Soups and stews in Minecraft have always been somewhat useless food items. They're unstackable and don't give very much hunger to make it worth crafting them. On top of that, you're very limited in the types of stews you can make and the ingredients you can use. I've changed the way stews work by increasing your culinary capabilities and also allowing you to eat from them multiple times.

1. Mushroom Stew Changes


Mushroom Stew receives a big change in that you don't have to use two different mushrooms in order to craft it. You can use two of the same mushroom if you'd like, although two of any mushroom will do the trick. This also includes the Crimson and Warped Fungi.

On top of that, you'll notice the Mushroom Stew now gives you two sips from it before emptying the bowl. This allows you to restore 6 hunger points from one bowl of Mushroom Stew.


2. Introducing - Veggie Soup


Veggie Soup is a new item that replaces Beetroot Soup. Instead of only being allowed to use Beetroot, you can now use 6 of ANY veggie item in any combination. Here is a list of the valid veggie items you can use:

Carrot
Potato
Baked Potato
Beetroot
Dried Kelp

Just like the Mushroom Stew, the Veggie Soup allows for multiple sips. You can eat from the Veggie Soup 3 times; restoring a total of 9 hunger points.


3. Nice to MEAT you!


Tired of only being able to use rabbit in your stew? Well with Meaty Stew, you can now use whichever meat you want! Want some beef stew? Go right ahead! Chicken more your style? Be my guest! Fish tickle your fancy? With this datapack, you can make any type of Meaty Stew you want!

To make a bowl Meaty Stew, you need whatever type of cooked meat you want, 3 veggies, ANY type of mushroom, and a single piece of Wheat. The wheat is used to give the stew a nice hearty broth so you'll be as satiated as ever.

You can eat from a single bowl of Meaty Stew 5 times before it runs out. With each sip restoring 5 hunger bars, that's a total of 25 hunger bars from one bowl of stew! Take a couple of bowls of Meaty Stew with you when you go adventuring to keep your hunger bar full for the entire trip. What's more, when the bowl runs out, you can take any mushrooms you find while foraging for a nice Mushroom Stew pick-me-up.


Note: This datapack does NOT change the functionality of Suspicious Stew, those stews still only give you one sip along with their designated potion effect.

UPDATES:
-Issue for 1.20.4 where scoreboards weren't initialized causing soups to not stack properly. Fixed 2/28/2024.