Frontier Butcher

Quickstart

1. Install the add-on and load a world with it enabled.
2. Head out and hunt some common mobs — kill a cow, pig, or chicken.
3. The mob drops one or more cuts of meat automatically when it dies. Pick them up and eat them like any vanilla food by holding the item and pressing the Use button.
4. Check your inventory or the creative Items tab to browse all 29 meat types available in the mod.

Overview

Frontier Butcher turns every mob kill into a butchery event. Instead of plain raw beef or porkchops, mobs now drop realistic cuts — steaks, ribs, loins, wings, and more — each with its own icon and nutrition value. Exotic and hostile mobs drop stranger meats, rewarding players who push into dangerous territory with powerful food options. All meats stack to 64 and are eaten directly; there are no crafting recipes.

What It Adds

Chicken Cuts

Dropped by Chickens (1–2 of each cut per kill).

Turkey

Dropped by Chickens with a 20% chance (1 per kill).

Beef Cuts

Dropped by Cows and Mooshrooms (1–2 of each cut per kill).

Pork Cuts

Dropped by Pigs (1–2 of each cut) and Hoglins (1–3 of each cut).

Exotic & Passive Mob Meats

Humanoid & Hostile Mob Meats

How To Use

• Eating: Select any meat in your hotbar and hold the Use button to eat it. No cooking or crafting is required — all meats are consumed raw.
• Obtaining in Survival: Simply kill the corresponding mob. Meat drops spawn at the mob's location automatically.
• Obtaining in Creative: All meats appear in the Items tab of the creative inventory.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Every meat item is a direct food with no preparation step needed.
• Each kill from a qualifying mob drops every cut in that mob's pool simultaneously — for example, killing one cow yields 1–2 of each of the six beef cuts at once, so a single hunt can produce a variety of steaks.
• Turkey is the only conditional drop: chickens have only a 20% chance to yield it per kill, making it a nice bonus rather than a guaranteed reward.
• Warden Meat is the single highest-value food in the mod at 12 nutrition with supernatural saturation, but obtaining it requires defeating one of the game's most dangerous mobs.
• Undead and creeper meats (Zombie Meat, Skeleton Meat, Creeper Meat) have low saturation, meaning they restore hunger but burn through quickly — useful in a pinch but not a sustainable diet.
• In multiplayer, players drop Player Meat on death, adding a dark survival twist to PvP encounters.

Progression And Strategy

• Early game: Chickens and pigs are easy targets and yield a wide spread of cuts per kill, giving you plenty of food variety right away.
• Mid game: Cattle farming becomes very rewarding — cows and mooshrooms drop all six beef cuts simultaneously, making a single cow worth far more food than in vanilla.
• Nether progression: Hoglins drop pork cuts in larger quantities (1–3 each) than overworld pigs, rewarding players who venture into the Nether with a better meat harvest.
• Late game: The Warden is the ultimate food source. Its meat provides 12 nutrition with supernatural saturation — the best single food item in the mod — but requires surviving the Deep Dark to claim it.
• Exotic ranching: Horses, donkeys, and pandas drop medium-value meats, giving you a reason to consider whether to keep or cull passive animals you encounter.
• Hostile mob farms: Pillager outpost farms and zombie/skeleton grinders now yield edible byproducts, though the low saturation of undead meats means they are best used as emergency rations rather than a primary food source.