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Camille Fourmaintraux edited this page Oct 5, 2026 · 1 revision

Welcome to the MysteryMeat wiki!

Mystery Meat

Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.11.

Animals that used to drop no meat now drop Mystery Meat, a food half as good as mutton. How much each mob drops can be configured, mob by mob, including mobs from other mods.

Item Hunger Saturation
Raw Mystery Meat 1 0.6
Cooked Mystery Meat 3 4.8

Cook it in a furnace (10 s), a smoker (5 s) or on a campfire (30 s), for 0.35 XP, like mutton.

Default drops

Before Looting. Looting raises the maximum by 1 per level, like vanilla meat.

Mob Mystery Meat
Bat 0 to 1
Cat, Ocelot, Fox, Armadillo 1
Wolf 1 to 2
Panda, Llama, Trader Llama 1 to 3
Camel, Horse, Donkey, Mule 2 to 3
Sniffer 2 to 4

Disabled by default, with a recommended range for those who want them:

Mob Recommended
Goat, Villager, Wandering Trader, Pillager, Vindicator, Evoker, Illusioner, Witch, Player 1 to 2
Ravager 3 to 4

A player drops the meat on top of their inventory. With keepInventory, they only drop the meat.

Supported mods, all listed in the config with their own defaults:

  • Alex's Mobs: enabled by default, except the Froststalker and the Murmur.
  • Friends&Foes, Useless Reptile, It Takes a Pillage, Frostiful: disabled by default.

Values for mods that are not installed are kept and simply ignored.

Other rules, same as vanilla meat:

  • A mob killed while on fire, or with a Fire Aspect weapon, drops cooked meat.
  • Babies drop nothing.
  • The mob's own drops (leather, string, etc.) are kept.

Configuration

In game

With Mod Menu and Cloth Config installed: Mods → Mystery Meat → Config. One tab per mod, a minimum and a maximum slider per mob. Hover a mob to see its default and recommended ranges. Changes apply as soon as you click Save, no restart needed.

Both mods are optional: without them, edit the file instead.

File

config/mysterymeat.toml, created on first launch:

"minecraft:sniffer" = "2-4"                         # default 2-4
"minecraft:goat" = "0-0"                            # default 0-0, recommended 1-2
  • Values go from 0 to 64. "0-0" disables the drop for that mob, even with Looting.
  • If the minimum is higher than the maximum, the maximum is raised to match.
  • Any other mob, from any mod, can be added with its entity ID: "examplemod:deer" = "1-2". It then shows up in an "Other Mobs" tab in the config screen.
  • Changes made in the file apply when the game restarts, or with /reload.
  • On a multiplayer server, the server's file is the one used.

If an enabled mob has no loot table (some modded mobs), it cannot drop anything and a warning is written in the log.

Building

From the project root, with a JDK (the official Fabric template builds with JDK 25):

./gradlew build

The mod is written to build/libs/mystery-meat-1.2.0.jar (ignore the -sources.jar). It requires Fabric Loader and Fabric API.

The GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/build.yml) also builds the mod on every push if the project is on GitHub.

How it works

  • ModLoot adds one pool to the loot table of every configured mob. The pool points to the shared loot table data/mysterymeat/loot_table/entities/mystery_meat.json.
  • That table uses the loot number provider mysterymeat:configured_count, which reads the looted mob's range from the config at every roll. This is why config changes apply without reloading loot tables.
  • MysteryMeatConfig reads and writes the config file. MobDefaults holds the built-in mob list.
  • The config screen (src/client) is only loaded when Mod Menu and Cloth Config are present.

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