Chef's Delight (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – Cook and Chef

Chef's Delight is a villager profession add-on mod that introduces two new food-themed professions — Cook and Chef — to Minecraft villages, available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge. It requires the Farmer's Delight mod as a dependency and also generates unique profession-specific structures in villages across multiple biomes.

Vanilla Minecraft villagers have always felt somewhat limited when it comes to food trading. A farmer villager will buy your crops, but nobody in the village actually cooks anything interesting. If you're running Farmer's Delight — one of the most popular food and farming mods in the game — you already have access to dozens of recipes and cooking stations, yet villagers completely ignore them. Chef's Delight fixes that gap by making villagers interact with Farmer's Delight content directly. With over 6 million downloads, it has become one of the most widely used companion mods in the Farmer's Delight ecosystem, proving that players want their villages to feel like living, breathing communities where food culture actually matters.

Key Features of Chef's Delight

• Cook Profession — Place a Skillet as a job site block and any unemployed villager will become a Cook. Cooks trade simple, everyday food items from the Farmer's Delight recipe pool, giving you an easy way to stock up on basic meals without crafting them yourself. This is especially useful in early-game survival when you need reliable food sources but haven't unlocked advanced recipes yet.
• Chef Profession — Place a Cooking Pot as a job site block to create a Chef villager. Chefs trade advanced, multi-ingredient dishes that would normally require you to gather several resources and craft them manually. Having a Chef in your village essentially gives you access to high-tier Farmer's Delight foods through the trading system, saving significant time on ingredient gathering.
• Village Structure Generation — The mod generates Cook houses and Chef houses directly in naturally spawning villages. These structures appear randomly and vary by biome, meaning your plains village kitchen looks different from a desert or taiga one. This adds visual variety and makes villages feel more complete without requiring you to build anything manually.
• Biome-Specific Buildings — Recent updates added savanna Chef houses and snowy Cook houses, expanding the structure pool to cover more biome types. Each building fits the architectural style of its respective biome, so they blend naturally into the village layout rather than looking out of place.
• Configurable Structure Spawning — A config file lets you control how many Chef's Delight structures generate per village. If you're running other village-expanding mods, you can increase or decrease the spawn rate to prevent overcrowding. Setting the value to 0 disables structure generation entirely if you only want the professions without the buildings.
• Mod Compatibility Support — Chef's Delight works alongside popular village overhaul mods like ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village (CTOV) and Repurposed Structures through dedicated compatibility datapacks. This means you can run complex village modification setups without worrying about structure conflicts or broken generation.
• Multi-Loader Support — The mod is available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge, covering all three major mod loaders. Whether your modpack is built on Fabric's lightweight ecosystem or Forge's extensive library, Chef's Delight fits right in without requiring a loader switch.

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How to Install Chef's Delight

1. Install your preferred mod loader: Fabric, Minecraft Forge, or NeoForge for your Minecraft version.
2. Download and install the Farmer's Delight base mod. For Minecraft 1.21 and 1.21.1 on Fabric, you need Farmer's Delight Refabricated (version 1.21.1-3.0.1 or newer). For Forge and NeoForge, use the standard Farmer's Delight release.
3. Download the correct Chef's Delight file for your Minecraft version and loader from the download section below.
4. Place the Chef's Delight .jar file into your .minecraft/mods folder alongside Farmer's Delight.
5. Launch Minecraft and load into a world. Find or create a village, then place a Skillet or Cooking Pot near an unemployed villager to assign them the Cook or Chef profession.

Requirements & Compatibility

What's New

• Added savanna structures — new Chef and Cook houses that generate in savanna villages.
• Added snowy structures — dedicated Chef and Cook houses for snowy biome villages.
• Fixed multiple bugs related to villager trades not working correctly.
• Resolved structure generation issues that could cause conflicts in certain world seeds.
• Fixed a critical bug that prevented the game from starting in some configurations.

Pros and Cons

Alternatives to Chef's Delight

• Farmer's Delight — The base mod that Chef's Delight depends on, adding cooking stations, crops, knives, and dozens of new food recipes to Minecraft.
• Guard Villagers — Another villager profession mod that adds guards to villages, giving villagers the ability to defend themselves against raids and hostile mobs.
• ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village — A comprehensive village overhaul mod that redesigns village structures across all biomes, fully compatible with Chef's Delight through a dedicated datapack.

Download Chef's Delight

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Chef's Delight work without Farmer's Delight installed?

No — Chef's Delight is an add-on that requires Farmer's Delight as a mandatory dependency. The Cook and Chef professions rely on items and blocks from Farmer's Delight, so the mod will not function without it. Make sure you have the correct version of Farmer's Delight installed for your loader and Minecraft version.

Which version of Farmer's Delight do I need for Minecraft 1.21.1?

You need Farmer's Delight Refabricated version 1.21.1-3.0.1 or newer if you're playing on Fabric. For NeoForge, use the standard Farmer's Delight mod. The original Farmer's Delight Fabric port is deprecated for 1.21+ versions and will not work with Chef's Delight on those versions.

Can I disable the village structure generation?

Yes — set the generation value to 0 in the config file. On Forge, the config file is named chefsdelight-common.toml, and on Fabric it's chefsdelightconfig.properties, both located in your Minecraft config folder. This lets you keep the Cook and Chef professions while preventing any new buildings from spawning in villages.

Is Chef's Delight compatible with other village mods like CTOV?

Yes — there are dedicated compatibility datapacks available for both ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village (CTOV) and Repurposed Structures. You'll need to download the corresponding compat datapack separately and add it to your world to ensure structures generate correctly alongside those mods.

How do I assign a villager the Cook or Chef profession?

Place the correct job site block near an unemployed villager. A Skillet turns a villager into a Cook who trades simple food items, while a Cooking Pot turns a villager into a Chef who trades advanced dishes. Both blocks come from the Farmer's Delight mod, so you'll need to craft them first using Farmer's Delight recipes.

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