Heirloom - the culinary update for your server

Bring cozy, physical cooking to Minecraft—without mods or a resource pack.

Heirloom turns farming and food into a rewarding survival loop. Players grow crops, prepare ingredients at real in-world stations, and cook meals that matter. Everything works on a vanilla client: no downloads, texture-pack prompts, or missing-texture issues.

Cook in the world, not in a menu

Build a real kitchen and interact with it naturally.

- Boiling Pot — cook soups and stews with bubbling water and steam

- Cutting Board — chop and process ingredients with satisfying interactions

- Frying Pan — fry food with sizzling sounds and smoke particles

- Oven & Mixer — prepare dough and bake more advanced recipes

- Beautiful physical stations built with modern display entities and player heads

Grow custom crops

Add more purpose to your farms with custom crops including:

- Tomatoes

- Rice

- Corn

Crops have visible growth stages and configurable conditions. For example, rice can require water to thrive. Players can plant, tend, harvest, process, and cook their produce into meaningful meals.

Dietary and lifestyle gameplay

Heirloom includes dietary systems that make food choices matter:

- Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free tracking

- Favourite-food bonuses

- Smart dietary calculations for custom recipes based on their ingredients

- Ideal for survival, SMP, RPG, and roleplay servers

Create your own recipes

Use the included web recipe generator to make recipes without manually writing JSON. Select ingredients, choose a station and cooking time, then export your recipe configuration.

Designed to fit your server

- No resource pack required

- Vanilla-client friendly

- Supports custom-item workflows with Nexo, CraftEngine and ItemsAdder

- Works alongside protection and permission plugins such as Towny and WorldGuard

- Configurable crops, recipes, items, and gameplay behaviour

- Compatible with Geyser setups, with the usual Bedrock display limitations

Getting started

1. Place Heirloom.jar in your server's plugins folder.

2. Restart the server.

3. Start cooking.

Commands

- /hl give <item> — give custom foods

- /hl stations — view recipes and stations

- /hl diet — view dietary stats

Links

- [Wiki & documentation](https://kernel-person.github.io/heirloom-docs/)

- [Recipe generator](https://kernel-person.github.io/)

Heirloom expands vanilla Minecraft's food progression without replacing the feel of survival gameplay. Make farming, processing, and cooking something players genuinely want to do.