The Vegan Option

A Minecraft mod that seeks to add vegan alternatives to all Minecraft mob/animal products using the following guidelines:

• Nothing added to worldgen
• No new crops added

Building The Mod

1. Clone this repository
2. If you have Gradle installed, open a command line in the cloned directory and execute: gradle build. To give the build a version number, use gradle build -Pversion=<version> instead (example: gradle build -Pversion=1.0.0). To use the most recent commit, use gradle build -Pdev
   • If you don't have Gradle installed, you can use ForgeGradle's gradlew/gradlew.bat instead

To use the runClient or runServer tasks, you must have a local.properties file in the project directory. Its contents are as follows:

recipe_viewer=jei # or rei, depending on which you need or prefer.

What's Included

Alternatives by Item

Content

Bioplastic

• Potato Starch in a furnace creates Bioplastic
• Bioplastic crafted in a 1x2 shape creates a Plastic Rod
• Bioplastic crafted in a diamond shape creates a Plastic Egg (Egg [as an object] alternative)

References: Make Your Own Bioplastic

Burlap

• Jute Fiber crafted in a 2x2 creates Burlap (Leather alternative)
• Burlap crafted in the standard armor patterns creates Burlap Armor (equivalent to Leather Armor)

References: Hessian (cloth)

Composting

• Chest + Sticks crafted together creates a Composter
• "Green" materials alone in a Composter creates Rotten Plants (Rotten Flesh alternative)
• "Green" + "brown" materials together in a Composter creates Compost
• Compost provides passive improvement to adjacent Farmland
• Compost + Saltpeter crafted together creates Fertilizer (Bone Meal fertilizer alternative)

References: The Carbon:Nitrogen Ratio (C:N)

Doll's Eye

• Doll's Eye (Spider Eye alternative) occasionally drop from harvesting Grass in a temperate forest biome

References: Actaea pachypoda (doll's-eyes, white baneberry)

Egg Replacers

• Apple + Wooden Bowl crafted together creates Apple Sauce (Egg [as a baking agent] alternative)
• Piston + Potato crafted together creates Potato Starch (Egg [as a baking agent] alternative)
• If a potato is crushed by a piston in the world, it will also create Potato Starch

References: Egg Substitutions in Baking, Ener-G Egg Replacer

Raw Ender

• 2 Obsidian + Diamond + Emerald creates Encrusted Obsidian
• 4 Encrusted Obsidian blocks placed in a diamond shape creates an Ender Rift in the center of it
• Water flowing through an Ender Rift at night has a chance to be converted into Raw Ender. However, if this is done during the day, a random block around the Ender Rift will be consumed by it and lost forever.

Faux Feather

• Plastic Rod + Kapok Tuft creates a Faux Feather (Feather alternative)

Fossils

• Bones occasionally drop when mining Stone

Frozen Bubble

• Soap + Water + Sugar + Glass Bottle crafted together creates Soap Solution
• Soap Solution + 8 Ice (or 1 Packed Ice) crafted together creates a Frozen Bubble (Pufferfish alternative)
• Soap Solution used by a player or a dispenser creates a Bubble in the world, and the Bubble will freeze if it is surrounded by enough Ice/Snow/Packed Ice
• Frozen Bubble + Raw Ender Bucket crafted together creates an Ender Pearl
• Frozen Bubble placed in Raw Ender (in the world) will soak up the Raw Ender and become an Ender Pearl once it is fully filled

References: Frozen Bubbles Freeze at -40c

Saltpeter

• Saltpeter occasionally drops when mining Sandstone

References: Sodium nitrate (Chile saltpeter), Chilean caliche

Sulfur

• Sulfur occasionally drops when mining Netherrack

Vegetable Oil Ink

• Vegetable Oil + Vegetable Wax + Rosin + Charcoal creates Black Vegetable Oil Ink (Ink Sac alternative)

References: Soy ink, The Printing Ink Manual pg219

Jute

• Jute Stalks drop from harvesting Large Ferns
• 3x3 of Jute Stalks crafted together makes a Jute Bundle
• Jute Bundle, when placed next to or under water, will start retting
• Once retted, the Jute Bundle can be broken to get a variable amount of Jute Fiber
• Jute Fiber can be crafted into Burlap (2x2) or String (1x2)

References: Jute, Jute cultivation, Retting

Kapok

• Kapok Tufts occasionally drop from harvesting Jungle Leaves
• Kapok Tufts can be crafted into Block of Kapok (2x2; Wool alternative) or String (1x3)

References: Ceiba pentandra

Blank Mob Head

• Water + Potato Starch + 4 Paper creates Papier-Mâché
• 8 Papier-Mâché + Melon crafted together creates a Blank Mob Head
• Blank Mob Head + various dyes crafted together creates each of the mob heads

References: Papier-mâché

Plant Milk

• Water + 2 Pumpkin Seeds (or other plant milk sources) + Sugar crafted together creates Plant Milk (Milk [as a food] alternative)

References: Plant milk, Perfect Pumpkin Seed Milk

Proof of Suffering

• Fragments of Suffering occasionally drop when mining Soul Sand
• 8 Fragments of Suffering + Gold Nugget crafted together create Proof of Suffering (Ghast Tear alternative)

Resin

• Resin (Slimeball alternative) occasionally drops when harvesting Spruce Wood
• Resin in a furnace creates Rosin

References: Resin, Rosin

Soap

• Water + 3 Charcoal crafted together creates Wood Ash Lye
• Wood Ash Lye + Vegetable Oil + Rosin creates Soap (Milk [as a status effect curative] alternative)

References: How to Make Soap from Ashes

Straw Bed

• 3 Hay Bales + 3 Wood Planks creates a Straw Bed (non-perfect Bed alternative)
• Straw Bed deals a tiny amount of damage to the player each time it is slept in (it's itchy)

References: Palliasse

False Morel

• False Morels (Spider Eye alternative) occasionally drop when harvesting Mycelium
• False Morel + Brown Mushroom + Sugar crafted together creates Fermented False Morel (Fermented Spider Eye alternative)

References: False morel, Gyromitra esculenta

Vegetable Oil

• Sunflower Seeds drop from harvesting Sunflowers
• Sunflower Seeds + Weighted Pressure Plate + Bottle crafted together creates Vegetable Oil
• Vegetable Oil in a furnace creates Vegetable Wax (Honeycomb alternative)

References: Vegetable oil

Seitan

• Piston + Wheat crafted together creates Wheat Flour (this can be done in the world by crushing wheat with a piston)
• Water + Wheat Flour crafted together creates Wheat Dough
• Water + Wheat Dough crafted together creates Raw Seitan (Unwashed)
• Raw Seitan (Unwashed) crafted together three more times with water creates Raw Seitan (this can be done in the world by dropping Raw Seitan (Unwashed) in a water block)
• Raw Seitan in a furnace creates Seitan (alternative for all raw/cooked meat)

References: Wheat gluten (food), How to made your GLUTEN at home

Syrup

• 2 Plastic Rods and 3 Iron Ingots are used to craft a Spout.
• Sap is slowly produced by placing a Spout on a living birch tree trunk, and then a bucket on the Spout.
• Syrup (Honey alternative) is obtained by cooking sap in a cauldron and collecting it with a Glass Bottle.

References: About birch syrup

Integration With Other Mods

• Extensive REI integration (every single item has both Usage and Crafting of some sort defined for it)
• Various Jade/WTHIT integration