with vanilla blocks to cook foods rather than crafting. You will be able to cook soups using a cauldron, fry foods using a hopper, and more!


Features


Cooking Stations: 10 different cooking stations derived from vanilla blocks. A cauldron will become a cooking pot, and a smoker will become an oven!
New Foods: Over 210 new foods to cook
New Drinks: 37 new drinks to brew
New Fruits and Vegetables: 4 new fruits that drop from trees and 5 new vegetables that drop from grasses and ferns
Immersive Cooking: Put oil in a fryer, cut ham on a preparation board, make a sushi roll, cook meat on a grill, and more!



Guide


You will get a starting guide when you first load up the datapack. For more guides, right click with a Cooking Station Maker while standing right in front of a chiseled bookshelf to fill it up with guides and cookbooks. You can get a Cooking Station Maker by loading up the datapack or by using the following command (which works even with cheats disabled):/trigger start_cooking
By shift-right clicking with a Cooking Station Maker right in front of certain blocks, you can turn them into cooking stations. For example, using the Cooking Station Maker on a hopper will turn it into a fryer!

For a more detailed guide, you can visit the wiki on the Chef's Dream Github page. The wiki also contains a cookbook with all recipes listed in alphabetical order.

You can also get any food you want using the following command:
/function chefsdream:give/FOOD_NAME


Installation


Download the datapack and the required resource pack. Put the datapack in the 'datapack' folder of your world, and put the resource pack in the 'resourcepack' folder of Minecraft. If you load up the world and you get the advancement "Chef's Dream," you have successfully installed the datapack! (If you install it into an existing world, use the command /reload to load your datapack.)


Updating


To update Chef's Dream to the newest version, simply redownload the datapack file and the resource pack file and replace the current files in your minecraft folder.


Legacy Versions


MC 1.20.5 and 1.20.6: Datapack Resourcepack
MC 1.21 and 1.21.1: Link
MC 1.21.2 and 1.21.3: Link
MC 1.21.4: Link

Discord


If you would like to report bugs or give suggestions about the datapack, you can join the YJ Datapacks discord server here.


Known Issues


A list of known bugs can be found here. Please take a look at the bugs document before reporting a problem - it may be a known issue that will be fixed later. If you find a bug that is not listed, please use the discord, message me, or leave a comment detailing the steps you took that led to the bug so that we can quickly diagnose the issue. Thank you!


Debugging/Uninstallation


If a bug happens or you need to uninstall the pack, you may need to force delete some cooking stations from your world first. The following command will force destroy all cooking stations within a 10 block radius from where it is executed:
/function chefsdream:destroy_stationsFor faster deletion, the following command will destroy all cooking stations in loaded chunks:/function chefsdream:destroy_all_stationsIf you are uninstalling the pack, after all cooking stations are deleted, please delete the datapack from your world's folder.


Credits


Datapack created by: YJMinecraft
Resource Pack created by: masterliv531 and YJMinecraft
The resource pack modifies or uses some textures from the Croptopia mod and the Farmer's Delight mod, both under the MIT License.


More Information
For a more technical documentation of the datapack code, please look at the documentation on the Github page.
For a list of bugs, please look at the bugs document on the Github page.

17 Update Logs

Chef's Dream v5.1: 26.2 Compatibility : by YJMinecraft 06/16/2026 12:33:54 pmJune 16 @ 4:33 pm UTC

Made the datapack compatible with Minecraft 26.2.

Hopefully more foods in the future! No promises though...
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Krakus123
04/17/2025 2:50 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
Can you make book with all foods for people to give on creative?
plz
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YJMinecraft
06/21/2025 11:30 pm
Level 39 : Artisan Lemon Chef
*It's been done*
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YJMinecraft
04/21/2025 7:06 pm
Level 39 : Artisan Lemon Chef
Give commands for all foods are on the todo list and will come with the 1.21.5 compatible version. Just been super busy and haven’t been able to work on it, expect the drop around June. Sorry about the wait!
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iblt
03/04/2025 10:04 am
Level 1 : New Miner
I LOVE this datapack. I am a minecraft foodie and all my modpacks and datapacked worlds aren't complete without some sort of food mod. I have this installed and it's awesome.

The only thing I miss is a datapack that's similar to Spice of Life where there's a book that keeps track of which foods you've already eaten, and which foods you haven't yet. Is there any such datapack out there or is this something that someone could do?

Or is there a way to use a scoreboard to check your progress on which foods haven't yet been eaten?

Thanks for the awesome datapack...
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User5592366G
02/26/2025 3:09 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
Can you make a resource pack for bedrock too?
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MaryD42
01/16/2025 10:50 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
The resource pack doesn't work for me :(. It's only compatible with older versions even through the datapack work just fine
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YJMinecraft
01/17/2025 12:38 am
Level 39 : Artisan Lemon Chef
Can you give me a little more detail? I've checked the resourcepack on the download and the version is correct; can you try going into the resourcepack and looking into the "pack.mcmeta" file and confirming that the "pack_format" is 46? (If it's anything less than 46, you likely downloaded an older resourcepack.)
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Bartuss
11/18/2024 8:04 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
I LOVE THIS
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Spursboy
11/03/2024 11:25 am
Level 1 : New Miner
every time i use the fryer my food gets burned is this a problem in the software or am i doing something wrong
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YJMinecraft
11/03/2024 1:41 pm
Level 39 : Artisan Lemon Chef
Burnt Food is the result if the ingredients in the fryer do not correspond to a valid recipe. Have you tried following one of the cookbooks? If you put in a valid recipe and it still results in the food being burnt, please let me know the steps you took as it may be a bug.
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