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Your first session with Yeast ‘n Feast begins before you touch a crafting table. The mod’s most important early resource — Yeast — comes from mushrooms found in the world, not from a recipe. Once you have Yeast, you can craft the three core production blocks and unlock every major food and brewing system the mod offers. This guide walks you through that opening progression step by step.

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Step 1: Obtain Yeast from mushrooms

Yeast is the foundational ingredient for mead brewing and many baked recipes. To get it, interact with mushrooms you find in the world. The in-game advancement “Obtain Yeast from mushrooms” tracks your first acquisition. Gather several units before you move on — you will use Yeast repeatedly across recipes.
Mushrooms spawn in dark areas: caves, swamps, and beneath dense tree canopies. Bone-mealing mycelium or nylium is also a reliable way to generate mushrooms quickly.

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Step 2: Find wild crops in the world

Before you plant anything on farmland, explore your surroundings. Four wild crop varieties generate naturally as flower-type plants in the world:
  • Wild Barley — breaks to drop barley seeds for planting.
  • Wild Rye — breaks to drop rye seeds for planting.
  • Wild Ginger — breaks to drop ginger, which also plants on farmland.
  • Wild Garlic — breaks to drop garlic, which also plants on farmland.
Collect a stack of each type, then plant them on tilled farmland near water the same way you would wheat. Barley and rye grow into full crop blocks; ginger and garlic follow the same farmland rules. You will also find Thistle in the world — a renewable plant that yields thistle drops useful in later recipes.
Elderberry bushes and rose hip bushes also generate in the world. Right-click them to harvest berries without breaking the plant, similar to sweet berry bushes in vanilla Minecraft.

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Step 3: Craft your first tools and containers

With Yeast and some wood in hand, craft these items at a crafting table. Exact recipes are visible in JEI — open it with R on any item. Jar — a glass container used to store and produce jams. Craft it from glass. You will fill it with fruit and a sweetener to make jam. Tankard — the vessel used to serve and drink mead. Check JEI for the exact crafting recipe. Mead is brewed using a Tankard placed in the Keg’s tankard slot; it is returned to your inventory after drinking the finished mead. Milk Bottle — a bottled form of milk used in cheese-making. Fill a glass bottle from a cow. It holds 16 to a stack and leaves an empty glass bottle when used. Rennet — required alongside the Milk Bottle to produce cheese. Craft it from a glass bottle and the appropriate ingredients (check JEI). It also leaves a glass bottle when consumed in a recipe.

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Step 4: Build the three core crafting stations

These three functional blocks unlock the bulk of Yeast ‘n Feast’s content. Place each one in your base as soon as you can.

Keg

The Keg is Yeast ‘n Feast’s mead brewery. Place it, insert your ingredients — honey or fruit, water, and Yeast — and wait for fermentation to complete. Six mead varieties can be brewed: honey, molasses, sour, thornberry, blossom, and amber.

Cheese Press

The Cheese Press converts Milk Bottles and Rennet into cheese wheels. Four varieties exist: Cheese Wheel, Freshwheel, Duskwheel, and Sharpwheel. Each wheel is placed as a block and sliced like a cake to yield individual cheese slices.

Tree Tap

Attach the Tree Tap to a maple tree trunk to collect maple syrup over time. Maple syrup is used in glazed meat dishes, molasses production, and as a food item on its own. It also fills the Maple Syrup Cauldron.

Maple Syrup Cauldron

Fill this cauldron with maple syrup collected from a Tree Tap. It is used in recipes that require large quantities of syrup, including molasses and certain baked goods.

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Step 5: Bake, brew, and feast

Once your crops are growing and your stations are built, you can pursue all three food tracks in parallel. Baking — use barley and rye from your crops to bake barley bread, rye bread, molasses bread, berry rolls, rose tarts, elderberry pies, apple pies, and more at a regular furnace or crafting table. Brewing — fill the Keg with a fruit or honey base, water, and Yeast. After fermentation, transfer the mead into a Tankard. Drinking mead grants a status effect: honey mead and molasses mead grant Damage Resistance, sour and thornberry mead grant Strength, and blossom and amber mead grant Regeneration. Feasting — craft bowl dishes (sweet porridge, barley and beef stew, salmon chowder, cheese soup) and plate dishes (mead-braised pork, lemon-glazed chicken, maple-glazed rabbit, forager feast) to gain the Overfed or Vigorous custom effects.
Feast dishes grant the Overfed effect (bowls) or the Vigorous effect (plates) for 4 minutes each. See the Mob Effects page for what these effects do in detail.

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Continue learning

Crops & ingredients

Full list of every crop, berry, fruit, herb, and spice in the mod, with growth conditions and harvest yields.

Mead types

Detailed breakdown of all six mead varieties, their ingredients, fermentation time, and the effects they grant.

Food & cooking

Every baked good, feast dish, jam, and cheese recipe, with ingredients and food values.

Mod compatibility

Extra items and recipes unlocked when Farmer’s Delight, Hexalia, or Farm and Charm are installed.

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