Butchers Extended - Enhanced Animal Butchering

This mod adds a realistic animal butchering system to Minecraft, creating a more immersive food gathering process with a greater variety of meat cuts.

When eliminating animals, carcasses now drop instead of standard items (configurable). Using a flint or iron cleaver allows you to obtain the main parts of the carcass. By using a butchering table, you can acquire separate meat cuts for cooking and consumption.

Current Development Status

The mod is currently in active development and only supports cows. The developer is working on code optimization for smoother performance and easier addition of new content. Plans include adding other animals and new features, as well as improving textures.

Configuration

You can configure various mod parameters:

# If true, cows will always leave carcasses instead of standard loot.
# If false - only when killed with a cleaver
cowsDropCarcasses = true

# Similar setting for pigs
pigsDropCarcasses = false

# Allows using swords for butchering
canButcherWithSwords = false

# Whether standard loot drops when butchering carcasses
butcheringCarcassesDropsVanillaLoot = false

# Whether standard meat drops when processing main parts
butcheringPrimalCutsDropsVanillaMeat = false

Acknowledgments and Source Code

Special thanks to developer onuadan and his Butcher's Delight mod that served as inspiration. Some textures, models, and functions were used from this project.

The mod is freely available for use in modpacks and modifications. Anyone can create additional extensions without mandatory attribution.